• “Promised Land” by Jenny Chu
• “Vermont Nature Poem” by Tony Gloeggler
• “Peeling” by Don Narkevic
• “Unmotherhood” by Stephanie Jones
• “We got kicked out of karaoke for booing the Cake version of ‘I Will Survive’” by Susan Kolon
• “Watching” by Anna Emerson
• “Yellow” by Dana Holley Maloney
• “Up North” by Hannah Faith Notess
• “Alice On the Other Side” by Dwayne Rieves
• “Sea Change” by Beth Brown Preston
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• “Making, Memories” by Georgia Smith
• “The Animal” by Joshua Zeitler
• “Big-Time Decision Fatigue” by Robyn Art
• “Last Roll of Film” by Bethany Bruno
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• “the like-likes & manhandlas of N.W. 72nd Ave.” by Michael J. Pagán
• “I feel very close with all the speakers in this book”: An Interview with Jeffery Berg
• “Don’t Ever Do This” by Steve Petkus
• “Projection” by Annie Stenzel
• “We’ve Discovered the Perpetual Motion Machine” by Svetlana Litvinchuk
• “Tabula Rasa” by Eve Müller
• “Girl Dinner” by Isabel Galupo
• “Grain-Free” by Ben Gunsburg
• “You Are Kirsten Dunst in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” by Ally Feisel
• “scalloped edges” by Rachel Vinciguerra
• “Do You Hear a Sound Like Someone in Mittens Piling Rocks in Secret?” by Tarn Wilson
• “Because life… is far more terrifying at times than a ghost”: An Interview with Bernadette Geyer
• “too two” by Skylar Camp
• “Because can begin a sentence” by John Wise
• “In Her Ears, Still” by Juliet Way-Henthorne
• “Goddess of Airlines” by Misha Lynn Moon
• “I have trouble finishing things” by Michelle Matz
• “Sundays” by Hollie Dugas
• “One Bullet Left” by Corwin Ericson
• “I Am Trying to Love the Whole World” by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
• “The Little Man” by Ginny Bartolone
• “What Isn’t Love” by Jennifer Juneau
• “Amateur Filmmaking in the 21st Century” by David Dodd Lee
• “Filthy goddess in search of vulgar god” by Michelle Stoll
• “Is anyone good?” by Davin Malasarn
• “The Loneliness of the Sharpshooter” by Bryan Furuness
• “Love Poem to Saving Your Own Life” by Meggie Royer
• “Silly Goose” by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
• “You Are as Necessary as Times New Roman” by Alicia Hoffman
• Special Feature: The Mall
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• “A gigantic cathedral of consumption”: An Interview with Kate Black
• “A Woman Walks into a McDonald’s” by M.P. Carver
• “The Five-Year Anniversary of the Tornado That Took Down Turtle Creek” by Sarah Watkins
• “Shopping at CVS for Baby’s Foot” by Jessica Femiani
• “Mill Creek Drive” by J.T. Trigonis
• “Ready 2 Wear” by Jeffery Berg
• “Anne Confesses” by Anne Lucas
• “Fingerprints” by Crystal Taylor
• “Mallrat Baptism” by Veronica Tucker
• “Seagulls” by Carly Sachs
• “Celebratory Deflection” by Kelsey Carmody Wort
• “I think contradictoriness is embedded in the idea of the mall”: An Interview with Alexandra Lange
• “42°29’43.4″N 73°12’22.7″W” by Cleo Levin
• “Sylvia” by Gareth Fitzgerald
• Two Poems by Sarp Sozdinler
• “When I Die” by Cynthia Atkins
• “How to Stay” by Mark Allen Jenkins
• “Dead Mall, Christmas Eve, 2022” by Robert Fillman
• “155,000M2 of Shopping, Entertainment and Leisure” by Samuel Prince
• “Extended Call” by Larissa Hikel
• “Mating Ritual” by Steph Auteri
• “Claire’s, 1997, 2003, 2025” by Dara Laine
• “The Fall of Chesterfield Mall” by Adam Jon Miller
• “mall stops” by Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
• “No More Bears” by Timothy Gager
• “The Thin Line” by Todd Campbell
• “A Late Afternoon Lying on My Back” by John K. Kruschke
• “On College” by Merridawn Duckler
• “Bloodless” by Kevin Fisher
• “The Local News” by Kevin Pilkington
• “The idea of an American Dream feels warped to me”: An Interview With Janet Dale and Allison Renner
• “In Memoriam Little Me” by Sara Eddy
• “Prairie Need” by Jan Wiezorek
• “CPTSD as Ghost” by Kate Pyontek
• “Prop Room” by Lisa Badner
• “If only you would give your mineral self away” by Hannah Kesling
• “The Drive” by Amy Holman
• “Let’s go somewhere stupid, like Florida” by Puneet Dutt
• “Tidal Change” by Julia Dath
• “How to Conjure a Husband According to Condé Nast’s Top Feng Shui Experts” by January Santoso
• “There All Along” by Sarah Burke
• “Curve Ahead” by Ann Yuan
• “like the sound when you open the bottle” by Kathleen Hellen
• “The Reason I Look Chubby in the Pictures” by Judy Halebsky
• “The Priest Comes Over for Pasta” by Lexi Pelle
• “Cinnamon” by Conor Gearin
• “Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel
• “Viva Zapata” by Camila Valle
• “Retracing Our Steps” by Michael Robins
• “Omen” by Sara Iacovelli
• “The Winter Drive” by Kelly Gray
• “Chickens in 1998” by Ren Wilding

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Image: “Do Not Instagram This Sign,” Shivastan Poetry Ashram, Woodstock, NY