ISSUE TWELVE

Poetry

AFRS 200 by Imani Cezanne
Self-Portrait with Corset by Dean Shinner
After Years of Trying, I Finally Turn to God by Mia Herman
Moses in Retirement by Ruby Rorty
Untitled note from Oregon by Linda Ravenswood
Vignette Of A Boy Lost In The Dunes Of Dream by Samuel Ajani
Pinioning by Josh Bettinger
Beauty’s Workflow by Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
Mantis Season by Andie Klarin
The Single Life by Jeremy Radin
Here, Gratified by Dina Folgia
When a fight is happening, I run towards it by KB

Nonfiction

Affection by Koss
Interstellar Fingerprints by Annie Marhefka
The Possibilities of Ribbons by Mandira Pattnaik
If It Doesn’t Drown You by Claire Taylor

Fiction

Render by Jefferson Slagle 
Ghost Children by Huina Zheng 
Querida by Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez 
We Don’t Know, We Think Different Things by Claudia Putnam
The Dog Burial by Garth Robinson 
Cronin’s Public by Kevin Duffy

Art

I Can’t Stand Myself by Abigail Cook
Map of A Myth VI by Kwong Kwok Wai
Mood Lighting by Kimberly Sewell

 

Masthead

Editor-in-Chief Tyler Pufpaff

Managing Editor Kalyn Livernois

Associate Managing Editor Barbara Lock

Assistant Managing Editors Tessa Rossi / Colleen Flaherty

Acquisition Editors Adrian Dallas Frandle / Taylor Byas

Poetry Editors Erica Abbott / Kalyani Bindu / K.M. Crane / Rachael Crosbie / Hannah Grieco / Keana Moreau / Megan Nichols / Kevin Risner

Fiction Editors Lisa Croce / Dink Dinkins / Katherine Dye / Colleen Flaherty / Jeanne-Marie Fleming / Barbara Lock / Genevieve Mills / Tessa Rossi

Nonfiction Editors Victoria Buitron / Kira Carney / Sarah Catherine Golden  / Dawn Raffel / Tori Walters / Lily Andrews / Pascale Potvin

Visual Art Editor c m taylor

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