Fall 2023
Poetry & Short Prose
The Checker
Michele Bombardier
Love at a Distance in a Time of Destruction
Jennifer Bullis
Clearing Out the House
Samuel Burt
With Grandma Lolly on a Promontory
Jacob Butlett
Falling
Micah Chatterton
On the phone, Mom asks if I’ve lost weight
Jo Clark
Autumn & The Second Year
Barbara Crooker
Ode to Halloween
Joanne Durham
Because // Sometimes // You Hunger
Sandra Fees
Imagining Rembrant, 1633
Robert Fillman
The owl, early morning
Lynn Finger
Incomplete Instructions for a Halloween Mood
Susan Grimm
Citrus Memory
Jen Gayda Gupta
At the Sunday Open Mic
Thomas Hobohm
Realizing My Mother Is Afraid to Die but Isn’t Saying So
Tina Kelley
Self-Portrait as an Alley
Susan Landgraf
For Great Aunt Ernie Who Always Knew Wrestling Was Real
Kelly Foster Lundquist
On Language
Jennifer Stewart Miller
Legacy Museum
Julie L. Moore
Forever and a Day
Cameron Morse
Fifteen Minutes & Meeting a white friend in the burbs for breakfast
Curtis Pierce
Mine
Ron Riekki
After Signing Up for Medicare
Heidi Seaborn
Last Train to Paradise
Martha Silano
Pedagogy
Method Writing and Stanislavski: Experience and Immersion in Fiction
Garrett Ashley
Atmospheric Pressure: A Ready-to-Go Lesson Plan
Destiny Howell
Take Your Reader to Work Day: Writing Detail and Description
Richard Ryal
Reviews
The Space Between Story and Sex: A Review of Hemorrhaging Want & Water by Emily Marie Passos Duffy
Sarah Alcaide-Escue
Set the Weapon Down: A Review of Quiver by Luke Johnson
Ben Groner III
Let’s Face the Four Directions Together: A Review of Cry, Howl by Edward Vidaurre
Sara Pisak
Interviews
The Writer Nextdoor: An Interview with Ryan Rivas
TJ Gottung
Bloodhound Sharp: An Interview with Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Braden Dyk, Janey Hall, Hannah Hicks, and Hannah Swedberg