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Issue 43

• • Poetry: Peace Lilies, A Slice of Bread, and Waltz by Elina Petrova
  • Fiction: In the House of Nice People by Alex Mattingly
  • Poetry: After You Leave, First Kiss, and Returning to Lake Superior by Kathryn Kysar
  • Visual Arts: Sound of Denial, Amiss, Excusing Shadows, Surfacing, and Pivot by Kylli Sparre
  • Fiction: At This Point in Our Lives by Isabelle Stillman
  • Poetry: Trepanned, Grief, and Never over the nearly over by Eva Salzman coming June ’25
  • Fiction: Amaryllis by Heather Turbeville coming June ’25
  • Fiction: Four Faces by L. Vocem coming July ’25
  • Poetry: Happy Future, Lucky Winner, The Spiders of Marzipan, and Do Not Go Gently Into That Western Night by Brad Rose coming July ’25
  • Poetry: Ode to the Infomercial and The Museum of Revisionist History by Ed Wade coming July ’25
  • Nonfiction: Burned by Kashawn Taylor coming August ’25
  • Fiction: Smoothing Things Over by Jon Pearson coming August ’25
  • Poetry: After the illness and Someday we will talk about other things by Shea Tuttle coming August ’25

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 Issue 42

• • Fiction: Fear Itself by Seth Freeman
  • Fiction: Flicker by Claudia Putnam
  • Visual Arts: Household, Litterae, Park, Room, Subway, and Dusk by Cinta Vidal Agulló
  • Poetry: Ghost Love Child, Blithe Times, and Between Mid-Centuries by Lawrence Bridges
  • Poetry: The Book Burners and The Dream of Odysseus by Eric Machan Howd
  • Poetry: A Portrait of my Father; The Dying Visions of an American Gangster; and New York, Again by Eros Livieratos
  • Fiction: Book of Dreams by Lacy Arnett Mayberry
  • Fiction: Public Service by Mark Connelly
  • Fiction: Nobody Wants a Crying Stripper by Hannah Sward
  • Poetry: Aubade with PTSD, Architects in late October, and Brighton Beach (1983) by Jen Stein
  • Fiction: Hunting Lessons David Colosi
  • Poetry: Eurydice I, II, and III by Margaret Diehl

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Issue 41

• • Fiction: What Fruit We Bear by Megan Baxter
  • Fiction: Don’t Tell Me About Bosnia by Evan Morgan Williams
  • Poetry: Our Generation and My Popo Talks to the Air by Xiaoly Li
  • Visual Arts: Darker Rooms, Dead Mall, Harbinger, and Wild Youth by Jenna Barton
  • Poetry: What We Think We Can’t Give Up, Beyond Language, Looking Across The Bandon to the Ruins of Fort James, and Listening to the Bandon by George Looney
  • Poetry: Men Who Eat Ringforts and Take One, Take Two, Take Three by Dawn Tefft
  • Poetry: In The Overnight Dark I Eat A Banana, If A Rhino Charges, This Could Be The Night, and Ghosts by John Minczeski
  • Fiction: Life Story by Kevin Egan
  • Fiction: Trip to Vegas by Brian Christopher Giddens
  • Poetry: Fireflies, Saying Goodbyes, and Passover by Marilyn Kallet
  • Poetry: Your Goddess Characteristics, Crater Lake, Shade of Night, and These Aren’t The Thoughts by Lawrence Bridges

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Issue 40

• • Fiction: Marsoupiel by Susann Cokal
  • Poetry: Before You Know It; Rain Forest, St. Lucia; and What Lightning Spoke by Robert Bensen
  • Visual Arts: Artwork by Caleb Worcester
  • Fiction: Bluebeard by Mark Brazaitis
  • Poetry: Flown, Interstellar, Stuck, and As If by Joan Baranow
  • Poetry: Day Breaks and Does Not Mend Anything and Self-portrait with Elegy (II) by Marko Capoferri
  • Fiction: The Paper Demon by  Rosaleen Bertolino
  • Fiction: Chalk by Jay Bechtol
  • Fiction: If There Has To Be An Ending, Let It Be A Quiet One by Gabriella Navas
  • Poetry: The Heart—in the Woods Behind my Father’s House, We’re All Writing Lake Poems Now, and OCD Sonnet #3 by Zachariah Claypole White

