Current Issue
Awards 45
Fall/Winter 2023
Vol 67, No. 1
Editor’s Note: Eilis O’Neal
Fiction
Carol Dines: “On Ice”
Dashka Slater: “The Ruddy Fruits That Still Remain”
Kyoko Uchida: “Skin”
Nahal Suzanne Jamir: “There Is No Act Five Monologue”
Alex McWalters: “Jimmy-Jim-James”
Miriam Ho Nga Wai: “Miss Ng Misadventures”
Benjamin Van Voorhis: “Chernobyl Dogs”
Poetry
Jeevan Anthony Narney: “An Adoptee Abecedarian,” “I Could Have Been a Teaboy in Bangalore,” “Family Studies,” “Family Reunion,” “Taking a Break from Being a Hypochondriac”
Diana Cao: “Sick Days: Sonnet Corona”
Ellen Zhang: “Tentative”
Fay Dillof: “The Art of”
Katherine Gaffney: “Hunger Winter,” “Onion,” “On Learning that the Ford Motor Company Asked Mariannr Moore to Name a New Vehicle”
Dante Di Stefano: “While I was Talking to My Friends the Poets”
Kristin Davis: “The Other End of Poetry,” “Bitterroot,” “IV. Margin Notes,” “In My Willowbrook Dreams,” “Fish Ladder at Damariscotta”
Amanda Maret Scharf: “First Language,” “Family Album,” “Queens”
Jackie Chicalese: “Ghost Walk”
Elina Katrin: “Base of Fire,” “November as Still Life”
Rosa Castellano: “Survival is Plural,” “A Girl the Color of a House on Fire Is Stuck Where It’s Always Necks Out”
Hannah V Warren: “A poem in which I can’t find a suitable metaphor”
Liz Harms: “Inquest on Carolina Petrovitis, Case No. 234-3-1916”
Laura Apol: “Honor”
Juniper Bea Gilbert: “The Pieta”
Allison Field Bell: “What Could Belong to Us,” “Paros”
Gordon Taylor: “Replicant”
Callista Buchen: “Loon or Cormorant,” “Plane Sewing, Wright Company Factory, 1911”
David Moolten: “Dam,” “Practical Nightmare”
Tamara Panici: “Poem in Two Tongues,” “The Dead, in a Field in our Country, The Dead”
Melanie Tafejian: “Blockade,” “Volunteers Visit the Artsakh Border,” “Water,” “Phantom Babies,” “Walnut Jam”
Andrew Payton: “Lancehead & Opossum,” “Surveying,” “The Rider’s Coda,” “To Be by Oath Enjoined to This”
John Blair: “Aphorism 15: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words,” “Aphorism 65: A Greedy Father Has Thieves for Children,” “Aphorism 58: The Truth Is a Burden That Few Care to Carry,” “Aphorism 33: All Things Come to Those Who Wait”
Susan Cohen: “Disguised as Air”
Beth Oast Williams: “Sagittarius puts down his bow”
Samuel Ugbechie: “Something like home”
Susan Nisenbaum Becker: “Hard,” “Then,” “Map,” “Thursday,”
Rewa Zeinati: “I should be writing instead of watching endless episodes of Arabic series on Shahid”
Rasaq Malik: “Hunger,” “Maiduguri”
Kyoko Uchida: “Concertina,” “Salah Eddin Street,” “Repair”
Pamela Wax: “Monsterworter I Know, Though I May Never Visit Germany”
Quinton Okoro: “two children pray while kneeling behind a lemon tree in their father’s backyard. their fingers are still sticky”
Bailey Blumenstock: “Migraine”
Mary B. Moore: “The Wasp’s Song”
Lex Orgera: “Taking into Account the Gods”
Mickey Kennedy: “Painted Lady,” “Rewiring the Chandelier,” “Barnfall,” “The Gamble, 1992,” “Rods and Cones”
Laura Isabele Amsel: “Singing Goats of Dauphin Island”
Cynthia Marie Hoffman: “Shells”