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Issue 19

Fiction

“Anathema” by Natalie Swanson
“Dandelion” by Rachel Charney McKenzie
“Dreams of Female in Room 607” by Karris McCollum

Poetry

“Untitled/Undocumented” by Mark Fitzpatrick
“Roots” by Emma Mott
“Alternate Universe Series: Three Poems” by Maggie Wolff
“Jump” by Aaliyah Anderson
“2 Poems” by Elizabeth Upshur
“Eat Me Poor” by Rebecca Joe

Creative Nonfiction

“As Those Who Dream” by Angela Townsend
“Living in the Stereogram” by Jacob Simmons
“Feed” by Haven Steel

Script

“Barren Landscape” by Steve Gold

Translation

“White Rose” by Qiang Meng

Hybrid

“Soft Spot” by Hailey Duggirala

Interview

Bessie Flores Zaldívar

Issue 18

Hybrid

“Missing: Grandmother’s TV” by Abigail Peabody
“Cave as Machine for the Repair of Other Bodies” by Ren Phung
“The Trouble with Cladistics & Dying Alone” by Ace Howlen

“A Problematic Discourse” by Maria Oluwabukola Oni
“The Non-Smoking Gun” by Russell Nichols
“Pearls from the Guestbook” by Priscilla Atkins

“Down” by Char Gardner
“User Guide for the Chaos Machine” by Adrian Potter
“The Miner’s Shadow” by Jason Fraley

“New Materialist Quartet” by Brooke Bianchi-Pennington
“Elective Hysterectomy as Treatment, with Complete Notes” by Ava Serra
“The Grove Keeper” by Mikayla Marin

“Democracy: POV” by S. K. Kruse
“Two Pieces” by Claudia Kessel
“Color Me” by Justine Payton

Interview

Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder

Issue 17

Fiction

“Ben the Mute” by Catherine Rush
“Dancing on the Margins” by Gul E. Zahra

Poetry

“History Lesson” by Alexandria Valentine
“Wishlist” by Noelle Hendrickson
“Returning” by Moriah Hampton
“I Want to Tell You My Abuser’s Name,” “Curse,” and “For Your Thoughts” by Caitlyn Alario
“Jockey” by Meghan Miraglia
“You Forgot Yourself” by Svetlana Litvinchuk

Nonfiction

“(I Want to Be A) Queer Action Hero” by Hal Dietrich
“Rifles You Can Build Yourself at Home” by Billie Pritchett
“Diving for Pearls” by Katie R. McKay

Script

“Hijab” by Catherine Rush

Illustrated Narrative

“Grief is an Ocean” by EG Shields

Translation

“Inside Karrada: An Entrance for Lightening the Trampling” by Husam Al-Saray, Translated from Arabic by Alex Vartan Gubbins

Interview

Ama Codjoe
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Issue 16

Fiction

“Narcissus Drowns” by Theo Wolf
“Fake Borneo” by Cathy Adams
“Just Friends” by Sarah Liedtke Packer

Poetry

“Incantation I” by Angelina Leanos
“Cadaver’s Manifesto” by Hollie Dugas
“My Co-teacher Still Comes to School After Miscarrying” by Amanda Dettmann
“Shadow” and “It’s Not That I Can’t Have Children” by Kai Coggin
“I Am, I Am, I Am” and “Taping the Corners of the Doorframe to Keep the Cats from Scratching” by Elizabeth Rose Bruce
“Crucible” by x Mary Simmons

Nonfiction

“Salad” by Huina Zheng
“January 8th” by Ginevra Maria Marcosanti
“Monsters and Those Who Stake Them” by Glenn Shaheen

Script

“What We Cast Off, What We Keep” by Judy Klass

Interview

Brody Parrish Craig

Issue 15

Fiction

“Ephram” by Anna Ralph
“Sea Glass” by Abby Chinnock
“Glass Doors” by Vaidhy Mahalingam

Poetry

“Kitchen” and “Still Life With Addict at the Window” by Max Gillette
“Seats My Fat Body Hates” by Madison Nanney
“Deep in the Forest” by Makenna Metz
“The Meeting” by Pauline Peters
“hand me downs” by Madeira Miller
“why i need work” by Kae Chatman

