#65
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Jamie Brown
• The Club That Wants to Keep Jimmy Gatz Out
• Disillusioned Gatsby On the World
Andrew Gifford
• Prelude: At the Lake, 1979
(an excerpt from We All Scream: The Fall of the Gifford’s Ice Cream Empire)
Alice Hatcher
• Rough (Draft) Sex, or, Fifty Shades of Impossible
Alison Condie Jaenicke
• Sisterhood of Spies
Luisa Kolker
• How My Hairstylist Saved My Soul
Leonard Kress
• The Theory of Beta Decay
Judith McCombs
• My Life in Crime
Frances Park
• “Meet Me at the Bayou”
Ginger Peters
• Chewing, Spitting, and Cussing
Kate Sampsell-Willmann
• No Cracks in the Pavement
Max Sheridan
• Five Solved Murders
Sarah Louise Williams
• Tight Lines
Poetry
Jeffrey C. Alfier
• Stopping at Texas Looseys on a Warm Monday Homeward
Nancy Allen
• City Park Interlude
David Alpaugh
• Against/For
Jacob Appel
• Transaction Costs
• Flying with Clarity
• Touring Greenwich Village
Sara Backer
• Advice
• The Man Who Is Never Wrong
Sarah Barlow-Ochshorn
• Mild Scoliosis
Stacy Barton
• Beside You on the Porch
• I Was Reading About Ascension Symptoms…
Nina Bennett
• Regret
Gary Blankenburg
• Good Little Soldier
• Father Charlie
• Dogwoods
CL Bledsoe
• April 26th, 2011
• Doors
Diana Smith Bolton
• Collapse
Anthony Issac Bradley
• First Porn Star
John Bradley
• Celestial Pablum
April Michelle Bratten
• If you don’t know by now…
Shirley J. Brewer
• The Prince of Cheese
• In Place of Cake
• Twist
Michael Brockley
• Having Discovered Unreliable Narrators…
• The Mayor of Hamelin
• The Only Aloha Shirt in Town
Kevin Brown
• Prison
Mary Ann Cain
• I Pretend to be Chinese
Roger Camp
• Bonfire of the Valentines
Doritt Carroll
• my name
• Katie
Grace Cavalieri
• First Meal after His Death
• Cavefish Out from Under the Rocks
Laura Cesarco Eglin
• Without Words
• Writing in a Café [tr. by Catherine Jagoe and Jesse Lee Kercheval]
Patrick Chapman
• Not a Bird
Juliet Cook
• middle ground pussy
• Semiabstract Self-Portrait
Juliet Cook/j.j. hastain
• Instead of the Doctor
Robert Cooperman
• Tracks in the Snow: Christmas Eve
• A Short Movie of Blaze Starr, the Stripper
Karen Craigo
• Bower
• Time Is Money
Rachel Dacus
• A View of Life from the Beach
• Good Head for Numbers
Michael Daley
• Gentle Dong
• The Loss of Beauty
Mark Danowsky
• The Rocky Mountain Locust Surge
Kristina Marie Darling/John Gallaher
• The Museum of the Occupation
• In the Bird Museum
William Virgil Davis
• A Box of Dark
• Hands
Stephanie McCarley Dugger
• 3:00 am, Knoxville
Kristina England
• A Statement of Lines
• Eating my way through death
Kallie Falandays
• Watching at the Window for Something Big to Happen
Joyce Maust Enzor
• Growing Up Mennonite
Matthew P. Garcia
• Guava Wine Blues
Bernadette Geyer
• Parable of Impending Doom
• Ghost, I Remember
Stephen Gibson
• Saving the Mare
Kate Gillespie
• To the Arising Civilizations on my Right Hand
Sid Gold
• Stranger
• Noon
• Cat
• Crawl
• Mine
Jonathan Greenhause
• The Seat Wants You to Sit in It
Jay Griswold
• Refugees
Susan Gubernat
• Bullet in the Back
• Poet, Found and Lost
Herb Guggenheim
• Laser
Maryanne Hannan
• Pejorate
• Exercise
David M. Harris
• Dead Letter Office: Thomas M. Disch
• Dick Cheney
Johnny Hartner
• Bullshit Movies
• Wise Up
Michael Hathaway
• Birthright
• At the End of the Day
Gloria Heffernan
• Insomnia
Arthur Heifetz
• Sanding
Robert Herschbach
• Rest
Margaret Hickey
• Galway Hospital Waiting Room
Donald Illich
• The Claw Game
• Gravity
Wendy Elizabeth Ingersoll
• Cloud Hands
Michael Johnson
• They
• Ornithos
• The Bone Temple
Abhay K.
