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Introduction / Doug Paul Case
Part 1: Nonfiction
What It's Like to Swim in the Ocean for the First Time at Twenty-Eight / Ashley C. Ford
Fifteen Things I've Noticed While Trying to Walk 10,000 Steps per Day: Muncie, Indiana Edition / Silas Hansen
Caves / Rajpreet Heir
Buckethead / B.J. Hollars
Quick Feet / Kiese Laymon
The Elvis Room / Katie Moulton
Useless Beauty / Scott Russell Sanders
Part 2: Poetry
Orchids Are Sprouting from the Floorboards / Kaveh Akbar
Looking for Mushrooms / Dason Anderson

The Creator Takes the Stand / Noah Baldino
Atmosphere in Our Bullshit Little Town / Bryce Berkowitz
Red-Winged Blackbird / Joe Betz
Pretend / Callista Buchen
Deer Whisperer / Steve Castro
Hello, My Parents Don't Speak English Well, How Can I Help You? / Su Cho
Ode to the Tongue / Nandi Comer
Feast Green and Stained / Paul Cunningham
This Afternoon, Kirkwood Avenue Breathes / Mitchell L. H. Douglas
Little Eagle Creek in Seasons / M. A. Dubbs
Our Relationship as Embrace b/w Icarus & Light / Samantha Fain
Self-Portrait as Hammer / Maggie Graber

Quiet after Rain in Indiana / Joe Heithaus
Junk Food / Allison Joseph
Besaydoo / Yalie Kamara
The Indianapolis 500 / Christopher Kempf
Portrait of Boy in Greyhound Bus Window / Patrick Kindig
Portable City / Karen Kovacik
Maturation Theory / Kien Lam
The Merchant Seaman's Wife / Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Good Friday / Rebecca Lehmann
The Poet Encounters a Moose in Winter / John Leo
Museum / Keith Leonard
Night Swim at Shadow Lake / Anni Liu
Umbra / Nancy Chen Long
Berries / Alessandra Lynch
Television, a Patient Teacher / Orlando Ricardo Menes

Self-Portrait, Wearing Bear Skull as Mask / Michael Mlekoday
First Milk / Danni Quintos
Still Animals / Sam Ross
Map / Bruce Snider
Bare Necessities / Lana Spendl
Mother's Coat / Maura Stanton
Red State / Jacob Sunderlin
Train People / Gin Faith Thomas
The Fens at Mounds State Park / Chuck Wagner
First Flight / Shari Wagner
Incident with Nature, Late / Marcus Wicker
World of Desire / Brandon Young
Part 3: Fiction
You Perfect, Broken Thing / C. L. Clark
Insults for Ugly Girls / Tia Clark
Cash 4 Gold / Laura Dzubay
Tom's Story / Kelcey Parker Ervick

Penny and the Rakshasi / Shreya Fadia
The Boys / Scott Fenton
The Sixth Door / Megan Giddings
The Fish Is Gone. But the Cake Is Here. / Brian Leung
The Moon over Wapakoneta / Michael Martone
Glossolalia / Kyle Minor
A Death Foretold / Xavier Navarro Aquino
The Warhol Girl / Susan Neville
Icicle People, or The Lake Effect Snow Queen / Jasmine Sawers
Versus the Brown Socks / Pablo Pin ero Stillmann
Saying Goodbye to Yang / Alexander Weinstein
Night Shift / Tessa Yang
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