Nonfiction

“Shepherded” by Emily Holmes
“Demon in the Basement” by David McMullen
“Don’t” by Lauren Short

Script

“The Short Escape” by Pawel Grajnert

Illustrated Narrative

“Blurry Kindness” by Madari Pendas

Interview

Carolyn Forche

Issue 14

Fiction

“Mutualism” by Josephine Whittock
“Crash” by Lucy Zhang
“Milk Tooth” by C.H. Weimann

Poetry

“Sheila Groover in Alabama” by Sherri Anne Forde
“1993 Tableau sans Lithium” by Nikki Ummel
“The Roll Call” by Sekhar Bannerjee
“Sand Crab” by Sean Madden
“Turquoise” by Mario Duarte
“My mother is a fish” by Debasish Mishra

Nonfiction

“Rough Edges” by Donna Steiner

Illustrated Narrative

“Practice in Masks at Sunset” by Gregg Williard

Interviews

Matthew Salesses
Michael X. Wang

Masthead


Issue 13

Fiction

“Selves” by J. M. Bédard
“Going to Ground” by Darlene Eliot
“Jane” by Kirsten MacQuarrie

Poetry

“Stone Fruit” by Katie Bee
“My Sister’s Grief” by CL Bledsoe
“Linguistic Leanings – Chopstick Commandments” by Yuan Changming
“Sleeper” by Leah Kent
“My Father Visits Me … ” by Paula Reed Nancarrow
“The Fruit on 7th Avenue” by Nicole Santalucia
“We Slept on Floating Leaves” by Smitha Sehgal

Creative Nonfiction

“Phantom Limb” by Mahdis Marzooghian

Translation

“KEREMETIK” by Xun Betan, Translated by Kiran Bhat
“White” by Tasneem Fehead, Translated by Essam M. Al-Jassim

Interviews

Tess Taylor

Masthead

Issue 12

Fiction

“A Small Fire in Ephraim’s Wood” by Zachary S. Johnson
“Stitches” by Erin Townsend
“Lotus” by Andrena Zawinski

Poetry

“Climate Crisis …” by Dante Di Stefano
“Guf” by Talya Jankovits
“Green Tea” by Aliah Jocelyn
“Postcards” by Neha Rayamajhi
“My Most Persistent Recurring Dream Has One of Two Endings” by Leticia Priebe Rocha
“Sweat” by Lauren Scharhag
“Pantoum: Gateway to the Sun” by Saramanda Swigart

Creative Nonfiction

“To the pretty brunette in group therapy at the psych ward” by Molly Wadzeck Kraus
“It All Happens at a McDonald’s” by Melissent Zumwalt

Interviews

Kia Coggin
Elizabeth Rush

Masthead

Issue 11

Fiction

“Hot Lips” by Joe Baumann
“Down on Fairport Street” by Demetrius A. Buckley
“Highlights From the First Hour of Tradio on 88.5 FM” by L Mari Harris

Poetry

“when people laugh at a word like soul” by Jason Baltazar
“Spartan Woman” by Rosetta Marantz Cohen
“Interim” & “We Sailed into a Saffron Sky” by Adam P. Davis
“Testing One” & “The Pond” by Holly Day
“Biomythography” by Alyse Knorr
“28 Days” and “Return” by Alyea Pierce
“The Coming of the Yamnaya” by Linda Scheller

Creative Nonfiction

“What Else but Grace” by Janet Kenney
“Putting the Fear Behind” by Annie Lyall Slaughter

Interview

Tiffany D. Jackson

Masthead

Issue 10

Fiction

“The Last Rocket Out of Kennedy” by Eric Emmons
“Folding Paper” by Bernie Groves
“The Reincarnation of American Ingenuity” by Shannon Frost Greenstein

Poetry

“Ameriki” by Eirené Archolekas
“The Fire I Carry” & “See(d)ing” by Sandra So Hee Chi Kim
“Love Letters from Lillith” by Natasha King
“Oviedo Encounters the Sloth in Brazil” by Sherry Mossafer Rind
“Witness Marks” & “Nuclear Music” by Adam D. Weeks

