This week issue NDQ 86.3/4 went off to our publishing partners at the University of Nebraska Press. I think I can speak for the entire editorial board when I say that we’re proud of this issue and excited to get it into the hands of our readers! 

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Table of Contents

Poetry Editor’s Note
Paul Worley

Seeking Beatrice
Ryan Stander

Therese and Isabelle
Rock Isle at Low Tide
Patrick Meighan

Pencil
Toccata
Cicadas
Flower of Stone
Elina Petrova

Lifeblood
Wild Cat
Night Candles
Scott T. Hutchison

I Was Walking
Waking to Winter
Becky Kennedy

The rain
Marcus Amaker

Weed
Matthew J. Spireng

Forgetting
John Talbird

Glass
Mark Parsons

Hometown Visitor
Remembering My Children
David R. Solheim

American Bounty
The wolves have done their worst
John Sibley Williams

How We’ll Walk
Kevin Rabas

Waking in the city
Ira Rosenstein

The Anna Nicole Smith Poem
When Plato Shows Me the Sun
Danielle Nicole Byington

Harper and Marisol
Megan Howell

After the National People’s Congress Approved the Constitution Amendments, Which Removes Presidential Term Limits and Allows Xi to Rule China Forever
Kuo Zhang

A Drone Is Nothing Like the Sun
Jeanette Beebe

“Who Am I That I Am Not on Trial or in Prison?”
Ace Boggess

Dorothy at Fifty
Joel Allegretti

From Recent History
David Dephy

Nine Months After the Burning of Club Boccaccio
McAllen, Texas (1979)
Marlene Galván

Comfort Food
Victoria Bañales

Unvarnished
Amalia Dillin

Today at the thrift store
Bush League in Youth Soccer
Kevin J. McDaniel

Jorgia Wants a Chapter
Storey Clayton

Faust
The Other Sister
Harry Newman

This Goes On
The Bowerbird
Angie Mason

Picture-Happy Mind
Ibis
Peter Specker

Chameleon
Robin Gow

Dead Deer
Mattias Carosella

Not a Love Song
Cloudscape
Donna Pucciani

Homeward
Midnight Navidad
Lorraine Caputo

Heat Waves in the Ice Age
Wind Power
Robert S. King

Heat Wave with Sunflowers
Michael Rogner

Somnabulant Nation
Five and Infinite
Precipitation
Jane Rosenberg LaForge

Scientific Methods
James Sallis

To Call Your Own
The Cancer, Mija, is a Revenge on the Body
Spanish Lessons/ My Tongue Does Not Form the Shape of My Mother’s Tongue
Christine Amezquita

Courageous Living
Ella Alkiewicz

Baby Teeth
M. M. Adjarian

Stress Test
Gaby Bedetti

birthday
Corbett Buchly

Conception
Jodie Mortag

Cycle Unbroken
Anna Whiteside

A Week of Zen
Wendy Wisner

Child Who Won’t Sleep
Where There Is No Darkness
The Voice of Blood
Catherine Carter

A Poem to the Killing Virgin
Aaron Wallace

There is no beyond
This poem is not
Here is the watery grave
Peter Grandbois

Secreto/Secret
Espejo de agua/ Mirror of Water
Palpitante semilla/ Pulsating Seed
Xánath Caraza (translated by Sandra Kingery)

When the Water Recedes
Bonnie Larson Staiger

Byron elégeti Shelley tetemét a tengerparton/Byron Burns Shelley’s Corpse on the Shore
Gábor Lanckor (translated by Gabor G Gyukics)

Collection: Yala (Land)
For my people
Nuestras Abuelas
Camino/Way
Nii (Hermano Luna)
Sue Haglund

Untitled
Nate Preus

provenance
choose not
commandment
Ignacio Carvajal

Divide the Days
John Leonard

Defunct
Gale Acuff

Felix Culpa
Virginia Wiles

Saving Eros from the Middleman
Miriam O’Neal

The Last Freight Train
Lori Horvitz

Dangerous Currency
Loose Tooth
Sara Dovre Wudali

On Moving Out of My First Apartment
Michael Homolka

Stairs
Brandon Krieg

The Car Wash
Gilian Neiditch

Abel
Matthew Sisson

The Museum of Egyptian History
Don Raymond

Swallow, Do Not Chew
George Ryan

Copper Jazva
Elaine Reardon

Semillas de esperanza/ Seeds of Hope
Flores para el corazón/ Flowers for the Heart
Xun Betan (translated by Sean Sell)

Badlands
The knots we knit
C. R. Resetarits

Threads from the Heart Sky
Michelle Donahue

Playing with Cages
#4506
Clelia O. Rodríguez

The Photographer
Sofiul Azam

Burst
Self-Portrait as ICE as Teenager
Little Dream
Nicholas Reiner

Lullaby For Bones
Saint Pocahontas
Trickster Story
Jenny L. Davis

Ensnared In Heaven’s Nets
Kathleen Gunton

Obelisk
Jane Blanchard

We, the Many
Marie-Andree Auclair

Anemia
Circulating
Vivian Wagner

Magician’s Assistant
David B. Prather

Brief Elegy for William Harrold
Kenneth Pobo

Obituary: Salvatore Cacosa
John J. Trause

A short poem for my wife, my mother, and my unborn daughter
Special Education, ACT prep, and Hephaestus
Writing with the Devil
John McDonough

For my daughter
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Olivia Lawrance

Red Schwinn
Nicholas Mohlmann

Wearing Sadness
Kip Zegers

Appetite
After Chemo
Norita Dittberner-Jax

Ordinary Language Philosophy
David Hargreaves

critical invitation
Carl “Papa” Palmer

Sonnet for a day like today
Sonnet at that time of year
William Joel

A Tax Thicket: 26 U.S.C. §§
Thomas E. Simmons

End Notes
Rob Kenagy

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