Contents
Essays
Wayne Koestenbaum
Impossible Positions | Is Smartness Humiliating?
Jalal Toufic
Oedipus in Egypt
Lina Ferreira
Cabeza-Vanegas Drowning Lessons
Emily Arnason
Casey Alchemy of Shadow
Patricia Vigderman
The Bliss of Life
Chris Arthur Crux
Gabriel Levin The Staging of Meyer Levin: In the Wake of Rinne Groff’s Compulsion at the New York Public Theater
Ana Arredondo
In-Between
Thomas Mira y Lopez
The Proper Way to Say Goodbye
Lucy Durneen
All The Things
Lance Larsen
Hangwoman
Mary Cross
The Last Time I Saw Anne
Corinna Burns
Internet Stalker
Fiction
Daryl Farmer
In the Garden
Amy A. Foley
Hypnotist Collector
Joan Connor
The Last Munchkin
Anthony Wallace
Queen for a Day
Zach Powers
Cockpuncher
Primo Ventello
The Auditor
Phyllis Rudin
One Percent Inspiration
Poetry
Alexandria Peary
Knick Knack
Spiritual Evidence for Life on Earth
Greenfield, U.S.A.
Alice B. Fogel
Nothing But
Panayotis Ioannidis
Honey, meaning of
Susan Terris
The Beekeeper’s Queen: The Winter of Your Year
Barbara Tomash a-
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Maren O. Mitchell
T5
X4
Jack Anderson
The Moral Lesson of a Bin
Having Fun
Fame
The Revolting Mirrors
Rachel Hadas
Beautiful and True
Anywhere But Here
Stephen Gibson
The Persistence of Memory
Maggie Smith
The Crows
Leaves
Past
Lisa Bellamy
Transient Pleasures of the Animal Realm
To Be a Wintering Snake
Peter Cooley
Dead Cat Log Jam.
Carol Potter
On A Scale of 1-10, 10 being The Most Satisfied 140
Most Know Better
Benjamin Landry
An Explanation
The Snowy Owl
Maceo J. Whitaker
Caribou
Matt Trease
Untitled
Charlene Fix
Estrangement and Blame
Kim Young
When the Queen of Riot Grrrl Smacked My Boyfriend
Tramp Stamp
Adolescence
Ethel Rackin & Elizabeth Savage
Nara & Lucrece
Doug Ramspeck
Small Devotions
Wind Metaphysics
William Virgil Davis
Thresholds
The Scream
Jeff P. Jones
A Fury of Frustration
William Kelley Woolfitt
Automaton with Flute
William Heyen
Covenant
Sean Thomas Dougherty
To Sew a Seam of Light
Lyn Lifshin
Sitting In The Brown Chair With Lets Pretend On The Radio
Leah Pode Osowski
Their Occurence
Words Our Breaths Our Bears
John Sibley Williams
The Small Story of Us
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Jan Bottiglieri
What Made the Scar? Where is the Scar?
The Doll’s Dreams
Brianna Noll
Two Kinds of Conception
Prose Poetry
Jennifer Militello
The Influence of Vision on the Mind
Traits/The Eye
Post Script
Wendy Oleson
Where Sleep Hides
Chris Haven
Terrible Emmanuel
Terrible Emmanuel
Roisín O’Donnell
Between Sisters
Christina Veladota
Brief Novel of You’ll Never Believe Me
Insomnia is my Father’s Bartender
Rick Bursky
The Days of Dead Flies
Lost On a Detour
Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale
35 Parts Per Thousand
Good Morning
Winner, 2015-2016 | Transgenre Contest
Sarah Minor
Nest
TransGenre
Jessica Hollander
Love Letters from Lord Byron
Reincarnated as Lord Byron
Sophie Monatte
Fragments
Adrian Nichols
Poem in Accord with John Cage in His Manner of Operation
Julia Brennan
Marionettes
Cycling
Katherine Riegel
Letters to Colin Firth
Elizabeth Bryer
“24 November 2014: Springvale Woman Descends To Underground”
Lisa Samuels
Tender Girl
Dana Curtis
Two Films
Amy Newman
Excerpt from The Readings of the Book of Mary Krystal
Sara Biggs
Chaney Notes for a Research Paper on Dysthymia
Translation
Kiki Dimoula, Translated by Adrianne Kalfopoulou
I Don’t Find Myself On The Map
Obsession
At Home
Chandra Livia Canadiani, Translated by Olivia Sears
Five poems from The Sleeping House
Idoia Elola, Translated by Curtis Bauer
The March: A Silent Demonstration to Protest the Government’s Investigation of Public Defender Alberto Nisman’s Death, Buenos Aires, Argentina