“Cassandra” by Michael Montlack
© 2024 by Michael Montlack

POETRY
Mayookh Barua – “A Car and a Teacup”
Michelle Bitting – “Lost in the Disco Ball”
Alan Britt – “Giraffe-Spotted Junonia Shell”
Maddie Clevenstine – “Ask Me About Hell”
Steve Cushman – “December, 1974, West Wareham, Massachusetts”
Rebecca Faulkner – “Empty Nest”
Catherine Gonick – “Sister Mary Joseph Serves Lunch in Ávila”
Kathy Goodkin – “Antinarrative”
Diane Gottlieb – “Like the Woman Who Drove to Work Crying in Her Car”
Mara Lee Grayson – “Cross-Country Hydatidiform”
Ken Holland – “How Quiet the Words”
Jennifer Isaacs – “Subjacency”
Louie Leyson – “Love Poem: Lucifer”
Olga Livshin – “2023”
Mary Makofske – “Risky Decisions Make the Best Stories”
Clint Margrave – “Syllabics”
Jared Smith – “A Heavy Weight to Carry”
Michael Spring – “hospital walls, 3am”
Carine Topal – “What Are You Looking At?”
Jeanne Wagner – “Vocabulary Lessons”
Tarn Wilson – “First Marriage”
Theodora Ziolkowski – “Pregnancy Doll”
REVIEWS
Jan Beatty’s Dragstripping,
Reviewed by Erica Goss
Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms,
Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Scott Ferry’s Sapphires on the Graves,
Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Lesley Wheeler’s Mycocosmic,
Reviewed by Laurie Kuntz
Irene Blair Honeycutt’s Mountains of the Moon,
Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Gerald Locklin’s requiem for the toad: selected poems,
Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Kim Addonizio’s Exit Opera,
Reviewed by Erica Goss
Charles Rammelkamp’s The Trapeze of Your Flesh,
Reviewed by Robert Cooperman
Yehoshua November’s The Concealment of Endless Light,
Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Rosa Lane’s Called Back,
Reviewed by Frank Paino
Dorianne Laux’s Life on Earth,
Reviewed by Lee Rossi