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Fall 2025
Poetry
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Yes Yukon by Sara Barnett
Two by Jo Bear
​Fable: The Barn Owl, the Woodworm & the Rain by Anthony Caleshu
Spiritwalker by Daniel Carden Nemo
We Have Known Each Other at Every Hour by Chelsea Dingman
GS with lines from Alejandra Pizarnik... by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Back to Basics by Jose Arturo Flores
Considering the Bathroom Scale (Which Might Be Fucked) by Genna Gardini
​[inherited forms] ​by summa iru​
Partum Zuihitsu by Jenny Maaketo
​Three by Simone Muench and Jackie K. White
Awake, I Listen to My Bones Argue by Robert Okaji
Quasar by Lila Rosen
—of pale yellow by Diane Sahms
Heart Failure by Georgia San Li
Two ​by Tim Suermondt
Four Elements by Anne Whitehouse
Cityscape with Snow and Rooks by Alexander Lazarus Wolff

Poetry Translations

Three Essays by Nina Zúñiga (transl. Meg Carter)
​The Wait by Marin Sorescu (transl. Daniel Carden Nemo)
​​Fiction

Heroes Under the Bridge by Atef Ebeid (transl. Essam Al-Jassim)
Terrarium by Suzy Eynon​
Phil by Peter Gordon
The Gloworm Group by Michael Gray
Off the Cloud by Michael K. Norris

Less than Hero by Roberto Ontiveros

​Essays

Poetry Clearance: The MFA Industrial Complex
by Daniel Carden Nemo


The Moment Before the Shipwreck
by Giorgio Fontana


Interview

​​Intimacy as Method 
In Conversation with Keetje Kuipers

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Photography

Monochrome Cinematic
by Jason Bentsman

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Poetry    Clearance:   
​The    MFA    Industrial    Complex


​by Daniel Carden Nemo

What does it mean to be an artist today? What does it mean to be a poet? Amsterdam Review Editor Daniel Carden Nemo confronts the rise of the MFA industrial complex and the consequences of turning creativity into an institutionalized craft, in a call to remember that genuine art emerges from the unconscious, not from within the walls of academically sanctioned success.
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MFA Industrial Complex

Three
by Simone Muench and Jackie K. White

Breaking open the black egg, / the lynx bred from scattered skulls / was, like me, never wife nor lover ...
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​Fable: The Barn Owl, the Woodworm & the Rain
by Anthony Caleshu

​Whoever wants wisdom can have it, said the barn owl, who did / not have wisdom, but who’d heard it spoken by the woodworm ...​
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Heart    Failure
by Georgia San Li

We are neither friend, nor enemy / because those could be metaphor  / I might come to understand ...
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​Partum    Zuihitsu
by Jennifer Maaketo

Your cry. New string. New bow. New hand. Keep playing your violin. / On June 9th, 2023, at 8:09 a.m. you birth your wordless word into day ...
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Jessica Hughes, Candy Factory

Intimacy    as    Method

In conversation with Keetje Kuipers

Keetje Kuipers discusses her radical poetics and longing for connection: "I want to be holding hands with the reader as the floor gives out beneath us." Her latest collection touches on queer love, solitude, and how the lyric "I" is never truly alone, but always in chorus.​
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We   Have  Known   Each   Other   at   Every   Hour
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by Chelsea Dingman

At dusk, the dusk holds / the days apart. I am also other than / I imagine myself to be ...
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Three    Essays
by Nina Zúñiga
(translated from Spanish by Meg Carter)

​I woke up myopic, feverish, with sea-rain on the window, the remaining rays of a seraph’s halo / prickling my eyebrows ...
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GS   with   lines   from   Alejandra   Pizarnik ...
by Sean Thomas Dougherty

Something from the blood the way Y / Or X shapes and shifts as if above / The body is a cartography for all ...​
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Phil
by Peter Gordon

