Summer 2022
Poetry & Short Prose
Ants
Farah Barqawi
translated by Sara Elkamel
A Rock Is a Rock Is a Rock
Rebecca Brock
Homophobic Barbie
Dustin Brookshire
Portrait of God as a Mother Stegosaurus
& Portrait of God as an American Assisted Living Facility
Patricia Caspers
Cough Medicine Works Best When You Drink It Straight from the Bottle
Leigh Chadwick
Jackal
Flower Conroy
Do Not Pass Go
Jennifer H. Dracos-Tice
The Discovery of Strength Through the Ways of My Son
Robert Fillman
Cow Distortion While Driving Upstate in Tompkins County, New York
H.E. Fisher
Before the Milk Comes In
Molly Greer
Abuelita
& The Skeleton and the Rose
Jose Hernandez Diaz
I Search My Father’s Playbill Collection but Don’t Find What I’m Looking For, Whatever That Is
Bill Hollands
Making Conversation
Andrea Lynn Koohi
Looking in the Kitchen Window of My Childhood
Suzanne Langlois
Koan for Washing Dishes
Mitchell Nobis
pretty stegosaurus
Rebecca O’Bern
The Green Before Her
Donna Spruijt-Metz
I’m a Honda Odyssey, I’m a Chrysler Voyager
Eric Scot Tryon
Rain Watch
Kristin Van Tassel
Knowing
Ann Weil
We don’t say “I love you” in this family
Lucy Zhang
Pedagogy
New Alchemy: Using Poetry to Reimagine Disciplinary Knowledge
Angelo J. Letizia
Reviews
Gonna Burn the Moon in a Cast-Iron Skillet: A Review of Blood of the Air by Ama Codjoe
Michele Bombardier
Words to Fit a World: A Review of Take Care by Eunice Andrada
Leila Lois
Ode to a Fractured Woman: A Review of In Accelerated Silence by Brooke Matson
Michelle McMillan-Holifield
Interviews
Hope and Prey: An Interview with Jennifer Fliss
Natalie Serianni