Fall 2018
Cover photograph by Isadora Gruye.
Prose
Jacquelyn Bengfort
(The Functional Bloodlessness of Insects, Lunch with a Poet: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Story )
L. N. Holmes
(All the Waves Resound )
Poetry
Gale Acuff
(Eat, this is my body, Nothing)
Nadeen Alalami
(From Midtown or Palestine, Nothing)
Lucas Bailor
(Hallway, from lean (1), from lean (2))
Robert Beveridge
(Rising from the Red Sand)
sally burnette
(the star-money, the three snake-leaves, diptych in which i can’t speak, diptych burned into tablets of ice)
Mike Finley
(At Dunn Brothers)
Dane Hamann
([Q & A], The Metropolis is but a System of Streets within the Heart)
Michael J. Henry
(Gun Ties His Shoes)
Jay Artemis Hull
(Haunting House, Conjurers, My first serious relationship was with a polyamorous nonbinary kid with alternate personalities. It seems only fitting for me, a pagan nonbinary kid with hallucinations.)
Dena Igusti
(my mother lets me use kemana-where- and kesana-there-interchangeably she appreciates that i’m at least trying)
Eve Kenneally
(SALVO: POST-MEN, It Took You Four Days to Make the Soup, Mercy )
David Lohrey
(Tokyo Express)
Angie Macri
(Last of the beautiful, Wait and Say, Her face in the seahorse’s belly, All Cranes Engage in Dancing)
DS Maolalai
(KHC Control)
Ashley Naftule
(Smoking Banana Peels in the Circle K Parking Lot, Notes From A Foreign Correspondent, Found At The Blast Site, Tandem Harbors, Laika at the Edge of the Known Universe)
Amanda Stovicek
(A Kind of Blindness, Southern Weather, Märchen)
Thomas Zimmerman
(Insomniac Sonnet #5, Shelter)