ISSUE THIRTEEN (SPRING 2024)

Veronica Ashenhurst [poetry]
“Quintessence of Dust”

Christian Barragan [fiction]
Typecast”

Mark Benedict [fiction]
“Shame Vigilantes”

Aubrey Brady [poetry]
“Pecan Pantoum”

Chanel Brenner [cnf]
“Ghost Girl”

Ronda Pisck Broatch [poetry]
“Horse, Come Back”
“One Day I Take the Saddle Off”

Jeff Burt [fiction]
“Seven Houses”

Alex Carrigan [poetry]
“We Lean Our Backs”
“When You See God”

William Cass [fiction]
“This Side of the Jumping-Off Place”

Brian Chaffee [poetry]
“Welcome to My Tiny Home”

Nancy Christopherson [poetry]
“Everyone Asks”
“The Good Samaritan”

Ivan De Monbrison [poetry]
“[having sliced your head in two]”
“[measure of life]”
“[pervasive angle]”

Gary Duehr [fiction]
“The Cough”

Hollie Dugas [poetry]
“What Is a Poet”

Carol Durak [poetry]
“Breaks & Interruptions”

Monica Edwards [cnf]
“The Playlist”

Andrew Furst [poetry]
“rock”

Nicholas Godec [poetry]
“Compound”
“Crash”

Annette Greenberg [poetry]
“Rimon”

Lorie Ann Grover [poetry]
“1964”

Paul Ilechko [poetry]
“Sound and Vision”

Yuna Kang [poetry]
“Desiccations”

Peycho Kanev [poetry]
“A Conversation with a Woman in Palestine”

Sharon Kennedy-Nolle [poetry]
“Topical Disinfectant”
“What’s In the Bag?”

Craig Kirchner [fiction]
“Worst Fear”

Elana Kloss [cnf]
“Homecoming”

Len Krisak [poetry]
“Glory-of-the-Snow”

Justin Lacour [poetry]
“[i can hear the man dream there are mermaids]”
“The Apple”

Garvin Livingston [fiction]
“Roll Call”

Bonnie Markowski [poetry]
“On Farrell Street”
“Soft Pockets”

Celia Meade [poetry]
“The Greatest Show on Earth”

Joshua Merchant [poetry]
“A Woman Built like My Mother in Her Prime…”
“Purple Heart”

Iris Milton [fiction]
“The Wasteland”

Julianna McCarthy [poetry]
“If I don’t come home they won’t know where to look for me.”
“Serenade”

Shaun McMichael [poetry]
“The Zany Trail”
“Trouble In the Turning Time”

Gwenn Nusbaum [poetry]
“Mellifluous Coos”

Kate Polak [poetry]
“Firebreak”

Susan Rich [poetry]
“What I Learned from I Dream of Jeannie

Lexi Shapiro [poetry]
“My Dog’s Brain Is Bigger than Mine”
“To Move Still”

Martha Silano [poetry]
“John Muir Elementary”

Susannah Winters Simpson [poetry]
“Starvation Peak”

Michelle So [poetry]
“Dear demi-winter,”

Lisa Sultani [poetry]
“Don’t Be Tired”

Samantha Szumloz [poetry]
“Routine”

Brynn Saito [poetry]
“In the Arrowless Season”
“Slow Burning Ancestor”

Huina Zheng [fiction]
“Popo Is Still Urging Us To Come Back for the Mid-Autumn Festival”

ISSUE TWELVE (FALL 2023)

JC Alfier [poetry]
“Chandeleur Bay” 

Tobi Alfier [poetry]
“A Slice of Lourdes”  

Maureen Alsop [poetry]
“Year of the Hare”  

Sam Ambler [poetry]
“Into Another World”  

Nathaniel Cairney [poetry]
“The oldest bedtime story”  
“In the middle of it”  

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura [poetry]
“Jeux d’eau”  
“To the Cymbal Player . . .”  

Jen Colclough [poetry]
“Gabriel”  

Eric Dickey [poetry]
“James Thomas Stevens”  
“James Baldwin”  

Chase Dimock [poetry]
“Galantamine”  

Richard Dinges [poetry]
“Threads”  

Ellis Elliott [poetry]
“I’m Not Telling”  

Thomas Elson [fiction]
“Trapped Inside” 

Zary Fekete [creative nonfiction]
“Return Recieve” 

Epiphany Ferrell [fiction]
“I Want It Back” 

Frank Freeman [poetry]
“Blue Snow”  

Julia Gaskill [poetry]
“Buba”  
“Of Pothos and Tradescantia”  

Natalie Giarratano [poetry]
“My Daughter Asks If I Will Die Someday  

Julia Green [creative nonfiction]
“Bullseye” 

