VOLUME 14
Our fourteenth issue includes poetry by Jane Wong, John Bonanni, Betsy Johnson, Jendi Reiter, Bobby Elliott, Stefanie Kirby, Greg Nicholl, Pui Ying Wong, Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Julie Choffel, Mary Feimi, and others. Nonfiction by Joan Houlihan, John Ambrosio, Sullivan Summer, and others. Fiction by Gary Zebrun, Dina Dwyer, Michael Mejia, Tess Lloyd, and others. Art by Joel Long, Katherine Lynn Nonemaker, and Lydia Creep. Cover art by Joel Long.
There’s something so compelling and curious and impossible—trying to get inside one’s own mind, to think around and about one’s own thinking. We donated my father’s body to science. I’m pondering the connection between brain and mind Read more
January 8, 2025
She got out of bed and went over to the window. The old wooden frame was drafty, the panes opaque with frost. A polar vortex, the weatherman had called it. On the map, a magenta swirl stretched down from the Arctic like a giant hand. She breathed a hole. The Read more
November 8, 2024
It was a tricycle, abandoned in some weeds along the river, that prompted this story. In my first draft, I began with section 2, the theft of the trike, and concluded with section 1, the chronological beginning of the tricycle’s history and the saddest of the three sections. I suppose Read more
November 3, 2024
My mother, the poet, Rosemary Cappello, believed in the power of literary journals, and of poetry, to change the world. Of course she was a lover of books, inveterately so, but she reserved a special place on her shelves for literary journals where many voices, many moods commingle; where micro-communities Read more
October 26, 2024