CONTENTS
Poetry
FARAH ABOUZEID the dream hills; you cannot deny the authority of the mountains
TARA BRAY American Dream; Winter Walk/Summer Walk
JOSHUA MARTIN Ode to the Salmon That Didn’t Make It
JAMES ENGLEHARDT Goldilocks Will Not Forget
SIMON ANTON NIÑO DIEGO BAENA Ghost
DAVID STARKEY Her Hand
RACHEL HERSHON The Porn Actor’s Wife
AMANDA ROTH Office of Childhood
RAENA SHIRALI Turning Thirty on a Little Patch of Concrete, Not Alone
EMILY ROSKO I Can Be Nice
BELA KOSCHALK Would S&M Satisfy Octopus Under Duress/My Own Lachesisms
GRACE GUY Eulogy for the Living
JESSICA NIRVANA RAM Holy Ghazal
CHIAGOZIEM JIDEOFOR this poem
FRANCES KLIEM Funeral Procession Up Deer Mountain
JOSHUA KULSETH My Father, the Wrestler
JULIÁN DAVID BAÑUELOS La Casa en la Noche
MICKIE KENNEDY No Leaks
DOMINIQUE AHKONG When I Met You; A Man Who Looks Like Your Best Friend’s Father
ELIZABETH CRANFORD GARCIA Anti-elegy on the way to work
CD ESKILSON Distant Relations
BRIAN CZYZYK Lafayette, Indiana
CHARLES KELL Rhode Island
KAILEY TEDESCO domestic horror/dog walk
CELIA LAWREN Mesopic Vision
JOSH LUCKENBACH Finally After So Much
Fiction
COLBY VARGAS Something Like a Year
ANNA RIMOCH Little Bird
KASEY PETERS Creep
REBECCA BERNARD An Overwhelming Loneliness
ELIZABETH FARREN Tattletale
PATRICK J. ZHOU Nice-Ville Station
KATHLEEN DONAHOO Storm Season
VICTORIA MORSELL HEMINGSON Lava
Creative Non-Fiction
HARRIS WALKER The Matanza
Book Reviews
STEPHEN HUNDLEY We See You: A Review of Dustin M. Hoffman’s Such a Good Man: Stories
CARSON COLENBAUGH Far From Silent, Far From Buried: Ben Kline’s It Was Never Supposed To Be
MICIAH PENDARVIS helen of troy gets a five-star review: Maria Zoccola’s Helen of Troy 1993
