Issue 54
Cover: “The Sweet Taste of Victory” by Wes Holloway
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Poetry | |
Akhim Yuseff Cabey | Bless You, Nina Simone |
Ruth Williams | Balanced Bite |
Stephanie Kaylor | Leaving Graham Ave |
Kelly Weber | Blood Firsts |
Snake-Jawed Epithalamium | |
Yvanna Vien Tica | ESL Lessons |
Lauren Paredes | The Prayer of Puer Aeternus |
Alexis Ivy | Differentiation |
Keith Leonard | Two Statements of Teaching Philosophy |
"The standards call for a lesson" | |
"Only certain things seem to stick" | |
Brian Simoneau | The Wind Makes an Offer of Salvation |
John Sibley Williams | sky burial |
Connie Pan | Self-Portrait as Green Onion |
Robbie Gamble | Bravado |
J.P. White | In Praise of Failure in My Seventh Decade |
Tran Tran | Where are you from? |
Mulan (1998) | |
Jane Zwart | Death Drive |
Meg Eden | carrion girl |
Omen for Moving Too Fast | |
Hollie Dugas | Flannery O'Connor's Singles Ad |
JC Talamantez | Sturgeon in the Land of the Nautilus |
Petals in Dust | |
Julia Edwards | Cathexis Blues |
Mag Gabbert | Crack |
Moons | |
Staci Halt | Low Tide |
Jeanette Beebe | Convincing |
Lisa Grove | Origins |
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Aubade for Every Broken Thing, Union City, TN |
Rebecca Macijeski | Fiddle |
Amy M. Alvarez | Gloria, In Excelsis |
Lauren Tess | The Other Lauren |
Mel McCuin | From Bird to Barn Swallow |
On Writing (after Years of Doing Anything Else) | |
Sherrel McLafferty | Metaphors |
Kassy Lee | Alone in the Beinecke with Langston Hughes |
Impression, Jardin des Tuileries | |
Ann Hudson | Red Geraniums |
by Alan Lomax | |
Ally Chua | Lunar Cycle |
Eliza Browning | Fieldscape |
Rites of Passage | |
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick | You Had a Sibling, Briefly |
We Drink to the Unsayable | |
Ojo Taiye | All Our Lives |
Maria Castro Dominguez | Memory of Water |
Benjamin Voigt | Little Song |
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán | Illumination |
Invoke: an inflorescent incantation | |
Matthew Thorburn | White Irises |
One More Chorus | |
Anthony Borruso | In Defense of Voice-over |
Dion O'Reilly | Plenty |
Luke Patterson | Man Eaters |
M. Cynthia Cheung | Occurrence of a Dream Translated by Animals |
Emily Hockaday | Name This Body |
Clara Burghelea | Language, first and last |
Alina Stefanescu | Two Years after Our Dog, Pinka, Got Hit by a Car on Halloween and Died Before Our Eyes as the Kids Howled in Ghost Costumes on the Front Lawn |
Rita Feinstein | Litany at 92 Pounds |
Pastoral with Crohn's Disease | |
Brooke Harries | Paleontology |
Jack Powers | Tough Love |
Matthew Tuckner | The Grandfather Clock |
Melissa Ginsburg | Development |
Fiction | |
Bergita Bugarija | Powder |
Megan Peck Shub | One Fight after Another |
Anita Trimbur | The baby was perfect and |
Jade Song | Eulogy for Bao Bayun |
Julialicia Case | The Storming of Forestswarm |
Creative Nonfiction | |
Rochelle Hurt | Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti – Ariette d’oubli de la chapelle étourdie (1920) |
Frida Kahlo – Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) | |
aureleo sans | the fury |
Art Portfolio | |
Wes Holloway | Paintings |
Reviews | |
Barrett Bowlin | Nirvana, an End to Suffering: Dear Damage: Essays by Ashley Marie Farmer |
Gina Isabel Rodriguez | Rally Your Humor and Your Rage: Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby |
Sarah Carey | Translating the Language of Terror: By the Bridge or By the River? by Amy C. Roma |
Spring/Summer 2022