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

• • Heron

Poem by Leen Raats

• • #Prague

Fiction by James Ulmer

• • Twilight at Pea Ridge

Poems by Erica Lee Braverman

• • Robert Bales’ Third Deployment
  • Aubade

Poems by Pamela Alexander

• • Night Light
  • Date to be Determined

Fiction by Nico Bailey

• • Excessive and Spurious Emotion

Poem by Kurt Olsson

• • Accidents of Time and Space

Poem by Elizabeth Rees

• • Word Eaters

Poem by Heidi Zeigler

• • penny oranges

Fiction by Karen Wunsch

• • Big Girls Like Swings, Too

Poem by Kathryn Jordan

• • Watching from the Plane

Poems by Laurinda Lind

• • Cold Comfort
  • Last Trick

Poems by Ellen McGrath Smith

• • Shaken 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
  • Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #282

Fiction by Caleb Coy

• • I Love You, Prancer Donner Blitzen

Featured Artist, Simeen Farhat

• • Biography
  • Artist’s Statement

Poems by Matthew Moniz

• • (0, 0, 0)
  • that little old moon
  • Tippet Only Tulle
  • Soliloquy on My Father’s Death

Fiction by Dan Pinkerton

• • Being Charitable

Fiction by Richard Paik

• • Traditions

Poem by Emily Tucker

• • apocalypse

Poems by Molly Lanzarotta

• • 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

• • The Miraculous Leaves of Meat-Eating Plants

Poems by Sarah McCartt-Jackson

• • Labor
  • Otherly

Poems by Sarah Sarai

• • The Dubious Green of the Hudson
  • We Who Are Common and Morally Iffy

Special Section — The Time Capsule

 

Essay by Mara A. Cohen

• • My Family Portrait Had a Hole a Baby Wouldn’t Fill

Fiction by Jean-Marc Duplantier

• • Raton Pass