
We’re excited to announce that our 2024 issue (vol 63!) has been released!
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The rates are $12 US and $15 international.
2022 Prize Winners have been posted on our “Awards” page, and the Table of Contents is available below!
2024 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poem by Becky Kennedy
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- Heron
Poem by Leen Raats
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- #Prague
Fiction by James Ulmer
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- Twilight at Pea Ridge
Poems by Erica Lee Braverman
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- Robert Bales’ Third Deployment
- Aubade
Poems by Pamela Alexander
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- Night Light
- Date to be Determined
Fiction by Nico Bailey
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- Excessive and Spurious Emotion
Poem by Kurt Olsson
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- Accidents of Time and Space
Poem by Elizabeth Rees
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- Word Eaters
Poem by Heidi Zeigler
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- penny oranges
Fiction by Karen Wunsch
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- Big Girls Like Swings, Too
Poem by Kathryn Jordan
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- Watching from the Plane
Poems by Laurinda Lind
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- Cold Comfort
- Last Trick
Poems by Ellen McGrath Smith
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- Shaken 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
- Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #282
Fiction by Caleb Coy
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- I Love You, Prancer Donner Blitzen
Featured Artist, Simeen Farhat
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- Biography
- Artist’s Statement
Poems by Matthew Moniz
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- (0, 0, 0)
- that little old moon
- Tippet Only Tulle
- Soliloquy on My Father’s Death
Fiction by Dan Pinkerton
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- Being Charitable
Fiction by Richard Paik
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- Traditions
Poem by Emily Tucker
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- apocalypse
Poems by Molly Lanzarotta
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- The Cathedral Is Burning
- Every Black Hole Is Unhappy in Its Own Way
- Now Is Not the Time to Talk About Guns
Fiction by Rosalia Scalia
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- The Miraculous Leaves of Meat-Eating Plants
Poems by Sarah McCartt-Jackson
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- Labor
- Otherly
Poems by Sarah Sarai
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- The Dubious Green of the Hudson
- We Who Are Common and Morally Iffy
Special Section — The Time Capsule
Essay by Mara A. Cohen
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- My Family Portrait Had a Hole a Baby Wouldn’t Fill
Fiction by Jean-Marc Duplantier
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- Raton Pass