Volume: 4 Issue: 2
March 2017


Poems

JP Allen
Portrait of my Mother with Landscape of Madrid Airbnb
José Angel Araguz
Pantoum for the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Jeanette Beebe
Outdooring
Anuradha Bhowmik
Abnegation
Rebecca Bornstein
Most of the Middle School Girls I Knew
M.L. Brown
Five Poems
Holli Carrell
Grandmother: Dairy Farm
Francine Conley
Bees
Greenland
The Kitchen
Barbara Daniels
Blood Oranges
Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Feeding My Mother
Avra Elliott
EBT Recipes
Landon Godfrey
Night
Boston Gordon
Adios Snowglobe
Wrecking Ball
Amber Higgins
The Simplicity of Flowers
To you, my dear husband of twenty-five years
Karen Paul Holmes
A White Room, A Piano
Jane Huffman
Cooling, Nights with the Box Fan in the Window aren't Bad
Su Hwang
Interlaken
Flame
Cancer
Jill Klein
A Partial List of Things I Can’t Control
Ellen Kombiyil
Girl
Janice Lobo Sapigao
Scry / Spit
Jennifer Martelli
The Major Arcana of the Kitty Genovese Tarot
Artichoke Heart
Amelia Martens
The Little Girl and the Bear Work a Puzzle of the Earth
Sara McGuirk
What I'd Wanted of Your Body
M’Bilia Meekers
The Mother's Body Must be Cleaved in Two
Seth Miller
In Multnomah
Chukwuma Ndulue
Land Use
Daniel T. O'Brien
Hotel Fantasia
Planctus
Still Arriving
Jeff Oaks
Queer: Some Instructions
Grace Ocasio
Cloris's Love Note to Warren, 1934
Coco Owen
Hymneveningsung
Catherine Pikula
The Church Bells are Especially Loud Today
Trenton Pollard
For the Wounded
Elegy
Julian Randall
Ode To My Abuelo’s Lungs or Every Country Sits Atop a Lake of Tar
Nicole Rollender
Gift
Sarah Sala
Woman
Bo Schwabacher
An Adopted Korean Girl's Birth Mother's Body
Diana Vaden
i ain't writin’ nobody's negro poetry
Rosalynde Vas Dias
The Beautiful Cages
Good Practice
John Sibley Williams
All Eulogies are Self-Eulogies
Sarah Ann Winn
Evaluating an Elegy Based on a Rubric
Emily Wolahan
Our Notes Say—
Liz Ann Young
A History Major
Jacqui Zeng
How the Young Buck Rose Above the Mountain


Reviews

Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
Review of Popular Music by Kelly Schirmann
Mary McMyne
Review of Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak by Stacey Balkun
Donna Vorreyer
Review of Portrait of the Alcoholic by Kaveh Akbar


Interviews

Tinderbox Poetry
A dear throat, clearing: an interview with Karen Craigo


Conversations

Tinderbox Poetry
Beginnings & Endings, A Home for Beautiful Art: Farewell from Molly