Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018 | Masthead

Essays

Word From the Editor

The Architect

Workplace Silence

Nostalgia

Fiction

Restless Dreams of Silence

Thirsty for Our Future

Practical Knowledge

Planting Seeds

Bruised Sage

Fermenting Hearts

One Librarian Survives the Apocalypse

The Moon-Bright Smile Rebellion

Poetry

Latex Ball, 2001

Mother Tongue

this is an offering

Elegy for Don Lalo’s Gold Tooth

Selecting

Reiteration

I Wasn’t One & Pressing Comb

Pacific hypergirls go strut

You Steal the Butcher Knife

Notes on an Empty Sky

Orchard Burning

Young Adult

Nighttime at Tree Level

The Scent of Laila Thorinson

Birthday Party

Creeping Jenny

Househeld

Car 393

Lunch Special

Interviews

Cecil Castellucci, Author

Lisa Dickey, Author & Ghostwriter

Eloise Klein Healy, Poet

Joe Ide, Author

Ashaki Jackson, Poet

Creative Nonfiction

Waiting Room

Abiding in the Realm of Calmness

My Father, the Trickster

Paper Shackles

Lagrimitas

We Race American

How to Disappear

Testimony

Flash Prose

Eating the Leaves

Unreliable Objects

Lookin’

The Girl Who Will Fly

You Will be Saved

Getting Away

Spark

Hard Winter

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Gut Instinct

The Typewriter

Art

The Complete Madness of Armstrong: Collage

Earthly Visions: Watercolor

Pendulum of Identity: Mixed Media

Super Ply: Mixed Media

Destruction: Collage

Fire, Water, Ice and Snow: Oil Paintings

Fringe Quarter: Photography

SCHOOL LUNCH: Oil Paintings

Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Excerpt from The False Note

Selected Poems from Black and Blue Partition: ‘Mistry 2

The Last Ones

Translation

Spears

Language Matters

Feast Days

Selected Poems from Combustible Material

Rain Away

Poetry by Black Bird

Poetry From Hebrew

Excerpt from XXI Century