Spring 2024 Poetry Thomas Allbaugh Journey of the Cats The Last Day of Another Term To Today Lisa Ashley In the Field of Significant Moments Solitaire Ceasar Avelar Back Breaker Distrito de piñatas Jonathan Chan Blessings Fall Republic Piety Exley The Islander Last Night I Dreamt the Wall Nicole Farmer Severed Tree I Desire Erica … Read more
Fall 2023 Poetry Jessica Dubey Deathwish Crowning Glory Cameron Dean Gibson Mare Creek K.D. Harryman Aubade From A House in the Woods Maria Hiers Thanatos The Bad Influence Returns Susan Johnson Nothing to Declare George Looney To Be Heard As Sacred Josh Mahler Night Laura S. Marshall Calyx Kegels November Summer Relapse Syncope Michael Meyerhofer … Read more
Spring 2023 Poetry Aly Allen Jaw Sharp [ˈmaskyələn] Robin Arble Roots Christopher Bakka Anamnesis The Messenger Velleity Spencer K.M. Brown Apples First Snow Danny Cassidy Dandelion Grant Chemidlin The News that Fell like Heavy Rain Rose DeMaris Bluing A Tooth of Mary Magdalene Sean Enfield Ain’t No Which is Why I’m Telling You About It … Read more
Fall 2022 Poetry Sarah Bokich Beginnings Blackbird Michael Emery Budd Hymn John Davis In Chills My Child Chokes On Her Cough Amy L. Fair Peach Tree Georgina Marie Guardado Say, Truth Underwater, I Breathe PMF Johnson Catechism Concrete Peycho Kanev Uncertainty Janet R. Kirchheimer Landscapes with Lamb and Wolf Talk in Cabs on the Way … Read more
Spring 2022 Poetry Amanda Auchter Moonflower Moth in the Manger Ansie Baird Here You are Now Joan E. Bauer For Mario Giacomelli Kieran Binney Amphibian Inheritances Joanne M. Clarkson The Abandoned Well Joan Colby Our Horoscope on the Day you Died The Start of Our Story Kathryn de Leon My Father’s Bass Deborah Doolittle A … Read more
Fall 2021 Poetry Eneida Alcade SQ 24, Singapore to JFK Bonnie Billet A Giant Frog Squats Over the Lily Pad of Brooklyn Dear Husband These are Nights I Imagine Grant Clauser Plans We Made Emily Dexter A Horizon E. Laura Golberg Labels Ellen Goldsmith Waiting Casey Killingsworth 3:38 a.m. Robert Kramer An Old Insect Photograph … Read more
Spring 2021 Poetry Gale Acuff I Want to Go to Hell When I Die Nobody Dies They Say at Sunday School Beth Boylan Grant Road Sins Vacation R. Bratten Weiss Georgic The Horses Know Sandy Coomer The Kitchen Sink Specificities David Breeden Cheap Socks April Christiansen Eucalyptus Inevitably Joshua Kulseth Library John Leonard Nodus Tollens … Read more
Fall 2020 Poetry C.L. Bledsoe Having A Baby to Save A Marriage A Sigh Made of Misspent Choices Ronda Broatch Days I Look for Solutions in Clouds Dear Sister, Since the Fire I Confess I’m Still Afraid of Windows Caroline Cottom 8 Bells Lorraine Jeffery Ocean Sepia Justin Lacour Pleasant Street Tom Tuttle from Tacoma … Read more
Spring 2020 Poetry Kimberly Becker Bed of Transformation Beer Room Bed Beside the Bed The Flying Bed Snow Bed Kate Castellana Imagism To My Future Selves, From My Future Selves Vasquez Rocks Photoshoot With My Ex Teresa Gillespie Escape Hatch Geraldine at Age Ninety-Six What I Always Say Wish You Were Here Juliette Givhan Spring … Read more
Fall 2019 Poetry Laura Bonazzoli Collage With Lies Dream of You in Which I Am on a Train Susana Case The-Dead-And-Gone-Thing Douglas Cole An Inside Job East Sounder William Derge Cormorant’s Ring* Dead Honker On The Rail Helen Doremus Change of Address An Interior Monologue Pen Pal Playing Nice Alice Fogel if or how stranded … Read more
Spring 2019 Poetry Lauren Camp Talking to Himself Waiting for the Bus 1,731 Miles from Home Lauren Claus Hiding Eren Harris Bright Lights, Big Shitty Flowers from My Mother Iain Macdonald Universal Blues James Moran Long Distance October Side Effects Carla Panciera On Days Like This When We Come Without Our Daughters and Still Leave … Read more
Fall 2018 Poetry Maryam Barrie Pulling Him to Me Jeff Ewing Erato, Lorelei, & Co. Magellan Sailed on a Saturday Morning Manda Frederick Michigan, July Susan Johnson Headlights On For Safety Ready or Not Tangled Night Cameron Morse Sand Vaccines Ann Pibel Oscuridad Stigmata Donna Pucciani Folding Reverie J. Tarwood Great Pan is Dead … Read more
