The Color of Love
by Julieanna Blackwell
Issue 7: Summer/Fall 2015 | Masthead
Fiction
Down from Sugar Mountain
by Katherine Forbes Riley
Contingencies
by Meghan Pipe
Pools, Crabs, and Wikipedia
by Benjamin Thompson
Flash Prose
Wreckage
by Garrett Biggs
Catcher
by Rob Alexander
Plastic Cups & Burnt Snow
by James R. Gapinski
I’m Beautiful
by Damyanti Ghosh
We’re So Lucky
by Shasta Grant
The Known Unknowns
by Gabriel Houck
Writing for Young People
Ayesha’s Dream
by Ed Taylor
Angelina Abercrombie
by Sarah Brown
No Youngin’ Left Behind
by Caitlyn Comm
Secrets from the Underworld
by Melissa Ostrom
Creative Nonfiction
Panic at Twenty-four Frames Per Second
by Jim Brega
The Housekeeper’s Daughter
by A. R. Castellanos
Negative Space
by Ted Chiles
Some Lines of Feeling
by Karyl Anne Geary
A Map of Jerusalem
by Ellen Goldstein
The Persistence of Wolves
by Fabienne Josaphat
Dispatch from Liberty Ave.
by Timothy Maddocks
Classy
by Jim Ross
Lunch Special
Roxane Gay, Author of An Untamed State
book review and author interview by Melissa Greenwood
Interviews
Nick Flynn, Author
interviewed by Sarah Miller Freehauf
Allison Joseph, Poet
interviewed by Kiandra Jimenez
Kerry Madden-Lunsford, Author
interviewed by Lisa Trahan
Susan Straight, Author
interviewed by Diana Greenwood
Poetry
On D-Block & Sea and Salt
by Sarah Boyle
What Belongs
by Corinne Adams
Ode on Datura
by Christopher Dollard
The House on Tator Hill
by Cassie Pruyn
What can I tell you (an Ars Poetica)
by Roberto Garcia
The Egypt of Mary’s Womb
by Patrick Hansel
Centerpiece
by Grace Mattern
When You Ask Me to Describe the Grief
by Amanda Oaks
Post-Reunion
by Suzanne Parker
Baltimore is Burning
by Ronnie K. Stephens
Noctiputations
by Doc Suds
Tracing Wrist Scars
by Jeanann Verlee
Denouement
by John Sibley Williams
Translation & Multi-Lingual Texts
The Horizon, Hemmed in Gold
by Ujjeni, Translated by Noh Anothai
Three Danish Poems
by Benny Andersen, Translated by Michael Goldman
Mamasafari, Mountain Aunt, Property
by Olja Savičević Ivančević, Translated by Andrea Jurjević
Jo Ann Block, Hoods, 2015
Art
Birds on Paper: Mixed Media
by Paula Swisher
TransSurfacing: Digital Collages
by Jo Ann Block
Myth: Mixed Media
by Nicole Foran
Change: Watercolor Paintings
by Alvaro Naddeo
Within the Walls: Photography & Mixed Media
by Nina Ramadan
Selected Works: Oil Paintings
by Nicole Trimble
Recent Work: Mixed Media Sculpture
by Jere Williams
Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction
Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multi-Lingual Texts
Poetics of Resistance
by Lý Đợi, Translated by Kelly Morse and Nga L.H. Nguyen
Day of Rest
by Alex Dreppec
Five Poems
by Gëzim Hajdari, Translated by Sarah Stickney
Essays
Submission as Social Action
by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Some Memories of Daniel G. Reinhold
by Jenny Factor, with poetry and art by Daniel G. Reinhold
Word from the Editor
by David Bumpus