Volume: 5 Issue: 4
December 2018


Poems

Threa Almontaser
Yemen Is (2018 Contest Winner)
Ajanae Dawkins
On Classrooms and Ghosts (2018 Editors' Choice)
Katy Day
Khali Ate Her Bear Cubs
Counting the Chickens at Summer Residency in New Hampshire
Ann V. DeVilbiss
Spell to Practice Patience
Hazem Fahmy
Disembarking in Jaffa
Jordan E. Franklin
Inheritance
Malcolm Friend
Puerto Rico: An Etymology
Remake: West Side Story
Benjamin Garcia
Eye of the Hurricane
Silver City, New Mexico
Raye Hendrix
Advanced Thanatology
Mars Hu
In My Dreams I Have a Whole Body
Luke J. Johnson
Numbers 14:18
Lupe Mendez
When I Hear That They Want To Let Teachers Carry Guns
Amy Miller
My Sister Shows Me Ways to Live
Alycia Pirmohamed
How We Begin
Michelle S. Reed
Catcaller Anti-ode
Caroline Shea
After Seeing Black Swan at Fifteen
Raena Shirali
At Home, In the Empire (2018 Contest Runner Up)
Christine Swint
To the Carmelite Nuns at Carrión
Roncesvalles, Valley of Thorns
Stella Yin-Yin Wong
Nanjing 1937-38
Tamara Zbrizher
When I show my class a picture of Frida, a student yells Oh Shit


Reviews

Megan Alpert
Ornitheology by Kevin McLellan
Andrea Janelle Dickens
A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora by Jenna Lê


Interviews

Beth Ann Fennelly
Randon Billings Noble
Randon Billings Noble micro-interviews Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs


Conversations

Jennifer Givhan
Contest Issue Reflection & Farewell from your Editor-in-Chief: It's Been a Beautiful Journey