Volume 3, Issue 1 June 2016

  1. Poems

    1. Lauren Banks
      EclipseOur Backyard
    2. Shevaun Brannigan
      After Staring at a Kandinsky
    3. Tara Shea Burke
      Dreamwork or LoveEarliest Memory
    4. Maggie Colvett
      The Boy RilkeBat WatchingEquinoctial
    5. Laura Cresté
      Cards Against HumanityPlant Life
    6. Zach Czaia
      An Aesthetic
    7. Carlina Duan
      CalumetYour Mom Tells You To Stop Writing About Race
    8. Meg Eden
      News Forecast on Forthcoming TsunamiAll Summer I Wore
    9. Heid E. Erdrich
      The Gig of LightThe Honey Suckers
    10. Aidan Forster
      Third Night
    11. Ariel Francisco
      My Dad's GunNighthawks of the 24-Hour Donut Shops
    12. Jeannine Hall Gailey
      Post-Apocalypse Postcard with American GirlRemnant
    13. Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
      How Anger Is Made
    14. Shamar Hill
      Photographs of an Imagined ChildhoodThe Islay ProphecyThe Bathroom was the Only Room with a Door
    15. Jade Hurter
      Leda & the Swan
    16. Marlin M. Jenkins
      Lessons in fearon having an anxiety attack in an empty bathtubPsalm for the self-hatredThe first time I visited a friend’s home in a nicer neighborhood
    17. Emily Koehn
      Dear College, DecemberMonday
    18. Jennifer Lynn Krohn
      Symptoms of Faithlessness
    19. Travis Lau
      Kinbaku
    20. Casandra Lopez
      After Bullet
    21. Mia Ayumi Malhotra
      Burying the CatLooking Out Your Window, I Remember the Oak Tree Which Is Now Only a GhostCity of Sandalwood
    22. Victoria Lynne McCoy
      The Year of Blue MorningsInterrogation
    23. Sarah Frances Moran
      La Dama ("the lady")
    24. Alison Pelegrin
      Ode to New Construction on a Meth Lab Burial GroundTo the Recruitment Office of the West St. Tammany Parish KKK
    25. Meghan Privitello
      God As Sicily[When a child hears gunshots]
    26. Tiah Lindner Raphael
      What I Mean When I Say I Hate Hospitals
    27. MJ Santiago
      InterpretationsPersonals
    28. Barbara Schwartz
      Love Song
    29. Natalie Solmer
      The Smallest ApartmentNight in Jamaica
    30. Melissa Studdard
      To Be With TreesLife Is the Saddest Thing That Ever Happened to Me
    31. Carolyn Williams-Noren
      The Distinguished Poet Leafed Through My Manuscript Then Told Me to Try to Write About a Tender Moment of Motherhood
  2. Reviews

    1. Joanna Doxey, Rebekah Denison Hewitt and Lindsay Means
      A Collective Review of Vow, by Rebecca Hazelton, Told through Three Letters
  3. Interviews

    1. Denton Loving and Barrett Warner
      Interview with Barrett Warner by Denton Loving
  4. Conversations

    1. Brett Elizabeth Jenkins and Molly Sutton Kiefer
      For Pulse, Breaking & Salving, & Our Poetry Prize: A Conversation with the Editors