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Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Anne McGouran
• Hoopoe/Huppe
• Koomo Who?
• Cocktails in the Library
• At My Bianchi Pace
Poetry
• Driot du Seigneur
• This Way to the Egress
• Listen Carefully, As Our
Menu Has Changed • How to Find True Love
• Date at the Diner
• Helping My Father Fix the Tractor
• Mike, the fish guy
Kathleen Clancy
• Expecting My Ex
• First Rock Concert
Reilly Cox
• At Dusk in Delaware beside the Crabbing Dock
Henry Crawford
• D.C. Pinball
• Midlife Blues
• The Sky Shrugs Its Indifferent Blue Shoulders
German Dario
• crucible
• golondrinas
• WorkM
•The Decorating Preferences of Starlings and Housewives
Daniella Deutsch
• Brooklyn Has Bad Water Pressure Anyways
RC deWinter
• schizocreatophenia
• Sliding Scale
Alexis Draut
• nikau lodge
• I Turn to Charles Bukowski
• BLT
Alan Elyshevitz
• Arson Day
Robert Estes
• I’ve Never Tried It
Alexis Rhone Fancher
• Hey: 19: Daddy’s Pal, Paul and I Cut to the Chase
• Clueless
Michelle Fenton
• Dark, water
David Galloway
• how I have saved the world
• Portrait of Madame de Pompadour at the Frick Collection in NYC
Daniel Ginsburg
• Black Snake Coiled in My Black Leather Sofa
• Walled In
• Eyes
• Defeat
Benjamin Goluboff
• Leiber and Stoller Meet Big Mama Thornton
• John Hammond Meets Louis Armstrong on Board the U.S.S. City of Hoboken, Bound for Liverpool, 1933
• Sound Bites
• Twilight Lasts a Long Time
• A Bouquet of Mistakes
Robert Hahn
• Grief as Bad Art
• Saxophone Player in a Large Empty Room
• Morning Devotions
Alan Harawitz
• Sled Dog Audition in Brooklyn Heights
• Dead Letter Office: Mickey Mantle
• The Madness of Ajax
Nina Heiser
• What is rape?
Janet Heller
• If Shakespeare Lived in 2019 . . .
• Mrs. Robinson
• A Very Short Story
• Zookeeper’s Shadow Puppets
• Uses for Piggy Banks
• A Necessary Weakness
• To A Dead Girl Who Might Have Been My Friend
David Koehn
• Delta 10: The Green Plastic Flyswatter on the End Table Looks Like a Bug
• Till Retrograde is Over
Ellen Kombiyil
• Not About Sex
• Water Witching
James Ph. Kotsybar
• The Sheer Power of Light and Thought
• One Paradise
Peter Leight
• When They Come for You
Kelly Lenox
• After Giving Up Wine for Two Months and Other Alcohol, Too
• Playing with Tense
• Sight
• Forget
Federico Garcia Lorca
• from Summer Hours [tr. By Laura Chalar]
Gregory Luce
• Return to A Love Supreme
• A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
• Smells like rain
• When You Tell My Story
• The Difficulty with Pundits
• Perceptual Shift
• Worshipping the Dark
R.S. Mengert
• Frank Booth’s Lament
Michael Meyerhofer
• Thoughts and Prayers
• Autumn Directive
• Our Veranda Is Covered with a Flowered Canopy
Christopher Munde
• Fortean Gods
• Endura
• Camp Davidian
• redemptive
• Scandinavian Noir
• Dear Contributor
Lauro Palomba
• Elixir
• The Greek Word for Rain
• Memoir
• Look
*Gabrielle M. Peterson
• how to calm the heart animal
Scarlett Peterson
• Back Roads
Joshua Plack
• Worldplay
• Questions for the Statues
• Gladys Went and Busted Her Ass!
• Her Three-Piece Sublime
Jessica Purdy
• Who speaks to me when I can’t write
• Pareidolia
Charles Rafferty
• Perspective
• The Land of Steady Decline
Robin Ray
• Grand Concourse and 161th St., The Bronx
• On Disappointment Island
John Repp
• Canto
Stephen Thomas Roberts
• Wipeout
• The Final Days of Beauty
• October 5th, 1957
Kathryn Pratt Russell
• Baudelaire’s Watery Grave
M.A. Scott
• Twilight with Pharmaceutical
• Blue Tarp
• Tea Party
• To the Inadvertent Misogynists in My Life
• inside the drum
• Snowfield
• Race Music
Robert Joe Stout
• Christmas, Oaxaca, 2006
• Bite
• Unfortunate Monsters
• Leavings
• Through a cracked window
• Mesektet into the Night
• Demon Monkey
• The Breastplate Stretcher
Gillian Thomas
• Loose Notes
• Jabberjaw: For Miles
• News at a Glance
• The Gods of Mutable Things
• Cassandra Says
• Creation
• Tiresias Comes Over for Tea
• Keats House
• SoHo Grand Hotel, August 2018
• These Days
• Trolley
Michael T. Young
• Dreaming I’m Jason Bourne
• Man Boobs
• Mass Transit Poetry Readings, Early 1970s
Fiction
Art
Sean Gill
• The Fixed Umbrella
Gwendolen Gross
• Elvis Eats Everything
William Locke Hauser
• My Bench
Frederick Highland
• The Oracle Monger
• Miss Degreaser of 1981
• Reunion
Lisa Lo Paro
• Something David Must Explain
Kuzuha Makino
• Doing It with Octopuses [tr. Toshiya Kamei]
Mannika Mishra
• Cupola
• After Logic
Jillian Oliver
• Dora
W. T. Paterson
• Fishing
Issie Patterson
• When the Snow Melts
• Half
• Stumpy and Marnie
Michael R. Schrimper
• House-Sitting
Adam Schwartz
• Wizzur
• A Visit
Max Talley
• We’re Here to Protect You
Cover Art: “Are You Not Reassured?”
by Reb Livingston.