POETRY

 

Neil Aitken

 

An Hour Before Arriving, I See Home

Kazim Ali

[cold Tuesday ten in the morning]
[you didn’t tell me god had no silence]
[every aisle a rain-stroked avenue]

Arlene Ang

Window Screen

Micah Bateman

Jacksonville, TX

Erinn Batykefer

The Last Natural Blonde in the World

Julie E. Bloemeke

Tomato

Sara Brenchley

Mother’s Garden

Traci Brimhall

Aubade with a Fox and a Birthmark
To the Tall Stranger Who Kept His Hands in His Pockets, Fourteen Years Later

Alex Chertok

News

Liz Countryman

When You’ve Forgotten the Pervert, He’s Forgotten You

Bruce Covey

Beach Visit

Brett DeFries

The Gospel According to The Body
The Gospel According to The Question Mark

Andrew Demcak

Cannulae
Suicide Note for Weldon Kees

Jennifer Dempsey

On Black River
Paperclip

Camille Dungy

from At Madame Jane’s
from Prayer for P—

Farnoosh Fathi

Westerlies

Farrah Field

The Disturbed Mississippi
Your Lordship Spirals

Rachel Contreni Flynn

I Have Loved My Sadness
Ghost

Lyn Lifshin

You Can Read a Life Story in the Tattoo

Frannie Lindsay

Prayer for the Setting Free

Megan Lobsinger

How to Stall the Glacier’s Leak:

Matthew Nienow

Stories of Ash

Emily Perez

Because We Left the City

Alex Quinlan

The Father: Recent Sightings

Avery Slater

Absence Seizure: a found love poem

Patricia Smith

Baby Born With Heart in Hand
And They Were Sleeping
Always Hungry

Tania Runyan

In Utero
Sarah Considers the Stars

Tess Taylor

Attic Boxes

Jakob VanLammeren

Trans / Body

Jennifer Whitaker

The Way We Describe Lost Things

Greg Wrenn

Easter Snapshot

Jennifer Yeatts

Elevators

 

FICTION

 

Irene Keliher

 

Thirteen Ways

Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

A Diagram of Absence
In a Box, a Photograph

 

NONFICTION

 

Chuck Carlisle

 

Bosnia By Bus

Tom Fleischmann

Instructions to Self on Not Loving Him

Heather Kirn

One Thing Considered

Ryan Van Meter

Discovery

 

REVIEWS

 

Amanda Auchter

 

on Indeed I Was Pleased With The World
by Mary Ruefle

Sarah Gakowski-Hill

on Houses Fly Away
by Leigh Anne Couch

Maggie Glover

on After West
by James Harms

Andrew Kozma

on Radio Crackling, Radio Gone
by Lisa Olstein

Elizabeth McDonnell

on Notes for My Body Double
by Paul Guest

Katharine Rauk

on Behind My Eyes
by Li-Young Lee