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Poetry
MARK GORDON
TIM GAVIN
HENRY CHERRY
NICOLE BURNEY
Fiction
LYDIA SANDERS
"We picked this year’s pieces with simple guidelines in mind: What moved us? What left us thinking, rethinking, and wanting to write? What did we love to read and read again? We hope that our selections have made this year’s volume as lively to read as it was to create. In my call for submissions, I asked for shards of glass to help us build a stained-glass window. As we stand at the end of the road, I hope these pieces help you see the bigger picture; these are words that mean something to us, to those who wrote them, and hopefully to you."
-- Michelle Politski, Editor-in-Chief, Vol. 62
Table of Contents
Poetry
Ambush
LARRY NARRON
In the Memory Garden
MARK GORDON
Stroked
9:39
ANDREW FURST
Chrome Exoplanet, Delaware
Destroyed Cattle Pens, Texas
Funk #49
HENRY CHERRY
Hearing the Voice of Winter
REID MITCHELL
Coming Down With Spring
ALENA PODOBED
Love Poem VI
TIM GAVIN
Ode to the Potato that My Roommate Left in the Bathroom
All Iguanas Go to Heaven
CARRIE GEORGE
From the Cards, I Drew the High Priestess
Today I Am the Rift that Opens in the Earth
KARAH KEMMERLY
Profanity
MARC MEIERKORT
T-Shirts at Wendy's
CAROL SMALLWOOD
Fornia
ALLEN FORREST
Etymology of a Shipwreck, Christmas 1886
The Moon is a Blood Moon
JONATHAN ANDREW PÉREZ
Field Notes
KRISTIN LA FOLLETTE
My Thrilling Adolescent Years
Wedding Troughs
JONATHAN GREENHAUSE
Where Are My Marbles?
BRUCE ROBINSON
In Relapse or Recovery
ANDREW LAFLECHE
Notes
NOMI JEAN-PIERRE
Four Cameos
PETER SCACCO
Delusion
IVAN DE MONBRISON
Bruise Blue
LUIS LOPEZ-MALDONADO
A Mother's Dream
MARIA SEBASTIAN
Impossible Creatures
MIKKO HARVEY
Prunus persica
BRIANA CAMPBELL
Self-Portrait as Jellyfish
NICHOLAS REINER
Rum + Coke
Tenderloin
Black Mamba
NICOLE BURNEY
Fiction
El Saco de Papa
CASANDRA HERNÁNDEZ RÍOS
Venerable P
JAMES NAJARIAN
Flowers for Her Hair, 1918
LYDIA SANDERS
Skin
JODI NAPIORKOWSKI
Wall of White
VICTORIA FORESTER
Making Sense of the Moon on a Leash
R. HENRY YENNEK, JR.
Nonfiction
Encounter
TABITHA HAMEISTER
Catching Up: Immigrants Tell Their Stories
ROBERT STOUT
Art
Fabri Fibra
MARIO LOPRETE
Surrealism
BRENTION ROSSOW
Legendary Roommate
Unknown Glory
JULIA JUSTO
Blaise-ing
Women 13th
Shadow World
SILVIA LA ROTE
Mr. Machine, cover art
Little Hare
Red Chair
ANGIE HEDMAN
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