Contents
Introduction: Speculating Us | The Editors
Oskʌnu·tú | Kenzie Allen
She Sang to Me Once at a Place for Hunting Owls | dg nanouk okpik
The Swan | Lynn C. Pitts
Anti-Confessional, Again | George Abraham
Plink | Yohanca Delgado
Dream of a Space Tattoo | Juan J. Morales
Carville National Leprosarium, 1954 | Wendy Chin-Tanner
Hello, Ghost | Soham Patel
The Sacred Interrupted | Mary Lou Johnson
Digital Medicine | Brian K. Hudson
reflection on spices | Sarah Sophia Yanni
Against Allegory (I = Eve & Satan) | George Abraham
how to battle | Ruth Ellen Kocher
My Mother Told Me I Am Under Shango | Tonya Liburd
From Senegal to Senatobia | Sheree Renée Thomas
Returning | Aerik Francis
Above Ground | Melanie Merle
Red Green Blue | Cindy Juyoung Ok
Violet | Lucien Darjeun Meadows
After,word | George Abraham
how can there be so much death and also so much love | Sarah Sophia Yanni
Dream of the Sun Spirit | Juan J. Morales
The edge of descent, digression’s highway | Jennifer Elise Foerster
Mermaid Names | Ra’Niqua Lee
The Last Kingdom | Jennifer Elise Foerster
Yangon | Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
letter to the hiring manager | Sarah Sophia Yanni
Ways to Use Silhig Lánot | Alton Melvar M Dapanas
Dream of a Wolf | Juan J. Morales
Antelope Canyon Hotel | Thea Anderson
Transmigrations: A Future History of Multiple Bodies of Water | Kenji C. Liu
A Final Song for the Ages | Pedro Iniguez
on bended knee | shakirah peterson
MILE 22— | Lucien Darjeun Meadows
One week away and the forest has changed | Jennifer Elise Foerster
Playing MacBeth at the Electra Theatre on Beadon Street | Shreya Ila Anasuya
sealing the room | André O. Hoilette
Sufficiency | Shalewa Mackall
canon | Sarah Sophia Yanni
The Longest Stretch | Lucien Darjeun Meadows
DownRiver | Melanie Merle
Date: Post Glacial | dg nanouk okpik
The Passing | Daniel José Older
Contributor Bios
Notes & Acknowledgements
Reading & Teaching Guide
About the Editors