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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: Four Angels of Sorrow by George S. Franklin coming May ’21
  • Fiction: Lincoln, Maw and Shorty by Ellen Birkett Morris coming May ’21
  • Nonfiction: I Love Lucy by Stephen Akey coming June ’21
  • Nonfiction: Love Letter to My Soon to Be 13-Year-Old Black Son by Ryane Nicole Granados coming June ’21
  • Poetry: My People, A Blast, and Suburban Landscape (with Flying Saucer) by Brad Rose coming June ’21
  • Fiction: The Lifespan of Sparrows by Genevieve Abravanel coming June ’21

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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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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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