Poetry
Heather Christle
Stroking My Head with My Deception Stick
George Looney
A Couple Flirts at a Public Masters' Violin Lesson Chautauqua, New York
Ode in Someone Else's Voice
Sara Michas-Martin
Elegy
Catherine Pierce
Epithalamium
Jen Town
The Woman in the Green Dress
Julie Funderburk
Allegory of the Buck
Monica Berlin
Attached to Hands
Jhoanna S. Aberia
Flayed
Shelley Puhak
The Dictator’s Daughter from a Nursing Home in Wisconsin
Christopher Matthews
Go West, Only Child
Dennis Hinrichsen
Crazy Horse Mountain
Megan Gannon
Selenographia
She Wearies of Wise Children
Nance Van Winckel
Gothic Times on Printer’s Row
The Last Words of the Dream Were the Ones that Woke Me (Gothic Dream Sky)
Heather June Gibbons
Poppy that My Heart Was
No Daughter
Josh Wallaert
After the Fall
Mark DeCarteret
Sequel
Robin Behn
Reading in the Yellow House
The Yellow House as God
Sarah Sloat
The Problem with Everything
For Luisa, Waiting to Be Fetched
Morgan Grayce Willow
Ghazal #6—The Maps Are Words
Alexander Long
Still Life with Kafka Checking His Watch, Missing His Train
Ryan G. Van Cleave
The Mortician’s Son, a Week into His New Job
David Koehn
The Shallows, Commons Beach
Under the Front Porch
David Welch
Poem in Which I Make the Mistake of Thinking of Reconciliation While
Watching a Spaghetti Western
Andy Young
Nothing Cries Out
Lower Nine
Fiction
Richard Dokey
O, Brother!
Laura van den Berg
Twinflower
Amanda Coplin
The Orchardist
Tatjana Soli
The Girl in the Picture
John Holman
Second Fire
Donald Ray Pollock
Lard
Creative Nonfiction
Julie Wade
Bouquet
Stephen G. Bloom
Anna Elena’s Tongue
Drama
Rick Mitchell
Reptiles of the Mind
Interview
Ann Przyzycki
An Interview with Josip Novakovich
Recommended Books
The Life and Work of Václav Havel
Reviewed by
Steve Feffer
Pretty Little Dirty, by
Amanda Boyden
Reviewed by
Kim Knutsen
Less of Her: Poems; Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, a Memoir; Stumble, Gorgeous: Poems, by
Paula McClain
Reviewed by
Elizabeth Marzoni
On Having a Heart Attack: a Medical Memoir, by
William O’Rourke
Reviewed by
Diether Haenicke
A Beirut Heart: One Woman’s War, by
Cathy Sultan
Reviewed by
Anna Redsand
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City, by
Andrei Condrescu
Reviewed by
Richard Katrovas
Contributors
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