Issue 55
Cover: “In Dreams II” by Ruth Marie
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Poetry | |
Xochiquetzal Candelaria | Summer's End |
Ecem Yucel | Anabel |
Ceci n'est pas une pipe | |
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez | Welp [Found Poem among Yelp Reviews of a Local BBQ] |
Despy Boutris | Desire |
Hannah Bridges | Still Life with Apples |
Karen Sherk Chio | I was saying >lily pads float without roots |
Dallas Crow | My Nature Poem |
Casey Knott | If I Hadn't |
William Snyder | Weight |
Makensi Ceriani | Weak Teeth Are Hereditary |
Keetje Kuipers | Bleeding |
Iris Jamahl Dunkle | Heimlich |
Sonnet for the Story of the Horse Buried Under the Lake | |
Keith Kopka | Bela Lugosi's Dead |
Sonnet after the Action Hero Dies | |
Jenny Irish | Harpy |
Jessica Poli | Gastronomy |
Christine Barkley | Bite Inhibition |
Brandel France de Bravo | Provincetown |
Regard the Other as a Verb | |
Tanque R. Jones | Postcard from the South |
Michael Martin | Blood Hounds |
G.J. Nelson | elegy for félicette, first cat in space |
Maureen Thorson | Dis |
Self-Portrait as Kraken | |
Elizabeth Steinglass | Woman Looking at Two Big Black Hearts |
Porsha Monique Allen | God's Receptionist |
Rachel Richardson | Elegy for the Polar Bear |
Shelter in Place | |
David Greenspan | An Oral History of David Greenspan's Polly Pockets |
Barbara Duffey | Solstice |
Sati Mookherjee | Wood and Wool |
Talia Pinzari | The rectangular dish you brought home from Tokyo |
Maria S. Picone | Maleficent |
Minority Report | |
Jessica Jacobs | Dream in Which I Give You My Memories as Dreams |
Raymond Luczak | Bats |
Wanting to Sign Furiously But Can't | |
nicole v basta | can't quite hold |
Jennifer Saunders | Starting Treatment during Covid |
Kay Zeiss | whose evacuation |
Zuleyha Ozturk Lasky | Somedays |
S.D. Horvath | Yucca Valley |
Dana Delibovi | Temptation, Expulsion |
Rebecca Foust | House |
Daniel Meltz | Furthermore, There's No Real Telling What Propelled Us Here |
Chim Sher Ting | They Told Me a Dragon Was a Phoenix That Never Rose from Its Ashes |
Kodi Saylor | Sometimes Housework Tightens Me to the Material Reality of This World |
Sophie Klahr & Corey Zeller |
Intersection |
Quinn Rennerfeldt | get angry that there is no field |
It's obvious | |
Melinda Thomsen | How it Seeps into Us |
Ana María Caballero | Things I Am Saving to Write |
Milk | |
Hannah Corrie | by Botticelli, or Three Women I Can't Stop Looking At |
Caleb Bouchard | Elvis at NYU |
Rishona Michael | Fragments in a Burger Joint |
Kate Westhaver | Tete a tete |
Angela Siew | Temple Street Night Market |
As If Death Could Be Washed Off of Us | |
Cassie Pruyn | Once We Are Severed |
Ugochukwu Damian Okpara | Beautiful Boy with Garlands around His Waist |
Andrea Lawler | In the Winter, You Made Me Tea through the Coffeemaker |
Michele Rappoport | At the Same Time |
After He Leaves | |
Leila Shebaro | Inheritance |
Alluvium | |
Fiction | |
Mark Doyle | Good New Teeth 2022 Fiction Contest Second Prize |
Josie Tolin | Driftwood |
Hassaan Mirza | The Other Osama 2022 Fiction Contest First Prize |
Evelyn Maguire | The Bar at the End of the World |
Creative Nonfiction | |
Brad Wetherell | All You Left |
Art Portfolio | |
Ruth Marie | Portfolio |
Reviews | |
Robert Long Foreman | Telling the Right Story: Survivor's Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity by Artress Bethany White |
Amy Monticello | The Natural Plot of Existence: The Red Zone: A Love Story by Chloe Caldwell |
Diego Báez | When the Museum Is a Mirror: Tenderness by Derrick Austin |
Patrick Davis | Roar and Prayer: American Elegies: The World That the Shooter Left Us by Cyrus Cassells Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking by C.T. Salazar |
Fall/Winter 2022-2023