The Black-crowned Night-Heron Migratory Song
“Shepherd,” Chris Pureka
Album: Chimera II
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Kathleen Ossip
Michael Tyrell
Kirun Kapur
Patrick Donnelly
Dorianne Laux
Richard Foerster
Ysabel Y. Gonzalez
Tawanda Mulalu
Laura Wang
Milica Mijatović

Elizabeth Catanese
Adrienne Oliver
Robert Fillman
Marion Brown
Dare Williams
Srinivas Mandavilli
Angie Dribben
Meghan Sterling
Chloé Firetto-Toomey
Douglas Cole

Jane Zwart
Michelle Bitting
Amy Holman
Jessica Rigney
Norma DaCrema
Kateri Lanthier
Lucy Zhang
Patricia Caspers
Sharon Venezio
Lisa Olsen

Jennifer Stewart Miller
Ciara McCormack
B. Fulton Jennes
Frank Paino
Jennifer Poteet
Kristian Macaron
Shannon K. Winston
Caroline Plasket
Kristina Andersson Bicher
John J. Trause

Sean Sexton
Jamie O’Halloran
Sean Winn
Pam Sinicrope
Laura Reece Hogan
Edison Jennings
Mary Lou Buschi
Nancy Hightower
Charlie Clark

Paul Ilechko
Jennifer Polson Peterson
Nathan Spoon
Chryss Yost
Marc Alan Di Martino
Scott Ferry
Chloé Leisure
R.G. Evans
Sheila Wellehan
Poems curated by:
Poetry Editors
Philip F. Clark, Michele Karas
T. Nicole Cirone, Vismai Rao
Angelique Zobitz
Assistant Poetry Editors
Reet Starwind, Cathlin Noonan
First Readers
Cheryl Vargas, Ayesha Hamid

Artwork by RYGER, Elizabeth Perotin,
Jeff Thompson, Victor Tongdee
Winter cover art by Elizabeth Perotin
Logo by RYGER