Spring/Summer 2021 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •In Cases of Emergency

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Out of Place

• •Two Birdwatchers Talk about America over Zoom and Tequila

  David Gessner

Fiction

• Grief Clause

  Meg Cass

• •Man of the House

  Kim Coleman Foote

• Special Election

  Brock Clarke

Nonfiction

• •The Possum Queen

  Austyn Gaffney

• A Spectre Is Haunting Street View

  Kenji C. Liu

• •A Cost Accounting of Birth

  Jennifer Case

• •Purple Kingsessing

  Josina Guess

Poetry

• Two Gifts of Mushrooms in Two Sacks

  Lee Upton

• •White Spaces

  Lisa Low

• The day after my first beets

  Lisa Low

• •梁祝 (The Butterfly Lovers)

  Diana Cao

• •嫦娥 (The Moon Lady)

  Diana Cao

• Laundry Day (by the Sea)

  Erik Jonah

• Little Call of the Squirrel

  Erik Jonah

• Rondel on Route 120

  Jenna Le

• The Urges

  Deborah Allbritain

• The Vindicator

  Katie Hartsock

• Mullein

  Kathryn Savage

• Safe

  Kathryn Savage

• Natural History, the Curious Institution

  Brandon Kilbourne

• A Ritual for the Nature of Language

  Linda Russo

• The Begetter of Life Is Dark

  Scott Broker

• •Incunabula Descending the Stairs

  Max McDonough

• Winter Hen

  Ana Maria Spagna

• Inceptisol

  Ali Hintz

• Farm Auction, 2019

  Ali Hintz

• Mile 1—

  Lucien Darjeun Meadows

Dance

• Pachuquísmo: La Mezcla Brings Pachuca Culture Forward

  Vanessa Sanchez

The Strip

• •You Beautiful Thing

  Lee Lai

Map

• Confluence: Grids, Ecology, and 99-Character Statements

  Todd Gilens

On the Cover

• •Treat Yo Self

  Genevieve Gaignard

Back Matter

• •Notes and Recent Awards

• •Credits