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  • VOLUME 9:
  • Editor’s Note
  • Poetry
    • pendeja. by Mars Robinson
    • slip slopes by Kat L’Esperance-Stokes
    • Herd-hand’s Ghazal by Julien Griswold
    • winning the lottery by Simon Harms
    • military helicopter by Elijah Neumann
  • Creative Nonfiction
    • January: A (Beloved) Dirty Coat by Tyler Slade
    • Ramen Noodles by Lily Jenkins
  • Fiction
    • OmegaMart by Jed Graham
    • Getting Crisper Here by Rachel Waterman
    • A Perm in Three Acts by McKenzie Davis
  • Author Interview with Ari Tison
  • Student Editor Book Reviews
    • Milkweed Smithereens
    • Small Moods
    • Never Have I Ever
    • Glossolalia: Or, don’t scream it on the mountain
    • Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide

BOOK REVIEWS

by volume nine student editors:

Milkweed Smithereens
by Bernadette Mayer
New Directions Publishing

Reviewed by Amelia Johnson

Small Moods
by Shane Kowalski
Future Tense Books

Reviewed by Austin Malberg

Never Have I Ever
by Isabel Yap
Small Beer Press

Reviewed by Gisela Perez

Glossolalia: Or, don’t scream it on the mountain 
by E. Rahke
Wolf Publishing

Reviewed by Kivi Weeks

Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide
by Juliet Patterson
Milkweed Editions

Reviewed by Shelby Lengyel

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