Cover Art: Guy Goodwin
Front: Work on paper-cHAUNcey, 20’’x
26’’, paper, acrylic, and casein
Back: ChaunCEY FLATS, winter,
72’’x 92’’, paper, fiberglass, wood, aluminum, casein
POETRY
Iztok Osojnik—Chasing Words | Deer Hunter | Philopappos | An Afternoon in
Bolzano
Chris Volpe—Litany | Flaming Fathers
Simone Muench—The Insinuation of Lakes in “The Garden of Mourners”
Kurt S. Olsson—Song of My Murderer
Myronn Hardy—Independence Day, Arkansas 1998 | Queen of Light
Paul Guest—Invocation to the Destructive Muses
Blas Falconer—Dear Friend
Mark Mitchell—On the Fridge Door | Night Shift
Sarah Townsend—My Neurotic Double
Richard Jackson—The Exile | The Prayer | The Kiss
James Doyle—No Gifts Required
Bryan Narendorf—Study for an Unpainted Panorama
Daniel Blasi—The Snow Steadies in its Descent | Spring
Karen Anderson—The Taking
Matthew Cooperman—Reading Lessons
Tomaz Salamun—Fou de Vincent | Little Fears
Meg Kearney—Silence
Doug Martin—A Closer Look at the Alaska Highway Stamp
Ales Steger—Behind the Beach Fence | Untitled (Well, this poem
doesn’t really…) | 10 Requests for a
Goodnight
Angie Hogan—Lodge No. 422, Bull’s Gap, TN
Eric Baus—floating in the waters of tel aviv wondering why her skin feels like
sand | the word moon got tetanus | architecture based on the structure of the
small intestine was indeed a bad idea
John Hennessy—Free Union
NONFICTION
Dana Lise Shavin—Abstractions
FICTION
Kellie Wells—Swallowing Angels Whole
Alexai Galaviz- Budziszewski—Daydreams
Annette LaLonde—War
John Fulton—First Sex
Ann Joslin Williams—The Last Thing I Remember
Stacy Lynn Smith—Tomorrow
R Yanez—Within the Lines
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