Volume: 5 Issue: 2
July 2018
KB Ballentine
Light Has No Mercy
Graham Barnhart
Deserving
Brandon Jordan Brown
$5.15/Hour
July 4th in Gethsemane
Aria Curtis
Self-Portrait as Camel Considering Plastic Surgery
Self-Portrait as Camel Speaking to Immigration Officer, or The Eye of a Needle Welcomes You Back to The United States
Emily Duggan
Hades’ Epithalamium
Tafisha A. Edwards
Artisan Donuts in a CVS Parking Lot
Alicia Elkort
Cutting Diamonds
Alexis Rhone Fancher
When your stepdaughter warns you not to let her roommate’s cat escape…
Jeannine Hall Gailey
When It All Falls Apart
Almost April
Tresha Faye Haefner
Continental Pull
The Year I Moved Out on My Own
Bang
Christine Hamm
The Metamorphosis
A Cat will Show its Wide Mouth as Way of Saying Hello
Dylon Jones
The First Time I Stayed Awake to Listen to Another Boy Breathing
Involuted Velleities of Self-Erasure
Trevor Ketner
Empty Poem
Sally Rosen Kindred
Later, When the Story Found Her
Let Me Pray
Where the Wolf
Yuxi Lin
Erotica Americana
Jason McCall
If I Call It a Lasso, That Might Make It Okay
What I Tell Myself when I Walk by the Live Mascots on Campus
We Want Some Brothers up on the Wall
Jessica Morey-Collins
Honest
Microclimates
Kristen Robertson
White Koi
Seagull
Medicine Bag
Justin Rogers
Something About the Name
Omar Sakr
Meaning
House of Beirut
Shakthi Shrima
There are always birds
Duncan Slagle
Superimposition
Ellen McGrath Smith
Instructions for Becoming an Ouroboros
Valerie Stull
everything alive
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Elegy for Sara and her City
Three Photographs
Michael VanCalbergh
Mother Mary Under I-90
Instructions for My Father’s Mortician
Hope Wabuke
Ears
Erika Walsh
Ways of Saving
Ari Wolff
Lavalette
from Error Season
from Error Season
from Error Season

Reviews:

Andrea Janelle Dickens
Review of Gravel Ghosts by Megan Merchant
Dayna Patterson
Review of Says the Forest to the Girl by Sally Rosen Kindred
Tyler Robert Sheldon
Review of The New Nudity by Hadara Bar-Nadav

Interviews:

Kristi Carter
Sheila McMullin
PART 2: Documenting the Collection of Removal: A shared interview between poets, Kristi Carter and Sheila McMullin