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Issue 31

Summer 2023

Poetry & Short Prose

Half an Ode to Fire
Christopher Todd Anderson

“Why Can’t We Predict the Future?”
Ace Boggess

Ghost Ship on the Desert Floor
Allisa Cherry

Magicicadas (2021)
Genevieve Creedon

Stars to stardust
Patricia Davis-Muffett

Shift
Shannon Deep

LBD
Terri-Jane Dow

Site 4: Old House as Theme Park Attraction
Laurie Filipelli

Why No Pictures
Marcene Gandolfo

Conjunctions
Ben Groner III

I’ll Be Seeing You
Nicole Hart

“I contain” & “Imagine what”
Mary Crockett Hill

A Jar Is Where My Father Keeps His Cigarette Butts
Jen Karetnick

where the knowing is
Jill Kitchen

This isn’t another poem about Manhattan /
but it could be

Sam Moe

A Neptune Year
Matthew Murrey

At Saint Stephen’s
Emily Patterson

The Swan
Jennifer Pons

Summer Solstice
Susan Trofimow

Shrink
Jessica L. Walsh

Grubb Run Sonnet
Jessica Whipple

I enter the Casa Batlló
Ava Ye

Pedagogy

Contract Grading in the Creative Writing Classroom
Beverly Army Williams

Poetry by Vote: Group Villanelles
Melissa Fite Johnson

Setting up an Afterschool Elementary Poetry Club
Vicky MacDonald Harris

Reviews

Venice As Refuge and Smorgasbord: A Review of Amo e Canto by J.C. Reilly
Sarah Carey

Water Magic: A Review of Weeping the Tropical Moonlight Because Nobody’s Told Her by Fox Henry Frazier
Donna Vorreyer

In Praise of Saint Dolly: A Review of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, ed. Julie E. Bloemeke & Dustin Brookshire
Brendan Walsh

Interviews

Science, Dead Girls, Your Father, & More: An Interview with Jared Singer
Shai Afsai

A Glimpse of Yourself: An Interview with Audrey Burges
Jennifer Fliss

A Study in Different Worlds: In Conversation with Poet Shahé Mankerian
Yasmin Mariam Kloth