We are very excited to announce that issue 92.3/4 went off to our publishing partners at the University of Nebraska Press this week. The table of contents for this issue filled with fiction, essays, reviews, and poetry appears below. It will feature brilliant cover art from Jessica Halonen.

Thank you to all the contributors and editors who made this issue possible. And special thank go to the students in the Writing, Editing, and Publishing certificate program in the UND Department of English for their help preparing this issue for publication.

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Table of Contents

            Editor’s Note
Sheila Liming

Fiction

            Tributaries
Lennie Roeber-Tsiongas

            The Surveyor of Saffron Street
Ted Gilley

            Coup
Taylor Brorby

            Bermuda
Mollie Swayne

            Shattering
Kasimma

Reviews

            Dispatches from the Town of Cats
Patrick Thomas Henry

            Of Shepherds and the More-than-Human Orchestra:
———Irene Solá’s Narrative Spolia in When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Javid Aliyev

Essays

            Brothers of the Mustache
John Janelle Backman

            Turtle Boy
Martín Tonalmeyotl (Translated by Whitney DeVos)

            Tango Uniform
Katherine Witt

            Projection
John Ervin

Poetry

            Newly Discovered Cave Paintings
Christmas Lobbed into Your Lap
Cary Bogart Ziter

            Late September,West of Bismarck, North Dakota
Thom Tammaro

            Shaded by I-95
Reflections on a Lake
Coming Home
Eric Marland

            Cantando
RH Booker

            Before I Sign the Lease
Myles Weber

            A Deer Comes to Town
The Ancient Fisherman
John Grey

            4
Matthew Moniz

            Solitude, thy name is freedom!
ChatGPT, thy name is wonder!
Jainab Tabassum Banu

            On Machine Learning
How to Eat the Earth
Sam Prestianni

            Omaha Coming-On
Mark B. Hamilton

            I Hope to See More of You Tomorrow
The Devil’s Idle Hands
Jeff Tobin

            Cleaning Hooves
The Gate
Jane North

            Trouble
Keepsake
My List of Demands
Jacob Schepers

            Freezers
Claire Feragen

            My Baby, Ode #9
Way Out There Where We Can’t See
Cecil Morris

            Gubbish
Craig Kurtz

            Wheat Field without Crows
As Bone
Necessary Fictions
Thích Quảng Đức // Andrew Wyeth
John Sibley Williams

            In Bogor
Robert Rinehart

            After We Made Love
Old Friends
Gratitude Journal
David Romanda

            Self-portrait in Perimenopause
Philosophy of Debt
Shana Ross

            Announcement
Toothache
Niño Baena

            Whirlybird
Lauro Palomba

            What a Convict Knows
“Can I Microwave Liquor or Will It Blow Up?”
Ace Boggess

            The True Story of Mary Toft
The first rabbit
Empirical Evidence; or The Other Rabbits
Christopher W. Smith

            Instead of Taking the Fifth
Bojan Babić (Translated by John K. Cox)

            Local Fragrances
Brad Johnson

            Mexican, American
What His Breath Taught Me About Death
Ryan Babcock

            Something about Burying So Much Light
Doves and String
There’s Always Someone at the Canyon Who Will Take Your Photo
Dawn Dupler

            my grandmother-in-law sends me a video about nanobots in soda
fireflies in michigan
Amanda Corbin

            Citizen
Grow
Even the Best Words
Edward Manzi

            The Power Strip
Air Raid Sirens
Michael Roque

            Patriarch
If Unemployed
John Tracy

            The Caliber of Toy Guns
Jim Daniels

            Cross Ties
Lunch Money
Jeanine Stevens

            Breathe
Reach
Robert L. Penick

            Death Becomes a Rock Star
Nolo Segundo

            Palace of Dreams
Divan of Hafez (Translated by Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza)

            The Last Romantic (was probably John Ashbery)
Terry Trowbridge

            Moth
Untitled
Childhood
Face Mask
Hua Qing (Translated by Yujing Liang)

            The Guide for the Perplexed
sunset
Mollie Swayne

            The Time Machine
Reading Philosophy of Mind, 3rd Ed. in Bed
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

            On That Which Caring Depends
June
April 1995
Morgan Harlow

            Circumflex
Apex Predator
Robbie Gamble

            Down in the Piraeus
Patmos
The Winds
The Choir Boy
Toney Dimos

            Orpheus in Hollywood
George Rawlins

            Jesus’s Needle
Pastoral
Migration
Jake Grussing

            Blueberry Hill
Seasonal Spirit
Stephen Campiglio

            portrait of a mother in the garden, weeding
unnamed
corpus
Rowan Tate

            Look for the Mountain
Tagged Wildlife
Broken Bridges
The Clock Mocks Me
Round Up and Evacuate
Jennifer Bisbing

            To the Biker Lady Dismounting her Harley in the Parking Lot of Walter’s on Squam Lake
Ache & Awe
Dropping In
Susan Dines

            Mariner’s Compass, Unknown, 1885–1895
The Only Time I Went Out Today
Kate Kenney

            Pleasant or pleased direct object
Arno Bohlmeijer

            Deck Boards
William Rudolph

            What We Miss From Our Grandmothers
The Rising Price of Oranges
The Last Shall Be First
Joseph Geskey

            Tangerines
Withstanding the Heat—Degrees of Separation
A Note from my Husband
Carla Schwartz

            King and an Ace
Terry Brinkman

            While Driving In The Rain
Caiti Quatmann

            School Days
You Must Change Your Life
The Phone Call
Bruce Cohen

            Gray Catbird
Robert Grunst

            Saint Valentine’s Day, 14 February 2025
Gerard Sarnat

            The conversation
As I like it
Grant Shimmin

            A Camp-Fire
Douglas Thornton

            Mill Road Cemetery
Timothy Dodd

            In The Dark
William Virgil Davis

            What These Hold
Matthew J. Spireng

            Look at the Moon
William Olsen

            Little Flower
Alessio Zanelli

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