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Issue 39

• • Poetry: King, Queen, Knight; Leaving the Garden; Homeless; and All This, Just Now, This Once by Richard Wollman
  • Fiction: The Do Better Girl by Gail Upchurch
  • Visual Arts: Morning Walk, Drop in the Ocean, and Wave by Haylee Morice
  • Fiction: Dick Cheney Shot me in the Face by Timothy O’Leary
  • Poetry: Becoming Horizon, Gardeners, and Hanahaki by Amanda Shu
  • Poetry: Viagra, Ed from the Garage Stops by to talk Philosophy, Bookcase, and The Bun by Trent Busch
  • Fiction: Sorry, But I Can’t Take You by Lisa K. Buchanan
  • Poetry: Heroin, pt. 1; The Museum of Hospital Art; and Afterlife by Anthony Immergluck
  • Fiction: Act of Love by Seth Freeman
  • Poetry: Metastasis and That Episode of 90210 When Brenda Finds a Lump by Ja’net Danielo
  • Fiction: The Virginity That Goes Hollywood by Tom Kelly
  • Hybrid: Flight by Garnett Kilberg Cohen

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Issue 38

• • Fiction: The Missing Sister by Robert Garner McBrearty
  • Poetry: New Year, Spiral, and Father by Xiaoly Li
  • Fiction: OMG Winn Handler Moved Next Door by Lesley Bannatyne
  • Visual Arts: Whispers, The Wedding Party, Fall, The Game, and Oath Breakers by Aron Wiesenfeld
  • Poetry: The Discovery, Blue, and It Begins with Palm Trees by Glen Vecchione
  • Fiction: Laid to Rest by Ray Morrison
  • Poetry: The Story of a Marriage by Dheepa R. Maturi
  • Poetry: Like Only a Woman or Ghost, Prelude: A Vague Inheritance, and Valentine’s Day in Kinsale by George Looney
  • Fiction: -yard Shift Grave by Garrett Highley
  • Nonfiction: How to Act by Victoria Mack
  • Fiction: Our Precogs Have Rejected Your Unwritten Manuscript by Ali Solomon
  • Poetry: First Encounter Beach, Sound Mirror, and Overture to Riot in C Major, 1967 by Sheila Sinead McGuinness

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Issue 37

• • Fiction: Note to Chinese Dad by George Choundas
  • Fiction: Sex and the Piano by Annie Dawid
  • Poetry: Country Living, How the Weather Was, and Voluptuous Water by William Heath
  • Visual Arts: Lamuse Gueule II, Le Tigre Réversible, and Bipédologie N°2 by Bruno Pontiroli
  • Fiction: Curses, Foiled Again by Margaret Karmazin
  • Fiction: Lisa Hall Smiles by Lowry Pressly
  • Poetry: Bach Prelude in C, Newborn, and Elegy by Lisa Rosinsky
  • Poetry: Full Disclosure, Whether or Weather, and Good Money by Brad Rose
  • Fiction: Mermaids for Seahorses by Joan Slatoff
  • Poetry: Elements: Copper, Above the Treeline, and Lilacs in Rain by Joan Colby
  • Fiction: The Difference Between There Is and There Are by Liz Rosen
  • Poetry: Matriarchy, The Missing, The Vanities, and Sub Rosa by Jane Zwart

