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After debuting and selling out at AWP25, The MacGuffin’s vol. 40.2 is again available for purchase! Featuring the winners of POET HUNT 29 and commentary by judge Michael Meyerhofer, we also look ahead to this year’s POET HUNT 30 with a mini-feature of poems by judge Darrel Alejandro Holnes. We round this issue out with a quadruplet of short memoirs; fiction selections including Margaret Willey’s family drama—turbulent as the Lake it’s set on—and Angela Townsend’s “Present Lives,” whose Joyce invites you to tune in, turn on: referencing enhanced spirituality or Jennifer Rodrigues’s cover, “Switch Plate”—who’s to say?

8: Dante Di Stefano – Guilt Complex
9–11: Laura Isabela Amsel – Meanwhile
12: Amanda Chiado – Sylvia Plath Invented the Phrase, “You Should Smile More”
13–16: Angela Townsend – Present Lives
17: Susanna Lang – Flight
18–19: Sonia Greenfield – Land of the Lost
20: Sonia Greenfield – Signs of Abuse
21: Cindy Buchanan – Hunger
22: Benjamin Schmitt – The Baby Killers
23: Benjamin Schmitt – Self-Portrait as Action Figure
24–29: Will Berry – Echoes from the Black Box
30: Lynn D. Gilbert – Reefs of Metal Junk
31: Sydney Gabrielle Mayes – A Monostich At Hawk’s Distance
32–33: Lexi Pelle – The Second Law of Thermodynamics is tough to prove
34–36: Lyn Michele Stevens – Love is an Oval
37–41: Alison Watson – Finding My Mentally Ill Roots
42: Madeleine French – Avocado Toast
43: Rachael Lyon – Housekeeping
44: Sara McAulay – Dakota
45: Julian Matthews – Origami
46–55: Huina Zheng – The White Rabbit He Chased
56: Kate Peper – Father’s Aneurysm
57: Robert Rice – The Surprising Weight of Water
58: Elizabeth Kerlikowske – Last Words
59–66: T. R. Hatfield – A Silence Between Friends
67: Laura Donnelly – What Tangles
68–69: Jen Karetnick – Love Poem for Namaste; or, A Divine Flow for Elevation
70–71: Jen Karetnick – Left
72: Lavina Blossom – The Ladle
73–83: Martha Coats – And Then One Day
84–85: Louis Faber – Conduit
86: Joshua Coben – Dead Letters
87: Joshua Coben – Dharma Dog
88: Donald Pasmore – The Mind Speaks to Its Locus
89–96: M. Guendelsberger – Lizards in Cincinnati
97: Jennifer Rodrigues – Columns
98: Jennifer Rodrigues – Youth Lagoon
99: Jennifer Rodrigues – Wasp Nest Leaves
100: Jennifer Rodrigues – Penelope, Please
101: Michael Meyerhofer – Poet Hunt 29 Commentary
104–105: Joshua Martin – Ode to Drinking in Airports at Sunrise with a Line by Thomas Lux
106: Lexi Pelle – Neighbors
107: Susan Cohen – Shelter
109: Darrel Alejandro Holnes – After Baldwin
110–111: Darrel Alejandro Holnes – Feu d’Artifice
112–113: Darrel Alejandro Holnes – Cosmic Love
115–117: Charlotte Gullick – Puma (1975)
118–120: Karin Hedetniemi – Artifacts of a Michigan Childhood
121–123: Carol Fox Prescott – 140 West 71st Street, Apartment 1-F
124: Jonathan B. Aibel – Melancholia
125: Jonathan B. Aibel – Self-Portrait with a Cup of Water
126: Elizabeth Hazen – Mercy
127: Elizabeth Hazen – Whelm
128: Elizabeth Hazen – Second Marriage
129–137: J. Z. Wyckoff – The Catch
138–139: Mary Makofske – Smoke
140: Mary Makofske – Daylight Saving Time, 2016
141: Barbara Crooker – A Widow Gives Away Her Husband’s Clothes
142–143: Barbara Crooker – Late Monet: A Triptych
144–152: Margaret Willey – Red Scarf
153: Derek Jon Dickinson – Copy Editor
154: Curtis L. Crisler – Be Lovely
155–160: Contributor Notes

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