Spring/Summer 2020

Sonia Aggarwal

• Haath ki kadhai

• Mehndi

Faiz Ahmad

• The Night

Samir Atassi

• Fraser Carol

Roy Bentley

• James Dean Commemorative Mug

• Charlie Parker Died Laughing at a Juggler on TV

Dudgrick Bevins

• Icarus, Who

Carl Boon

• Midterm Exam for American Lit 3016

• For You, Who Reads Poems

Michael J. Catherwood

• Chemo

Robert Clinton

• Prudence

Douglas Cole

• Penrose Staircase

• Zen Painting

Rachel Landrum Crumble

• Party Lines, 1963

Ted Davis

• Standing Water

Colin Dodd

• On the Trail of the Confounder

Christina H. Felix

• Dear Henry

• Reaching for My Goodness

Robert René Galván

• The Devil’s Trumpet

Lisa Grgas

• NoNoNoNoNo

Holly Guran

• Morning Ode to Compost

• Weeds

Susan Johnson

• Molasses

• Open Water

Brian Kates

• For Matthew

• The Year’s First Snow

Jamie Elliott Keith

• Reading in the Winter Sun

Veeda Khan

• Teatime

• The Sidewalks

Casey Knott

• Homing

Bruce Lader

• Asylum

Laurinda Lind

• Changeling

• Comebacks

Ralph Long, Jr.

• A Letter to Philip Levine about Modern Work

Richard Luftig

• June, Ohio, Seven A.M.

Andrew Shattuck McBride

• Travelers

Sjohnna McCray

• Two Ways of Seeing God

Bruce Parker

• Jean-Theophane Venard (1829-1861), Priest, Interrupted

Ilari Pass

• Where none is lonely

Hannah Pelletier

• Emily

Barry Peters

• The Suspended List

Allen M. Price

• Tango: 3way ‘ 53

Ellen Reichman

• Look What They’ve Done to My Poem

• A Tomato Grows in Brooklyn

Cressida Richards

• Flockmate Loss

Bruce Robinson

• Late Night Radio

Errol Rubenstein

• A Friend to Ward Off the Dark

Cliff Saunders

• Parting Shot

Barbara Saunier

• In This House We Believe in Sweaters

• John Lennon’s Socks

Nicole Scott

• Crush

Michael J. Shepley

• Confession

• Free Trade/Fair Trade

Bobbi Sinha-Morey

• The Violet Hour

Christopher Snook

• O Radix Jesse

• Public Transit in the Semana Santa

Matthew J. Spireng

• Reflections on My Mother’s Birthday

Rodney Torreson

• Tail Gator

Emily Townsend

• Anticipatory Nostalgia Behind the Wheel

Jean Tucker

• New Year’s Morning: Full Sun on Snow

• The Minister Drops By

Sarah Brown Weitzman

• At the Shore

• A Well of Despair

Fred White

• Sketch

Frederick Wilbur

• Damned Lucky: 1969

Marne Wilson

• The Answering Machine

Jane Yolen

• Winter Prayer

Poetry Contest Winners

Cassandra Rockwood-Rice [First Place]

• Table of Contents

Darius Simpson [Second Place]

• When I Say I Have Known Black Boys Like You

Adrienne Christian [Third Place]

• Wedding Dress

Alfredo Antonio Arevalo [Honorable Mention]

• Mi Casa Es Tu Casa

Michael Baldwin [Honorable Mention]

• Octavia

Pamela Gemme [Honorable Mention]

• Working the Child At Risk Hotline

Karen Mandell [Honorable Mention]

• Yard Sale

Tobi-Hope Jieun Park [Honorable Mention]

• the easier way to deconstruct a monroe (by waveform? or otherwise?)”

Arien Reed [Honorable Mention]

• Stay

Fiction Spotlight

Matt McGowan

• Along the Frog