ISSN 0029-277X
eISSN 2836-175X
Volume 91, Numbers 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2024)
Contents
Editor’s Note
William Caraher
Fiction
Birdie, Alone
Gina Willner-Pardo
Hollywood
Chris Viner
Miss Emily Berghauser
John Mort
Rest Assured
Michael Merlo
Imperfect
Lisa Wessling
Anacortes
Ryan Kenedy
Prudence Faith
Claire Gochal
A Brief Excerpt from the History of Tobacco
Ben Roth
Essays
Why I Read the Slush Pile
Peter Brown
Nine Variations on Pete Townshend
and Abbie Hoffman
David Susman
chore boy 4 mommi
Cyrus Stuvland
Angry Young Linguist
David Carkeet
The Cost of Doing Business
Billie Pritchett
Sugar Bowl of the Universe
Jeanne Blum Lesinski
Poetry
Massarti, the Lion Tamer
My Father Asks to Be Cremated
Daniel Ginsberg
a skull on a desk, and it is early morning
delineamented giants
Cory Dawson
My Locksmith Novel
Michael J. Galko
The Blanket
Paul Martin
Call the Stars by Name
Left Behind
Mary Salisbury
Spring Break
John Abbott
RFD
David Solheim
The Names of Things
Understanding Physics
Michael Rogner
Birds in a Bush
Birds on a Feeder
William Virgil Davis
God’s Garden
Louis Efron
Kurban Bayram
Keith Carver
A Tree
Not a Meeting
The Child’s Cry
Liliya Gazizova (translated by Olga Karasik-Updike)
Clearing the dreamfields
Andrea Moorhead
My Ancestors
Rerun
Debra Prazak
Sparrow
This is a Shopping List
Tyler Reilly
An American Election
Jon Ward
Wilfred Owen’s Release
Rupert Brooke at Skyros, 1915
Edward Thomas Shoves Off for France
Edward Thomas at Havre, January 1917
Wilfred Owen: Shellshocked at Gailly
Daniel Weeks
Combat Manual
Alessio Zanelli
My Presidents
Kurt Olsson
Tattoos
A Foreign Language
Dana Yost
As We Stay Marooned inside Our Respective
Teapots
Nandini Dhar
Night Song
Petrichor
Ernest O. Ògúnyemí
On He Mni Can
All Water Desires to Return to the Ocean
Indian Summer
Halee Kirkwood
The Incredible Floridas
Ed Lyons
We Are Nature
Ndaba Sibanda
Deep Watering
Brandon Lamson
On Days
Light Music
Shed No Sound
Jim Richards
Aubade: Woman with Roses
Paso Doble
Joanne Mallari
The Desire Catalogue
Parable of Daphne
Parable of Io
Lillian Emerick Valentine
Sainthood
Daniel Brennan
Good Fences
Into Darkness
Before My Eyes
Diane Webster
Autumn in the Blue Ridge
The Job
Danny Barbare
It’s a Little Coffee Shop
James Foritano
Dear Grey Hair
Jainab Tabassum Banu
The Case with Puddles
James B. Nicola
Habituation
Allen Braden
The Johnson Boy, Age 11
Misophonia
Caitlin Johnson-Castelaz
Amazing Grace
Atom Bomb the Second
Robert Halleck
Last Thoughts of Hebron
Brandon Krieg
The Wilderness
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Mea Culpa, USA
Rich Murphy
A Prophet in Her Own Country
Harvest
Rachel Rinehart
[Polaroid of]
Katie Jean Shinkle
burning book
Zeitgeist
Chris Butler
You’ve been coding in that cave of yours for days
Wonder-ferried
to Beşiktaş
Christie Borely
Delayed Taste
Mark Taksa
Sharing the Trail
Jim Kevin Tilley
A Renegade Tour Guide Educates
Visitors to the White House
Kevin Brown
What Is Living
White on White
Partial Mending During Hospice Care
Terri McCord
To S.
Gabriella Garofalo
Any Hospital USA
Judith Skillman
Monologue in a Pinhole into an Asylum
(an interview session)
Saheed Sunday
Winnowing
Bradley Clompus
Evening Drive
Cameron Morse†
The Pipes and John Wayne
Edward Lee
The Craft of Art
Code Mountain
Kenton K. Yee
Our Lands
Irene Villaseñor
Cholecystectomy
Timothy Dodd
Landscape with Fox
James Kangas
On my way home
The bag
Stories
Laura Zucca-Scott
Editor
William Caraher
Fiction Editor
Gilad Elbom
Poetry Editor
Paul Worley
Assistant Poetry Editor
Kelsey Woodburn
Nonfiction Editor
Sheila Liming
Art Editor
Ryan Stander
Book Review Editor
Sharon Carson
Copyeditor
Andrea Herbst
Editorial Board
Eric Burin
David Haeselin
Andrew Harnish
Joseph Kalka
Adam Kitzes
James Mochoruk
Sheryl O’Donnell
Richard Rothaus
Brian Schill
Kate Sweney
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