Volume 4, Issue 1 December 2016

  1. Notes on the Issue

    1. Jennifer Givhan
      Poetry as Resistance: Our Contest Issue Letter from the Poetry Editor

  2. Contest Winners

    1. Norma Liliana Valdez
      Tepoztlán Blues🏆 Tinderbox Poetry Prize
    2. Carlina Duan
      Years🏆 Runner Up

  3. Poems

    1. Stephanie Bryant Anderson
      Water BirthAdaptationCase Reference #2016-0565
    2. Grady Chambers
      Bands You Might Have Liked if You Were Still AliveJack-knife
    3. Emily Rose Cole
      Four PoisonsPassportIn the Year of the Divorce, My Fascinations Include: the Dust Bowl, Blindness, and The Wizard of Oz
    4. Carlina Duan
      Not A Myth
    5. Aidan Forster
      Boy Poem to a Cool Love
    6. Peter LaBerge
      SerrateThe Infinity Movement
    7. Amy Miller
      Mad MoneyAt 2,000 Feet
    8. Gabrielle Otero
      Small Dead ThingBlue 422Protest Noise
    9. Bo Schwabacher
      A Korean Birth Mother’s NameAn Adopted Korean Girl’s Good LuckAn Adopted Korean Girl’s Magic Lily Festival at Bulgapsan Mountain and Mission of Love
    10. Malcolm Tariq
      Power BottomNeck Bone
    11. Norma Liliana Valdez
      Blood SportLobo
    12. J.H. Yun
      ThirstLilith