#55
Cover photo by Andy Rumball of poet Aoife Mannix
Nonfiction |
Poetry |
Fiction |
Graphics |
Aaron Gilbreath—Cupid Carries a Switch Margery Kreitman—Taxi! Louise Wareham Leonard—Ashes William Minor—Cheese —A Blessing Jordan Okumura—Descent |
Sherman Alexie—The Oral Tradition D.N. Baldwin—Night of the Savior Jan Ball—cross-dressers in spring clothing Kate Braverman—Fox and Camouflage Russian Hill Women Traci Brimhall—Chastity Belt Lesson Emily Brungo—Shockoe Bottom (aka Hungover . . . Claudia Burbank—Morris, New Jersey, 1967 Linda E. Cable—Fishing for Dead Poets Chezia Thompson Cager—Ask Your Mama I — Ask Your Mama II — A Country Girl’s Recipe. . . Sean Carman—On Being Trapped in a Grain Elevator Sandra M. Castillo—LSD and Kyle McLachlan Patrick Chapman—Oubliette Alex Cigale—The Rabid Loves of the Americans Heather Davis—From the American People Alex Dimitrov—Saint Sebastian After the Arrows George Drew—CSI Gil Grissom in the Kingdom of the Dead Moira Egan—Laurus nobilis Bridget Gage-Dixon—The Beekeeper’s Daughter Shelley Grabel—The Reluctant Tomboy Anne Wilson Gregory—Warning the Hunter Robert Gregory—Elegy in Advance Harry Griswold—In Churchport Susan Gubernat—Sibyl Jenny Hanning—Trench Johnny Hartner—Love’s Labor’s Lost at Kennywood Mary Crockett Hill—Toaster Genesis Brad Johnson—Coffee Shop Waste Sheet (Or: Very Jason Jones—Gunslinger Miriam Jones—Party Down on the Island Richard Jones—Walking in a Cemetery Re: Incarnation… Mike Jurkovic—Mongrel Christina Kallery—Government Cheese Linda King—A River Makes Its Own Way Mary Jean Kledzik—Alchemy Steve Kowit—Some Skunks Jonas Kyle-Sidell—Lightning, some Brian E. Langston—Building a Better Weapon Lyn Lifshin—On the Metro — Father Throws 4 Children Off a Bridge —When I Found the Words Pressed into Themselves . . . — She Said Possessed — First Snow, January 17 Reb Livingston—Diminished Prophecy 6:3 Ann Malaspina—Disappear Sally Wen Mao—Love Pear Cathy McArthur—Lipsticks Greg McBride—At the Gay-Pride Parade Margaret McCarthy—Slut America, Light of the World Melissa Monroe—Pinocchio on Wishes Peter Moore—Airborne Leaflet Propaganda Kathi Morrison-Taylor—Hypothesis Elisabeth Murawski—A Type of Sad Barbra Nightingale—Ahab’s Second Wife Kevin Oberlin—Meeting for Drinks at the Bar… Claudia Putnam—On reading the Bible backwards Alan C. Reese—This Just In Amanda Reynolds—Kurt Vonnegut Flunked Thermodynamics Diane Schenker—Poem with No Pants On Mather Schneider—Midnight in the Beer Garden of Peter Schwartz—Naked Woman/Naked Man Eric Paul Shaffer—Picnic in the Year Zero J. D. Smith—Dachshunds of Buenos Aires Paul Sohar—War Bread D. E. Steward—The Line Bianca Stewart--And Julie Marie Wade—Hester Prynne . . . — Morton’s Girl Ronald Wallace—Dress Right Dress Ian Williams—West of Boston A.D. Winans—71 Going on 72 — Poem For Allen Ginsberg Corey Zeller—The Background Singers . . . |
Michelle Brafman—Washing the Dead Randall Brown—Hiding Nothing Brian Cooper—Inedible Fish Barbara Westwood Diehl—The Ultimate Grand Damian Dressick—Accrual Louise Jarvis Flynn—Over the Moon Espido Freire—The Wooden Monster Avital Gad-Cykman—Such As Any Yael Gen—Water Myronn Hardy—Philosophy of the Dead Michael Hemmingson—Why Don’t You Use Your Nik Houser—The Kissing Booth Burns Down Dallas Hudgens—Sixty in Twenties Rosemary Jones—The Sichuan Princesses Michael Kimball—Three Girlfriends E. J. Levy—The Three Christs of Moose Lake, MN Jen Mikalski—Orion Susan Smith Nash —Discourse & Dustin, Oklahoma Panhandle Gun & Coin Andrew Oldham—Song of the Whale Boy Maria Padhila—No One Knows You’re a God Steve Pastis—Wet Dogs of Hispaniola Susan Perabo—End of Days Deborah Pintonelli—Baby Love Terri G. Scullen—Pullout Martin Seay—from “The Mirror Thief” Irene Svete—The Wake David Veronese—A Boy in Need Lisa Vogel—The Museum of This Sue Williams—Where the Apple Rolls Hillary Suzanne White — welles —an open letter —thymiane Keith R. Wilson—Cleaning the Smoking Room Tim Wirkus—Apiary |
Lisa Chun |