COVER ART

“Nests” (20″ x 20″)  |  “Patterns—Three Verses” (52″ x 52″)

mixed media on panel by Jennifer Gardiner

images courtesy of The Nines Gallery

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CONTRIBUTORS

POETRY

Jennifer Perrine    “Portrait of My Mother as Mule”

Kate Angus    “Michigan 1986”

J.P. Dancing Bear    “The Clown Opera”

Craig Beaven    “The First Passenger Airplane Crash”

Logan Perkes    “The Men”

Laura Eve Engel    “What the Winter Made of Me”

Dennis Hinrichsen    “Stomp Board”

Megan Gannon    “Casting”

Jeff Stein    “Clearance”

Dan Rosenberg    “The Husband Imposes His Persistence”

Maggie Queeney    “On the Liver and Lust”   “On the Female Liver”

Joshua Robbins    “Collateral”

Monica Berlin    What a year looks like: drenched . . .

Bridget Lowe    “First Key Moments in the Construction of the Master Narrative”

Kathleen Flenniken    “Horse Latitudes”

Jennifer Case    “Lorentzian Geometry”

Ryan Teitman    “Foreign Film at the Ritz at the Bourse”

Marianne Boruch    She stood there unquiet: a road   To make a life inside

Jon Pineda    “Ellipses”

Yael Shinar    “song”

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FICTION

Daniel Coshnear    “Wormholes”

Lacey Jane Henson    “Les Enfants”

Adam McOmber    “There Are No Bodies Such As This”

Christopher Lowe    “Those Like Us”

Sarah Morrison    “Wise Guy”

David Luoma    “A Blues Lesson”

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DRAMA

Robert Montgomery    “Electra”

Austin Bunn    “Basement Story”

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ESSAY

M. Eileen Cronin   “In Annie’s Hands”

Eric Dean Wilson    “Polaroids from the Black Rock Desert, NV”

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INTERVIEW

Daniel Morris    “A Conversation with Mark Halliday”

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REVIEW

Jon Sealy    Girl Trouble by Holly Goddard Jones

Michael Cherry    The Beginning of the Fields by Angela Shaw

Andrew McFayden-Ketchum    Dismantling the Hills by Michael McGriff

Katherine Zlabeck    Call Me Ahab by Anne Finger

Katherine Bode-Lang    Flinch of Song by Jennifer Miltello