Alina Stefanescu Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Her writing can be found in diverse journals, including Prairie Schooner, North American Review, FLOCK, Southern Humanities Review, Crab Creek Review, Virga, Whale Road Review, and others. She serves as Poetry Editor for Pidgeonholes, Poetry Editor for Random Sample Review, Poetry Reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly, and Co-Director of PEN A

Photo provided by author Chris L. Butler is an African American and Dutch poet, essayist, and historian from Philadelphia, PA. Chris graduated from the University of Houston-Downtown, where he earned a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies, History. He also graduated from Xavier University where he earned an Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts. His work has been featured in The Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy, Versification Magazine, Perhappened Mag, Trampset Maga

by Nazli Karabiyikoglu, translated by Gozde Zulal Solak Cleyton Ewerton For Sezgin Inceel This is what I’ve lost. I cannot find me That I’ve caught at the nostalgic flow. Loss of innocence, corrosion of the body, inner shames. Circling in thoughts, With a sense as regret for a moment, but no, never. Songs, Genres don’t matter, permeated, leaked, saturated in the moment And with all these images, my childish or adolescent mind, offenceless Unprepared, while thinking I can eval

by Nazli Karabiyikoglu David Clode For the people of Pacific, Siberia and Yakutia 1. The man with the yellow skirt His steps shook the town. His height reached trees’ highest branches, and his shoulders had asymmetric edges that wouldn’t fit through doors. Yellow skirts were always wrapped tightly around his slim waist, and hung down like a triangle. His unbuttoned shirt revealed his snake-like chest hair. Children liked to pet his dog and his horse, but by putting a consider