• Bhaktapur
George Kalamaras
• Fernando Pessoa Might Call My Body True
• Luther Grosvenor and the Cape of Sound Rain
Tom Kelly
• Oregon Trail Meltdown
• Los Angeles Lease Agreement
Andrew Koch
• Cross Section of a Petrified Forest
Sandra Kolankiewicz
• The Reading
Beth Konkoski
• North on 81
Kathleen Kraft
• The Woman Who Wears a Dress of Water
Robert Krantz
• Wreck
W.F. Lantry
• Florescence
• Arras Tapestry
Marie Lecrivain
• saturn returns
Kateema Lee
• Growing Up D.C.
• Musings of a Netflix Binge Viewer
Lyn Lifshin
• Marie Van Goethem
• Her Braid of Real Human Hair
• Pere Lachaise Cemetery
• Rachel’s Lamb
• Sainte-Chappelle
Christopher Locke
• What the Dead Know
• Outside Limerick
Rebecca Macijeski
• Memories of Japan
Stephen Malin
• Elderbind
• Grave Days
Allie Marini
• if my body is the house I grew up in, let’s burn it from cellar to rafters
David Memmott
• Shadow-Boxing
• Meditation from a Dark Wood
Stephen C. Middleton
• Composition
• Opening Heartlands
Devon Miller-Duggan
• Science Fiction vs. Literature
• Last Episode
Kate Sampsell-Willmann
• No Cracks in the Pavement
Miles David Moore
• To an Obscure Vegetable
• The Capriciousness of Fatslug
Maria Nazos
• When the Beloved Asks “What Would You Do if I Woke up One Morning as a Loch Ness Monster?”
normal
• on the banks of the great passaic
• the strangle tree
Valeria Numinosa
• Here’s Why This Stunning Visual of Goddess Kali Is Giving People Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
John O’Dell
• Chekhov at the Moscow Zoo
Susan Okie
• Thy Bed of Crimson Joy
Simon Perchik
• *
Kathleen M. Quinlan
• Possibility
W. M. Rivera
• Walking in Central Park
David Romanda
• Fortune-Cookie Fortunes
John Roth
• Resurrection Minutia
• Head-Case Aquarium
Daniel Saalfeld
• DC Poem
• Spring Again
Taylor Sacco
• Meditations
• Cum Blossoms
Bruce Sager
• Question
Gerard Sarnat
• 67% Hopperized Bathos
M. A. Schaffner
• Algorithm Deflector Search Terms
• From Reedsville to the Big City
Lorraine Schein
• The Secret Hour, Before the Rain
• The Yellow Fairy Book
Claire Scott
• Did They
• My Father’s Death
Cathryn Shea
• The Lake Doesn’t Know
Kristina Webster Shue
• Never the Same Place Twice
Noel Sloboda
• Grading While the Roof is Being Replaced
• Tarzan in Suburbia
J. D. Smith
• Upon Further Review
Lana Spendl
• Flinging Superstitions
Kurt Steinwand
• Woodstock
• Lucky Lindy
M.G. Stephens
• Expanding Outward
• A Bad Case of the Blues
Mary Stone
• This is Dating
Belinda Subraman
• Refugee
Tim Suermondt
• Not Everything Has to Always Make Sense, Like Today
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
• The Monster’s Magic List
Marc Swan
• Before Ralph Nader Wrote His Book
Kelly Talbot
• The Drumming of Wings
• Stars Entering the Flow
• The Shimmer
Jenniey Tallman
• A Yellow Bowl
Devin Taylor
• Adventure Time! Circle All That Apply /[Sophomore Slump]/[I Believe I Can Fly]
Ed Taylor
• Elegy
Terrell Jamal Terry
• Faintly Majestic
• Three Moons
Parker Tettleton
• Love Poem
• Love Poem
• Love Poem
Teniola Tonade
• How Golden, At Last, Is the Recovered Fleece?
Sally Toner
• Boating on Lake Anne
Idea Vilarino
• You Don’t See Me
• I Want [tr. by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Anna Lowe Weber
• Block Island, 2015
Katherine West
• After the Bomb
J.T. Whitehead
• Almost Bourgeois
Gregg Wilhelm
• Jutting Out (Patapsco)
• Thief River Scrap
A.D. Winans
• Woman on the Balcony
• Thoughts on the California Drought
• Back from an MRI
Pamela Murray Winters
• Small Repair
• Pam Plays That Tiny Violin
Shannon Connor Winward
• Eruptions
• In Conception
• Peach Pie
Pui Ying Wong
• View from the Writers’ Room
Andrea Wyatt
• Arguing About the Line, the Breath
• Trout Fishing at Chicoutimi
Katherine E. Young
• Today I’m Writing Love Songs
• Succuba
Fiction
Graphics
Beth Adamour
• Double Shot
Jill Adams
• Vows
Roberta Allen
• What’s Next?
Cathy Alter
• The Plundering
Emily Amodeo
• We’re Not Pageant People
Jessy Randall
• Monotone Functions
David Sheskin
• You Are a Person of Interest
Randi Ward
• Blades
• Cattails
Nick Wineriter
• Pete Best