Poetry in this issue:
- Sudikshaa Amar, Damascus Steel
- Paul Frederik Carlsen, A few months; My loyalty lies
- Diane Driedger, The Summer I Couldn’t Read
- Oz Hardwick, Neuroprocessing I: The Welcome Screen; Framing
- Allegra Marcell, Advocacy Is
- Jordana Qi, Grieving in the Nail Salon
- Nicholas S. Racheotes, A Way Station
- Sarah A. Shapiro, Thank God It’s October; Also Unrelated to Being a Mother; I have an endlessly growing stack of books next to my bedside table
- Harrison Shi, PTSD
- James Stemmle, Vow
- Barbara Ellen Sorensen, Starting with the Natural World; Disfigurement; Adaptation
- Laureen Summers, The Day I Turned 77 – Aug. 24; The Water Women; I Am the Girl
- Roy Wahlberg, Self-Contained; Flipping the Script
- Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri, Micro Mutant Memoir Postcard #108; Micro Mutant Memoir Postcard #119; Micro Mutant Memoir Postcard #154
Editor’s Note: Each of these poems is accompanied by an audio recording of the poem.
Poetry can be submitted to Wordgathering at wordgathering@syr.edu. Please review our Submission Guidelines prior to submission.