Winter 2023
Poetry & Short Prose
Stopping (with apologies to Robert Frost)
Mark D. Bennion
Omen
Brendan Bense
Cosmic Slip
Molly Bolton
California, Driving Home After a Wedding
Phillip Watts Brown
First Imploration: Renewed Madness
Duncan Campbell
Gunpowder Homestead
Grant Clauser
My Father Holding a Cake in Larimore, North Dakota
Lisa Dordal
Rules of the Nursing Home
Brian Duncan
Owl
Suzanne Edison
Hinge
Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Imposter Syndrome
Melissa Fite Johnson
Playing for Nickels and Dimes
Judy Kaber
Prayer with Dead Mother and Apparent Outward Force on a Rotating Mass
Sally Rosen Kindred
Eyebrows
Eric Lochridge
Augury
Elizabeth Loudon
Things the sun told me while waiting for your forgiveness
Melanie Maggard
Tangled
Dawn Miller
The Silence of Winter
Angelina-Maria Montejo
The winter I descended
Anne Rankin
i don’t dance at family parties
n.l. rivera
Unfiltered
James Roach
On Beauty
Leonora Simonovis
Year’s end
Emily Tee
I wish Aristotle had been right about birds
Heather Truett
Pedagogy
Flipping the Map: Lessons in Place Writing
Julija Šukys
Self-Portrait as an Opera Girl: A Lesson in Collecting Material
Laura Sweeney
Reviews
The Only Life We Can Be Sure Of: A Review of No Angels by Mary Makofske
Diane Bliss
“So peaceful, unafraid”: A Review of the 2023 Mini Chapbooks Bundle from Yavanika Press
Jess Chua
Baseball Heaven: A Review of Aisle 228 by Sandra Marchetti
Mindy Kronenberg
Interviews
RuPaul, Real Housewives, & Centos of Twitter: An Interview with Alex Carrigan
Robert Allen
Ominous But Bright: A Conversation with Jeannine Hall Gailey and Cynthia Hogue
Lesley Wheeler