Word from the Editor
by Arielle Silver
Issue 9: Summer/Fall 2016 | Masthead
Essays
A Little Poetry Machine Among Them: Seeing Eloise Klein Healy
by Rebecca Kuder
Thank You for Sharing
by Patrick O'Neil
Fiction
The Day
by Timothy Caldwell
Warmbloods
by Thomas Cardamone
Death Roll
by J.D. Shoemaker
Real Talk
by Nicole Simonsen
Fatima, the Biloquist: A Transformation Story
by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Writing for Young People
The Streetlamp
by Gretchen Adams
Safe Harbor
by DC Diamondopolous
River Park Games
by Richard Gnann
When Jack Left
by Daniel R. Julian
Our Sky, the Ocean
by Jen Knox
Poetry
Dearth
by Audrey T. Carroll
Matriarchal
by Jennifer Seaman Cook
To Hildegard
by Renee Emerson
Aturdido
by Robert Esnard
My Mother’s Mouth, A Gift Horse
by Tamara Hart
Archaeology of Silence
by Brad Johnson
Content is a glimpse
by David Kann
Mercury Diner
by Michael Lauchlan
Cassandra
Erin Lynn
The Sound
by Steve Mueske
Selenographer
by Triin Paja
Listen:
by Clare Paniccia
Where the Heart Is
by Brad Rose
Daughter I Bleed
by Kristen Rouisse
Placeholder: Waiting for the Biopsy Results
by Wendy Mannis Scher
How the word poem shows up in my audio text messages
by Ellen Stone
Karma*
by George Such
On Missing
by Melissa Watt
A Stop Sign Worn as a Helmet
by Anton Yakovlev
Lunch Special
Daniel José Older, Author of Shadowshaper
by Alex Simand
Interviews
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Author
by Rochelle Newman-Carrasco
Stephen Chbosky, Author
by Lyndsay Hall
Nina Revoyr, Author
by Carrie Kellerby
Lois Dodd, Painter
by Ron Burch
Vu Tran, Author
by Sam Williams
Flash Prose
At the End of Hope
by Jesi Bender
Remember, Remember
by Carol Caffrey
Centaur
by Dawn S. Davies
Bases Covered
by Jaimie Eubanks
Cloud Glitches
S. Kay
a little saw
by Monique Quintana
Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction
Fragile Rat
by Nichole L. Reber
She’s Out of My Life
by Erin Langner
Dress the Mouse in Black
by Mark Liebenow
Creative Nonfiction
Elvis Has Left the Building
by Eric Day
Down in the River to Pray
by Lois Ruskai Melina
The Half-Buttoned Effect
by Saeide Mirzaei
Nothing Beats a Beergut Breakfast
by Genevieve Morck
Home is Home
by Suzanne Ushie
Irene Curie, 2015
Art
The Sewing Machine’s Text: Mixed Media
Mixed Media by Elena Berriolo
Barn Owl Conté Crayon Drawings
by Ellen Halloran
Strange Tales from Strange Places: Mixed Media
by Rob Kirbyson
Obsession and Idolization: Mixed Media
by Dominika Koziak
At Least I Have You to Remember Me: Acrylic Paintings
by Jennifer Mondfrans
Happy Limbo of Suspended Metaphors: Mixed Media
by Kim Rae Taylor
10 Collages: Digital Collages
by Bill Wolak
Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multi-Lingual Texts
The Jaguar / About Writing / Spell to Ward Off Fear of La Catrina
by Alejandro Saravia, translated by María José Giménez
The Horseshoe Finder / The age / January 1, 1924
by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Ian Probstein
Symphony in Gray Major
by Rubén Darío, translated by Mark Stevick
Translation & Multi-Lingual Texts
My Wife / Ma Femme
by Guy De Maupassant, translated by Beatrice Bridglall
Fantasma
by Robert Esnard
November / The Birth of Poetry
by Titsian Tabidze, translated by Rebecca Gould
It’s morning, the hawks are hunting / Trash, straw, spring ice
by Anni Sumari, translated by David McDuff
Three Poems from Mandelstam Street
by Jaime Luis Huenún, translated by Thomas Rothe
Hanging Laundry / Last Fingers
by Elhanan Nir, translated by Ross Weissman