COVER ART
“A House near the Railroad Track” (5″ x 7″) | “Queen Anne’s Lace” (7″ x 5″)
oil on linen/panel by Stephen Magsig
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CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Jake Adam York “Before Knowing Remembers” “The Second Person”
David Dodd Lee “Fish Lake”
Shannon Jonas “Prison Cloud Approaches Town”
Lisa Lewis “A History Lesson” “Red Water Spreading”
Eric Weinstein Copula
Louise Mathias “Orion”
Kristin LaCroix “Bound for the New Albion Hotel”
David Wagoner “Body and Soul” “At the Edge of the Bed”
Austin Hummell “Frost at Midnight”
Brian Trimboli “Genesis Triptych”
Teresa Scollon “Drought Year”
Patty Seyburn Morpho Peleides
Nick Regiacorte “In Statu Nascendi”
Weston Cutter “All Yes vs. Death of Binary”
Miles Waggener “Infertility”
Keith Ratzlaff “Angel in Crisis” “Angel from a Star”
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FICTION
John Matthew Fox “Fatu Ma Futi”
Elizabeth Bull “Other Considerable Forms of Communication”
Amy Purcell “You Are Not So Lucky”
John Zackel “Pre-Existing Conditions in Puyallup, Washington”
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DRAMA
Jennifer Fawcett “The Echo”
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ESSAY
Aubrey Hirsch “A Florist’s Encyclopedia”
Kate Schmitt “Weight of Desire”
Kelcey Ervick Parker “Students Die, and What Is Poetry?”
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INTERVIEW
Natalie Giarratano and Elizabeth Marzoni “A Conversation with Alicia Ostriker”
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REVIEW
Ilse Schweitzer Looking for Hickories: The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Miswest by Tom Springer
Gary L. McDowell Never-Ending Birds by David Baker
Jessica Vozel The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo by Darrin Doyle
Ben Westlie The Sky’s Weight by Rane Arroyo
James Miranda Vanishing Point by Matt Bell
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Symposium on Writing and the midwest
Marianne Boruch “Doubt, Shrug, Shadow”
Erin McGraw “Horses”
David Baker “Native Colors”
Joe Meno “Keechie”
Mark Halliday “Kenneth Koch of Cincinnati”
Nancy Eimers “Not Much Will Have Happened”
Monica Berlin “Your Slow Pulse”
Stuart Dybek “To Live in the Midwest”
Lee Martin “Gravel Roads”
Bonnie Jo Campbell “Annie Oakley Starts Killing at Age Thirteen”
Patricia Henley “What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been: Writing the Midwest”
Lisa Bouma Garvelink “Willa Cather’s Midwest”
Eula Biss “Short Talks on the Midwest”
Cody Lumpkin “On William Stafford’s ‘Prairie Town'”
William Olsen “My Middle Name”
Michael Levin “The Midwest, a Found Text”