Anupam Singh, translated from the Hindi by Areeb Ahmad — Excerpt: Indeed, only father’s left shoe remained. / Made of plastic, it could not rot / and kept waiting for feet that fit.
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‘The Astronaut Missed the Moon,’ ‘After the Ghost of Relationships Past Told the Truth’ and ‘Vanishing Point’
Mathieu Cailler — Excerpt: In his spacesuit, he fetched the morning paper and grabbed a Grand Slam at Denny’s.
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‘Jobless Evil Eye,’ ‘Only Controlled Disasters’ and ‘Darkness, My Old Friend’
Shikha Valsalan — Excerpt: I am the ultimate / jumbo jinx retardant.
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Leaves
Daniel Fitzpatrick — Excerpt: It is tempting, when an oak leaf / falls into your empty cup.
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Riverine Verses — Lakshmi Kannan’s Nadistuti
Neera Kashyap — Excerpt: Divided into five segments, Nadistuti is an interconnected riverine flow of poems that reflect each other in a brilliant kaleidoscope of mirrors.