A letter from our guest editor, Yanyi.

Madison Mae Parker traces her literary history through Friendship Zines, encountering younger versions of herself along the way.

Aria Pahari and Dure Ahmed design a “syllabus that goes on forever,” tracking changes through a friendship that might be the real forever-syllabus.

Shared texts are offered like casual bids of intimacy in Kiril Bolotnikov and Scout Faller’s Top Ten lists of favorite poems.

H.L. Kim treats Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory collages as sites of collaboration with absent family members to piece together a fragmented history.

Gauri Awasthi and Jack Vanchiere, both twenty-eight, cut new angles in mutual mentor Amy Fleury’s poem “At Twenty-Eight.”

Artists Simone Zapata, Sarah Yanni, and Christine Imperial speak as a braid of three voices in a cross-disciplinary interrogation of maps and mapmaking.

Andie Sheridan’s poem-essay names the sorrow of dislocation and attempts to forge their own chisel through it with the words of other adoptee writers.

Neta Kleine’s essay asks what possibilities lie in translation when faithfulness to the original text is not the point?

Eunsong Kim’s research into activist Pat Parker’s archives turns up a flyer for the performance group Unbound Feet and a list of questions for Merle Woo and Nellie Wong.