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Volume 87, Numbers 1 & 2 (Fall/Winter 2020)
Editor’s Note: Style as Story
Gilad Elbom
Art
Artist Statement
Marco Hernandez
Fiction
The Prophet Lottery
Max Halper
It’s Ever One, and Never Falters
Devin Curtis
Through the Window
Kareem Tayyar
The Key Points
John Meyers
The Doll’s House
Erin McIntosh
Fe’s Anatomy
Donna Lee Miele
Acoustic Fiction
Richard Kostelanetz
Bastard’s Life of Everlasting Violence
Jason Lee Brown
Essays
Before the Blood
Leah Mensch
It Hardly Hurt a Bit
Mike Miley
Renaming
Suzanne Manizza Roszak
The Great Sea
Patrick Thomas Henry
The Fracking of My Body
Taylor Brorby
Reviews
Wondering with Hannah Arendt and Friends
Amy Kielmeyer
Out of Shadows
Sharon Carson
Postindian Wars and Warriors in Tommy Orange’s There There
Gayatri Devi
Poetry
Beauty
Rehanul Hoque
A Writer’s Workshop
Kruti Brahmbhatt
Snow Orchid
Shalom Galve Aranas
One Winter Evening
William Virgil Davis
Ten Forty
Tunnel #3 (course syllabus on drama)
Lawdenmarc Decamora
In the Field Museum
For Three Children Buried on the Family Farm
Diane Scholl
Salome’s Decision
Persephone Calls Her Mother
Helen Marie Casey
Mom
John Guzlowski
The Mighty Ohio
Sky Burial
Jessica Cory
So Much of the Story Already Told
Spent
Mark Mazzoli
Singing
Rajendra Sharma
Measuring My Days
What Makes a Heart?
Lawrence Rhu
New Release
Alex MacConochie
A Request
Empty
Paul Lieber
Film #6: Eve in Vietnam, July 8, 1968
Film #2: On Leaving
Alisha Yi
Melomaniac
Sarah Tillard
I Thirst
That Summer
Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi
Prairie Grass
Peter Norman
Pastoral
Brent House
Portrait of a Portrait on Fire
John Sibley Williams
Droids on the Train
Mark Hammerschick
Venice for a Day
The World of Microorganisms
Paul Ilechko
Polar Vortex
Buffalo Gap
David R. Solheim
Space Invader
Deborah Ketai
Red Poppies
Quieting the Honking
Lindy Obach
Sun Emoji
Productive
(but maybe i am reaching?)
Angelica Whitehorne
Contagion
Two Rooms, One Departure
Joel H. Vega
Witness
Laboratory
Recipe
Kathy Nelson
The Lamp of Mindfulness
While Remaining Calm
Charlene Langfur
Giving Thanks to the God in Whom I Do Not Believe
toilet paper
You’re Not Sorry
David Romanda
When Everything Was Alive
When Cities are Tulips
Sandie Seeger
Don’t Frighten the Horses
Bonnie Larson Staiger
A Last Nature Poem
The Task
F.X. Christmas, Jr.
Act of Contrition
Request to Come Back as a House Sparrow
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas
Frog
Black Mamba
Michael Cadnum
Lucy: small, b–
Jared Schwartz
The Swan
The Abyss
Alessio Zanelli
From Melismas
Marlon Hacla (translated by Kristine Ong Muslim)
from aerial roots [off-island chamorros]
Craig Santos Perez
“Not buffalo in tall grass . . .”
Stones, Sober
Russ Capaldi
The game
Livorno, May 28th, 1943
Laura Zucca-Scott
Nuclear Prayer
Timothy Ralston
Once You’ve Found It
Thomas Piekarski
Rummage Sale
Alec Hershman
On the Way to Hallmark
Alaala
Joanne Mallari
Along the Crumbling Back Sidewalk
Rodney Torreson
Aldi: Simple Things
Koss
The Economics of Going Home
Shiva’s Separation from Kashi
Rajnish Mishra
Lady C.
Patrick Pfister
Baltimore
Kevin J.B. O’Connor
Maiden Voyage
Audrey Spina
Caution
The Pink Petunia
Southern Living
Ahrend Torrey
Surviving Mardi Gras
Lane Chasek
The Power’s Gone Out
Susan Sonde
‘hungry ears’
Charles Edwards
A Fuckboy Love Poem
Sean Cho A.
Black Woman
Kelvin Kellman
Slap the Floor O Glory!
Lantern Lantern Pot of Gold Coin and a Red X
Eastlake
Travis Hedge Coke
On Spotting Stray Shoes
Standing in the Kitchen with My Mother
Emily Franklin
Second Childishness
Debasish Mishra
Fertility Score
Michel Steven Krug
Hey Nineteen
Mike Jurkovic
A Fine Distinction
Michael Spence
Rust Patience
Diane Webster
To Jon Harder, America’s Finest Capitalist
Marc Janssen
Camper van
David Rosenheim
The Unraveling
For Sale, Gently Used
Dakota Canon
Stumble
Stay
Inipi
Kimberlee Medicine Horn Jackson
A Cigarette Is Always A Prop
Short Poem
David Starkey
Just Tell Me Her Name, Baby
For Sale: Party City Prop
Veronica Ruperto
Your Selflessness
Joel Fry
[therefore early in the morning]
[these children my children]
Daniel Lassell
Boldino Autumn
“Place an ear upon the heart of God . . .”
Kamil Tangalychev (translated by Dean Furbish)
A Poem About Jesus
Waiting
John Robinson
The Rehearsal
Half-Wish for the Revolution
James Miller
My Clone
Resume Resurrected
Charles Baquet
Blue Dream
Empty Space
Waking Up
Lydia Caros
Untitled
Untitled
Recollections
This Sadness
Fear
Irma Pineda (translated by Wendy Call)
Punctuality
Ornithology Lesson
Ancient Egypt
Michael Beihl
Elegy For Nightfall
Harm
Survival Kit
Despy Boutris
Memento Mori
POV
Max Orkis
Presence
What will remain
William J. Joel
She Danced.
Bob Kallberg
Crossing Dusk
KB Ballentine
In The Hour Before Sunset
John Grey
