Felicia Zamora
Felicia Zamora Let let Let us ride dusk; let us witness sun burn orange into granular strokes of blue, strokes of black; let us feed our pupils & our porous [...]
Meghan McClure
Meghan McClure Sketches of Everything Except You He leans against the wall outside my daughters’ school. His camo pants worn soft and thin at the knee and hem. His camo [...]
Edmund Sandoval
Edmund Sandoval As to Who We Are We are friends now. Yes. Sort of. Kind of we are friends. It is like acting. If we were actors. But we are [...]
Phillip Snyder
Phillip A. Snyder Chew the Coca, Take the Valium My sister Tracey never tires of telling the story of Aunt Maurine and Uncle Wilson going to Peru with a tourist [...]
Elliott Niblock
Elliott Niblock Prayer to the Reader I want to tell you that the world has changed, that the search for a settling soul is over, that daylight does not darken [...]
Martin Rock
Martin Rock On Forgetting My Tongue in Japan I. Not that I left it in someone else’s mouth or severed like a shelled mollusk but when the words of [...]
Alexandra Teague
Alexandra Teague Baba Yaga Appears in Intro to Feminist Theory and Gives an Impromptu Lecture "And has Baba Yaga really got iron teeth?" asked Vanya. "Iron, like the poker and [...]
Daniel O’Brien
Daniel T. O'Brien - Runner-Up, 2016 Poetry Contest Self-Portrait as Token [Offering] First, they took me from my mother and dressed me in my golden casing. I was directed into [...]
Lisa Buchanan
Lisa K. Buchanan - Runner-Up, 2016 CNF Contest A Bedtime Story From Your Future Sometimes you’re the pursued, screaming around the moonlit hills in a silver sled; more often, you’re [...]
Hadara Bar-Nadav
Hadara Bar-Nadav Sheet What contains and cancels the strange, still body. Veil, shroud, shred. Scratch of fabric that roars. Drape the mirrors so you cannot see your seeing, so form [...]
Michelle Bitting
Michelle Bitting An Hour North of Lee Vining, California Who remembers where we stopped for jars of orange neon cheese and the tangled black knots of faux flies my father [...]
Samantha Deal
Samantha Deal Placeholders for a Father [Found During His Mother's Funeral] How else to explain those hands? How he sat in the front pew & held his fingers like [...]