ISSUE NINETEEN
Poetry
To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation by Isaiah Gardner
Falling, Not like Petals or Snow by Sandra Fees
Underneath it All by Kelsey Britt
Loon Song by Steph Ellen Feeney
inheritance by Winshen Liu
Vindication Dream in a Jerkwater Town by Amelia Loeffler
Still, Nearby by Fawn Emmalee Ward
At the Concert, I Make a Discovery by Cecil Morris
Empirically Nothing by Tuhin Bhowal
Prose
Ghost Mother by Xenia Sylvia Dylag
The Interview by Emily Rinkema
The Kintsugi Workshop Where I Mend My Heart by Fiona McKay
You Will Pay by Chelsea Catherine
All That Rust and Grit by Abbie Doll
The Proposed by Elijah Sparkman
Ahead of Myself by Claire Hopple
Three Flash Fictions by Eliza Scudder
Masthead
Founder Tyler Pufpaff
Editor-in-Chief Barbara Lock
Managing Editor Megan Nichols
Managing Prose Editor Tessa Rossi
Managing Poetry Editor Keana Moreau
Prose Editors William Cagle // Catherine Roberts // Barbara Byar // Jeanne-Marie Fleming // Tori Walters // Suzy Eynon // Brandon Haffner // Heather Colley
Prose Reader Brandi Handley
Poetry Editors David Eisenstat // Erica Abbott
Poetry Readers Greer McAllister // Kevin Risner // Lindsey Schaffer // Dallas Atlas // Ashley Kim // Anoushka Kumar // Emily Adams-Aucoin // Emma Smith // DW Baker // Jaiden Thompson // Theodore Heil
Production Editor Colleen Flaherty
Production Assistant Theodore Heil
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