ISSUE EIGHTEEN
Poetry
New Year’s Eve by Zoe Boyer
Monologue of Despair by Penelope Alegria
Want by Kate Welsh
At the Big Box Store by JoAnna Mak
SEX POEM by Emily Adams-Aucoin
Ida Red by DJ Wolfinsohn
Bless the Beasts by Timothy Nolan
I am grieving in a way that feels like pooling light by Daniel Brennan
Possible Answers…. by Meredith Stewart Kirkwood
On Discovering Pictures… by Danielle
A Right Unexercised is a Right Lost by Ruth Williams
Nonfiction
Invisible Infestation by Melissent Zumwalt
Starlings by Rachel Orta
The Pit, Lover, I Didn’t Ever by Allison Field Bell
Fiction
Kilter by Dan Crawley
Gun Shop by Anthony Gedell
Quarter by Court Ludwick
Cold War Days by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio
Concentric Roses by Brigitte de Valk
Observer-oriented Special Military Operations by Shant Khodadadian
Masthead
Editor-in-Chief Tyler Pufpaff
Managing Editor Barbara Lock
Associate Managing Editors, Prose Tessa Rossi / Colleen Flaherty
Associate Managing Editor, Poetry Megan Nichols
Associate Managing Editor, Nonfiction Camille U. Adams
Poetry Editors Erica Abbott / K.M. Crane / Keana Moreau / Greer McAllister / Jessica Nirvana Ram / Kevin Risner / Lindsey Schaffer / David Eisenstat
Fiction Editors Lisa Croce / Dink Dinkins / Jeanne-Marie Fleming / Brandi Handley /Ashley Kim / William Cagle / Catherine Roberts / Barbara Byar
Nonfiction Editors Camille U. Adams / Sarah Catherine Golden / Arden Stockdell-Giesler / Ruby Djuna Haack / Tori Walters / Julian Guy
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