NUMBER TWO : FUTURES—CONTENTS

Editors’ Introductions

CURATED SUBMISSIONs

Introduction — Felicia Zamora : Guest Poetry Editor

Fallen Gene Speaks (A Love Letter to Franz Fanon) | Felicia Denaud | Poetry 

What Will Save Us but Erosion Over Time? Or, Might Extinction Be a Mercy? | Maya Marshall | Poetry  

Feral, They Follow | Sara Lupita Olivares  | Poetry 

To Those Awaiting Top Surgery | KB Brookins | Poetry 

We Are Humbled By Breaking Down | Kristyn Garza | Poetry  

Since You Wanna Know About My Sex Life So Badly | KB Brookins | Poetry 

Art Monster | Jenny Molberg | Poetry 

Cleveland Museum of Art | Jessica Nirvana Ram | Poetry 

Autophrasis | Jenny Molberg | Poetry 

Portrait of my Scars | Jenny Molberg | Poetry 

Threatened Embodiment | Annie Wenstrup | Poetry 

The Lake | Grace Gaynor | Poetry 

Motherblood | Felicia Denaud | Poetry 

Letters to my Future Son | Jessica Nirvana Ram | Poetry 

Poem for these Days | Maya Marshall | Poetry  

Recognition, Misrecognition | Sara Lupita Olivares  | Poetry 

Water Walking | Grace Gaynor | Poetry 

Jellyfish Blooms | Chandra Frank | Poetry 

Gardener of the Tidal Flats | Chandra Frank | Poetry 

A Truth | Kristyn Garza | Poetry 

Reciprocation | Sara Lupita Olivares  | Poetry 

The Last Frontier | Annie Wenstrup | Poetry 

Keepsakes | Chet’la Sebree | Poetry 

Eschatology | Maya Marshall | Poetry  

Introduction — Isaiah Hunt : Guest Prose Editor

The Itch | Alexandra Salata | Fiction

Tasseography | Lora Gray | Fiction

Salmon Fishing in the Age of Solutions | Charles Velasquez-Witsoky | Fiction

Best on Road | Miles Purdy | Fiction

Salvador Jimenez-Flores : Featured Visual Artist

OPEN SUBMISSIONS

Mental Inventory and Emotional Assessment | Mackenzie Stafford | Poetry

Wailing | Carly Sachs | Poetry

Do You Kiss Your Mother with that Mouth | Brennan Baumgartner | Print

Shedding | Olivia Mirmohamed | Poetry

Housewife of the Future | Sara Moore Wagner | Poetry

In the House of the Future | Sara Moore Wagner | Poetry

The Television of the Future | Sara Moore Wagner | Poetry

Altera | Phoenix Davis-Bailey | Drawing

Part 10 : Speaking Assessment | Mercy Turle | Poetry

Blue 52 | Michael Loderstedt | Poetry

I Scroll | Emily Rae | Fiction

Darkside of the Moon | Johnny Damm | Comic

Mothering | Regan Schell | Fiction

It Won’t Take Long | Maureen Clark | Poetry

Sea Sparkle | Kimberly W. Heiman | Fiction

Working During Covid | Sean Prentiss | Poetry

Birthday Greetings | Cathy Barber | Poetry

Dog Days | Rebecca Cybulski | Nonfiction

Mayfly | Emma Nicole Klunzinger | Poetry

Sonnet | Sean Thomas Dougherty | Poetry

Saint Wojtowicz | Cameron Gorman | Poetry

350 Killed in 2020 | Brennan Baumgartner | Print

The Skin of a Plum | Abigail Fife | Poetry

Citrus | Olivia Martin | Poetry

Imperia | Phoenix Davis-Bailey | Drawing

Light Companion | Clayton Tarantino | Fiction

In the Middle of his Nightly Sports Rant, Uncle Jerry Goes Down to the Dust | Alex M. Frankel | Poetry

Midcentry Modern | Olivia Wachtel | Poetry

We’re All Looking Forward to Saturday | Nicole Wilson | Poetry

If | Jessica Jones | Poetry

Against | Sophie Swengel | Poetry

Fragmented Haiku Presented as Crime Evidence | Mercy Turle | Poetry

That Old Time Religion | William Doreski | Poetry

Britannia | Phoenix Davis-Bailey | Drawing

Bloodless Sylvia | Sylvia Clark | Poetry

Burnout | Brennan Baumgartner | Print

Midsummer Dream, 2024 | Jessica Jones | Poetry

Ramshack | Phoenix Davis-Bailey | Drawing

Thrift Shopping at the End of the World | Mercy Turle | Fiction

The Invention | Cameron Gorman | Poetry

Cutting It Down | David Ruekberg | Poetry

Keep Your Head Up | Brennan Baumgartner | Print

On the Day of the Election, I think of the Video of my Nephew’s First Mountain Bike Ride with his Father, a Long Haul Covid Survivor | Sean Prentiss | Poetry

Contributors’ Notes