When my older brother died I began seeing a child psychologist named Patrick Rose who practiced out of a basement space ...
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The Moment Before the Shipwreck

by Giorgio Fontana

​An essay that maps the emotional logic of falling in and out of love: the sweetness, the superstition, the absolutism, and the inevitable crash. Drawing on Proust, Barthes, Baudrillard, and others, Fontana dissects love’s universal grammar and its brutal consequences with rare wit and clarity. 
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Paul Klee, Separation in the Evening

Yes   Yukon
by Sara Barnett

I get why the mountain stream had such appeal, and in the summer of 1896 / must have felt breathless. / A run to the pines, / dripping icicles ...
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Spiritwalker
by Daniel Carden Nemo

They say a dimple made its way from town to town / across the world it saw / as from behind a jammed window / that won’t open ...​
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Considering   the   Bathroom   Scale   (Which   Might   Be   Fucked)
by Genna Gardini

Anything that exists to process, / exists to fail. Ask yourself— / what’s the point of a kettle without water, /
or a clock without time? ...​
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Awake,   I   Listen   to   My   Bones   Argue
by Robert Okaji

​Every night's an arthritic, pissed off bird / careening through sleep's misshapen spinal / cord ...
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Jan van Kessel, Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary, 1653

Terrarium

by Suzy Eynon

​One late-summer afternoon, a woman watches her niece build a terrarium, recreating life behind glass. A meditation on care, control, and the fragile spaces—natural and emotional—we try to keep alive, even as everything around us leans toward collapse.
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Back    to    Basics
by Jose Arturo Flores

I was disoriented by our monad of Judeo-Christian bees. / The slight curve of my back makes a depression in the sand when I breathe in ...
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—of    pale    yellow
by Diane Sahms

Chop / ped / the beam / of sun / light / into burning blocks of wood / and piled them in the shape of a ...
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Heroes    Under    the    Bridge
by Atef Ebeid
(translated from Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim)

The schoolyard walls closed in around me like a prison. At school, I recoiled every time they called my name ...

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Two 
by Tim Suermondt

Finally, falling like paratroopers, / the leaves are blanketing the ground / and the piles are starting to take shape / and I want to kick and jump into the biggest / heaps ...
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Monochrome    Cinematic

by Jason Bentsman

In this striking collection of black and white photographs, artist Jason Bentsman pursues the elusive through a medium often grounded in the concrete. His work resists simple categorization, unfolding as an intuitive exploration rather than a rational analysis.
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Monochrome Cinematic by Jason Bentsman

Quasar
by Lila Rosen

A girl is born / then twisted, unfolds / a gluttonous body, popping / each beachball moon / into a wide yellow mouth ...​​
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Off    the    Cloud
by Michael K. Norris

Raz Darden recrossed San Carlos Street carrying his lunch as he looked at the sign over his shop. “Antiques” was all it said ...​
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Cityscape    with    Snow    and    Rooks
by Alexander Lazarus Wolff

The snow dissolves / as the light declines, / I turn to watch rooks unspool / over the city ...
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Four    Elements
by Anne Whitehouse

Air, fire, water, earth: each element / matched with a cardinal direction. / Air with the East. The inhale is inspiration, / expanding breath ...​
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Marcel Duchamp Cast Alive

Less    than    Hero

by Roberto Ontiveros

​A man reckons with the wreckage of his life—his marriage, his father’s illness, and his own lack of sense of purpose—in stream-of-consciousness prose that unfolds with lucidity and chaos. This is an attempt to come to terms with addiction and the impossible hope of repairing what’s already burned. 
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[inherited    forms]
by summa iru

for your adoration, a woolly mammoth, intact with its last meal— / all that unprocessed sugar, tucked in the cold wok / of its belly ...
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Two
by Jo Bear

​​Where the body builds what it cannot keep, / there is a cottage swaying ever closer / to the sea. / I made my way there ...
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The    Gloworm    Group
by Michael Loyd Gray

I’m not good with people. I can’t exactly say why. I’m just not. I think I was a normal child ...
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The Wait
by Marin Sorescu
​(translated from Romanian by Daniel Carden Nemo)

​They say things come back / to where they’d been before, / like some sort of comet feelings ...
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