Volume 18 (2020)
Essays
Karen Bell
Queer Abroad in Kerala
Samantha Ruckman & Steve Fellner
On Looking: A Collaborative Essay
Joshua Jones & Andrew Koch
Parable of the Sowers
Baron Wormser
The Happy Nation
Jennifer Sinor
Lobster
Jeffrey Hammond
The Things We Love: Downsizing and Its Discontents
Will Stockton
A Week of Recreation
Sara Biggs Chaney & Michael Chaney
Caution: Uneven Road
Doug Dibbern
Into the Gulf of the Image
Rebecca Bernard
Memory Hound
Don Bogen
Home Businesses
Alyssa C. Greene
Standard Deviations
Megan Harlan
Likelers: On Suburbs and Dreamscapes
Joan Connor
Portmanteau
Adele Hoffman
It Is So Beautiful
Carl Schiffman
The Ghost of a Suicide
Laura Bernstein-Machlay
Church of Holy Pharmaceuticals
Ashley Shelby
Case Study: Violent Biophilia in Solastagia Patients
Fiction
Grant Faulkner
Notes from One Still Living
E. Shaskan Bumas
The Qwertys
Trudy Lewis
Reverse Engineer
Lucas Church
Taxonomies
Christopher Linforth
Chorus
Elizabeth Savage
Vehicle
Cycladic
Orlando Ricardo Menes
The Transverberation of St. Teresa of Ávila
G.C. Waldrep
On the Burning of Thorns
Alice Friman
The Cardiologist’s Procedure
Tom Paine
The Bridge
Black Bags
You To Me Now
Mary Gilliland
Turning In To The Windswept Garden
Housekeeping
Charles Harper Webb
Is it True that Hitler Loved Disney Cartoons?
Monarchs
Alexis Orgera
Sleuthing Over the Grand Canyon
Alixandra Shuger
Blueprint, 1996-2018 (fragments)
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Paul Jolly
She fabricated the carnival mafia thing
Sarah Maclay
A Mirror of Leaves
Jill Gonet
Casino
Inside the Sun
James Ellenberger
The Snake Man
Holaday Mason
From the Mountains to The Prairies to The Oceans White With Foam
The Screen Porch
Lullaby
David Moolten
Deliverer
Forerunner
Scott Davidson
And Another Thing
Anna Black
The Spiteful Nature of Time
Dave Brennan
Americans Who Wake Confused
Deep-brain Johnny Cash
Shelley Puhak
Concerning the L— Peoples
Taylor Supplee
Noctuary
Daniel Moysaenko
Poem for the Century
Bruce Beasley
Bodies Find No Resistance from the Omnipresence of God
Erica Lee Braverman
The Man Behind the Camera
Bruce Cohen
The Fixable World
An Unelected God
Brandi George
Thumbelina
Katherine Soniat
The Interstate Chimera
The Sea
Eric Pankey
Thinking About the Afterlife
Winter Meditation
Robert Thomas
Sonnet with Post-its and Johnny Depp
Sonnet with Blizzard and Glass Lizard
Sonnet with Storm Drain and Thyme
Richard Martin
Trash Message
Minus 5
John Bradley
How to Handle a Sleepwalker
How to (Batteries and SD Memory Card Not Included) Pratfall
How to Handle a Knocked-Out Tooth
John Randolph Carter
Something to Think About
This Ship Has Sailed
David Koehn
Delta 20: Crossing the Bridge to Tassajara Trail
Delta 18: the Empty Parking Garage Stopped By and Denied Any Wrongdoing
Jaycee Billington
Okefenokee
John Sibley Williams
Coat of Bees
Prototype
Uncanny Valley
Ira Sukrungruang
I Like Me
Rebecca Lilly
When to Spook
Pui Ying Wong
With Them
O
Prose Poetry
Orlando Ricardo Menes
St. Teresa of Ávila Upon Reading the Song of Songs
Caliban to the Sea Nymph Ananai
St. Lucy, Patroness of Those Troubled by Their Eyes
William Doreski
Living at the Junkyard
Jose Hernandez Diaz
The Flame
The Ventriloquist
Jim Daniels
On the Giving and Taking Hostage of Solitude
Hush Money
Brian Clifton
Desire Under The Cathodes
Addled
Meat
Brian Patrick Heston
Roy
Margaret Barbour Gilbert
from Sugaring Off
Michael Mark
Dad, Leave Mom
Transgenre
Cheryl Whitehead
Liberty City Epistle
Nance Van Winckel
from The Mystic Places
Michael McKeown Bondhus
Teenage Stock
Untitled
Untitled
xo Pterodactyl
Fish Scales
Sophomore Semi
Ungod and Industrialization
Contributors' Notes