Kathrine Savu’s painting gracing our Spring cover juxtaposes organic, humane urbanity against its ultimate gentrifiers: robots. Inside the issue, there is much that is vital and urbane to discover: a two-sentence diptych by Richard Kostelanetz; poetry by Firesign Theatre’s David Ossman; Kat Meads on C’nelia Ellis Snively Wallace; Tomoé Hill on Rothko and Fassbinder; Thomas Walton’s latest unsavory thoughts; Mike Silverton on Benedict Arnold; Henry Wessells on Melville and Lovecraft; Melissa McCarthy on dots in space; Kurt Luchs on Lorca; M.J. Nicholls on the new retro servitude; effervescent metaclamacity from Christopher Boucher; Paul Kavanagh on the Conquest of New Ayeléticia; and many additional treasures by contributors Roberta Allen, Iván Argüelles, Nadia Arioli, Jesi Bender, Ian Boulton, S.T. Brant, Marvin Cohen, Robert Crooke, Bradley David, Timothy Dodd, Andrew Farkas, Dave Fitzgerald, Daniel Fraser, Ellen Harrold D.A. Hosek, Vivian Ia, Alvin Krinst, Diego Lama, Jace Lee, Matt Morris, Kirsten Mosher, Patrick Parks, Geoffrey Pitcher, Andrew Reichard, Cliff Saunders, Aug Stone, Angela Townsend, David Wolf, and Don Zancanella.