Climate 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •Bad News in a Kind Voice

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Out of Place

• •Losing Everything

  David Gessner

Fiction

• •Fire Season

  Emily Kevlin

• Phase Five

  Stephanie Carpenter

• •Long Division

  Pritha Bhattacharyya

Nonfiction

• •The First Thing a Plant Does Is Branch in Two

  Erika Howsare

• •Unreliable Narrators

  Belle Boggs

• •The Past in Pastoral

  Cecily Parks

• In the Blood

  Diana Cejas

Poetry

• When the storm passed

  Dennis James Sweeney

• Collective Nouns

  Jessica Jacobs

• •Ocean Haiku During the Pandemic

  Craig Santos Perez

• •Ceres in the Burning Rainforest

  Anne Barngrover

• •Lake Michigan

  Julie Funderburk

• Of Truth and Other Fabrications

  Dan Albergotti

• •“The Future Isn’t What It Once Was”

  Lisa Ampleman

• Year Without a Summer

  Quinn Lewis

• •Requiem for Guy

  Bernardo Wade

• Sudden

  Athena Kildegaard

• Shadow and Light

  Diane Thiel

• Some Ways We Live Beyond Your Death

  Amber Flora Thomas

• Anthropocene

  Lisa Williams

• Testimony

  Matt MacFarland

• August

  Ryler Dustin

• My Mother and the Mysteries

  Susan McLean

• •After Reading about Decreasing Snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains

  Christopher Hewitt

• The Dream You Aren’t Having

  Katherine Indermaur

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  Miriam Bird Greenberg

• •Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

  Malinda Miller

The Strip

• Mile High, Mile Deep

  Amaris Feland Ketcham

Art

• •Deep Time

  Radha Pandey

Climate Annotations

• •Visualizing Climate Change

  Adam Terando

Poem in a Landscape

• Watershed Moments: On Queer Eros, the Climate Crisis, and Memory in Brian Teare’s “Doomstead Days”

  Matty Layne Glasgow

• Doomstead Days

  Brian Teare

Back Matter

• •Notes and Recent Awards

• •Credits