Volume 4, Issue 4 September 2017

F Poems

1. Aria Aber
   An Insignificant QuestionCity Where I Learned How to Build Silence
2. Geoff Anderson
   Chemical Physics 301: An Introduction to Melanin in Corporeal SpaceLight ReadingExtra Extra
3. Stephanie Bryant Anderson and Andrea Spofford
   Home GrownFixer-Upper
4. Sonia Arora
   Elmhurst, Queens 1975Visiting India in Summertime
5. Alessandra Bava
   Self-Portrait in Frida Kahlo’s Rooms
6. Rich Boucher
   The Hailstorm (for Rhiannon)
7. Kristin Chang
   Sestina for the First Transcontinental Railroad
8. Katie Clark
   fledgeseven pines
9. Karla Cordero
   Chicana watches The Green Mile for the first time & dreams that night knowing John Coffey could have also been her fathera history of wallshis jawbone caged my grandfather’s skin
10. Emily Corwin
    strickenhumble creatures
11. Jill Crammond
    The Fireman’s Daughter Extinguishes One More Fire
12. Stevie Edwards
    Poem in Which My Student Writes Me to Explain that There Are More of Him, that He Is Not the Only One Who Is Offended by FeministsOn a Facebook Picture of My High School Best Friend’s 10-Year-OldOn Trying to Relearn Spanish¹ for a Doctoral Requirement²
13. Alicia Elkort
    Bicycle Dreams
14. Laura Espósto
    Took on the PumaThe Body is Cleaved
15. Diamond Forde
    My Mother Gave Me a Coin Jesus and I Am Still Alive
16. Ariel Francisco
    Poem Written in the Parking Lot of a Tattoo Shop While Waiting for an AppointmentAnd on the 7th Day God Said: "You Made it, Bro"
17. Ysabel Y. Gonzalez
    [My brown body is inherited]Lost: A Golden Shovel
18. J.P. Grasser
    Rotenone
19. Mary Harpin
    Sunstruck
20. Natalie Homer
    The Bravery of Cotton
21. Luther Hughes
    He Went Away Without Bidding Anyone Farewell
22. Rochelle Hurt
    Poem for Lorena BobbittTeenage Fantasia
23. John James
    Erosion
24. Lois P. Jones
    Canal du Midi
25. Judy Kaber
    While Aunt Irene Kneels at the CoffinIn Which a Mother Smokes Marijuana
26. David Keplinger
    Entering the Cave at LurayThe Little Stairs of Z
27. Jennifer Lynn Krohn
    Why Stick Your Neck Out?When You Find Yourself Divine
28. Julia Leverone
    Three Poems
29. Aurora M. Lewis
    Michael
30. Jennifer Martelli
    I Offer Kitty Genovese Fake FruitKim Jong-Un’s Half Brother was Murdered by Two Women with Poison NeedlesA God Lives in the Amygdala
31. Lorena Parker Matejowsky
    Made in Texas
32. Brandon Melendez
    Room for JoyA Threnody in Three Parts, Ending in a Stained Glass CathedralSynonyms for BorderReino or I See My Grandfather by The Side of The Road, About Where He’s Buried, but He’s Wandering Around with a Flag of Vertebrae
33. Robin Myers
    [Of course I’m ashamed]
34. Hera Naguib
    Early Girlhoodafter the bombing
35. Tom Paine
    House of Butterflies
36. Lynn Pedersen
    Shifting Balance
37. Iliana Rocha
    InterrogationJessBird Atlas
38. Brittany Rogers
    Postpartum Depression Calls from a Blocked Number, and I Answer:In Response to Baby Girl Asking Me If It Hurts to Give Birth
39. Raena Shirali
    scenario two : wanderlessscenario one : you didn’t submerge your head in the river
40. Nghiem Tran
    ColdnessAn Intruder
41. Jeanann Verlee
    the bottle knows deathIf We Were Meat
42. Emily Vizzo
    By Any Other NameObedienceEveWhat Time Is Her Body
43. Madeleine Wattenberg
    Ars MythosBallad of the Witches’ Tree
44. Sheila Wellehan
    Smooth Stones