Table of Contents

Poetry

• Marc McKee,
  • “How We Respond is What It Means”
  • “Reading The Metaphysical Club in Egypt, Texas”
  • “Anodyne”
  • “And The Lord God Made Garments of Skin”
•  Christopher DeWeese,
  • “The Salesman”
  • “The Sphinx”
• Jonathan Rice, “Matins: Leonids”
• Helen McClory, “Taxonomy”
• Rebecca Lilly, “Elkton Trailer Park”
• Melinda Gutowski,
  • “Affinity”
  • “Everything has in it has some poor substitute for the ocean, everything”
• Kevin Stoy,
  • “The Break”
  • “No See, That’s the Thing, Those Family Photos on the Walls”

Winner, Greg Grummer Poetry Award

Sarah Blackman, “That Bloody Hammer”

Honorable Mention, Greg Grummer Poetry Award

• Nancy Naomi Carlson, “After I Xeroxed the Sky”
• Gina Abelkop, “Godpaper (1930)”

• Michael Aird,
  • “In Cremonini”
  • “Tout Court”
  • “Verkeerspel”
• Christian Anton Gerard, “Waiting At the Oyamel“
• Debrah Morkun, “These Motions Do Not Create a Stationary Sun”
• James McCorkle,
  • “Tree Line and Meadow”
  • “Measures”
• Ryan J. Browne,
  • “How the boy hears The Rite of Spring“
  • “The boy who drops the sky”
• David Doran,
  • “Empire, MI”
  • “Empire, MI”

Fiction

Honorable Mention, Winter Fiction Contest

• Tate Higgins, “Hanging Tree”
• Christen Enos, “Disapperance”

Winner, Winter Fiction Contest

• Jim Wyatt, “Blunt Not the Heart”
• Allison Alsup, “Hillcrest”

Artwork

Jarrett Christian, “Modern Ace” (front cover photo)