Spring 2018 Poetry Aileen Bassis Man’s Body Questions for America Toni LaRee Bennett Men’s Faces, Twisted by Orgasm Candace Black Comanche County, Oklahoma In the Death Dream The Truth Joan Colby Twisted Gut KG Newman More Good News Our Children’s Viewing Room Matthew Schmeer What You’ve Heard is True Sharon Scholl Pianist Theresa Malthus Welford … Read more
Winter 2017 Poetry Brian Beatty Bread of Life Happiness is Where You Find It Long Distance Weather Man Amy Bilodeau Date Night Forecast To Make Dark Stamens Dance Michael Brownstein After the Moon Fills Itself with Milk Brown Shoes Friday Morning Stephen Cavitt Curing Pneumonia Where Oxygen Comes to Rest Jonathan Cooper Ravine Derek Thomas … Read more
Spring 2017 Creative NonfictionMadagascar by James CagneyCan I Keep You? by Melissa GrunowAh-DAH! A Literary Education by J. A. HijiyaBloody Mary by C. Cimmone FictionHot Dad by David E.J. Berger PoetrySelfie with a U-Haul by Lisa SummeComing Out by Lisa SummeTheoretical You by Lisa SummeScottsdale, Arizona is a metaphor for death and apathy mixed with memory … Read more
The Fall 2014 issue features Creative Nonfiction from Marcia Bradley, Stanzi, Frei, and Sara Walters. Fiction from Lynne M. Hinkey. Poetry from Jim Bartruff, Scott Chalupa, Carol V. Davis, Nadya Rousseau, Jeremy Voigt, Barry Yeoman and many more.
The Fall 2014 issue features Creative Nonfiction from Marcia Bradley, Stanzi, Frei, and Sara Walters. Fiction from Lynne M. Hinkey. Poetry from Jim Bartruff, Scott Chalupa, Carol V. Davis, Nadya Rousseau, Jeremy Voigt, Barry Yeoman and many more.
The Fall 2014 issue features Creative Nonfiction from Marcia Bradley, Stanzi, Frei, and Sara Walters. Fiction from Lynne M. Hinkey. Poetry from Jim Bartruff, Scott Chalupa, Carol V. Davis, Nadya Rousseau, Jeremy Voigt, Barry Yeoman and many more.
In the fields, a girl stumbles on the remains of an antelope. She was hoping for gnomes or gold, not a skull nestled between a rock and a clump of paintbrush as if deliberately composed by some amateur painter. The flesh long since plucked clean by scavengers who, once full, disbanded to stash each bone … Read more
They submit, let the current take them, their bodies a tangle of elbows and knees that smack against the portable pool. In the desert, every ounce of water is coveted. Kids slosh in every direction, oblivious why soil beyond the plush green lawn cracks. On the Pacific, miles of beaches shift, claim entire towns, playgrounds … Read more
after “Die Jahre” by Goethe If not for oil, the town would’ve never existed, would not have sprung from barren soil. The years brought families, brought water, pipes entrenched for miles beneath the ground. Frayed power lines hang from poles lashed to homes that emerge from nothing. Then, as if the town changed its mind, … Read more
She thought the role rubbish but she had agreed to it because he swore there’d be a good part in his next play: It Is What It Is something more than the usual witch, wench, lady in waiting, something, he had hinted, with weapons and the chance to use them. She wasn’t naïve. She knew … Read more
Everyone’s dead or dying in Gericault’s painting. He locked himself up with corpses. Emptied a room, backed benches to walls. An eye stared into nacreous light. How do peasants die, Tolstoy asked as he, a nobleman, embarked on his dying. Deserted crossroads, invisible coach in the distance, man turned to still life, action arrested. Night … Read more
Rain in Los Angeles makes you think about all the lives you don’t lead, the times you didn’t move somewhere with four seasons, of girls who wanted you to follow them back to northern ancestral homes or jobs in fashion, of your parents wishing you lived around the corner for Sunday games and the inevitable … Read more
Unearthed after a long rain, worms stretch like wet band-aids across our yard. The dog takes her last swim before the pool is drained. Even as the water recedes, our father skims the surface with a tattered net, catches leaves from the neighbor’s trees. Here, where we practiced back strokes, flipped off the board, blessed … Read more