John Grey [poetry]
“Last Years of a Carousel Horse”  

Margaret Elysia Garcia [poetry]
”Your Parents’ Intentions”

Meredith Hadaway [poetry]
“When Dreams Go Walking”  

Monique Harris [poetry]
“Dashboard Mirror”  
“YouTube Comments”  

Dinamarie Isola [fiction]
“Beneath the Surface” 

Dylan James [fiction]
“Dance with Flies” 

Alice Kinerk [fiction]
“Ghost Grandma” 

Jim Krosschell [poetry]
“Cordless Connection”  

Ellen Lager [poetry]
“My Daughter Won’t Step on a Crack”  

Peter Leight [poetry]
“I Believe I’m Softening”  
“Self-Portrait as a Private Person in the Mirror”  

Tricia Lopez [poetry]
“When does it End?”  
“Hard Times at LAX”  

Alice Lowe [creative nonfiction]
“Back Roads” 

Kate Lunn-Pigula [fiction]
“North Sea Monster” 

Ralph Macioci [poetry]
“Hustler’s Sport”  

DS Maolalai [poetry]
“The Weight of Moving On”  

Betsy Martin [poetry]
“A Certain Place” 

Donato Martinez [poetry]
”Oranges At My Grandfather’s”

Mary Ann McGuigan [creative nonfiction]
“The Betrayal” 

Edie Meade [poetry]
“Clot I”   

Mckenzie Meyer [poetry]
“Sylvia”  

Samantha Moe [poetry]
“Stomach Ache”  

Wayne Mok [fiction]
“Gwaai Zai” 

John Muro [poetry]
“Renascence”  

Vanessa Niu [poetry]
“Dialogue Between Lady Macbeth and Gertrude, On Marriage” 

Seán Óg [fiction]
“September” 

 Juanita Rey [poetry]
“My Hair”  
“The Weight”  

Dana Robbins [poetry]
“A Kapparah”  
“The Forgotten Dresses”  

Elodie A. Roy [fiction]
“Boy Crazy” 

Dave Seter [creative nonfiction]
“My Brief Soccer Career” 

Jacqueline Simon [poetry]
“As To Lust”  

Ahrend Torrey [poetry]
“Enablers of Global Warming” 

Angela Townsend [creative nonfiction]
“True Jersey” 

ISSUE ELEVEN (SPRING 2023)

Irene Cantizano Bescós [poetry]
“Tell me, are the trees afraid of the darkness?”

Marte Carlock-Clifford [poetry]
“Out of Seoul”

Savannah Cooper
[poetry]
"Nameless Stone"
"Villain Era"

Kathryn de Leon [poetry]
“Looking Through a Blue Bowl”

William Doreski [poetry]
“Tracing Dinosaur Tracks”
“A Cloud Mountain”

Hollie Dugas [poetry]
    “My love is a hard-won landfill,”

Eliza Falk [fiction]
“Loving You Is Easy”

Mary Kay Feather [creative nonfiction]
“Sado-Masochistic Practices in Mid-Twentieth Century American Hair”

John Findura [poetry]
“Dream w/ You In It”

Jason Fraley [poetry]
“The Economy Shares Advice: Acts of God”
“To My Avarice”

Gabriela Denise Frank [creative nonfiction]
“9:47 p.m. in Dorset, Vermont”

Kenneth Gulotta
[fiction]
"Revenant"

Charles Haddox [fiction]
“Fernie vs. Mexico”

Christina Hennemann [poetry]
“Rebel bi Orgasm”

Ulrica Hume [fiction]
“Masks”

Yuu Ikeda
[creative nonfiction]
“Dropout” [cw/ self-harm]

Toni Ann Johnson [fiction]
“excerpt from But, Where’s Home?

Owen Matthews [fiction]
“You, Ma, and the Berkshires”

Kate Maxwell [poetry]
“Five-Twenty Train”

Judith Mikesch-McKenzie [poetry]
“The Etymology of Slumgullion”

Mark J. Mitchell [poetry]
“Daguerrologue”

Alice Pero [poetry]
“Memory Almost Sonnet”

Kenneth Pobo [poetry]
“In March”

Elizabeth Porter [poetry]
“A Portrait of a Slow-motion Water Crisis”
“Opossum Lake”

Sage Ravenwood [poetry]
“Headphone Forecast”
“Nihil Ad Rem”

Hibah Shabkhez [poetry]
“The Snow Promises”
“Zee and Zed”

Ethan Vilu [poetry]
“Guard Tower, Suran”
“Oran Manor (Inventory)”

Jeanine Walker [poetry]
"Barren"
"Oh Dad"

Sheila Wellehan [poetry]
"Embalming"
"Rural Character"

