It was the end of the year, we were a little punchy and so were the poems. We share some of our favorite super-compressed short poems from Etheridge Knight (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48752/feeling-fucked-up), Kay Ryan (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/06/eggs-3), and Jean Valentine (http://www.jeanvalentine.com/poems/34door.html), as well as some fiction recommendations for your wintertime reading pleasure. Also, some readings from our November/December 2023 issue (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/issues/products/vol-52-no-6-nov-dec-2023) by Todd Dillard (https://aprweb.org/poems/a-catalog-of-how-are-you-doings5) and Maya C. Popa (https://aprweb.org/authors/maya-c-popa).