Volume: 3 Issue: 1
June 2016


Poems

Lauren Banks
Eclipse
Our Backyard
Shevaun Brannigan
After Staring at a Kandinsky
Tara Shea Burke
Dreamwork or Love
Earliest Memory
Maggie Colvett
The Boy Rilke
Bat Watching
Equinoctial
Laura Cresté
Cards Against Humanity
Plant Life
Zach Czaia
An Aesthetic
Carlina Duan
Calumet
Your Mom Tells You To Stop Writing About Race
Meg Eden
News Forecast on Forthcoming Tsunami
All Summer I Wore
Heid E. Erdrich
The Gig of Light
The Honey Suckers
Aidan Forster
Third Night
Ariel Francisco
My Dad's Gun
Nighthawks of the 24-Hour Donut Shops
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Post-Apocalypse Postcard with American Girl
Remnant
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
How Anger Is Made
Shamar Hill
Photographs of an Imagined Childhood
The Islay Prophecy
The Bathroom was the Only Room with a Door
Jade Hurter
Leda & the Swan
Marlin M. Jenkins
Lessons in fear
on having an anxiety attack in an empty bathtub
Psalm for the self-hatred
The first time I visited a friend’s home in a nicer neighborhood
Emily Koehn
Dear College, December
Monday
Jennifer Lynn Krohn
Symptoms of Faithlessness
Travis Lau
Kinbaku
Casandra Lopez
After Bullet
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Burying the Cat
Looking Out Your Window, I Remember the Oak Tree Which Is Now Only a Ghost
City of Sandalwood
Victoria Lynne McCoy
The Year of Blue Mornings
Interrogation
Sarah Frances Moran
La Dama ("the lady")
Alison Pelegrin
Ode to New Construction on a Meth Lab Burial Ground
To the Recruitment Office of the West St. Tammany Parish KKK
Meghan Privitello
God As Sicily
[When a child hears gunshots]
Tiah Lindner Raphael
What I Mean When I Say I Hate Hospitals
MJ Santiago
Interpretations
Personals
Barbara Schwartz
Love Song
Natalie Solmer
The Smallest Apartment
Night in Jamaica
Melissa Studdard
To Be With Trees
Life Is the Saddest Thing That Ever Happened to Me
Carolyn Williams-Noren
The Distinguished Poet Leafed Through My Manuscript Then Told Me to Try to Write About a Tender Moment of Motherhood


Reviews

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


Interviews

Denton Loving
Barrett Warner
Interview with Barrett Warner by Denton Loving


Conversations

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