CONTENTS Poems
Mary Ruefle
Lament
Conflict
My Life as a Scholar
7
Luke Allan
Empathy of Cod
Horoscope
Marseille
Storage King
Romeo Oriogun From Darkness into Light
On the Road to Paradise
10
13
Off erings
Isabel Galleymore Little Fly
Because
Kristiina Ehin / The Women of My Kin
Ilmar Lehtpere Amy Crutchfield Helens of Troy
Tom Sleigh
What I Can Say in 2021 About
a Famine in 2011
17
19
26
28
Clearance
Richard Scott from That Broke Into Shining Crystals 32 G.C. Waldrep Effi gy Mounds National Monument 37 Camille Ralphs from My Word 40 Maya Caspari Mixed Other 45
The Poetry Society Annual Lecture Series
My Gwendolyn Brooks: Terrance Hayes
Poems
46
Amaan Hyder self-portrait with family
62
In terms of cottaging
Julian Stannard Better Now Or Better Now Or Better Never? 66 Abeer Ameer Intimate Knowledge 69