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Issue 36

• • Poetry: Here for Now, One Long Love Letter, Driving My Friend to St. Paul and Back at Night, and Whatever Things are of Good Report by J.P. White
  • Fiction: Don’t Tell Anybody What They Are by Athena Nassar
  • Visual Arts: Finally Some Sleep, The Path, Garden Ghost, and Doorway 308 by Caleb Worcester
  • Fiction: First Kill by Timothy O’Leary
  • Poetry: My Own Heart, Waiting, and An Apocalyptic Warning by S. Yarberry
  • Fiction: Grab-it Claw by Corinne Silver
  • Poetry: Lilith in Exile, Aphrodisiac, and Instillation Artist by Lisa Rosinsky
  • Fiction: What You Need to Know About Human Laws Regarding Sexual Harassment When You’re a God and No One Believes in Your Divine Right by Mario Aliberto III
  • Poetry: Sensitive; Parted; I’m Not Angry, I’m Disappointed; and I Split the Cherries with my Teeth by Sarah Browning
  • Fiction: New Age by Joshua Ambre
  • Poetry: The Hard Season, Yard Work, and Sacrifices by Kathleen Lynch
  • Fiction: The Date by Chloe Noland

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Issue 35

• • Fiction: Radiant by Andrea Lewis
  • Poetry: The Long Moment, The Torch of Enthusiasm, and The Travesties of Aging by Michael Salcman
  • Visual Arts: Knock Knock, Eight Skies, and Ropes by Ninn Salaün
  • Fiction: Under The Surface, Under The Light by Chloe Clark
  • Fiction: The Marlin by Aaron Calvin
  • Poetry: Vincent went off his meds to travel time, Mama told Vincent what the voice said, and Vincent dreams he was a crow by Allen Weber
  • Poetry: What the Godmothers Told of Origins, Learning to Fish:  Live Bait, and On Death in the Land of COVID-19 by Melanie Perish
  • Fiction: The Fairy Tale Machine by Gwendolyn Paradice
  • Fiction: A Divorced Man’s Guide to the First Year by Jen McConnell
  • Fiction: At A Loss by Maureen O’Leary
  • Poetry: The Charm, Spring, and The Cold April Spring Raphael Kosek

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Issue 34

• • Fiction: Swimming for Shore by Chrissy Kolaya
  • Poetry: The Ape in the Garden; Such was the funeral of Hector, breaker of horses; Muscovy Ducks; and Visitors by George Franklin
  • Visual Arts: Cimarron Strings, Color TV, and The Sibyl by Dolan Geiman
  • Fiction: Goobs by Beston Barnett
  • Fiction: The Pitiless Kind by Jeff Bond
  • Poetry: The Tree by the Garden Gate, A Nearly Dried-Up Woman, and The Resettlement by Saba Z Husain
  • Poetry: Ginger Roots, Stitching Images, and What I Want by Sarah Dickenson Snyder
  • Fiction: Dear Madeline by Devin Guthrie
  • Poetry: From Beirut (1982-1984): A Cycle of Poetry by Michael Campagnoli
  • Fiction: The Wedding Dress by Cynthia Reeves
  • Fiction: A Hexed House by Liz Rosen

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Issue 33

• • Poetry: To You in Your Dark Lake Moving Darkly Now and Odelegy by Ayokunle Falomo
  • Fiction: Hunters by John Fulton
  • Fiction: The Rest of Us by James Braun
  • Fiction: Not in This House by Cate Fricke
  • Poetry: Which; Something normal happens in outer space; and Walking on the Franz Josef Glacier, South Island, NZ by Janet Bowdan
  • Visual Arts: Hope in NYC Series by Loe Lee
  • Poetry: Re: Company Meetings, It’ll Be Great, Making Money in Today’s Market, and Rucksack by Brad Rose
  • Fiction: An Execution by Garrett Ashley
  • Poetry: Gratitude: A Prayer, Sonnet for My Mother, Gatekeeper, and My Mother’s Mind by Britt Allen
  • Poetry: I Meet Afghanistan Beside a Dirt Road Cut Into Mountain, Getting Left of the Boom, No Take Backs, and Afghanistan Speaks About the War by Ben Weakley
  • Poetry: A Romantic Life, Laughing It Up, Married to Bukwoski by George Thomas
  • Fiction: Community of Caring by Casey Bell
  • Poetry: Four Erasures by Sarah-Jane Crowson

