SPRING 2015

photo courtesy of Kathryn Friedman

FICTION

Ernest Finney, The Russian Visitor

Bethany Ball, The Housewife

Don Hymans, Reptiles

CONTEST WINNERS

Michelle Y. Burke, Not by Extraordinary Means (Poetry Winner)

Sharon Solwitz, Magnify, Sanctify (Fiction Winner)

Raphael Dagold, Blackout (Essay Winner)

POETRY

Bethany Schultz Hurst, Fruits of Our Labor

Ross White, On Brevity; As a Deer Approaching a Clearing in the Meadow-

John Wall Barger, Hypochondria Song

Doug Ramspeck, The Art of Migration; Grass Prayers

Richard Foerster, The Rose of Sharon

Francine Conley, Who Are You?

Bob Fink, Mathematics Teacher, 1960; God’s Mathematics

Adam Tavel, The Light Precipitate of Ashes

Cory Hutchinson-Reuss, Group Portrait in Siloam Springs, Arkansas

Joseph Fasano, Fever

Richard Katrovas, Essay on Poetry and Poetry Readings

ESSAYS

George Michelsen Foy, Five Essays

Emily Arnason Casey, The Blue Room

Ty Bannerman, The First

REVIEWS 

Clinton Crockett Peters reviews Olivia Laing’s The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

INTERVIEWS 

Wildly Whipsawing Lexicon: An Interview with Kimberly Johnson