m e r c u r y f i r s 4

[ winter 2024 ]

Jay Gao

from Bark, Archive, Splinter

Emiliano Gomez

5 poems from Townies

Valerie Hsiung

“they won’t see us coming”

Danika Stegeman

2 poems from The Book of Matthew

Kylan Rice

2 poems

Julianne Neely

“Sex on the Beach” & “Crow Theory”

Angel Leyba

2 poems

TR Brady

from binge-watching the night

Adrian Lürssen

2 poems

Amie Zimmerman

2 from the Entry series

Abby Minor

2 poems

Michael Joseph Walsh

from Toccata and Fugue for the Foreigner

Olga Mikolaivna

“unbecoming”

Scout Faller

2 poems

Henri Meschonnic

translated by Gabriella Bedetti & Don Boes

6 poems

Zoe Darsee & Elise Houcek

From The Pocket of Agent Dickinson

Edward Salem

3 poems

Tyrone Williams

3 poems from Cliché

Margaret Yapp

3 poems

Elijah Jackson

“Light fields”

Sergio Salamanca

translated by Sebastián Gómez Matus

5 poems from Pftschute

Eric Tyler Benick

3 poems

Sofija Popovska

2 poems

Tim Erickson

3 poems

Robert Fernandez

from Summer of Love

Daniela Naomi Molnar

“We woke up early so we would know how to survive”

Josh Fomon

4 poems from Our Human Shores

Teemu Helle

translated by Niina Pollari

3 poems

Reuben Gelley Newman

3 poems of homophonic translation