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Issue 32

• • Fiction: Intruders of Sleepless Nights by Pamela Painter
  • Poetry: Signs of the Times, What Can’t Hold Up, and Pathos in the Persistence of Hedonism and by George Looney
  • Poetry: The Shadow Maker and War in Eurasia by M.B. McLatchey
  • Nonfiction: Lips by James McSherry
  • Visual Arts: Embracing Earth, Thunder, and Good Night by Jenya Datsko
  • Poetry: Bucket of Belief, Innocence Rosy as Fiery Clouds Burned to Bare Boughs, and Midsummer in the Bahamas by Xiaoly Li
  • Poetry: Where, Once, Stars Could Be Seen and Near the Field with Stephanie by Kelly R. Samuels
  • Poetry: Killer Interiors; Epithalamium at Porrona for Priya & Fabio; and  Death, Burning, and Service; by Andy Fogle
  • Fiction: Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets by Jacob M. Appel
  • Poetry: Object Permanence, Watching a Brood Hatch with my Mother, and World Books by Dion O’Reilly
  • Fiction: Abort by Scott Lambridis
  • Poetry: Ghost(ed) Woman, In a Hollow Tree, and When she pouts in the bathtub by Emilie Lindemann
  • Nonfiction: On Teaching by Santian Vataj
  • Fiction: Dietrich’s Witness by James Ulmer
  • Poetry: Body Facts, Hello My Name is, and A Mad Dad Lib by Morgan Eklund
  • Poetry: Blocking the Dead and Storm by Pauletta Hansel

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Issue 31

• • Poetry: The Narrative Soliloquizes and Your Dead Fairymother by Indrani Sengupta
  • Fiction: Phases by Chris Vanjonack
  • Visual Arts: Screen Shot and others by Jamie Perry
  • Poetry: Not Exactly Genesis, Stories Don’t Always Land Straight, and Trace Fossils by Claire Scott
  • Fiction: Spirit by Laurence Klavan
  • Poetry: Kessler Syndrome, Light Job, Patternicities, and The Schiaparelli Stage by Jacob Strautmann
  • Nonfiction: Getting Schooled by Marcos Villatoro
  • Poetry: Waking Up Without You, Moonrise, and Sheltering in the Moon by Carol Tyx
  • Poetry: Still Cautious, To Clarify, and Autonomous Zone by Joan Mazza
  • Fiction: Dowsing by Renée Branum
  • Poetry: All The Ways I Mangled My Hands Waiting, Green Onions, and Making Dinner by Alexis Kruckeberg
  • Nonfiction: How to Tell The Story by Wren Burton
  • Poetry: Notes from the Director, Spring Fever, and Afterlife by Leah Callen

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Issue 30

• • Nonfiction: Remember Me by Susan Knox
  • Fiction: Gorilla Mother by Lyn Stevens
  • Poetry: Dream Caused by the Flight…, Four Torch Juggling, and Lost Storyline from The Life of the Flying Man by Roy Bentley
  • Poetry: Daughter, Raw Edge, and Baby Buggy Boogie-Woogie by Jennifer Hambrick
  • Visual Arts: Surrender and others by Haylee Morice
  • Fiction: Postings from My Other Self by William Luvaas
  • Fiction: Spooky Distance by A.C. Koch
  • Poetry: Milk & Skin, Cold Front, and What to Think Of by Elya Braden
  • Fiction: The Lorentz Contraction by John Q McDonald
  • Poetry: Four Haiku by Kelly Houle
  • Fiction: Breaching by Eva Lomski
  • Poetry: Binary; Several Months Before You Were Born, I Married a Man Who Wasn’t Your Father; and Woman Finds Her Face by Lois Marie Harrod

