Issue 8: Winter/Spring 2016 | Masthead

Essays

Word from the Editor

December 2, 2015/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Arielle Silver

Race in the Brain

November 28, 2015/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2016 /by LeVan D. Hawkins

Fiction

Quilting Will Improve Your Health

December 4, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Melanie Anagnos

Hand Job

December 3, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Paul Beckman

Full of Foxes

December 2, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Keely Cutts

The Parable of Nick Burns

December 1, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Danny Judge

Want Cokes?

November 30, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Talar Malakian

Intervention

November 27, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Amy Foster Myer

Poetry

Driving, Not Speaking

December 6, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Karen Vande Bossche

I’ll Write You Letters

December 5, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Jonathan Duckworth

Gutter Maps

December 3, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Melissa Eleftherion

Miasma

December 2, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Amy Strauss Friedman

Picking Up Dad from Work

December 1, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Chelsey Harris

The Caregiver

November 30, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Caroline Johnson

Thrash in Eighths

November 30, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Jill Khoury

Quantum

November 29, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by M.S. Lyle

In the Suburbs You Can Have a Perfect Life

November 28, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Susan Bucci Mockler

Pathology

November 22, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Elizabeth Onusko

Violet Rain

November 22, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Karen Robiscoe

Beyond This Place

November 8, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Clint Smith

in the middling alabama

November 7, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Alina Stefanescu

Ruin

November 2, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

What Happened to Nan?

November 1, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Patri Wright

Writing for Young People

Labeled

November 28, 2015/in Winter-Spring 2016, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Mackenna Cummings

Honor’s Justice

November 27, 2015/in Winter-Spring 2016, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Sabrina Fedel

Bang

November 26, 2015/in Winter-Spring 2016, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Izzy Kalichman

I Want To Be A Cowgirl

November 25, 2015/in Winter-Spring 2016, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Tisha Reichle

Where the River Ends

October 27, 2015/in Winter-Spring 2016, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Sara Walters

Lunch Special

Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of The Small Backs of Children

November 16, 2015/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2016 /Interviewed by Kirsten Larson

Interviews

Elise Capron, Literary Agent

December 6, 2015/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2016 /Interviewed by Tai Farnsworth

Lynell George, Journalist and Essayist

December 5, 2015/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2016 /Interviewed by Rochelle Newman

Richard Russo, Author

December 4, 2015/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2016 /Interviewed by Erin Schwartz

Sonya Sones, Author

December 3, 2015/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2016 /Interviewed by Roz Weisberg

Matthew Zapruder, Poet

December 1, 2015/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2016 /Interviewed by José Hernández Díaz

Creative Nonfiction

A Few More Miles

December 6, 2015/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Meghan Florian

Party of One

December 5, 2015/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Tracy Harris

Counter Intuitive

December 4, 2015/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Walker Harrison

A Box of Chocolates in China

December 3, 2015/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Esther Whitman Johnson

Preparing a Place

December 2, 2015/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Robert Knox

I’ve Never Touched One

December 1, 2015/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Anne McGrath

Taking the Edge Off

November 10, 2015/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by K.C. Pedersen

Boiler Rat

November 9, 2015/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Robert Robinson

What Goes Around

October 20, 2015/in CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Joyce Tomlinson

Flash Prose

Lifted

December 6, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Carmella de los Angeles Guiol

Eternally, Jane

December 5, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Virginia Elizabeth Hayes

Bats in the Attic

December 4, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Dana Mele

(the danger of becoming small)

October 27, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by G.G. Silverman

Rivka

October 22, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Tessa Yang

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Stonewall and the Village

December 5, 2015/in DWM, DWM Award, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Paul Thiel

Judy Bolton, Girl Detective, Girl Thief

November 27, 2015/in DWM, DWM Award, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Judy Bolton-Fasman

Sailing into Saigon

November 27, 2015/in DWM, DWM Award, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Linda Kobert

Birds of LA: Mixed Media

Kerry Buchman, Kingfisher, 2015. Postage stamps on paper, 15 x 12 in.

Art

Birds of LA: Mixed Media

December 6, 2015/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Kerry Buchman

Treatment: Digital Prints

December 5, 2015/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Colleen Fitzgerald

Net: Chromogenic Prints

December 4, 2015/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Yi-hui Huang

Broke Down Frames: Mixed Media

December 2, 2015/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Candace Jahn

Vangelic: Photography

December 1, 2015/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Brooke Ashley Johnson

Break Rooms: Photography

November 30, 2015/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Lindsay M. McCormick

KOKO’s Love: A Soap Opera Tale of One Family: Video Stills

November 28, 2015/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Yoshie Sakai

Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Three Poems by Anna Piwkowska

November 28, 2015/in Gabo, Gabo Prize, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Anna Piwkowska, Translated by Iza Wojciechowska

The Rifle / Tüfek

November 28, 2015/in Gabo, Gabo Prize, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Faruk Duman, Translated by Dayla Rogers

The Funeral Pyre / Le Bûcher

November 28, 2015/in Gabo, Gabo Prize, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Guy De Maupassant, Translated by Beatrice Bridglall

Translation

Two Poems

December 5, 2015/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Yonatan Berg, Translated by Joanna Chen

[In the white of my poems] / [Dans le blanc de mes poèmes]

December 4, 2015/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Anise Koltz, Translated by Marci Vogel

Éster Terracina

December 3, 2015/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Davide Orecchio, Translated by Allison Grimaldi Donahue

Three Japanese Poems

December 2, 2015/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Tomioka Taeko, Yoshihara Sachiko, Translated by James Garza

Poetry from Hábitat del Camaléon

December 1, 2015/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Santiago Vizcaíno, Translated by Kimrey Anna Batts