from "The Black Maria"

by Aracelis Girmay

Delicately, Slow, the World Comes Back

by Carl Phillips

Dragon-slayer

by Roger Bonair-Agard

Selection from Tanka Diary

by Harryette Mullen

Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same

by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Still Life with Starlings and Man

by Sean Hill

In his lover’s house, a father rises

by Roxane Beth Johnson

Forget

by Adrienne Kennedy

To Phillis Wheatley's Mother

by Cornelius Eady

Afro

by Kiki Petrosino

The Designated Driver

by Jerald Walker

Geneva Could Have Walked to Switzerland

by Artress Bethany White

A Visit to Inner Sanctum

by Yusef Komunyakaa

The Living Sea

by Tiphanie Yanique

Shh . . . Shh . . .

by Stratis Haviaras
translated by Memi Katsoni

Four Calls in the Last Half Hour

by Amy Hempel

Meridians of the Heart

by Roxana von Kraus

The World’s Most Southerly Periodical

by Anne Fadiman

HR 52 Editorial

by Christina Thompson

What the Women Do

by Adam Braver