Volume: 4 Issue: 4
September 2017
Aria Aber
An Insignificant Question
City Where I Learned How to Build Silence
Geoff Anderson
Chemical Physics 301: An Introduction to Melanin in Corporeal Space
Light Reading
Extra Extra
Stephanie Bryant Anderson
Andrea Spofford
Home Grown
Fixer-Upper
Sonia Arora
Elmhurst, Queens 1975
Visiting India in Summertime
Alessandra Bava
Self-Portrait in Frida Kahlo’s Rooms
Rich Boucher
The Hailstorm (for Rhiannon)
Kristin Chang
Sestina for the First Transcontinental Railroad
Katie Clark
fledge
seven pines
Karla Cordero
Chicana watches The Green Mile for the first time & dreams that night knowing John Coffey could have also been her father
a history of walls
his jawbone caged my grandfather’s skin
Emily Corwin
stricken
humble creatures
Jill Crammond
The Fireman’s Daughter Extinguishes One More Fire
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 Feminists
On a Facebook Picture of My High School Best Friend’s 10-Year-Old
On Trying to Relearn Spanish1 for a Doctoral Requirement2
Alicia Elkort
Bicycle Dreams
Laura Espósto
Took on the Puma
The Body is Cleaved
Diamond Forde
My Mother Gave Me a Coin Jesus and I Am Still Alive
Ariel Francisco
Poem Written in the Parking Lot of a Tattoo Shop While Waiting for an Appointment
And on the 7th Day God Said: "You Made it, Bro"
Ysabel Y. Gonzalez
[My brown body is inherited]
Lost: A Golden Shovel
J.P. Grasser
Rotenone
Mary Harpin
Sunstruck
Natalie Homer
The Bravery of Cotton
Luther Hughes
He Went Away Without Bidding Anyone Farewell
Rochelle Hurt
Poem for Lorena Bobbitt
Teenage Fantasia
John James
Erosion
Lois P. Jones
Canal du Midi
Judy Kaber
While Aunt Irene Kneels at the Coffin
In Which a Mother Smokes Marijuana
David Keplinger
Entering the Cave at Luray
The Little Stairs of Z
Jennifer Lynn Krohn
Why Stick Your Neck Out?
When You Find Yourself Divine
Julia Leverone
Three Poems
Aurora M. Lewis
Michael
Jennifer Martelli
I Offer Kitty Genovese Fake Fruit
Kim Jong-Un’s Half Brother was Murdered by Two Women with Poison Needles
A God Lives in the Amygdala
Lorena Parker Matejowsky
Made in Texas
Brandon Melendez
Room for Joy
A Threnody in Three Parts, Ending in a Stained Glass Cathedral
Synonyms for Border
Reino 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
Robin Myers
[Of course I’m ashamed]
Hera Naguib
Early Girlhood
after the bombing
Tom Paine
House of Butterflies
Lynn Pedersen
Shifting Balance
Iliana Rocha
Interrogation
Jess
Bird Atlas
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
Raena Shirali
scenario two : wanderless
scenario one : you didn’t submerge your head in the river
Nghiem Tran
Coldness
An Intruder
Jeanann Verlee
the bottle knows death
If We Were Meat
Emily Vizzo
By Any Other Name
Obedience
Eve
What Time Is Her Body
Madeleine Wattenberg
Ars Mythos
Ballad of the Witches’ Tree
Sheila Wellehan
Smooth Stones

Reviews:

Megan Alpert
Review of Work and Days by Tess Taylor
Nicelle Davis
Review of Tongue Screw by Heather Derr-Smith
Tyler Robert Sheldon
Reviews of The Bone and The Body by Laura Kochman and Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor by Elizabeth Onusko