Back Issues He can hear the kids from the trailer park playing”outside. Constantly. In the parking lot, behind the motel building. When did they go to school? When did they rest? Families grilling. Rat dogs fighting. Sitcoms blaring from open windows. The man sits on the edge of the bed in his damp underwear and damp socks, feet flat on the carpet… from Lance Olsen’s “Theories of Forgetting” …there may be a typo in that poem: the line ‘Just a sour birth’ should read ‘Just as our birth’ from Pierre Joris’”Sour Birth” ContributorsFiction Pamela Balluck Halina Duraj Gary Fincke Lance Olsen Crystal Wilkinson Nonfiction Edvige Giunta Amy Hoffman Richard Hoffman Michael Klein David Lazar Maria Mutch Curtis Smith AJ Verdelle Nicole Walker Poetry Kathi Aguero Dennis Barone Richard Blanco Peter Campion Michael Cirelli Kwame Dawes Ron Drummond Jim Elledge Kathy Fagan Pierre Joris Claudia Keelan Joanna Klink Julia Lisella Gale Nelson Donald Revell Martha Rhodes Daniel Tobin Senior Editors Gigi Edwards Nicki Toler Max Winter Associate Editor Jacob Nelson Advisory Editors Mary Cappello Peter Covino Ryan S. Trimm Art Direction & Production Zach Green Laura Healy Read a sample! Spread the word:
