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FICTION

DAN MOREAU

The Line | 9

AARON SANDERS

Upon the Ground | 23

LYNN STOECKLEIN

Ashes, Ashes | 63

KEN HUGGINS

All Who Answer Are Chosen | 92

ANNE KORKEAKIVI

WildLife | 107

POETRY

P.J WILLIAMS

Black Snake Moan | 14

Dyin’ Bird Blues | 15

MICHAEL LAVERS

Night Feeding | 16

Briseis to Achilles | 22

MATTHEW HARRISON

Asifipede | 18

J. CAMP BROWN

Mandolin in White Woods | 32

AUTUMN McMCLINTOCK

Cable Car / Clouds | 33

JOHN BLAIR

The Thing Itself Speaks | 41

MATT MORTON

Anachronistic Elegy | 57

Lullaby | 58

FARAH MARKLEVITS

Branch Season | 60

Dust Season | 62

KATE PARTRIDGE

#14 Visits The Gallery | 76

BOB WATTS

An Act Considered As Itself and Trope| 78

JORY MICKELSON

Self-Portrait as Phantom Spaceman | 88

ALICIA REBECCA MYERS

Canary Be Attendant | 90

15 Weeks | 91

GEORGE BISHOP

From the Book of What I Never Read | 105

Waking Up Asleep | 106

VIRGIL RENFROE

No Moving a Chair | 115

JOSEPH MULHOLLAND

Calle Mariana Bracetti | 116

Zhuchka’s Love Letter to the End | 117

NONFICTION

JASON SHULTS

Finer Than Prayer | 34

NATHAN SCOTT McNAMARA

Parole | 44

ART

NOA SNIR

Scheherazade | 49

PHILLIPS SAYLOR WISOR

“We will rob the rich and discomfort the devil. Thereby perhaps, finding favor in the sight of the Lord.” Jack Black, 1962 | 80

Ruffians | 81

Husband | 82

Wife | 83

Spies | 84

Sophia | 85

“We’re not big thinkers, none of us are. Who wan’s to be? | 86

“I behave like what I am. Like a proper Gypsy.” Federico Garcia Lorca | 87

REVIEWS

AISHA ANWAR

Darkness With Consolation | 119

Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden

Lindsay Starck | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

MANAGING EDITOR

Matthew Hotham

FICTION EDITOR

Moira Jean Bradford

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Sam Bednarchik

NON-FICTION EDITORS

Andrew Aghapour, Nick Anderman, Sam Bednarchik

COVER DESIGN

Philip McFee

POETRY EDITOR

Lee Norton

ART EDITOR

Chloey Accardi

INTERNS: Megan Harley, Sarah Ireland, Grace Smith

FICTION READERS: Peg Downes, Jennifer Howard, Lindsay Starck, Jacob Watson, L. Lamar, Wilson, Rae Yan

POETRY READERS: Sarah George Matthew Hotham, Jeffrey Peterson

NON-FICTION READERS: Aisha Anwar, Kristen Chang