COVER ART

“Dalliance in Blue” (24″ x 36″)  |  “Patterns—Three Verses” (12″ x 36″)

mixed media on canvas by Debbie Angell

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CONTRIBUTORS

POETRY

Tanya Jarrett    “What We Say to the Tree”

David Welch    “Reverse Ghazal”

Nicholas Samaras    “The Rite”

Susan Briante    “Other Denver Economies”   “May 14—The Dow Closes Down 10620”

John Rybicki    “I Flew Out to You through Bone Timber”

Rebecca Dunham    “Pill”   “A Frightful Release”

Mark Wagenaar    “Bat Hour Gospel in Charlottesville”

Jan Beatty    “Shrink”

Katrina Vandenberg    “Mirror Palace”

David Petruzelli    “As I Lay Dying, Jean Harlow Crossed the Street to Comfort Me”

Traci Brimhall    “Dirge for the Idol”

Elena Karina Byrne    “Proust’s Captive”

Rob Schlegel    “Approaching Larry Rivers”   “Approaching Upstate”

Jaswinder Bolina    “Portrait of the Minor Character”

Adam Day    “The Good Winter”

Gregory Lawless    “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”

Malinda Markham    “Sword Lozenge”   from “Drawings for Pleasure, 1874”

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FICTION

Melissa Palladino    “Red Dust”

Ron Ost    “Decoy”

L. Annette Binder    “Galatea”

Rav Grewal-Kök    “Strangers”

Peter Rawlings    “Two Mustaches”

Nick White    “Cottonmouth, Trapjaw, Water Moccasin”

Fred Russell    “At the Fourth Annual Sharm el-Sheikh Freedom Fighters Convention”

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DRAMA

Gregory Hischak    “Hygiene”

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ESSAY

Jake Wolff    “Failing at an Incredible Pace”

Rebecca Balcarcel    “How to Fall”

David Macey    “Digging Up the Dead”

Deborah Joy Corey    “Pony

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INTERVIEW

Jason Skipper    “Craft Talk with Steve Almond”

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REVIEW

Kelly Daniels    Gravity by Michael Davis

Laura Donnelly    The Alchemist’s Kitchen by Susan Rich

Katie Burpo    In Envy Country by Joan Frank

Amy Newday    Swallowing the Soap, New and Selected Poems by William Kloefkorn

Dustin M. Hoffman    How They Were Found by Matt Bell