COVER ART

“Two Paths” (19″ x 13″)  |  “Penetrating Sun” (24″ x 48″)

acrylic on watercolor paper, and acrylic on canvas by Sy Ellens

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CONTRIBUTORS

POETRY

Bruce Bond    “Water Scripture”

Jennifer Perrine    “On Fallibility”

René Char    “Cette Fumée Qui Nous Portait . . .” (Nancy Naomi Carlson, trans.)

Ciaran Berry    “Burned Things”

Louisa Diodato    “Cockleshells”

Mario Chard    “Prosthetic”

Patrick Ryan Frank    “A Runner Stumbles”

Nandi Comer    “Chicken”

Naimh Corcoran    “Acyanoblepsia (the non-perception of blue)”

Shireen Madon    “From a Terrarium”

Farid Matuk    “Say Providence”   “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Erin Ganaway    “Meds”

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

Nance Van Winckel    “Unable to Sort the Sad from the Snaggle-Toothed”

Molly Curtis    “Elegy”

Angie Macri    “Hephaestus’s Fire”   “Thebes Courthouse”

Nicole Sealey    “Unframed”

Laura Donnelly    “Driving Home to Sirens”

Anthony Frame    “Prayers”

Mal Westcott    “Interpreting Crop Circles”

Todd David    “Hermetic”

Katie Ford    “We Do Not Know What We Know”

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FICTION

Jordan Sullivan    “Wuss”

Hugh Martin    “Sunday Morning after Patrol in the Combat Housing Unit”

Nick Fox    “The Exile”

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz    “The Sound of Crying Sheep”

Jeremy T. Wilson    “Trash Days”

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DRAMA

Johnathan Starke    “Stitches”

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ESSAY

Mariko Nagai    excerpt from Imaginary Death

Christina LaRose    “What Prison Is to the Body”

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INTERVIEW

Joe Fassler    “Interview with Donald Ray Pollack”

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REVIEW

Andrew McFayden-Ketchum    Beautiful Country by Robert Wrigley

Emily J. Stinson    The Name of the Nearest River by Alex Taylor

Shana Wolstein    American Amen by Gary L. McDowell