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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 County by Jed Myers coming May ’20
  • Fiction The Bigamist’s Accomplice by Jacob Appel May ’20
  • Fiction: Little Green Devils by James Winter coming May ’20
  • Poetry: Borrowed Trouble: Four Micro-Tributes by Brian Beatty coming May ’20
  • Fiction: Sparrow by Yilin Wang coming June ’20
  • Poetry:  Here and There, The October Year, and Time To Murder and Create by Jody Brackett Crowe coming June ’20
  • Poetry: Three Proximate Sonnets by Ted Jean coming June ’20
  • 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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Issue 21

• • Fiction: After The Monkey by Susan Robison
  • Poetry: Timber Lorries; Honey Bee, LanikaiIt; and Kailua Blue by Robin Kozak
  • Poetry: Roil, Semper Augustus, and He Questioned Everything, Starting with the Pile of Balloons by Eric Stiefel
  • Visual Arts: Japanese Lanterns by Gary Ruddell
  • Fiction: Storm Chasers by Bryana Fern
  • Fiction: Sean Will Eat (or Drink) Anything (Except Straight-Up Poison) For $35 by Andreas Trolf
  • Poetry: Company and To the Mortician by Hannah Butcher
  • Fiction: The Best One-Armed Waiter in the West by Jen McConnell
  • Nonfiction: Letters from Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum by Jessica McCaughey
  • Fiction: Cleaner Houses by Eric Rasmussen
  • Poetry: Drinking With the Rinpoche and Plain Prairie Gown by Stephanie JT Russell
  • 2018 New Writer Awards Results

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Issue 20

• • Nonfiction: Home Care by Jennifer Anderson
  • Fiction: Christmas Charm by Robert Pope
  • Poetry: Dreaming Motherwell: Blue Air; Microburst, Blowdown, Lightning; and Magritte on Horseback by B.J. Buckley
  • Poetry: The Second Opinion, Leaves of Absence, and Segue by Heikki Huotari
  • Visual Arts: Phi and Midnight by Alex Garant
  • Fiction: Motherhood by Jessica Tumio
  • Poetry: Iris Dreams of a Cage, Iris Understand Umbra, and Iris Reads Poetry into the Void by Diane Sahms-Guarnieri
  • Poetry: A Gun is A Gun is A, The Prodigal Daughter, and American Eschatology by Emma Bolden
  • Fiction: Darlington Gun Works by Randy Shelley
  • Poetry: Tonight, I Think I’ll Drive the Mail Truck Home; Between a Rock and a Hard Place; and Got Lucky by Brad Rose
  • Poetry: The Ivories, Boat Burial, and Mother/Mars by Pepper Trail

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Issue 19

• • Fiction: Search, Rescue, Recovery by Jamie Lyn Smith
  • Poetry: Sour Milk Sky, Seismic, and In the New World by John Sibley Williams
  • Poetry: Reform And The Rest, Death Portrait, This Turnip, and The Works by Sarah McCann
  • Visual Arts: Snake Fight and Sweet Buddha Eric Joyner
  • Fiction: Referential by Sean Bernard
  • Fiction: The Curious Notebooks of Motel 6 by Mary Kay Jennings
  • Poetry: Feldspar Citta, Jokai, Godo, Amida, and Densu Swale by Adam Day
  • Fiction: Over at Four by Patrick St. Amand
  • Poetry: All Winter I Remained With the Dead, How Many Times Mayakovsky, and Black-capped Chickadees by Dianna Henning
  • Fiction: So Doth The Swan by Susan Frith
  • Poetry: Reverberating String, Out of the Light in Leaves, and The Life of Lightning by James Grabill
  • Poetry: So This is the Afterlife; Gaia; DC, 1978; and Rescue by Anna Scotti

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Issue 18

• • Fiction: Thrillville, USA by Taylor Koekkoek
  • Poetry: Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem, Grace Lesson, and Manners of The Flesh by Yvonne Zipter
  • Fiction: The Entomologist by Hadley Moore
  • Visual Arts: The Shinto Bride and Man in a Golden Helmet by Rembrandt by Kimiko Yoshida
  • Poetry: I, Vulture, The Natural History of a Blade, and Old Machine by Philip Arnold
  • Fiction: Girls, Girls, Girls by Cady Vishniac
  • Poetry: Howlin’ Wolf’s Arena, Bud Powell’s Brain, and Sun Ra’s* Spaceship by Sean Murphy
  • Poetry: Ban, Winner, and Threat by Lucas Jacob
  • Fiction: Remember to Awe by Mary Pat Musick
  • Poetry: At Home with Angels, Madame Vuillard and the Hydrangeas, and In the Luxembourg Gardens by Jack Stewart
  • Poetry: The Routine: Do the Dishes Again, Poetry Business #2, and All Seven Email Accounts by Darren Demaree
  • Fiction: Le Problem Being by Kate Osana Simonian
  • Poetry: Cool, Before the Last Shot, Black Hair, and Murambi (Rwanda, 2008) by Carlos Andrés Gómez
  • 2018 Editor’s Reprint Award Results