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Issue 29

• • Fiction: Faith by Annie Dawid
  • Poetry: Green Couch, The Old House, In Quarantine, and The New House by Anthony Immergluck
  • Fiction: Empty Eyes by Dev Jannerson
  • Nonfiction: Black Holes by Bill Capossere
  • Visual Arts: Heart of The Country and others by Ninn Salaün
  • Fiction: The River After Its Own Tail by Evan Morgan Williams
  • Poetry: This Fabulous Century IV, How to Butcher a Pig, and Cost Analysis by Caroline Chavatel
  • Nonfiction: Love in the Time of COVID by Eve Muller
  • Poetry: Four Haiku by David Bachner
  • Poetry: Mystery, Fear, Riot, and The Worst Thing by Jessica Kinnison
  • Fiction: The Most Wonderful White Stockings by A. Molotkov
  • Nonfiction: Shithead by Sue Granzella

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Issue 28

• • Fiction: F=d(mv)/dt by Will Donnelly
  • Poetry: I’ll Ring You, Frayed Sonnet to a Descendant, and Stolen Beam by Jed Myers
  • Visual Arts: Last Day on Earth, Celestial Rain, and Life by Jake Thompson
  • Poetry: Afterhours in the Mutter Museum and Night Draws and Erases by Nicole Inge
  • Fiction: Remnants by Charlotte d’Huart
  • Poetry: Old Photographs: 1924 & 1942, Welcoming Committee, Borders, and Mestiza by Robert René Galván
  • Nonfiction: How to Lose Everything in 12 Easy Steps by Alethea Black
  • Poetry: A Paper Hive Earns No Quarter, Confessio Inimicus, and In Service by Adam Houle
  • Fiction: Fire Season by Colette Langlois
  • Fiction: The World As We Know It C.J. Spataro

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Issue 27

• • Poetry: The Year of Sudden Vanishings by Roy Bentley
  • Fiction: Quiltbaby by Kerrin Piché Serna
  • Poetry: Consider the Day, When December Runs into a Tree of Gold, and The Reluctant Mourner by Saba Z Husain
  • Visual Arts: Fake News by Brian Britigan
  • Fiction: The Unseen by James S Kendall
  • Poetry: Travels of the Angel of Sorrow by George S. Franklin
  • Fiction: Lincoln, Maw and Shorty by Ellen Birkett Morris
  • Nonfiction: I Love Lucy by Stephen Akey
  • Nonfiction: Love Letter to My Soon to Be 13-Year-Old Black Son by Ryane Nicole Granados
  • Poetry: My People, A Blast, and Suburban Landscape (with Flying Saucer) by Brad Rose
  • Fiction: The Lifespan of Sparrows by Genevieve Abravanel

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Issue 26

• • Fiction: No Other You by Ross Showalter
  • Poetry: Mother with a Split Tongue, Because God Demands the Silence, and Puberty Subjunctive by Sara Moore Wagner
  • Fiction: The Mermaid Problem by Kimi Traube
  • Visual Arts: Burning Out and Art Fraud by Brian Britigan
  • Fiction: Talisman by Matt Hall
  • Poetry: Last night. I couldn’t feel my brain, My stalemate said she was once fingered, and My caseworker said by Sara Lefsyk
  • Poetry: Halfway, Sci-Fi, and Samsara by Anthony Immergluck
  • Fiction: Dr. A by Elizabeth Logan Harris
  • Fiction: The Flesh Inside by Chris Mpofu
  • Poetry: Dream, Solace, War, and Colors by María Negroni as translated by Allison A. DeFreese
  • Fiction: Youth for Life by Barbara A. Fischer

