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Issue 20/21: spring/summer 2016

Fiction

  • Christopher MerknerExquisite, Exemplary
  • Jamie FisherPeonies
  • Youmi ParkFriends
  • Thomas PierceTwo Bananas
  • Amy ScharmannThe Marathons

Nonfiction


Poetry

  • Davis McCombsThe Widder Mercer, Found Downriver
  • Diane MehtaGroomed Water Descending in Prisms
  • Dan O’BrienThe War Reporter Paul Watson Rewinds the Film, The War Reporter Paul Watson and the Mountain of Nothing
  • Christian Prigent (translated by Claire Eder) – Palatino, Cappella Sistina
  • Laura BylenokVoid If
  • Luke DalyPhloem Poem
  • David McDannaldWhen Presidents Surf Porn Theorem
  • Ed SkoogThe Red Bird
  • David ThackerCravings
  • Santiago Vizcaino (translated by Alexis Levitin) – Consistencia (Accuracy), El Carbón Del Fuego (Embers)
  • Brittany CavallaroEvidence
  • Alice FrimanFrame It, When Did We First
  • Jon LoomisLucky Me, Legoland
  • Matthew WestbrookPoem In Which Nothing Is Left But Survivor’s Guilt
  • Brian BarkerCottonmouths, Daddy Longlegs
  • Alan Michael ParkerA Poem for Sally
  • Susan ComninosAfter a Time, Time
  • Judy BrackettWhat the Great-Grandmother Believes in
  • Pura López Colomé (translated by Dan Bellm) – from Letanía en el Huerto (from Litany in the Garden)
  • Patrick WhitfillPortrait of the Artist as the Local Punk Band, The Snotty Cocks, at Their First Real Gig
  • Derick MatternIf These Should Hold Their Peace
  • Andrew GraceThe World Will Not Break My Heart
  • David WelchHomophonies (XXXV-LI)
  • Juan Gelman (translated by Lisa Rose Bradfield) – from Hoy: CIV (from Today: CIV), from Hoy: LXXXVIII (from Today: LXXXVIII)
  • Adam VinesAfter Balthus’ The Street
  • Mary Austin SpeakerVisitation, The Falling-Down Dance
  • Rebecca LillyCloset Play
  • Lidia Kosk (translated by Danuta Kosk-Kosicka) – W Ciemnych Grzywach Koni (In the Horses’ Dark Manes)
  • Moshe Dor (translated by Barbara Goldberg and Moshe Dor) – The Nun Called Cyclamen, Stone
  • Hilary JacqminThe Trial
  • Sidney Wade, Samantha Grenrock, Paulette Guerin, Kristen Herrera, Gentris Jointe, Erin Jones, Ashley Keyser, Brian Malatesta, Elaina Mercatoris, Sarah Grigg Rolph, Walter Smelt, Tara Tatum, Ashley Tisdale13 Ways of Looking at Weng Wei