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Issue 17

• • Poetry: So the sky moves, Even the gods, and Oxygen, fire by John Sibley Williams
  • Fiction: The Faultless Sky by Kathryn Henion
  • Poetry: Everybody Ought to Love and Dungeons and Dragons by Alexander Payne Morgan
  • Visual Arts: Emergency Escape Plan, Palmistry, and In Case of Emergency by Jazzberry Blue
  • Fiction: The Transformative Effect of Sparkly Red Shoes by Lisa Sharon
  • Poetry: California Gray, Eavesdrop, and Mulberry by Cynthia White
  • Fiction: The Brightmore Problem by Bruce Johnson
  • Fiction: Rites by Rachel Ann Brickner
  • Poetry: New Barn, Home, and Snow/Whose Child by Autumn McClintock
  • Poetry: Four Erasures by Sonja Johanson
  • Fiction: The Seams by Michael Chin
  • Poetry: Bubbly, Cake, and Chew by Amanda Chiado
  • 2017 New Writer Award Results

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Issue 16

• • Poetry: A Girl Sings Into A Well, For a Moment, and Sending a Book to a Boy by Sara Ryan
  • Fiction: The Pugilist by Jordan Farmer
  • Poetry: Far Village and Van Gogh by Charles Kell
  • Poetry: Marriage, Women Doctors, and Georgia O’Keefe by Carole Stone
  • Visual Arts: The Voice and I Wish It So by Gary Ruddell
  • Fiction: The Shining Path by Abigail Mitchell
  • Fiction: View from Within by Jayne Waldrop
  • Poetry: Walter Benjamin’s Instructions for Touring the Berlin Zoo and At the Station of the Two Thieves by Cal Freema
  • Poetry: Persimmons, Adipocere, and Slow Wake with Hangover by Todd Dillard
  • Poetry: Black Goats, We Waited, and The Fingernail by Farhad Showghi and translated by Harry Roddy
  • Fiction: Clara by Amanda Kabak
  • Poetry: Questions for a Shadow and Verge by Martha Silano

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Issue 15

• • Fiction: Snow by H.E. Francis
  • Poetry: Around Midnight…, Dedalus in Old Age,  Market Day, and Chronoscope 88: After Ted Kooser’s “Starlight” by John Walser
  • Poetry: Roosevelt Utah, For Thomas Derrick, and My Affair by Rachel Jepsen
  • Fiction: Undermined by Rachel Greenberg
  • Visual Arts: Kindling and Ritual by Brian Britigan
  • Fiction: Before and After by Charlie Watts
  • Poetry: Romans 8:13 by Madison Dorsey
  • Poetry: Before, Ode to Beetles, and Burnt Offering by Claire Scott
  • Fiction: The Visitation by Ivo Kamps
  • Poetry: Victor Hugo, Leonard “Chico” Marx, and Karl Heinrich Marx by Richard Weaver
  • Nonfiction: Two Islands by Patrick Clement James

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Issue 14

• • Fiction: Ichiban by S. P. Tenhoff
  • Poetry: Skin Memory, St. Helens [1980], Death is a Work in Progress, and Fog by John Sibley Williams
  • Poetry: Survivor, Henry Box Brown, and The Pol Pot Soldier Tells his Side by Diana Woodcock
  • Fiction: The Country of Lost Husbands by Suzanne Warren
  • Visual Arts: The Accessory by Steven Kenny
  • Fiction: Come Back, Rita by Jen Fawkes
  • Poetry: Dancing on the Edge and You Said I Should Write More Love Poems and by Steve Tomasko
  • Poetry: Feeding the Fire, What to do with Leftovers, and Bouquet by Edison Jennings
  • Fiction: James Franco(s) at the Edge of The Universe by James Brubaker
  • Poetry: At the Nursing Home, The Lament of Whitehorse Billy, and Dreamscape by Leland James
  • Fiction: What She Sees by David Fleming
  • 2017 Editor’s Reprint Award Results

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Issue 13

• • Fiction: Excerpts from a Zombie Girl’s Diary by Sarah Gerkensmeyer
  • Fiction: What Happened to Our Giant Inflatable Heart by Angela Corbett
  • Poetry: To Propagate and Grace by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
  • Visual Arts: Like Parasites, Unsaid, Rockstar Feeling, and The Dizzy Memory of the Night by Andrea Castro
  • Poetry: Deep Indigo and Talking to the Sky by Roberta Senechal de la Roche
  • Poetry: Ravens and Crowtime by Angela Patten
  • Fiction: Figure in the Window by David Kranes
  • Poetry: Never Spoken Tryst and Careful Woman Linda Baldanzi
  • Poetry: Cool Water and Monkey Mind by Mary Silwance
  • Fiction: Among Strangers by Richard Schmitt
  • Poetry: Chinese Teapots, Rituals (II), and Lessons Jordan Mounteer

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