Volume 2, Issue 2 August 2015

  1. Poems

    1. Lisa Marie Basile
      [Heavy, heavy me.]
    2. Sarah Blake
      Throats
    3. Rachel Dacus
      The Year I First Heard Birdsong
    4. Melissa Eleftherion
      subatombotaniescormorantscellophobet
    5. Laura Esckelson
      Trigger Warning
    6. Christine Fadden
      Song of Myself at Djerassi
    7. Kerri French
      Blue Feathers
    8. Arielle Greenberg
      Pastoral: Mostly you are worried about my children.Pastoral: Girl on Girl
    9. Lee Gulyas
      Newton's First Law of Motion
    10. Ana Hurtado
      After Avatar
    11. Sarah Janczak
      ConfessionBless This Mess
    12. Elisa Karbin
      Deep SpringBlood Orange as Study
    13. Benjamin Landry
      Unlearning Object PermanenceNever Been
    14. Jeanne Lutz
      Farming Tips and Sex Tricks from Housewives of Blue Earth County
    15. Opal C McCarthy
      [Let’s say the island][Now it is February][A naval man visiting]
    16. Larissa Nash
      from CANCER (June 21-July 22)
    17. Lauren Nicole
      I wore an eyelet dress and called you my man
    18. Kevin O'Rourke
      Daniels Pond
    19. Olivia Olson
      Anyone With $1000 Could Buy a Van and Leave
    20. Elizabeth Onusko
      Field Guide to Disintegration and Other Methods of Decay
    21. Timothy Otte
      Weatherlurker (II)Weatherlurker (I)
    22. Marge Piercy
      Some burst into colors; some don’t
    23. Cassie Pruyn
      Relocation
    24. Alexis Quinlan
      Nature Poem (2)
    25. Jessica Reed
      To Pin However Many Down
    26. Corinne A. Schneider
      Talking in the Dark
    27. Isabelle Shepherd
      Sounds of the Sea
    28. Danielle Susi
      What Grows Inside of Us Will Barely Be Preserved
    29. Koh Xin Tian
      Out Of All The ElementsFlight to Houston
    30. Rodney Wittwer
      Enticing to RhymeImpressionable
    31. Theodore Worozbyt
      Dear Darling
  2. Interviews

    1. Sally Deskins, Lauren Rinaldi and Laura Madeline Wiseman
      Interview: Sally Deskins with Laura Madeline Wiseman and Lauren Rinaldi, collaborators of The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Les Femmes Folles Books, 2015)
  3. Conversations

    1. Re'Lynn Hansen
      Flatlands and Open Waters: Prose Poetry in the Midwest
    2. Molly Sutton Kiefer
      Our Ever Growing Tinderbox Family (On Humming): A Letter from an Editor