Creative Nonfiction

“All Working Men Smoke” by Elizabeth Cone
“Touch-Me-Not” by JR

Illustrated Narrative

“Grief Cake” and “Baking Therapy” by Belle (Bom) Kim

Translation

“The Women of Cushamen” & “A Photo of Route 40” by Liliana Ancalao, Translated by Seth Michelson
“Lament for Children” by Nansŏrhŏn, Translated by Ian Haight & T’ae-yong Hŏ

Interviews

Kendra Allen
Kiese Laymon

Masthead

Issue 9

Fiction

“B.A.S.I.C.ally, I Find You Attractive” by Francis Golm
“Ara” by Kathryn H. Ross
“Baby Boy” by Caitlin Woolley

Poetry

“Fog Over Ashkenaz” by Dan Alter
“Resurrection Spell” by Anthony Dipietro
“Border Speak” by Nihal Mubarak
“Paint the Window Open” by Mary Paulson
“trains” by Shooooz

Creative Nonfiction

“The First Woman I Loved was Pain” by Madari Pendas
“Big Fat Free Bird End of Times” by James Jacob Seawel

Translation

“Demosthenes the Athenian on Kalavria” by Liana Sakelliou, Translated by Don Schofield

Interview

Carmen Giménez Smith

Masthead

Issue 8

Fiction

“Bare” by Renee Menchaca
“Catfish” by J. Frank Jamison
“Red State Sewer Side” by Sean Murphy

Poetry

“Baila Morena” by Jessica Mehta
“Before My Friend Got Killed” by Faleeha Hassan
“Circe Scorned” by Laura Z. Fairgrieve
“Home Remedies” by Holly Day
“Kept” by Michelle Askin
“The Sweetness That She Craved” by Terry House

Scriptwriting

“Project 629” by Warren Paul Glover

Creative Nonfiction

“The Trees of Mississippi: A Strange and Bitter Crop” by Lori D. Johnson
“Monk in Manhattan” by Melissa Lewis-Ackerman

Translation

“[THUNDER IN THE INVERTED SKY]” by Verónica Gonzáles Arredondo Translated by Allison A. Defreese

Interviews

Erin Hoover  

Masthead

Issue 7

Fiction

“This is How We Rise” by Nadya Frank Bauman
“Safe Haven” by Nazli Karabiyikoglu
“The Wait” by Melissa Michal

Poetry

Two Poems by Charlotte Covey
“Black Caesar” by Evan J Massey
“Giving a Man a Jump at Work” by Benjamin Murray
“Not Understanding Palimpsests, My Grandmother Thought She Could Leave the Holler” by Jennifer Schomburg Kanke
“On Buying Fireworks with our TANF Money” by Grace Spulak
“If You Follow Harper Road” by Diana Swartz
Three Poems by Erin Rae Threlkeld

Illustrated Narrative

Untitled by Chime Lama

Creative Nonfiction

“Distractions” by Sand J Butler
“self-portrait as daughter, learning” by Shelby Lynne

Interviews

Tananarive Due
Camille Dungy

Issue 6

Fiction

“Bitter Fruit” by Tyrone Jaeger
“Liminal” by Shelbey Winningham
“Heightened Sensitivity” by Soramimi Hanarejima

Poetry

Two Poems by Romana Iorga
Two Poems by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
“American Bounty” by John Sibley Williams
“Search & Rescue” by Erin Murphy
“After a November Windstorm” by Patrick Cabello Hansel
Two Poems by Keats Conley
Two Poems by Ellery Beck
Haiku by Maxine Hong Kingston

Illustrated Narrative

“Some Small Comfort” by Dave Sims

Creative Nonfiction

“A Dusting” by Sandy Feinstein
“A Pocket of Air” by Kristin Kozlowski

Interviews

Bonnie Jo Campbell
Caitlin Hamilton Summie

Issue 5

Fiction

“My Daddy Dead” by Kathya Alexander
“Pearl Walks Home” by Kristen Clanton
“Hunting in the Black Elk Wilderness” by Lori Nevole

