Issue 57
Cover Art: “Flower Girl” by Shane Allison
Poetry | |
Ali Hintz | To Water |
Ginny Threefoot | Pool Season |
In Paradise: All Come by Chance | |
Ashunda Norris | "You Cain't Help What Come Up on You" |
Bee Morris | Tenderness Exercise |
The Minding of Business | |
Anna Laura Reeve | German Shepherd |
Karin Aurino | the open vale of my X |
Elizabeth Crowell | Ode to Meatloaf |
Beth Oast Williams | Poem as Lap Dance |
Temple R. Loveli | New Features |
Fill My Holes | |
Javier Sandoval | Wet Ghost City |
Sacramental | |
Darren C. Demaree | Emily as a Layered Work of Fierce Tenderness |
Emily as Night Is This Anyway | |
Stephanie Staab | Talking |
Mary Buchinger | My heart eats the world |
Adrienne Marie Barrios | Sometimes |
Grocery Shopping | |
Jan Freeman | I Spy |
Lillian Emerick Valentine | Elegy Pruning Blueberries |
Morgan Eklund | Darth Vader |
Myronn Hardy | The Panther in Lisbon |
Farah Peterson | Marigolds |
Lenna Mendoza | Dissociative Episode as Britney Spears' 2007 VMA Performance |
Mara Jebsen | Old Kids |
where the metaphor of the tree hopefully falls apart | |
Christine Kwon | November a loose branching clusters of scars |
Tola Sylvan | |
I return to the pink painting | |
Monica Cure | Lines |
Joan Kwon Glass | On the Eighth Anniversary of Surrender |
Why Some Days, I Wish I Still Loved Jesus | |
Maryam Ghafoor | The Body Has Deep-Rooted Memory |
Going Home in the Pandemic | |
Abbie Kiefer | , Lemon Ice Cream Melts from the Springform |
, the Buyers Insist They'll Need Space for Entertaining | |
Chip Livingston | Winter Fix |
Cynthia Marie Hoffman | The Phantom |
Liana Roux | Insects are Dying Off—Alarmingly Fast |
Cassandra Whitaker | What Does the State Teach / With My Body |
Craig Blais | from THE VENTS "'that/s a handsome young man'" |
Marilyn A. Johnson | Increasingly Abstract Walks in the Woods |
Thaw | |
Rachael Inciarte | eep |
Jenny Browne | Leaves Eddied Over the Earth's Scars |
Rita Mookerjee | Self-Portrait as Saint Rita of Cascia Covered in Bees, 1381 |
Reuben Gelley Newman | I put on Julius Eastman |
Oksana Maksymchuk | Tempo |
William Fargason | Golden Hour |
Rebecca Kirk Connors | Modern Day Sin-Eater in the Gig Economy |
Phoebe Reeves | Another Family Zoom Meeting |
Stephanie L. Harper | Neurodivergent |
Presentiment | |
Zhihua Wang | An MFA Student from China |
Madari Pendas | In Your Orbit |
Oscar-Worthy Films | |
Daniel Gunn | Murals |
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer | The Old Raptures [Pompeii] |
Funeral Procession Off the Exit to Canandaigua | |
Seth Leeper | peels |
Sarah Fawn Montgomery | Grief-Fed |
Suzanne Frischkorn | When I Manage to Sleep Past 3 AM |
William Archila | Because nostalgia... |
When I am drunk enough... | |
Gary Fincke | The Unicorn Lair |
Leticia Priebe Rocha | Giving |
Alignment | |
Fiction | |
A.J. Rodridguez | Americanos |
2023 Fiction Contest Second Place | |
Sue McMillan | Cicada Song |
Nina Sudhakar | Come Tomorrow |
2023 Fiction Contest First Place | |
Kasia Merrill | Optimize Optical |
Steph Grossman | Red on Yellow |
Ashlee Lhamon | The Graveyard, the Garden |
Creative Nonfiction | |
Andrea Gregory | Date Me: A Memoir |
Laura McPherson | Keepsakes |
Julie Marie Wade | The Plague of Frogs |
Art Portfolio | |
Shane Allison | Portfolio |
Fall/Winter 2023-2024