Issue 69: spring

 

 

Editor's Note
 

Poetry

Necessity
Matthew Spireng

Toof
Imani Davis

The Consolations
Matthew Sumpter

Intravenous Therapy
Robin Gow

Demolition in the Tropics
Rogan Kelly

String Theory in Mud Season
Gail Comorat

O Trout
Gary J. Whitehead

River Town
Steve Myers

Make Love
Donna Isaac

Backslider
Catherine Cowie

When I’ve Run Out of Coffee
and/or First Person Plural

Andie Francis

The Calendar and Other Rectangles
Clayton Krollman

12.9.2018
John Stanizzi

The Naming Ceremony
Yuxin Wen

Palm Fronds
Roberta Curley

Dante and Virgil in Hell
Joshua Uyheng

Habitat
Michael Schermerhorn

What We Did After We Stopped the Boats
Yiwei Chai

Always a Game of You
Eric Stiefel

The Young in New York
Rebecca Pyle

Horse Girl
Jimin Lee

Lake River Lake
Lilace Mellin Guignard

After the Accident
Richard Cole

To Make Paradise Out of Paradise
Emily Schulten

Wake
Alie Kloefkorn

Tu Fu’s Tartar Horse
Pui Ying Wong

I carried around for the
whole day a fresh banana

Winniebell Zong

Granada
Suzanne Grove

How to start a poem:
Carolyn Liu

Advice
Abbie Kiefer

Well Done
Teesta S

Halcyon
M. Wright




 

Fiction

Saturnalia
James Smart

Give Me a Love Song
Melissa Goode

Bang Bang Chicken Salad
Steven Mayoff

Sonna
Devanny Benitez

The Future Is a Blue Dog
Robert Kaye

Hard Candy
Daniel Uncapher

Really
Devan Hawkins

Lent
Naomi Elegant




 

Nonfiction
 

My Country
Tracey Lien

Cutting Open the Cat
Manda Frederick





 

Art

First Day of Work
You Young Kim

Grace
Brad Hong

Definiteness 1
Nathaniel Armstrong

Gaze
Seon Kim

Untouched Totems
Leechen Zhu

Cloister
Karl Zuehlke

Miriam Walks Home
Pearse Anderson

Untitled
Jacob Kind

Feeling Happy
Agniya Tolstokulakova

Play
Mark Lee Webb

Dreamedary
Shelby Prindaville

Hope on Earth
Sophia Latorre-Zengierski

Definiteness 2
Nathaniel Armstrong

Canopy
Kaitlin Moore

I’ll Be There For Dinner
Ann Calandro

Self
J. Lewis

Finding Philadelphia and the Moon
Leechen Zhu

Country Route 20
David Rubenstein

Closet
Malcolm Corley

Lineup
Mark Lee Webb





 

Interviews

Jennifer Egan

Weike Wang





From the Archive 

That Golden Light
Allen Ginsberg

Poem
E. E. Cummings

Shadows
William Carlos Williams

Poem(or
E. E. Cummings



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Issue 69: winter

 

 

Editor's Note

 

Poetry

Mess of Jewels
Rhiannon Conley

Paternal Pedagogy
Derek Otsuji

Myth
Joellen Craft 

Word Problem
Steven Duong

Sonnet on Swallowing
Bailey Cohen

Cars Poetica
Richard Krohn

The West Wood
Cecelia Vieira

Red Earth
Beth Brown Preston

Three Miracles
Trish Hopkinson

As I carry the ringshadow / you carry the ring,
Zoe Stoller

Fauna of Mirrors
Erika Kielsgard

My Husband Eats a Crocodile at the Bangkok Night Market
Aparna Upadhyaya Sanyal

Lunch Notes
Alex Nichols

Cream Cheese Weight
Rowana Miller


 

 

Sharp Sticks
Brian Randall

Dichlorooxyfantamethylaquustium
Josh Taylor

 




 

Nonfiction

What Can’t Be Called Hunger
Katlyn Tjerrild
 

 

The Alien
Cecelia Vieira




 

ARTwork

Synergy
Robert R. Thurman

Two Branches
Duane Abbott

 
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