Including Peter Mishler, Candice Wuehle, Kristi Maxwell, Alicia Mountain, JoAnna Novak, Danny Caine, and Jermaine Thompson, inside you’ll find elegies for old dogs and doomed planets, breakup texts turned workshop fodder, Whitmanian odes to red velvet cake and fried bologna, ghostly letters from Abraham Lincoln, surreal whale bellies, DIY revolutionaries, and much more. Through poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, these writers shape-shift language into protest, prayer, and punchline.