DANIELLE BARNHART and IRIS MAHAN are the founding editors of Village of Crickets, a leading literary website. Danielle Barnhart is the recipient of the 2015 Donald Everett Axinn Award in Poetry, and coordinates programming for Adelphi University¿s MFA Program in Creative Writing. Iris Mahan is a graduate of Adelphi University¿s MFA Program, where she was the recipient of The Robert Muroff Scholarship in Creative Writing. She spends her days at The Center for Fiction (New York City), and her nights translating and writing poetry.

Part I:

Kiss Me, Kate - Sandra Beasley

Female - Kimberly Johnson

The Children's Chorus - Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Civil Rights - Jacqueline Jones LaMon

The Ride Home - Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Over Mate - Ruth Irupe Sanabria

Image - James Allen Hall

Wedding Dress - James Allen Hall

Good & Evil Shoes - Jan Beatty

Getting a UTI - Laura Theobald

Untitled - Laura Theobald

Rib - Hope Wabuke

Skin II: Firebird - Hope Wabuke

Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits - Rachel Zucker

And Still I Speak of It - Rachel Zucker

Part II:

January, after El Niño - Ryka Aoki

13 - Aracelis Girmay

To the Husband - Aracelis Girmay

Elegy with a White Shirt - Cynthia Dewi Oka

Poem Beginning with Items from The Vienna Museum of Contraception and Abortion - Joyce Peseroff

A Woman and Her Job - Elizabeth Clark Wessel

That's Where You Disappear - Monika Zobel

Of the Swan - Jericho Brown

The Legend of Big and Fine - Jericho Brown

Ladies Weekend in Brooklyn - Danielle Chapman

To the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job - Elizabeth Acevedo

dowry - Safia Elhillo

zihour - Safia Elhillo

after - Safia Elhillo

Part III:

If 2017 was a Poem Title - Mahogany L. Browne

Heritage - Kaveh Akbar

Poem for Suheir Hammad - Trish Salah

Ode to the Pantsuit - Lauren Alleyne

Madame X-- - Lauren Alleyne

Matriot Acts - Anne Waldman

Am Ha'aretz - Rosebud Ben Oni

Stanzas for the Resistance - Todd Hearon

The March - Achy Obejas

Meanwhile - Maureen McLane

Heidenröslein - Maureen McLane

Hagar in the Wilderness - Tyehimba Jess

To the breasts when it's over-- - Ellen Hagen

To the woman on St. Nicholas Avenue whose thigh

was a wilderness blooming-- - Ellen Hagen

Kiss of the Sun - Mary Ruefle

Lucky Ladies Sestina - Jill McDonough

Accident, Mass. Ave - Jill McDonough