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Front Cover: Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, novelist, and visual artist. Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton), a hybrid collection of poetry and photography, was published in 2020. Griffiths’ visual and literary work has appeared widely, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets & Writers, Best American Poets (2020), The L Word: Generation Q, and many others. She is the recipient of fellowships, including Cave Canem Foundation, Kimbilio, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her debut novel, Promise, is forthcoming from Random House in 2022. She lives in New York City.

Front Cover: Tree of Life & Our Ancestors: The Second Dream, 2014

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Back Cover: Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, novelist, and visual artist. Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton), a hybrid collection of poetry and photography, was published in 2020. Griffiths’ visual and literary work has appeared widely, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets & Writers, Best American Poets (2020), The L Word: Generation Q, and many others. She is the recipient of fellowships, including Cave Canem Foundation, Kimbilio, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her debut novel, Promise, is forthcoming from Random House in 2022. She lives in New York City.

Back Cover: Ancestors Waiting in the Garden, 2014

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Squall, and: Lilies, and: Bouquet, and: Evensong
Kevin Young
pp. 23-28

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Virus, and: Full Moon, New Word
Craig Santos Perez
pp. 30-32

The Spring Cricket Observes Valentine's Day
Rita Dove
p. 50

Talking about the Weather, and: Grapeland
Nikki Wallschlaeger
pp. 54-55

Lullaby Interrupted by the Stump of the Mammoth Tree, and: The Judas Ear
Anna Journey
pp. 56-60

Contributors' Notes
pp. 107-109

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