Super excited to have a new poem up @apogeelit about HRT, transitioning, and the ways that language can both fail and sustain us. Much gratitude to the editors and readers! Full poem at link in bio 💜 #Repost @apogeelit with @use.repost ・・・ Welcome to Issue 17, dear Apogee readers 🕯️ [candle emoji] This issue's cover features a piece by Abigail Lucien, which visual arts editor Dana Robinson chose for the way it transforms a wrought-iron fence, an everyday object we interact with often, into something magical. We offer you a curation of this magic in the pieces within Issue 17. As nonfiction editor Anya Lewis-Meeks writes in the letter from the editor, Apogee Issue 17 is daring in its ambivalence, asking important questions about both the expansiveness and limits of our capacity to love. We invite you to encounter and celebrate work by Joshua Aiken, Nicola Andrews, Asnia Asim, Kyle Seamus Brosnihan, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Justin Chance, Noah Arhm Choi, Shawanda Corbett, Zoë Fay-Stindt, Angalis Field, Alejandro Heredia, Iqra Khan, Aundeah J. Kearney, Abigail Lucien, Gerardo Pacheo Matus, Teresa Milbrodt, Phoebe Oathout, Alixen Pham, Naieka Raj, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Ashley Teamer, Ali A. Ünal, and Sydney Elexis Vernon. You can find Issue 17 today at apogeejournal.org. ID: Title text of the issue cover reads "Apogee Issue 17" in a cream color on top of a hunter green background. Below is the cover art, a close up detail on a wrought-iron fence, painted white. In the foreground, there is a white butterfly. At the top of the fence, a flame that resembles a candle, burning. Bottom text reads "apogeejournal.org".