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<p>The featured short story, "Curse of Ham," precedes a lengthy interview on socio-politics and the risks of writing from a racist's perspective. The poems in this issue dazzle with investigations of place and body; exoplanets, birthing scars, bulldozed buildings, mermaid scales, and more fill poems begging to be touched and explored. The issue wraps with a poem-comic examining the clash of nature and machines.</p><p>--</p><p>Our eighteenth issue features work from the talented minds of Nicholas Nakai Garcia, Daniel Kuriakose, Kiyoko Reidy, Michael Webber, Maggie Blake Bailey, Haikki Huotari, Ahja Fox, Natalya Sukhonos, Erin Carlyle, LeeAnn Olivier, Elizabeth Kerlikowski, Betsy Johnson- Miller, Richard Vyse, Ray Nayler, and Cesar Sebastian Diaz .The managing editors are James McNulty and Jerrod Schwarz. Rick Krizman is the guest fiction editor. Megan Nemise Hall is the poetry editor. Sally Franckowiak is the cover designer. Cover by Richard Vyse.</p>