Spring 2024
Poetry & Short Prose
You go to Hell when you die if you’ve been
Gale Acuff
One Hundred Thousand Dead
Joe Barca
The Dissolution of a Marriage
Lindy Biller
My three-year-old is scared of ghosts
Melissa Braaten
We Were Nine
Matt Dennison
Birds Are Better
Sonia Greenfield
At Worst, Man-ish
Noelle Hendrickson
When We’re Out of Brand-Name Laundry Detergent I Still Have to Do Laundry
Jeffrey Hermann
On My 47th Birthday
Melissa Joplin Higley
What Eve Told the Snake
Leslie Hodge
Stuck Together
Jessica Klimesh
Box Jelly
Arah Ko
I’m Afraid I Don’t Know How to Love
Christina Linsin
Bill Murray Likes to Dress Up as Jesus When He Creates an Altercation
Robbie Maakestad
My Kids Ask about God
Rachel Mallalieu
Incantation
Katherine Maynard
Conversations, Overheard from the Driver’s Seat
Julia Ongking
My Sister Comes Home After Graduation
Heather Qin
Risen From Dormancy
Shauna Shiff
That Steady Ache
Mary Simmons
Inheritance
Michael Sun
On the Rumored Immortality of Giant Sequoia & On the Rumored Immortality of Art
Nicholas Yingling
Thick of Things
Avery Yoder-Wells
Pedagogy
To See the Poem Again: Teaching Revision
Wendy Call
A Case for Workshop Alternatives
Karen Craigo
Collaborative Genre Fiction: A Group Writing Exercise
John Gerard Fagan
The Class You Want I Do Not Teach
N. West Moss
Reviews
I Brace Myself with My Hands Up: A Review of When Ilium Burns by Tiffany Troy
Jonathan Fletcher
Reaching for a Place That Doesn’t Exist: A Review of Everything’s Changing by Chelsea Stickle
Catherine Hayes
Infinite Losses: A Review of Love in the Archives by Eileen Vorbach Collins
B.K. Jackson
What Uncle Norman Taught Us: A Review of At Goat Hollow and Other Poems by Wilda Morris
Carole Mertz
Interviews
From the Ether to the Page: An Interview with Scott Ferry
Cynthia Atkins
Between Fantasy and Reality: An Interview with Bethany Jarmul
Elliott Lay