SPRING 2017
FICTION
Rowan Beaird, Ohio, Summer
Raul Clement, Space Roosters!
Kim Winter Mako, Right-dog Vs. Left-dog
Hema Padhu, Silent Downpour
Carol Duran Quinn, Darién
ESSAYS
Meghan McClure, Sketches of Everything Except You
Edmund Sandoval, As to Who We Are
Phillip A. Snyder, Chew the Coca, Take the Valium
POETRY
Hadara Bar-Nadav, Sheet; Sail
Michelle Bitting, An Hour North of Lee Vining, California
Samantha Deal, Placeholders for a Father [Found During His Mother’s Funeral]
Amorak Huey, Doing Yard Work in Michigan, I Recall Visiting Ground Zero the Week the United States Invaded Irarq
Denise Jarrott, Doomsday Book
George Kalamaras, Thinking of Bill Porter’s Finding Them Gone, I Wonder How Can it Be that a Long Life for a Dog is Equivalent to the Depth, in Feet, of a Swamp-Sinking Moon
David Kirby, PO Box 1142
Kevin McLellan, Not an Anthem; Taken; License Plate Number; Three Men
Owen McLeod, In the U-Haul Parking Lot; Sonnet for a Changed Climate
Erika Meitner, Elegy with Lo-Fi Selfie
Nicholas Molbert, Living After the Theory of Everything
Josh Myers, What Facism Means to Me; An Abridged History of the Phone Call
Elliott Niblock, Prayer to the Reader
Martin Rock, December: Solstice
Alexandra Teague, Baba Yaga Appears in Intro to Feminist Theory and Gives an Impromptu Lecture; Ode to Theda
Felicia Zamora, Let let; How Exist
CONTEST WINNERS
Courtney Zoffness, Peanuts Aren’t Nuts (Fiction Winner)
Peter Justin Newall, The Chinese General (Fiction Runner-up)
sam sax, Psychotherapy (Poetry Winner)
Daniel T. O’Brien, Self-Portrait as Token [Offering] (Poetry Runner-up)
Lara Lillibridge, Essay Notes on Attachment Disorder (Essay Winner)
Lisa K. Buchanan, A Bedtime Story From Your Future (Essay Runner-up)
INTERVIEWS
“Pleasure, Reward, Activism”: An Interview with Dagoberto Gilb