Issue 18.1
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“Nightfall”
by Neta Goren
Neta Goren is self-taught. With an education in music, literature, and languages, she works mainly indoors using oils, pastels, graphite, and colored pencils. Her painting style is semi-figurative, sometimes abstracted to rely solely on texture and tonal variations.
| Poetry | |
| Partridge Boswell | Saltimbanques |
| Quiz | |
| Joanne DeSimone Reynolds | Full Pink Moon |
| Sarah Burke | Fishing with Ghosts |
| Betsy Johnson-Miller | Leap, soft |
| Yehoshua November | I Made a Decision |
| Live Like the Ark in the Holy of Holies | |
| To Come Back | |
| Mary Ann Mayer | Tracks |
| Joseph Spece | Beacon Hill |
| Task | |
| Leslie Williams | Practice |
| Brought in Safety to This New Day | |
| Sjohnna McCray | The Pear Tree |
| Winter Anesthesia | |
| David Blair | At Gooseberry Beach |
| Mary Jo Firth Gillett | Hunger, White-Tailed Deer and Hosta |
| Michael Brokos | Allison and Iowa |
| Brian Simoneau | Lines from Wherever My Father Finds Himself |
| New Year’s Eve | |
| Wesley Rothman | Instructions for Stardust |
| Alzheimer Aubade | |
| Anna Lowe Weber | By metaphor you paint a thing |
| Blessings for the Unborn | |
| David Thacker | A Fetus Dreams of Narrative |
| Ben Berman | Nothing Archaic About It |
| Brittney Scott | Microchimerism |
| C. Dylan Bassett | Butcher Shop |
| A Protest, Tahrir Square | |
| Lori Wilson | Because Even the Dog Star Hid |
| The Day He Ran over the Dog | |
| Amorak Huey | Pursued by an Angry Mob, Fire God Buries the Blues in a Bayou |
| Elegy for Stevie Ray Vaughan, Written by His Favorite Guitar | |
| Adam Day | Cave Hill |
| Matthew Mahaney | Dear Elizabeth, I dream a cherry orchard on fire |
| Dear Elizabeth, I fear I am a little salt ghost stuck | |
| Fred Marchant | Fresh Ink |
| The Meltemi* | |
| Matthew Landrum | Trieste |
| Sally Wen Mao | Friendship Evening |
| Gregory Lawless | Riprap |
| Tuesday | |
| Amy Dryansky | Cake & Eat it Too |
| Dear Tender Place | |
| Alan Feldman | Hate |
| Ashore in Oak Bluffs | |
| Chelsea Wagenaar | Letter to My Girlhood |
| Kim Triedman | Witch Hazel |
| Raymond Philip Asaph | The Icicle |
| P. J. Williams | Blues Poem (There’s hope for us on the porch) |
| Brian Culhane | Derivations |
| Ricardo Pau-Llosa | Odysseus to Diomedes, at Lemnos |
| Jaydn DeWald | Encounter |
| Fiona Sze-Lorrain | My Hiroshige |
| Jacob Strautmann | Benwood Mine and Queen Anne’s Lace |
| Mercy Prayer | |
| Christopher Lee Miles | Baling Hay |
| Susan Donnelly | Woman Reading |
| Marcela Sulak | Decency |
| Stan Badgett | At Cumberland Knob |
| Tom Sexton | On Being Asked to Write a Poem About the Moon |
| Benjamin Myers | A Production of Hamlet |
| None of This | |
| Andrea Moorhead | For Bobby, 1954-2011 |
| #4 | |
| Gary Dop | To My Love Handles |
| Betty Buchsbaum | First Encounters |
| Diane LeBlanc | Intervention |
| Wendy Drexler | Squirrel Eating the Milky Way |
| Lee Colin Thomas | Lifeguard |
| When It’s My Turn at the Counter | |
| Jennifer O'Grady | Dusk |
| Scott Withiam | Landscape and Interior, Considering Recent Political Claims and Polls |
| Matthew Minicucci | Crassus |
| Lana Rakhman | Waltz |
| Laurie Sewall | Painted Skirt |
| Hilary Sideris | To a Majolica Jug |
| Wildflowers | |
| Melting | |
| Wendy Mnookin | That Summer |
| Fiction | |
| Lynne Butler Oaks | A Sudden Absence of Sound |
| Jenn Chan Lyman | Two Old Fools |
| Dana Diehl | A Place Without Floors |
| Lynne Sharon Schwartz | Grief |
| Dan Pinkerton | Parkwood Manor |
| Reviews | |
| Jacqueline Kolosov | Crossings Over: Dialogos: Paired Poems in Translation by George Kalogeris |
| Valerie Duff-Strautmann | Ancestral Lines: Bewilderment by David Ferry |
WINTER 2012/2013
