Volume 2, Issue 5 February 2016

  1. Poems

    1. Stephanie Bryant Anderson
      International Space Station Flies Overhead, or God is an Astronaut
    2. José Angel Araguz
      Todo for Nada
    3. Nancy Bevilaqua
      Backwater
    4. Shinjini Bhattacharjee
      UmbilicalA Key to the Noon Bells
    5. Robert Campbell
      Important Facts About DreamingIn Which I Gather up Horrors for the Hero
    6. Nadia Colburn
      Art History
    7. Nicole Cooley
      Air Raid Precautions Warden Doll, London 1944The Terrorist Doll from Chiapas
    8. Heidi Czerwiec
      I Never Saw a Goddess Go
    9. Michael Dowdy
      Blast Fragments
    10. Renee Emerson
      Naomi, In Ruth’s House
    11. William Fargason
      Forecast
    12. William James
      Trailer Court Crier
    13. Kristin LaTour
      February 20, 1834October 15, 1834
    14. Esther Lin
      Thérèse As Odalisque
    15. Diane K. Martin
      What She Meant
    16. Kathleen McGookey
      Further DamageClosed for the SeasonI Could Promise to Try
    17. Sarah McKinstry-Brown
      Demeter Explains Her Sorrow
    18. Katie Mertz
      A Study in the DomesticThere is a War
    19. Milo Muise
      Peter Pan once told meMornings begin with my mother
    20. Casey Patrick
      Have Not Heard Earhart Signals Up to this Time but See No Cause for Concern as Plane is Still About 1000 Miles Away Period
    21. Michael Robins
      [you burn smoother than any…][burn the coffee, the potatoes…]
    22. Andreea Scarlat
      Dreamhouse
    23. Elizabeth Schmuhl
      #17#12
    24. Sun Yung Shin
      UNALLOYEDMY SINGULARITY
    25. Alessandra Simmons
      Wild LicoriceShalom, a Kitchen
    26. Bethany Startin
      Zephyr
    27. Teniola Tonade
      The Quest For Golden Things Is A Quest For Scars…
    28. Amy Jo Trier-Walker
      Trees Will Grow Your Hands
    29. Lesley Wheeler
      Some Recombinatory LettersVasovagal Syncope
    30. Emily Wolahan
      Clearing
    31. Cassandra de Alba
      How to Break Up the Band
  2. Reviews

    1. James Figy
      Review: The Sorrow Proper by Lindsey Drager
    2. Cate Hennessey
      Review: Puzzle Pieces by Bernard Grant
  3. Conversations

    1. Nandini Dhar, Jennifer Givhan, Molly Sutton Kiefer and Saara Myrene Raappana
      Yoga Pants, Tiger Leaping Gorge & the Art of Overwhelming: A Conversation with Editors & Introducing Our New Readers