Poetry
Issue 45.2 Preview
Disaffiliation by Donald Pasmore
Amber by Erin Rodoni
Trix Are for Kids by xochi cartland
Issue 45.1
Written From the Passenger Seat of a '98 Chevy at Dusk in July by Nick Olah
Caves I've Entered But Don't Know The Names Of, If They Have Names, And, If They Don't, Who Am I to Give Them One? by Joseph Lafata
Benihana by Robyn Schelenz
Rustless by Matthew Donovan
I Have Decided by Holly Day
You can't just go around by Brandon Krieg
Hyacinth Blue by Jessie Carty
Put Someone Else in the Center by Lauren Camp
Still Necessary by Lisa Rhoades
Stanley Tucci Is in Sardinia and I’m on Your Sofa by Kara Lewis
Self-Portrait as Barred Owl by Sarah Giragosian
Issue 44.1
Because My Mother Told Me to Pray ÌÀÄ·ÊÓƵ It – Shannon Ashley
My Mother Worked on a Salmon Barge in Homer, Alaska – Aiden Baker
Arsonist Song – John Wall Barger
Self-Portrait as Driver – Jeffrey Bean
This is how magic works, right? – Hayley Bowen
Aubade with Need to be Picked Clean & Swallowing – Savannah Bradley
One Big Star Heart – Eli Coyle
Chronophobia – Laura Z. Fairgrieve
Sappho: A Voice & Otherwise Engaged – Katherine Gaffney
Heatwave Cooks Mussels in Their Shells on California Shore – Benjamin Gucciardi
Something Old, Something New – Claire Scott
Aubade II – Emily Standlee
On Want & Mountains Are Born and So Are We – Adam D. Weeks
The Complaint of my Grandpa’s John Deere Hat – David Eileen Winn
Issue 43.2
12 Ways of Looking at a Sunflower – Brianna Pike
Still Dreaming & Elsewhere – Michelle Askin
Swimming Lessons – Christen Kauffman
Your Rapist Trends on Twitter – Danielle Shorr
February 8th & April 16th – Ann Pedone
The Climbing – Michael Brosnan
Kith – Anne Duncan
Labor – Kevin O’Connor
Four Poems – Andrew Robin
At the Top of the Nowhere Staircase – Emmy Newman
After 3 Days – Jonathan Greenhause
Felt – Robert Jackson
Issue 42.2
Mi Shebeirach for Miami; or, Magic City Lockdown – Jen Karetnik
The Word You Should Never Say – David Starkey
/ myul /as in “a mewl of clouds†– Mary Buchinger
Xenolith – Nathaniel Youmans
Words for My Daughter After Watching Her Dance to ‘Girls’ – Dante Di Stefano
University of Detroit: A Brief Memoir With Basketball and Poetry – Cal Freeman
Sensation Seeking Behavior – Carolyn Orosz
Afternoon Meditation – Natasha Deonarain
Microcosm – Grace Wagner
The Night (After Psalm 2) – James Miller
Allecto and How Great is Our God! – Casey Epstein-Gross
Another Dream of Death and Born Again in the Light of Self – Brandi George
IT WAS NOBODY – Stephen Massimilla
Dream Catch – Jeff Tigchelaar
What Is It Like to Live in a Body? – Trenton Pollard
ghost tour – Patrick Kindig
Being Afraid Isn’t Enough – Gary McDowell
Reckoning – Greg Emilio
i loved someone who loved stupid things – Laura Brun
Black Trees Whose Names You Never Wanted to Know – Richard Widerkehr
I can’t remember if she liked broccoli – Leah White
Given – Liza Katz Duncan
Discarnate – Melanie Sevcenko
Mitosis Lullaby – Robert Evory
Issue 41.2
Trajectories – Daniel Bourne
I see her ghost nowadays & When did the bow begin to quiver? – Sherdes Leona
post-card home – Grace Covill-Grennan
Geas & 1998 Winter Blackout – Zachary Johnston
Avoiding the Dishes – E. Thomas Jones
Stillborn – Kelan Nee
I wake to sunlight climbing the walls – Eliza Rotterman
that war – Elizabeth Sackett
Broken Sconce & Memory of Sheep Rustling – Felicia Zamora
Issue 40.2
“A°ù¾±²¹â€ by Burnside Soleil
“Big Friendly Summer†by Seth Copeland
“Crescent Park Cruising Grounds Where Piety Ends†by Spencer Silverthorne
“From a blanket on a hill in West Virginia,†“After a difficult conversation, a walk,†and “Comparatively Speaking†by Jake Maynard
“Hindsight Horoscope Hulled from a Bank Statement†by Corey Oglesby
“Jesus’ Legs†by Charles W Brice
“Self-Portrait as Sister†by Gabrielle Montesanti
“Went to Tennessee†by Caroline Wilkinson
Issue 39.2
Calmivin ©, La marea montante, and Rocketboy - Daniel Aristi
Music to My Ears - Scott Banks
Skylark - Bryce Berkowitz
Abecedarian for the English Language and Letter from a Hungry Ancestor - Daniel Blokh
A Lack of Lustful Inclinations, Southern, Belled., A Life Constructed Disappears, and Sunday Schooled - Emma Bolden
My Last Beatitude - Zoë Brigley
blood seed, east wind and dream with fox - Abigail Chabitnoy
After the Call from the Night Nurse and My Mother Paints Her First Picture at 90 - Adam Chiles
summer elegy and romanticizing - Charlotte Covey
Night Vision Scanning Techniques - Mike Crossley
A Little Something to Dance to - Fred Dale
golem - Garrett De Temple
Where Something Has Been - Danielle DeTiberus
Cant of Mardi Gras and What do I know about swans? - Aran Donovan