Poetry

“Night Fall with Sea” by Ann Lovett
“Margaret Fuller” by Angie Mason
“A Stone Skipped Across Water” by Cathie Sandstrom
“and nothing changes, never” by Sarah Sophia Yanni
“Akenistén:’a (Mother)” by Diika:néhi Akwirá:’es Delaronde
“Medusa, Present Day” by Anna Sandy-Elrod
“A Tally on the Variations of Surnames” by E.A. Caris
“When the Thermostat’s Low” by Emma DePanise

Creative Nonfiction

“That Which Bites” by Z Kennedy-Lopez
“The Rotting Man” by Kathryn Brown

Interviews

Allison Joseph

Issue 4

Fiction

“The Anchorite’s Tale” by C E Symons
“The Secrets of Ellwood County” by Maia Paras Evrigenis
“How to Love Her” by Anika Bloom

Poetry

“623” by Anastasia Jill
“Ohio Deathbed, 1990” by Greg Marzullo
“My Father Wore Another Man’s Pants” by Rocco Gabriel Sementelli
“What I Remember from Missouri” by Ryn Jo
“Now—after time—I am willing to admit” by Justin Burnell
“War Commentary #49, #50, and #51” by Darren C. Demaree

Creative Nonfiction

“On the Oregon Coast” by Scott F. Parker
“What you learned as a boy” by Kyle Getz
“The Bomb Beneath My Skin” by Anna Hovland

Interviews

Rashod Ollison
Maggie Smith

Issue 3

Fiction

“In the Forests of the Night” by Bhavika Sicka
“Shelter” by Brent Fisk
“Two Conversations” by Christine Brandel
“Empty as Churches” by James Ulmer

Poetry

“Grandma’s living room of false gods” by Hans Kesling
“Mad Woman” by Maria McLeod
“My Beautiful Radium” by Renae Tucker
“Sunflower” by Sarah Heffner

Creative Nonfiction

“To the First Time Flier” by Jennifer Ng

Illustrated Narrative

“Being Rita” by Gabe Montesanti

Interviews

Tayari Jones
Alexander Weinstein

Issue 2

Fiction

“Falling Season” by Judith Kessler  (Contest Winner)
“Follow The Sun” by Karin Britt Gall
“The Winter Cabin” by Matthew Caldwell
“Central Park: A Ghost Story” by Mike Zimmerman

Poetry

“When Can You Come” by Ace Boggess
“Man Dines In His Father’s Slippers” by Marko Pogacar, translated by Andrea Jurjevic
“Flea Market” by Cassandra Lockwood-Rice
“Poem For Thalia” by Elizabeth Oness (Contest Winner)
“Creative Writing In Oman” by Kirsten Hemmy
“You Come Again, Michael” by Zahid M. Naser, translated by Pauline Fan
“Don’t Forget Aleppo” by Shahé Mankerian

Creative Nonfiction

“Pruritus” by J.D. Schraffenberger (Contest Winner)
“An Opening Closed To The Public: A Black Lesbian Separatist At Play” by Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz

Interviews

Oliver De La Paz

Issue 1

Fiction

“Be Thou Ravished Always With Her Love” by C.L. Bledsoe
“I Lost Dalton” by Margaret Tiger Ferguson
“Life Cycle Of A Human Girl” by L.W. Nicholson

Poetry

“Revelations Of The Temporal” by Angie Marci
“Folding Black And Primrose Aubergine” by Lana Bella
“Justness” by Larry Thacker
“Homestead” by Marcus Myers
“Graveyarding” by Taylor Fedorchak
“Chemical Attack At Halabja, 1988” by Tracy May Fuad
“Amber Got Her Girls Back, And Now They Live In The Abandoned Restaurant” by Wendy Carlisle
“Tigers” by Zuyi Zhao

Creative Nonfiction

“Call And Response” by T.R. Brady
“Various States Of Undress” by Whittier Strong

Interviews

Tonya Cherie Hegamin

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