Issue 12: Poetry


  • August—, Did it Call to Mind the Dead in Your Life, Too?, and Domesticity by Heather Frese
  • Sugar Maple in October, August Haiku, Lines Written after Sex, and O Tree, Squished Pop-can-like Onto the Canvas of My Yard by Kim Groninga
  • PEDIGREE, OUR HEROICS, THOUGHT EXPERIMENT, and OUR CENTRAL SYSTEM by Anne Cecelia Holmes
  • Woven, Wept, Wound, Swum, and Rung by Jac Jemc
  • The birds, The landscape, The ice storm, and It’s the same in every downpour by Genevieve Kaplan
  • Chiaroscuro in the Garden and And the Angels Press Together Like Cold Horses by Jeanne Stauffer-Merle
  • IN RETROSPECT…, JAILBIRDS, MAIL, MAY DAY, and OUTSIDE A BAR CALLED THUMBS, THE END IS NIGH by Dan Pinkerton
  • Anemone, Limpet, Mussel, Crab, Opossum, and Louse by Mike Smith
  • The Terminal Situation (Elegy For a Nation Deplaned) by S. Asher Sund

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    Executive Editor
    Tom Grimes

    Managing Editor
    Chris Margrave

    Fiction Editor
    Julia Eddington

    Poetry Editor
    James Knippen

    Nonfiction Editor
    Jaime Netzer

    Book Review Editor
    Luisa Muradyan

    Interview Editor
    Emily Davis Watson

    Copy Editor
    Shiloh Booker

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    Ali Haider
    Jenny Hanning
    Faylita Hicks
    Stephanie Motz
    Monet Moutrie
    Rujuta Paradkar
    Jaime Pickett
    Richard Robertson
    Denise Rodriguez
    Michael Rosenbaum
    Richard Santos
    Mary Selph
    Shawnacy McArthur
    Kelsey Shipman
    Dana Sprayberry
    Martha Stallman
    Joe Vastano

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    Roger Jones

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    Michael Hart
    Evelyn Lauer
    Josh Magnuson
    Toby Peterson
    Michael Wolfe

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    Ben Engel
    Evelyn Lauer
    Herpreet Singh

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