#64
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Jorge Armenteros
• Pushing Outside the Received: An Interview with
Laird Hunt
Jamie Brown
• On PTSD in The Great Gatsby
George Choundas
• Tampa, Florida, 1184 B.C.
Shasta Grant
• One-Night Stand
David Reich
• Dispatch from the Crime Wave
Nancy Nau Sullivan
• Isla
Elisha Wagman
• The Tall Tale of a Recovering Liar
Tim Wendel
• Prologue—The Cancer Cowboys
Poetry
R. A. Allen
• Office Casualties
Aaron Anstett
• What You Mean by “I”
• The Bargain
Cynthia Atkins
• My Password
• Graffiti Is My Mother
Sara Backer
• Aphasia Blues
Stacey Balkun
• Father
Tina Barr
• Gospels in a Jar
Lisa Marie Basile
• Four Poems
Alessandra Bava
• The Cabinet of Curiosities
• Les Goddesses
Paulette Beete
• Blonde Ambition
Jacquelyn Bengfort
• We Take the Bus
Jennifer Jackson Berry
• Orgasm in Iowa
Mary Biddinger
• Most Unique, Mint Condition
• Horizon-Free Living
• A Little Action
• Conspicuous Consumption
• Consolation Prize
Paula Bonnell
• The House of Old Lovers
Jim Bourey
• Amaryllis, Snow, Dementia
Janet Bowdan
• On Nighthawks and Other Western Art Showing
Women Listening to Men
Judith Bowles
• If I Were a Catholic
Shirley J. Brewer
• Queen Kong
Jamie Brown
• Beatitudes
Mary Buchinger
• Pardon me, deserts, that I don’t rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.
Jessie Carty
• A Conversation I Didn’t Have with Li-Young Lee
Sara Biggs Chaney
• The Problem with Daisy Buchanan
Susan Cohen
• Ankus
Joan Colby
• Pandora
Flower Conroy
• Artificial Red
Kelly Cressio-Moeller
• Something to Remember
• Suburban Aubade with French Horn
Barbara Crooker
• Weather Systems
• Sins of Omission
Teresa d’Arenys
• This
Ariana D. Den Bleyker
• She Paints Pictures of Animals Dying
• Nature Wears Black Upon the Death of August
Melanie Dunbar
• Red Barn, Tin Roof
Jared A. Duran
• The Chewing of Gum
• Hospitals of the Heart and Mind
Meg Eden
• Tokyo Steakhouse
Moira Egan
• Paestum Rose
• Lagerfeld for Men
• Baudelaire
Rachel Eisler
• iLear
• Guest Speaker
Kristina England
• A Poem to Golfe Juan
• And maybe it was
Joyce Maust Enzor
• In Her—Portraits of Myself
• Never Look in the Eyes
Nausheen Eusuf
• Chapped
Danielle Evennou
• Ode to Gaby Hoffmann’s Telegenic Bush
• What Happened
Robert Evory
• Mistake
• Forgetting
Irene Fick
• Sex on the Sand
Margie Fuston
• Zombie Vanity
Stephen Gibson
• Musée des Beaux Arts Update
E. Laura Golberg
• If I Were a Car
John Gosslee
• 4 Erasure Poems
Eric Greinke
• Breakfast for Paranoids
John Grey
• I Was Not a Hit
Jim Gross
• Guillem de Poitou 1071–1127
• Dad’s Fish
• Hard Pressed No. 6
• Clarity
• Green Shadwell
Hedy Habra
• Or Don’t You Ever Offer Yourself as a Main Course
Maryanne Hannan
• Another Cock & Bull Story
Kevin Heaton
• Michael Landon
Paul Hellweg
• Taking a Trip to London
• The Sorrow of War
• A New Journey Begins
Robert Herschbach
• Space 1999
Amy Holman
• Relief of Unknown God Found at the Crossroads
Anna Maria Hong
• Snowem I
• Snowem II
• Snowem III
Paul House
• Poem for Anna
• Good Friday in Salamanca
• Miguel Hernández
Donald Illich
• Falling
Sonja James
• Spellbound
Jessie Janeshek
• Day Tripping, Geronimo Trail
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins
• Two Stars Coming out of a Shovel
• A Basic Guide to Numismatics
Mark Allen Jenkins
• Cocoons
Brad Johnson
• Delayed Gratification
Bill Jones
• On the Ground in Medellín
• What the Fodor’s Guide Didn’t Tell Us
• What I Know About Anthrax
E. C. Jones
• Rusti’s Song
• For Miles Davis
Jill Khoury
• Sonnet for Ambien
Joan Payne Kincaid
• A Martini at Five P.M. Smooths Transitions
Laurie Kolp
• Faire un Triple
• Going Braless
Gerry LaFemina
• Arguing Faith with the Agnostics
Linda Lerner
• Waiting for the D Train
Duane Locke
• Word Trance No. 85
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
• Statoblast
John MacDonald
• From Juarez
Michael Mark
• Visiting My Daughter
Jennifer Martelli
• Pete Townshend’s Voice behind Me, the Snowplow’s Blade before Me
Richard Martin
• I Think I Can Answer That
Rita Maria Martinez
• The Madwoman
Cynthia Matsakis
• A Winter Landscape
Susan H. Maurer
• Risk
• James Foley
• The Polar Vortex
Margaret McCarthy
• I Wish I Could Drive
• Surfer
Leigh McDonald
• 70° in December
• J.R.S., 1962
