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SUMMER 2024 (6:1)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTERVIEW

James Rawlings, A Conversation with Javeria Hasnain, author of SIN

POETRY

Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi, 20-02-2024

Alvin Kathembe, Crossing

Beth Anstandig, Identicals

Chiwenite Onyekwelu, Cōnfessiōnem

Elane Kim, Arrival

Em Townsend, Grass Stains

Esther Ra, White Christmas

Iyanuoluwa Adenle, For God so loved the world, He left it burning

Javeria Hasnain, In a dream groping for god

Nikki Ummel, It was night when you died

PROSE

Andrew Nickerson, Belle Epoque

Audrey-Anne Gamache, Tadpoles

Caroline Beuley, Girlhood Gothic

Chidera Solomon Anikpe, Portrait Under the Stairs

J. L. Bermúdez, Quadriptych of an Open Relationship

ART

Anselmo J. Alliegro, Stargazers

Charles Byrne, Almaty, Kazakhstan

David Sheskin, Indigo Cats

Jules Ostara, Ink Flowers

Roger Camp, Melding Buildings, New York City