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For this “Caretaking” edition of Ninth Letter, we wanted to engage work that resisted personal concerns. We wanted pieces that gave care to others or sought care in the other. What we found is at least one part of an expressive algebra, sometimes fulfilled and balanced but, in other important ways, also left unanswered. We were surprised by the range of caregiving in this edition: for the sick and for the lonely, in natural and personal disasters, out in a crowd or in the comfort (or not) of home. These poems, essays, and stories look out at the other and respond with care, or try to, or attempt to reach out for it.

Featuring new work from: Katie Burgess, Caleigh Cassidy, Chiara Di Lello, Kristina Erny, Danielle Garland, S Graham, Michael Harper, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, Ivy Raff, Konstantin N. Rega, Shana Ross, Lauren Saxon, Jennifer Steil, and Kate Stoltzfus.

—Zachariah McVicker, Web Editor

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