POETRY
The Reservoir by C. Francis Fisher
Bodies, Revised by Elizabeth Muscari
Order imposes by Andrew Najberg
Any Moonwalker Can Tell You and Any Moonwalker Can Tell You: O Rings by Joel Peckham JR
Archival Footage: My Father Learns to Edit on a Moviola by Amanda Maret Scharf
Waldo by Cheyenne Taylor
FICTION
The Piano Lesson by Megan Morrison
Borrowed by Megan Ritchie
Milk Teeth by Meghan Louise Wagner
Translation
Wingless Bird by Humberto Ak’abal (translated by Michael Bazzett)
The Crib by Giulia Sara Miori (translated by Isabella Corletto)
FEATURED ARTIST
Comics
Lab Rat by Michaela Chan
The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy’s 2023 Poetry Contest
First Place: “In my ASL class today, we learn how to sign UNITY” by Sophie Kaiser, Vanderbilt University
Second Place: “Her eyelids were a lovely yellow-green” by TaKya Hughes, East Tennessee State University
Third Place: “Non-Immigrant” by Shlagha Borah, University of Tennessee, Knoxville