ISSUE TWELVE (FALL2023)
Alfier, JC [poetry]
“Chandeleur Bay”
Alfier, Tobi [poetry]
“A Slice of Lourdes”
Alsop, Maureen [poetry]
“Year of the Hare”
Ambler, Sam [poetry]
“Into Another World”
Cairney, Nathaniel [poetry]
“The oldest bedtime story”
“In the middle of it”
Caycedo-Kimura, Aaron [poetry]
“Jeux d’eau”
“To the Cymbal Player…”
Colclough, Jen [poetry]
“Gabriel”
Dickey, Eric [poetry]
“James Thomas Stevens”
“James Baldwin”
Dimock, Chase [poetry]
“Galantamine”
Dinges, Richard [poetry]
“Threads”
Elliott, Ellis [poetry]
“I’m Not Telling”
Elson, Thomas [fiction]
“Trapped Inside”
Fekete, Zary [creative non-fiction]
“Return Recieve”
Ferrell, Epiphany [fiction]
“I Want It Back”
Freeman, Frank [poetry]
“Blue Snow”
Gaskill, Julia [poetry]
“Of Pothos and Tradescantia.”
Gaskill, Julia [poetry]
“Buba.”
Giarratano, Natalie [poetry]
“My Daughter Asks If I Will Die Someday”
Green, Julia [creative non-fiction]
“Bullseye”
Grey, John [poetry]
“Last Years of a Carousel Horse”
Garcia, Margaret Elysia [poetry]
”Your Parents’ Intentions”
Hadaway, Meredith [poetry]
“When Dreams Go Walking”
Harris, Monique [poetry]
“Dashboard Mirror”
Harris, Monique [poetry]
“YouTube Comments”
Isola, Dinamarie [fiction]
“Beneath the Surface”
James, Dylan [fiction]
“Dance with Flies”
Kinerk, Alice [fiction]
“Ghost Grandma”
Krosschell, Jim [poetry]
“Cordless Connection”
Lager, Ellen [poetry]
“My Daughter Won’t Step on a Crack”
Leight, Peter [poetry]
“I Believe I’m Softening”
Leight, Peter [poetry]
“Self-Portrait as a Private Person in the Mirror”
Lopez, Tricia [poetry]
“When does it End?”
“Hard Times at LAX”
Lowe, Alice [creative non-fiction]
“Back Roads”
Lunn-Pigula, Kate [fiction]
“North Sea Monster”
Macioci, Ralph [poetry]
“Hustler’s Sport”
Maolalai, DS [poetry]
“The Weight of Moving On”
Martin, Betsy [poetry]
“A Certain Place”
Martinez, Donato [poetry]
”Oranges At My Grandfather’s”
McGuigan, Mary Ann [creative non-fiction]
“The Betrayal”
Meade, Edie [poetry]
“Clot I”
Meyer, Mckenzie [poetry]
“Sylvia”
Moe, Samantha [poetry]
“Stomach Ache”
Mok, Wayne [fiction]
“Gwaai Zai”
Muro, John [poetry]
“Renascence”
Niu, Vanessa [poetry]
“Dialogue Between Lady Macbeth and Gertrude, On Marriage”
Óg, Seán [fiction]
“September”
Rey, Juanita [poetry]
“My Hair”
Rey, Juanita [poetry]
“The Weight”
Robbins, Dana [poetry]
“A Kapparah”
“The Forgotten Dresses”
Roy, Elodie A [fiction]
“Boy Crazy”
Seter, Dave [creative non-fiction]
“My Brief Soccer Career”
Simon, Jacqueline [poetry]
“As To Lust”
Torrey, Ahrend [poetry]
“Enablers of Global Warming”
Townsend, Angela [creative non-fiction]
“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 non-fiction]
“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 non-fiction]
“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 non-fiction]
“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”
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]"
Terse 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”