Michael Winter (Joshua St. Claire) [poetry]
     “A Ghazal in the Blink of an Eye”

Ellen Zhang [poetry]
"My Heartbeat Syncs"
“Terminal 162”

ISSUE TEN (FALL 2022)

Miguel Alcazar [fiction] 
“A Catalogue of Possible People, Pt. 3” 

Sara Backer [poetry]  
“Copper” 
“Sonnet for Myself”  

Christian Barragan [fiction] 
“You Never Leave the Stage”  

Tobiah Black [fiction]  
“The Wood Sprite”  

Dia Calhoun [poetry] 
“Adoration of the Weed”  
“The Once and Future Storyteller”  

Chekwube Danladi [fiction]  
“excerpt from In Sanguine Blue Rooms  

Mary Christine Delea [poetry] 
“Summers on Long Island”  
“You’re Not One But Many”  

Steven Deutsch [poetry]  
“Goodbye To All That”  

Abbie Doll [poetry] 
“Making Room”  

Raven Goode [poetry] 
“As Long As It Takes”  
“Of Glass”  

Erica Goss [poetry] 
“Cubic Zirconia”  
“Drum Solo”  
“Physical Therapy”  

Laura Grevel [poetry] 
“Geodetic Survey Three-Dimensional Changes in Crustal Motion at mm Scale”  
“Two Natashas, One Babushka, Two Cats”  

John Grey [poetry] 
“First Thing”  
“Somewhere in Alabama”  

Candace Hartsuyker [fiction] 
“The Future Dance-a-Thon Queen”  

Donald Illich [poetry] 
“Uprooting”  

Bethany Jarmul [poetry] 
“Am I Worthy?”  
“I’m Supposed to Feel Loss Over the Body I Had, but My Body Never Felt Like Mine”  

Peycho Kanev [poetry] 
“Glimmers”  

Yuna Kang [poetry] 
“Clichés”  

Candice Kelsey [poetry]  
“The Poet Dreams of Driving a Ding-a-Ling Ice Cream Truck”  

Jacqueline Knirnschild [poetry] 
“Cantaloupe”  

Sheree La Puma [poetry] 
“Poem to a Body Gone Rogue”  
“We Ruined You”  

Peter Leight [poetry] 
“Once Upon a Time”  

Chloe Martinez [poetry] 
“You Finally Go Back to LACMA to See Band 
“Repatriation: Lakshmi-Narayana”  

John Muro [poetry]  
“Becoming”  

Martina Reisz Newberry [poetry] 
“Music Did Not Save You, Charlie. Words Will Not Save Me”  
“Royale Market”  

Don Noel [creative nonfiction] 
“Geometry of Motion”  

Sihle Ntuli [poetry] 
“Letta & Caiphus”  
“Zambezi”  

John Rodzvilla [poetry] 
“Message from Cuba”  

Kelly R. Samuels [poetry] 
“Karenin on . . .”  

Heidi Seaborn [poetry]  
“Forced Fruit”  
“Time and Space”  

Martha Silano [poetry] 
“The Doe Outside Our Back Door”  
“What’s Terrible”  

Steven Ray Smith [poetry] 
“The Deep Part”  

Zach Thomas [poetry]  
“Drive Around” 

ISSUE NINE (SPRING 2022)

Caitlyn Alario [poetry]
“sapphics” 

Lauren Barbato [fiction] 
“Heart-Shaped” 

Susan Barry-Schulz [poetry] 
“Tears for Fears” 

Ace Boggess [poetry] 
“Rock Concerts in the 80s” 
“Quick Fright” 

Caleb Bouchard [poetry]  
“Coughing Fit” 
“Elvis Pays His Respects” 

Sy Brand [poetry] 
“Laser Eye Surgery” 

Tanya Castro [poetry] 
“How My Grandpa’s Ghost Crossed The Border” 

Dana Delibovi [poetry] 
“Husk” 

Doris Grace [poetry] 
“Lost You” 

SK Grout [poetry] 
“Happy Idiot (I’m a Eurydice)” 

Candice Kelsey [poetry] 
“Slowly Emerging from COVID, I Watch Mountaineering Documentaries” 

Sarah Maclay [poetry] 
“A Breathing Lake” 

Jude Marr [poetry] 
“When You Find a Box of Torn Photographs in Your Parent's Closet” 

Kendra Mills [poetry] 
“Inclement Weather” 

Kumar Mishra [poetry] 
“To Those Misfortunes” 

Seth Rosenbloom [poetry] 
“The Playground” 

Kris Spencer [poetry] 
“On Sending Ted Kooser Unquiet Landscape, January 2022” 

Therese Tully [poetry] 
“Before-After” 

Donna Vorreyer [fiction] 
“While the Iron Is Hot” 