Dora E. McQuaid
• Origin (#7)
Marla Melito
• The Burqa
Michael Milburn
• Seamus Heaney at Harvard
Devon Miller-Duggan
• Disorderly Abecedarian.5: Calendar
Gloria Mindock
• On Top of His Stomach, a Boat Was Floating
Nancy Carol Moody
• Please Remain Seated until the Captain Has
Turned off the Seatbelt Sign
Miles David Moore
• A Soaking Rain
Dave Morice
• The Final Art
Elisabeth Murawski
• Childish Things
• The Present
Maria Nazos
• Rock ’n’ Roll Fever
• For a Good Time, Call Morphine
Sheryl L. Nelms
• Kansas Wheat Farmer
• Rosetta
Rodney Nelson
• From a Letter to the Lost
Joe Nicholas
• The Trees are Ever Embracing
• The Water Spiral
Greg Olsen
• Love and Dinosaurs
Raul Palma
• Batido de Mamey
Theresa Pappas
• Questions for the New Year
• Local News
• Dream Survey
Kate Peper
• Balloon
Andrea Potos
• It Happens in Greece
Richard Prins
• The Beverages
Jessica Quah
• 妈 (mā)
Charles Rammelkamp
• AuH2O
• Singer-Songwriter-Stalker
Elizabeth Rees
• Intern Culture
David Romanda
• Bucket List
• Next Big Thing
Marty Sanchez-Lowery
• Chinese Ink
• Dancing Your Age
Lorraine Schein
• A Nevelson Triptych
Janice Lynch Schuster
• Language Acquisition
Eric Paul Shaffer
• God as a Dispenser of Pez
Judith Skillman
• Andy Warhol Circa 2015
Gary Sloboda
• Through Radnóti’s Eyes
• St. Rose
• Ohio Riff
Noel Sloboda
• The Patron Saint of Piggy Banks
• At the Tattoo Removal Center
Amy Souza
• Dissolution
• Way Out
The Poet Spiel
• interpretive solo
• the preaching
Richard Spilman
• Summer in Taipei, 1968
D. E. Steward
• Beyond Herat
• Habermas
Holly Stone
• Revolutionary Pudding
Bradley R. Strahan
• Rattlebone’s Theory of History
Alison Carb Sussman
• Acting Like a Woman
Marc Swan
• Acceleration
Dennis James Sweeney
• 66°20’S 124°38’E
Pia Taavila-Borsheim
• Peaches
• Toward Death
Jeff Talmadge
• Reunion
• Cross-Country Drive
• Just Another Town
Jason Tandon
• Lines in Early Autumn
• Locker Room
Jim Taylor
• Crusoe and I
M. Kaat Toy
• Neologism Psychosis
Meredith Trede
• What Will You Wear to War, Darling Boy
• Steel the Soldiers’ Hearts
Randi Ward
• Home
Danae Weimer
• In the Orchid’s Voice of Waiting
Derek JG Williams
• Archivists
Pamela Murray Winters
• Two Texas Folk Films
Laryssa Wirstiuk
• Central Avenue Voodoo
Bill Wolak
• Wind-seeking Seeds
Michele Wolf
• Forest Encampment
William Kelley Woolfitt
• Manzanar Haibun (ii)
Kirby Wright
• Driving by SeaWorld
• The Leaping Off Place
Alyssa Yankwitt
• I’m the One Who Burns
Ed Zahniser
• The Tibetan Buddhism GPS Device
• Persistence of the Parent Tapes
• National Anthem at Birth, 1814: An Homage
• Ted Berrigan Visits the National Gallery of Art
Burgi Zenhaeusern
• Mass at Easter in the Alps
Fiction
Art
Gregg Shapiro
• My Mother’s Vanity
Beate Sigriddaughter
• Blind Tiresias
Sarah Nicole Smetana
• Modern Commons
Marija Stajic
• Bucket of Fat
Caleb Tankersley
• Godzilla Girl
Susan Isla Tepper
• Son of Leon
Ursula Villarreal-Moura
• Honeymoon in Zagreb, 2009
Vallie Lynn Watson
• The Dead You’ve Left
Katherine West
• A Good Hand
Shannon Connor Winward
• BabyCake
Hananah Zaheer
• Listening for Storm
Kate Lu
• Ways to Breathe While Drowning
Fiona J. Mackintosh
• Janus
James Magruder
• Shift Work
Mary Claire Mahaney
• On Cheeko Lake
Lily Meyer
• Meyerland
Joseph Wendell Miller
• Desert Girl
Michael Minchin
• Tools
Terence Mulligan
• Tom’s World
Judith O’Neill
• Dreams of Croatia
W. P. Osborn
• On the Role of Venus in the Abduction of Helen
Meredith Pond
• Delgado and the Bike Shop Boys
Miranda Schwartz
• The Shine of Fates
Yvonne J Seng
• Montana Mermaid
Claudia Apablaza
• My Father Seems to Think I’m a Fakir
Bill Beverly
• A Good Man
Elizabeth Bruce
• Van Camp’s Pork & Beans
Jennifer H. Catto
• Don’t Panic, Don’t Pull
Megan Giddings
• Between Sternum and Heart
Nancy Hightower
• Evangelical Wonderland
Christian Holt
• Confessions of a College Admissions Officer
Beth Konkoski
• Saying Goodbye
Pavel Lembersky
• Cat-Dogs
• Girl Wants to Be a Politologist
Louise Wareham Leonard • from 52 Men
Christopher Woods
• Ferris Wheel
Erica Orgen
• Couple
Stephen Gibson
• Counterattack (collage)
Erica Orgen
• Nap
Marika von zellen
• Child Prisoner of the Gaol
Interview
Laird Hunt
• Pushing Outside the Received
Interviewed by Jorge Armenteros