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Issue 25

• • Fiction: Scenic Overlook by Anne Ray
  • Poetry: Accord, Ceasefire and Not Really a Father by John Sibley Willams
  • Visual Arts: Lost at Sea and others by Shawna Gilmore
  • Poetry: Locked from the Inside, Getting Smashed, and The Things Between Myself and The Ceiling by Kate Felix
  • Poetry: Center Region, Dance, Poetry, and ŚŪNYATĀ by Timothy Lavenz
  • Fiction: Bud, Bloom, Seed by Joseph O’Malley
  • Poetry: Volant and Confusing the Words Untended with Unintended, We End up with Wild Regrets by Linda Dove
  • Fiction: Cocoon by Sam White
  • Poetry: Searching for Signs of Hannibal’s Route in DNA from Horse Manure and The Year Elvis Presley Wolf-whistled Lady Luck to a Reciprocated Kiss by Roy Bentley
  • Fiction: Language of Crabs by Chelsea Sutton

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Issue 24

• • Fiction: Visitation by Brendan Stephens
  • Poetry: Sonnet, Ephemera, and So priketh hem Nature in hir corages by Aaron Novick
  • Poetry: The Arithmetic of Earth, Wind & Fire; Newsflash: Film Star Has Feet of Clay; History Lesson; and Pear by Susannah W. Simpson
  • Visual Arts: Universal Understanding, Dark Matter, and Substance by Ashley Mackenzie
  • Poetry: The Lone Lands and Cradle Song by Tegan Blackwood
  • Fiction: First Kings by Ted Morrissey
  • Poetry: On The Diamond…, River Baptism, and Why Palestinian Men… by Roy Bentley
  • Poetry: Letting in Daylight, White Voice, and the alarming decline of the bobwhite by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
  • Fiction: As Deer Search For Grass by Cassandra Martinez
  • Poetry: Freedom and Let Silence Speak by Arthur McMaster
  • Fiction: Fǎng by Jim Ruland
  • Fiction: Blodeuwedd by Sarah Wheeler
  • 2020 Editor’s Reprint Award Results
  • 2019 New Writer Awards Results

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Issue 23

• • Fiction: The Closer You Are by Annie Dawid
  • Poetry: Tick More Slowly, Seeking Balance, and A Wheelchair named Prudence by Meg Freer
  • Poetry: First Level, Will You Take This, and No Wonder the Advice Columnist is Bitter by Tom C. Hunley
  • Visual Arts: Mentem Mortalia Tangunt and more by Sarah Petkus
  • Poetry: The Party is Not The Same, Eden is Overrated, and Is This What It Comes to at the End by Claire Scott
  • Poetry: A Day Made of Atoms Like Ours, Nearing The After, Through the Blows, and Poem for My Country by Jed Myers
  • Fiction The Bigamist’s Accomplice by Jacob M. Appel
  • Fiction: Little Green Devils by James Winter
  • Poetry: Borrowed Trouble: Four Micro-Tributes by Brian Beatty
  • Fiction: Sparrow by Yilin Wang
  • Poetry: Here and There, The October Year, and Time To Murder and Create by Jody Brackett Crowe
  • Poetry: Three Proximate Sonnets by Ted Jean
  • 2019 Editor’s Reprint Award Results

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Issue 22

• • Fiction: Witchcraft by John Van Kirk
  • Poetry: Housekeeping and If a Bear by Devika Brandt
  • Fiction: Where’s The Baby by Kelly Fordon
  • Visual Arts: Garden of Adjacent Possibilities, Passages, and Reflections by Dorian Vallejo
  • Poetry: Tulpa Marriage, Tessera, Request, and Enargeia by Joseph Harms
  • Fiction: Talkeetna Fog by Alex Blum
  • Poetry: All 8,294,400 Pixels Point in the Same Direction and Sea of Origami Birds by Darcy Smith
  • Poetry: Soil Song, Little Grandpa Joe, and Were you close to your mother? by Patricia Zylius
  • Fiction: The Monster by Steve Berta
  • Fiction: Peter Pan People by Elisa Abatsis
  • Poetry: Time Travel, The Fourth Madness, and Merely Human by Leland Seese

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