Francine Witte [poetry]  
“Not-Myrtle” 

Liala Zaray [poetry] 
“Searching for Kabul” 

Ailing Zhou [poetry] 
“The Ballad of Modern-day Solace-seeking” 
“Paint Me in the Color of Your Greed” 

ISSUE EIGHT (FALL 2021)

Paul David Adkins [poetry]
“Impromptu Call and Response Between a Hostage and Two Inmates Who Saved Each Other During the Attica Prison Rebellion of 1971"

Priscilla Atkins [fiction]
Sugar Land

Scott Broker [fiction]
“Testimonial"

Yuan Changming [poetry]
“Gaxyland"

Julia DaSilva [poetry]
“Delivery"

Laine Derr [poetry]
“Blackberry Wine"
“C̶o̶n̶s̶p̶i̶c̶u̶o̶u̶s̶ Consumption"

Sandra Florence [fiction]
“Shrine"

Elisabeth Frischauf [poetry]
“Which Way?"

Richard Garcia [poetry]
“The Brown Room"
“The Gypsy"

Mandy Gettler [poetry]
“Invitation"
“My Rapist Is A Nice Guy"

John Grey [poetry]
“The Spring Raid"

Mary Grimm [fiction]
“On That Night"

Jose Hernandez Diaz [poetry]
“The Gym"
“The Seventh Grade"

Kimberly Kralowec [poetry]
“[A bolt of plaid ocean rolls past]"
“[A squall imprints the windows]"

Debra Lee [fiction]
“The Tree of Life"

Laurinda Lind [poetry]
“Momentary Miracle"

Nathaniel Mellor [fiction]
“A Night in Kerkennah"

Taylor Miles [fiction]
Utopian Pockets"

Leah Mueller [fiction]
“The Ninth Life"

Zach Murphy [fiction]
“The Most Beautiful Things Could End Us"

Patrick Nevins [fiction]
“Multitudes"

Toti O'Brien [poetry]
“Primo, Restare In Vita"

Shawn Pfunder [fiction]
“What the Water Will Tell Us"

Cliff Saunders [poetry]
“Toasting the Night Away"

Rochelle Shapiro [poetry]
“The Aperture is Closing"

Lucy Zhang [fiction]
“Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis"

ISSUE SEVEN (SPRING 2021)

L. Ward Abel [poetry]
“Portion”

Monica Aleman [poetry]
“Co-vida Home”
“Parental Threads”

Christian Barragan [fiction]
“Yours is a Short Story”

Wendy BooydeGraaff [fiction]
"Transubstantiation"

John Brantingham [fiction]
"Mouth Full of Teeth"

Patricia Brody [poetry]
“Lot’s Daughters, Rising”

Mark Budman [fiction]
“The Butterfly Effect, Times Four”

Nicole Callihan [poetry]
“‘Revelations’”
“The Shadows”

Sam Campbell [poetry]
“Marathon Man”
“Teaching in the 21st Century”

Nikia Chaney [poetry]
“another tin woman”
“untitled”

Shome Dasgupta [fiction]
“Skulls of Light”

Deirdre Fagan [poetry]
"Love At Assisted Living"

Erika Gill [poetry]
"What makes you leave"

Marissa Glover [poetry]
"Built for Letting Go"
"Instruction Manual for My Future Husband"
"When One Razor Disappears, Another Appears"

Dave Gregory [fiction]
“What Does This Have To Do With That?”

Paula Harris [poetry]
"flying over fields, I think of my grandfather"
"I want to love you in analogue"

Zebulon Huset [poetry]
"Playing Tryster Outside"

Tyrel Kessinger [poetry]
“Restrictions”
“This Is Not the End But It Is an Ending”

Stefanie Kirby [poetry]
"Agnes Bernauer proclaims her love"

Steve Legomsky [fiction]
“Obituary”

DS Maolalai [poetry]
“Jesus tore down the temples of god”

Kate Maxwell [fiction]
“It’s Not the Midnight Train Going Anywhere”

Linda McMullen [fiction]
“My Mother’s Diary”

Liana Minassian [poetry]
“Little Red Wagon”

Shareen K. Murayama [poetry]
“Brainwashing the Heart into Long-term Memory”
“The Prompt”

John Muro [poetry]
“Cape Porpoise”

Taylor Napolsky [fiction]
“Only Delayed”

Radka Thea Otipkova [poetry]
“3.30”
“Alone”

Bree Rolfe [poetry]
“Latchkey Kids”

Aaron Sandberg [poetry]
“Villainous”

Jacob Stratman [poetry]
Three poems from the shell of things

Shi Yang Su [poetry]
“Baby Baby Child”
“Wild & Rose”

Kate Sweeney [poetry]
“Omitted memories are generally accepted as a sign of loss.”
“We found swallows hiding on Ramos Road, then I had them tattooed to my chest.”

Taruni Tangirala [poetry]
“passerine”
“perception”

Molly Tenenbaum [poetry]
“I Can’t Put Enough Household Objects in This Poem To Equal Your Wonderfulness”
“This Poem a Path You Were Walking All Along”

Sheila Wellehan [poetry]
“Broken”

Audrey Zheng [poetry]
“Raveling”

ISSUE SIX (FALL 2020)

Matthew J. Andrews [poetry]
"Kick"

Frances Boyle [poetry]
"Return of the Bones to the Sea"

Ronda Piszk Broatch [poetry]
"A Crazed God Lectures Her Offspring"
"Crazy Happenstance Gifts of the Sky"
"If I Was Other, and Anything Else"

F. Douglas Brown [poetry]
"Aubade for Gratitude"

Dia Calhoun [poetry]
"Fire Broom"
"The Handmade Life"

Madeline Cash [creative nonfiction]
"Sponge Cake"

Sung Cho [poetry]
"Luna Moth"
"A Sonnet to My Mother's Apartment"

Risa Denenberg [poetry]
"The Daisies Have Returned"
"Selfie at Deception Pass"

Tina Dermidjian [poetry]
"Beeswax"

Geffrey Davis [poetry]
"What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver"

Peggy Dobreer [poetry]
"Valedictory to Late Spring Flowers"

John Grey [poetry]
"Uncooperative"

Karin Hedetniemi [creative nonfiction]
"Driving into the Sun"

Genevieve Kaplan [poetry]
"Sometimes a note gets lost"
"What we think about rhyme"

Frank Karioris [poetry]
"Variations on Morning, pt. 3 (from Ljubljana Notebook)"

Elane Kim [fiction]
"Floriculture"

Robert Krut [poetry]
"A Bar Called Nostalgia On Route 22"
"Corporate Intrigue"

Lorelei Laird [creative nonfiction]
"Snipe Hunting in Los Angeles"

Gary Lark [poetry]
"Third Movement"

Peter Leight [poetry]
"Holding On"
"Perfect"

Alice Lowe [creative nonfiction]
"Quesadillas in Quarantine"

Natalie Marino [poetry]
"The Missing Things"
"What Mothers Do"

Shareen K. Murayama [creative nonfiction]
"Arrhythmia"

Allison Palmer [creative nonfiction]
"Coffee at Mount Hope Cemetery"

Simon Perchik [poetry]
"[From the same magic spell that's not air]"
"[It was a ritual, a simple splash]"
"[Side by side everything rises as if your breath]"
"[You are reading this ticket out loud, over and over]"
"[You can't tell what death is saying]"

Meg Pokrass [fiction]
"Goldfish Skin"

Ulyses Razo [poetry]
"Plato on the Soul"

Heidi Seaborn [poetry]
"Fractions"
"Selfie with Marilyn Monroe"

Mel Sherrer [poetry]
"My Grief as a Hard-boiled Egg"
"Pivot"

Martha Silano [poetry]
"I let the D in French catch fire,"
"You know how Donald Hall says take naps well he was right"

Judith Terzi [poetry]
"Spirit"
"Tchotchkes"

Raziya Wang [poetry]
"Sidewalk Table"
"This Nose"
"Untethered"

ISSUE FIVE (SPRING 2020)

Deborah Bacharach [poetry]
"The Berlin Wall"
"The Heroin Addict on 77th and Aurora with the Cardboard Sign"

Carol Berg [poetry]
"Dear Sylvia Plath"
"The Day You Take the Christmas Tree Down"

Christer Boberg [poetry]
"[The soaring early morning]"

Teresa Mei Chuc [poetry]
"How could I explain gentrification to someone from mainland China?"
"talking with my students about language"

Joanna Cleary [poetry]
"Blank Modern Art Sonnet"
"Child Mortality"

Suzanne Craig-Whytock [fiction]
"Collateral Damage"

Catherine Garrett [poetry]
"Psalm 139:14"
"When the Bough Breaks"

Kara Goughnour [poetry]
"Worry Lines"

Cameron Gorman [poetry]
"facebook as a grave"
"relative moonlight"
"the great moon hoax"

Charlotte Hamrick [poetry]
"What Is Dreamed Can Not Be Made Solid"

Rebecca Harrison [fiction]
"Skimming Stones"

Ami Hendrickson [fiction]
"Pearl Diver"

Romana Iorga [poetry]
"Thief"

D.R. James [poetry]
"After the Gale"

Seth Jani [poetry]
"An Equation"
"Dysphoria Myth"

Candice Kelsey [poetry]
"Diptych for Hong Kong's Dragon Gates, While the Students Protest"
"This from a Rib"

Ann Neuser Lederer [poetry]
"Buckets of Ashes"

DS Maolalai [poetry]
"Coming Off the Night Shift"
"Life Blue Morning"

M. Ocampo McIvor [fiction]
"Please, Woman"

Murielle Mueller [creative nonfiction]
"Undoing"

Meryl Natchez [poetry]
"The Chinese Barefoot Doctor’s Manual"
"Leda’s Dream"

Kunjana Parashar [poetry]
"What Grows Beneath the Ground"

Cece Peri [poetry]
"On the Edge at Dog Beach"
"Vanished Passport, Wiltshire County, England"

Cyndie Randall [poetry]
"I Will Search for My Daughter’s Bones"

Laurie Reiche [poetry]
"Bats"
"Brown Woman"

Thelma Reyna [poetry]
"Best Day of the Year"

Joanna Cleary [poetry]
"Ghazal"
"Separation"

Danielle Rose [poetry]
"Leda as Swan" / "Swan as Leda" / "Leda and Swan"

Kathryn Ross [poetry]
"Almost-Boomerang, Alight "
"Yellow Is Time’s Favorite Color"

Juliette Sebock [poetry]
"In Memoriam"
"Mermaid"

Rochelle Shapiro [creative nonfiction]
"Patterns"

Sarahana Shrestha [fiction]
"Behind That Wall Is the Sea"

Grace Song [fiction]
"Forrest Gump"

David Spicer [poetry]
"For A, On Deck of an Arctic Cruise Ship"

Lannie Stabile [poetry]
"Pot Roast, Unburnt"
"Sibling Rivalry"

Heather Sweeney [poetry]
"#ANXIETY" / "#NECK" / "#SORROW"

Mary Ellen Talley [poetry]
"If I Lived In This World"

Sarah Taylor-Foltz [poetry]
"Pavement Animals"

Lynne Thompson [poetry]
"Anniversary"
"Blue Plums, 1971"

Kai Tumaneng [poetry]
"Madame Butterfly"

Francine Witte [fiction]
"Hoot"

ISSUE FOUR (FALL 2019)

Jessica Adams [poetry]
"The Gathering Impulse"

Nina Adel [fiction]
"Porcupine Quills"

Alicia Alcantara-Narrea [fiction]
"Well-Flagged"

Lory Bedikian [poetry]
"Broccoli"
"Last Testament"

Annie Blake [poetry]
"When Ants and Nails Disintegrated My Head"

Jill Bergantz Carley [poetry]
"Heavy Duty Reliquary"

Barbara Daniels [poetry]
"Disassembling"

Benjamin Davis [poetry]
"Psalm 94"

Ginger Dehlinger [poetry]
"Feed the Head"

Tina Demirdjian [poetry]
"Meg"

Suzanne Escarcega [poetry]
"River for Diapers"

Lucia Galloway [poetry]
"Ode to Sorrow"

Richard Garcia [poetry]
"The Hotel"
"The New The"

Anita Goveas [fiction]
"Turning Into the Wind"

Veronica Habashy [poetry]
"Sometimes I Don’t Like the Way Life Imitates Art (or: I Think I Prefer Simpler Things)"

Charles Haddox [fiction]
"The Vampire of Washington Park"

Phebe Jewell [fiction]
"On the House"

Nadia King [creative nonfiction]
"The Bottle of Scent"

Katie Manning [poetry]
"Nevermore"
"The New Owner Invited Me In"

Douglas Manuel [poetry]
"Fire"
"Flashlight"
"Slippin' into Darkness"

Carolyn Martin [poetry]
"The Best of ‘42 Writers’ Rules for Writing’"

Chloe Martinez [poetry]
"Educational"

Stephanie Mhango [poetry]
"Selective Ignorance"

Terilynn Mitchell [creative non-fiction]
"Hospice and Christmas Trees"

Alexandra Munck [poetry]
"Abdomen Cadabra"

Hema Nataraju [fiction]
"For Two Blue Lines"

Steven Ostrowski [fiction]
"The Buried Plot"

Frances Park [fiction]
"I Am Not Afraid"

Lee Patterson [poetry]
"an essay about origin stories"

Simon Perchik [poetry]
"[You hold this stone to your cheek]"
"[Her chest no longer listening]"

Sharon Mauldin Reynolds [fiction]
"Cooking Lesson"

Daniel Romo [poetry]
"Variations"

Margarita Serafimova [poetry]
"[Life is running its course.]"
"[You tore out the roots of our tenderness]"
"The Dirty Gods"

Laila Shikaki [poetry]
"House, Not Home"

Dorsía Smith Silva [poetry]
"After Reading The Vegetarian"

Lourdes Tutaine-Garcia [poetry]
"Entwined with the Divine"

Lindsey Warren [poetry]
"Dappled in the Watercolors"
"Spied"

Megan Wildhood [fiction]
"This Is Your Voice, Okay?"

Yvonne [poetry]
"4951 Walnut Street"

ISSUE THREE (SPRING 2019)

Sara Backer [poetry]
"No Moon Midnight"

Ronda Piszk Broatch [poetry]
"I Miss the Blackboard and the Awkwardness of Chalk, Even Though"
"Broken Sonnet"

Genelle Chaconas [fiction]
"Carousel"

Elizabeth Carlton Chase [creative non-fiction]
"Sneaking Past"

Chella Courington [poetry]
"In the Sky Tonight"

Theresa Senato Edwards [poetry]
"The Importance of Movement"
"When they leave home"

James B. Golden [poetry]
"Distilled Black Grandmother Tears"
"Ruffles and Rust"

Charlotte Hamrick [poetry]
"Creation's Chaos"

Tara Hart [poetry]
"The Dying City"
"Georgia, Lake George, 1907"

JL Higgs [fiction]
"Near Heaven"

James Croal Jackson [poetry]
"Tuesday Night Karaoke at Hounddog's Pizza"

Lois P. Jones [poetry]
"What Dresses You Each Day in Hardwood"
"She Welcomes the Philosopher Father on His Return from Africa"

Tina Kelley [poetry]
"Which Are You, And Who Wins?"

Clyde Kessler [poetry]
"Orevichi" and "Mirrors"

Hari Bhajan Khalsa [poetry]
"Ode to My Collarbones"

Heather Knowles [fiction]
"Daughter"

Laurie Kolp [poetry]
"Penny Shouts"

Kathleen Kraft [poetry]
"I Find Your Assignments"

Corinne Leong [fiction]
"Where the Rest Went"

DS Maolalai [poetry]
"Unoaked Chardonnay"
"To Drink Dessert"

Jennifer Martelli [poetry]
"Cremains"
"Watching a Re-enactment of Dick Cheney's Heart Transplant"

Anahit Petrosyan [fiction]
"When Hemingway Went to The Coffee Bean"

Cindy Rinne [poetry]
"Citizen of the Cosmos"

Kelly R. Samuels [poetry]
"Note from Fantine to Her Daughter, Cosette: (4)"
"Note from Fantine to Her Daughter, Cosette: (5)"

Michael Schussler [poetry]
"Child's Homily"

Heidi Seaborn [poetry]
"Freshman Year"
"I Had Travelled Far Enough"
"Before and After"
"Immolation"
"Waiting in Arrivals"
"How It Ends"

Martha Silano [poetry]
"The dead are patient among the trees,"
"Poppy Love"

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha [poetry]
"Love Song for the Last of the Tall Trees"
"Miss Sahar Listens to Fairuz Sing 'Take Me'"

Cathy Ulrich [fiction]
"Being the Murdered Student"

Donna Vorreyer [poetry]
"Take Care, Take Care, Take Care"
"Last Rites"

Sarah Wallin [creative non-fiction]
"My Best Friend's Barf-lorette"

ISSUE TWO (FALL 2018)

Ray Ball [poetry]
"After reading discourses about how a bird can be…"

Daisy Bassen [poetry]
“Queens”

Robert Beveridge [poetry]
"Baked Goods"

Melanie Bishop [fiction]
Excerpt from "Home for Wayward Girls"

Jennifer Bradpiece [poetry]
"Lullaby for My Mother"
"Lullaby for Emergencies"

Stephen Briseño [poetry]
"When Mom Is Gone"

Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar [fiction]
"For a Chocolate Bar"

Brendan Constantine [poetry]
“In All Likelihood”
“When You Can Get It”

Henry Crawford [poetry]
“Sketch of a Poem in 10 Broken Lines”

Barbara Daniels [poetry]
“Torqued”

Risa Denenberg [poetry]
"why I hate to cry"
"On the Second Night of Chanukah"

Ka’Dia Dhatnubia [fiction]
"I Will Be"

Cat Dixon [poetry]
“Dining Alone”
"His Daydream"

Margaret Finnegan [fiction]
"If Marie Antoinette Were Your Identity Thief"

George Freek [poetry]
"Near the Banks of a Flooded River (After Li Po)"

Erik Fuhrer [poetry]
"resurrection"

Tanya Graye [poetry]
"Sunday School"
"Post-Hellenic"
"Closing Stepford"

Teresa Griffiths [creative non-fiction]
"We're Leaving Tonight"

Elizabeth Iannaci [poetry]
"From the Blowing Wind: Misr al-Arabiyah, 2011, 1933, 1922 . . ."
"To Robert Plant, Written at 81 Rue Pierre Girard, Paris"

Anastasia Jill [fiction]
“[This Kombucha was Brewed in the Kitchen Sink]”

Suzanne Lummis [poetry]
"The Locomotive, the Coin, and the Moon"

Jeffrey H. MacLachlan [poetry]
"Bodycam"

Simon Perchik [poetry]
"[This leaf shutting down]"
"[You inhale the way this sand]"

Karen Poppy [poetry]
"Grandma in Prada, Fishing"
"The Wednesday Gloves"

Jack Ridl [poetry]
"Poem Beginning with Of Course"
"Sometimes"

Jennifer Saunders [poetry]
"Note Pinned to My Chart"
"Self-Portrait with Rocks and Rough Surf"

Kiriti Sengupta [poetry]
"The Expectant Mother"

Jesse Sensibar [fiction]
"Juice"

Taylor Sezen [fiction]
"Sugar Cookie"

Ciara Shuttleworth [poetry]
“Clumsy, Sexy, Soft”

Dorsia Smith Silva [poetry]
“The Garden”

Marley Stuart [poetry]
"Troubleshooting"

Angela Narciso Torres [poetry]
“Concha”
“Repainting the House”

Ahrend Torrey [poetry]
“Li Po”

Matthew Woodman [poetry]
"Cosmic Terror"
"Still Life, 1937"
"Still Life with Calla Lillies"

Désirée Zamorano [fiction]
“Austin”

ISSUE ONE (FALL 2017)

Kelli Russell Agodon [poetry]
“On the Charm Bracelet of Life, Dying Is the Shape of Driftwood”

Neil Aitken [poetry]
“Letter XXI”
“Letter XXXV”

Marcia Arrieta [poetry]
“In the Forest”

Deborah Bacharach [poetry]
“After a Week of Shots Fired, I Go to Services”

Sarah Blake [poetry]
“Snow White’s in Texas”
“Snow White’s Dreaming”

Laura Cherry [poetry]
“Red”
“What I Will Wear”
“Embouchure”

Kersten Christianson [poetry]
“Charged Particles”

Barbara Costas-Biggs [poetry]
“Laundry List”

William Doreski [poetry]
“The Duel in Eugene Onegin”

Jill Alexander Essbaum [poetry]
“Nightwalk”
“Civil Twilight”

Beverly Fesharaki [poetry]
“Candace Camera, My Favorite Drag Queen”

Naoko Fujimoto [poetry]
“Pochi or Kuro”
“There Were Plenty”

Lucia Galloway [poetry]
“Apologia for Prayer”

Karen Greenbaum-Maya [poetry]
“Last Night in Munich”

Amorak Huey [poetry]
“For Your Next Tattoo, Allow Me to Suggest”
“The Petals on the Ornamental Pear Tree in the Neighbor’s Yard Smell like Death”

Genevieve Kaplan [poetry]
“They trail there, they trail”
“(ladies vary)”

Beverly Lafontaine [poetry]
“My Mother and MLK”

Kristan LaVietes [poetry]
“Fasting”

Karen An-hwei Lee [poetry]
“A Triptych in Dark Chocolate for Unavenged Hearts”
“On the Names of Invasive Beauty as Naturalization”
“A Lesson in the Garden, or a Seaside Dystopia Confesses Unrequited Love and
War”

Elline Lipkin [poetry]
“Villanelle: Warning”

Seth Michelson [poetry]
“Woodpecker Song”

George Moore [poetry]
“Blótsteinn”

Don Noel [fiction]
“Connubial Counsel”

Candace Pearson [poetry]
“Abiding”
“Disassembling”

Susan Rich [poetry]
“Blessing for What Is Absent”
“To Paint Her Life Was One Solution”

Garrett Rowlan [fiction]
“Coyote”

Mehnaz Sahibzada [poetry]
“Red Moon”
“Enough About You”

Michael Schmeltzer [poetry]
“In the City of No Children”

Heidi Seaborn [poetry]
“tealeaves”

Martha Silano [poetry]
“Freshwater Mussels of the Upper Midwest”
“Millennial Poetess”
“My Practice”

Beth Spencer [fiction]
“Miracle Fish”

M. Stone [poetry]
“Little Pitchers”

Judith Terzi [poetry]
“Seating Arrangement”
“The Shredder”

Lynne Thompson [poetry]
“Los Volcanes de Brea”
“Doomsday Haiku”

Angie Vorhies [poetry]
“For Us, The Trees”

Miles Waggener [poetry]
“Make Money by Making a Difference”

Jim Zola [poetry]
“When My Son Asks Where We Are From”
“The Long Road of the River of Stars”