COVER ART

“Transformation of the Phoenix” (24″ x 36″)  |  “Besa de Maya” (78″ x 30″)

oil on board, and acrylic on recycled door by Madara Mason

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CONTRIBUTORS

POETRY

Meggie Monahan    “Need”

Ansel Elkins    “The River’s Wife”

John Stanford Owen    “Devil’s Drop”

Jehanne Dubrow    “Her Right Ankle”   “Story”

Jessica Lakritz    “An Incomplete List of Everything”

Joshua Ware    “Impossible Motel”   “Impossible Motel”

Cynthia Cruz    “Atlas of the Molecular Kingdom of Girl Orphans”

Oliver de la Paz    “Labyrinth 6”   “Labyrinth 7”

Evan Beaty    “Dreamless in the Tracks”

Jacques J. Rancourt    “Atone”   “Intercession”

Lisa Fay Coutley    “Patientia”

Brynn Saito    “Shape of Fire”

Roger Reeves    “After Love”   “Cross Country”   “My Uncle Breathes Best in a Dress Along the Highway”

Travis Cebula    from Impossible Futures

Shana Wolstein    “Dear Mother”

Kristina Marie Darling    “Aviary”   “Soirée (III)”

Kill Bergkamp    “How to Fall in Love”

Paige Ackerson-Kiely    “Ars Poetica”

Leon Weinmann    “Lethe”   “To His Soon-to-Be Ex-Wife, Imagined as a Meadow”

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FICTION

Marc Watkins    “Handsome Pair of Sunday Walkers”

Josh Denslow    “Too Late for a Lot of Things”

Brandon Boyer-White    “Ready, Aim”

Stephanie Marker    “Waiting”

Claire Burgess    “Upper Middle Class Houses”

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DRAMA

Julianne Werlin    “Demons by Other Means”

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ESSAY

Timothy Hedges    “Fire When Ready”

David Harold    “Sleepless”

Aubrey Hirsch    “Other Aubreys I Have Known”

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Interview

Timothy Shea    “Pure narrative is like crabgrass: Rodney Jones on the Sectioned Poem”

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Review

Richard Jackson    “The Ordinary Miraculous Poetry of Jack Myers”

Brandon Davis Jennings    The Great Frustration by Seth Fried