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Editorial Statement

Gregory Wolfe, The Patron Saint of Losers

Fiction

Hamid Ismailov, The Dervish and the Mermaid

Valerie Sayers, Tidal Wave

Samuel Thomas Martin, Fighting Fish

Poetry

Jerzy Ficowski, [Honey lives only]
Prayer to the Holy Louse
The Assumption of Miriam from a Winter Street, 1942

Richard Jones, Pont des Arts
Prodigal

Richard Chess, are you my god
After Hearing That a Friend Visiting Israel…

Benjamin Myers, Field

Hailey Leithauser, Some Small Bone
Glowworm

U.Z. Greenberg, Every One Such as I
At Heaven’s Rim

John Terpstra, Imagineer of Variety

Richard Pierce, Go Gentle
Salt of Sodom
Father Rodney

Gemma Gorga, [Do you remember the seraphim]
[You bind my hands with saliva]
[A soft, slow smell rises up]

John Poch, The Death of Barabbas

Susan L. Miller, The Wolf of Gubbio
Manual for the Would-Be Saint

Visual Arts

Joe Milazzo, Ecstatic Dislocation: The Art of Sedrick Huckaby

Morgan Meis, The Empty Bed: Tracey Emin and the Persistent Self

Interview

Hugh Cook, A Conversation with Rudy Wiebe

Essay

Jonathan McGregor, The Thorn and the Heart: Anxiety, Irony, and Faith

Martha Park, The Charged World

Confessions

Traci Brimhall, Roman Charity

Book Review

Camellia Freeman, Atheist Bodies:
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts
Christina Crosby’s A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain