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Issue 22

Spring 2021

Poetry & Short Prose

On “Day Without Name” by Kay Sage
Nadia Arioli

The Octagonal Deadhouses of Ontario
Heather Bourbeau

What grows in the garden
Caroliena Cabada

⌘ lazarus
Kai Coggin

Directions on How Not to Give in to Despair
Barbara Crooker

Penguin #625 to the Conveyor Belt of Eyes Who Watch Her Bang her own Body against the Glass-walls
Nicelle Davis

Tracery
Sheila Dong

I’m Not Good at Love Poems
Auden Eagerton

palm
Luciana Francis

South Rim, March
Katie Karnehm-Esh

Family Portrait with Time Travel and Dirty Wings
Sally Rosen Kindred

What Happened Was: we worked alone together
Anna Leahy

The Night My Father Died We Made My Brother-in-Law Watch Dirty Dancing
Courtney LeBlanc

Deconstruction & House of the Quarantined Heart
Marjorie Maddox & Karen Elias

Abecedarian: Self-Isolation as Grief Ritual
Fatima Malik

God the Mother Speaks Fondly of Fish
Dayna Patterson

Immortal
Michele Sharpe

The Crossing
Gail Thomas

How I—a 56-year-old Man Who Has Never Been to Paris—Happened to be on the Lanvin Perfumes Website for Forty Minutes on a Work Day
Rodd Whelpley

Alaskan Abecedarian
Sunni Brown Wilkinson

Ancestry
Chila Woychik

Mother Tongue
Sarah Yang

Episodes from Forty Years Ago & Broken Promise
Wei Zheng

Pedagogy Papers

Using Letter Writing to Find Balance in Creative Nonfiction
John Gerard Fagan

One and Done: Tips for Running a Virtual Drop-In Workshop
Alison Lowenstein

Improving Peer Critique Through Focused Speed Dating
E. K. Taylor

Reviews

Speaking Up Quietly: A Review of Quiet Kid by Grace Carras
Cheryl Caesar

Will We Have Enough Pillows?: A Review of Crushing It by Jennifer L. Knox
Nate Logan

The Sheddies: A Review of Wood: Poems from the Belfast Poetry Woodshed, Vol 1, edited by Joel Lipman and Ellen Sander
Thomas R. Moore

What’s Underneath: A Review of In the Dark, Soft Earth by Frank Watson
Jim O’Loughlin

Interview

Lesbian Fashion Struggles: A Conversation with Caroline Earleywine
Risa Denenberg