A Bullfighter Waits with Perfect Hands - Frankie Drayus
Dear Outer Space - Keith Mark Gaboury
Convictions: Slavery after Slavery - David Gewanter
Denim Lemonade as Lethal Injection - Henry Goldkamp
the dream and the ice - Carolyn Guinzio
St. Agatha and My Mother’s Mastectomy and Only - Emma Hyche
Piñata in the Marching Band - Paul Jolly
Burrito Bigger than a Wrecking Ball and Pizza Through the Ages - Tom Kelly
Teacher - Lisa Lewis
On the Creation of Adam - Ellyn Lichvar
Graft - Kate Lindroos
Charlie Parker - Ray Liversidge
If the Brain Is Skin Folded In - Regina Marie
Transmission - Kat Moore
[quality time], Control Sample is Gaslit, and Headcase Economics - Jessica Morey-Collins
Tangential - Irene O’Garden
Yoga and The List - Tanner Pruitt
The Visitation - Billy Reynolds
Aileen Wuornos - Jonathan Riccio
On Turning Thirty - Britney Scott
Rouault, End of Autumn - James Wyshynski
Issue 38.2
Hong Kong - Stephen Behrendt
Dissection - Colleen Burner
Scapegoat - Mary Christensen
Burial Rites - Mary Christensen
May Evening - Noah Davis
The Woman Who Eats the River - Noah Davis
Emily as a Float on the Skin - Darren Demaree
Emily as Forming Knuckles - Darren Demaree
Emily as Red and White and Yellow and White - Darren Demaree
Down Fell the Doves - Joshua Morgan Folmar
When I Can’t Sleep - Joshua Morgan Folmar
Bearings - Sarah Giragosian
Eventually Iguanas - Sarah Giragosian
If I Were Your Sister and You Were a Bird and All the Wolves Were Buried and Dead - Sarah Giragosian
History of a Body - Sarah Giragosian
When the Horseshoe Crab Grieves - Sarah Giragosian
The Yahrtzeit Candle - Kirk Glaser
from “Ligertown" - Susan Goslee
I Am The Tin Boy, Yes It’s True - Jennifer Hanks
The key to open up tomorrow is reality - Jennifer Hanks
The Tin Boy is Butch AF - Jennifer Hanks
I’m not kissing girls who have to get / blitzed / to touch me - Jennifer Hanks
Grandmother, this fish tattoo is the only thing keeping me alive - Jennifer Hanks
How Can You So Quickly Forget? - Rich Ives
Division - Alyssa Jewell
Our Sister, Valentine’s Day - Jerry Johnston
Cleaning Brook Trout - Jerry Johnston
Silver As It Is Golden - Esther Lin
Revelation - Esther Lin
Work Horse in the Rain - Robert Malloy
A Way To Live With Lightning Without The Coming Storm - Daniel Edward Moore
Summoning the Portal - John A. Nieves
Fundamentals of Home Defense - Elizabeth Onusko
Exquisite - Leila Ortiz
Terror’s Middle Name is Laughter - Dan Pinkerton
HGTV - Frederick Pollack
Five Poems - John Sibley Williams
Dot Learns the Problem with Naming the Animals - Erin Elizabeth Smith
Dot Finds the Ghost Cocks - Erin Elizabeth Smith
The First Night in the New House - Erin Elizabeth Smith
Dot Dreams of Austin Again - Erin Elizabeth Smith
Five Poems - Twixt
Love in Four Elements - Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer
Suburban Diatribe - Audrey Walls
While Breastfeeding My Newborn Daughter, I Watch Tarantino Movies - Audrey Walls
Hollow - Audrey Walls
The Neighbors are Nudists - Audrey Walls
Issue 37.2
Impermanence is the Only Thing that Works in Fahrenheit Around Here - Sara Adams
Greensleeves - Jessamyn Birrer
Redshift - Jessamyn Birrer
Tocsin, Siren, Chime - Jessamyn Birrer
What Will You Do if the Pain Subsides? - Ace Boggess
What Does the Old Moon Think of the New Moon - Kristene Brown
She Keeps Trying to Tell Me - John F. Buckley
Play - M. Brett Gaffney
Grief, Some Questions - M. Brett Gaffney
Stick Horse - M. Brett Gaffney
Double Feature - Kia Groom
Trickle-Down Theory - Kenan Ince
Let’s Trim Our Hair in Accordance with the Socialist Lifestyle - Kenan Ince
Slaine - Kenan Ince
Molluscs - Kenan Ince
In the Beginning There Was the Worm - Alleliah Nuguid
Procreation or Not - Cathryn Shea
Issue 35.2
Caroline Tanski - Botany As Desire and Fertilizer
Kathleen Weaver - Deer
Ann Hostetler - Ode to the Dash and Suzanne Valadon Poses for Renoir
Andrew Payton - December 1861
Ruth Baumann - Missing Persons Report II, In Which Rapunzel Pursues a Talkless Therapy and Rapunzel, Three Months after Her Escape
Dan Pinkerton - My Encounter with the Sage
Issue 34.2
Alison Hicks - Centrifuge, Wishbones, and Woman in the Leaves
Liz Robbins - [the scorpion]
David James - The Playwright’s Nightmare
Sasha West - The Interior Paramour sends a telegram, sinks a time capsule, sings
Brad Johnson - Cat in the Trash
Christine Hope Starr - Either Way, It Happens
J. Matthew Boyleston - In Back of the Hog Parlor
Nancy Botkin - Just the Facts
Marc J. Frazier - Adam and August Again
Linda Taylor - Grail and Stillness, and Seeds
David Clisbee - Rocking Chair