Table of Contents

Poetry

• Caren Scott,
  • “First, remove the heart.”
  • “The Lake is Trying to Form a Frozen Skin”
  • “Second Contact, Explanation”
• Drew Nolte,
  • “The Insertable”
  • “Scribes and Illuminations”
  • “Lieutenant McNeil, August 2nd 1942”
• The Pines,
  • “ARBY”
  • “ARBY”
  • “ARBY”
• Anselm Berrigan, from To Hell With Sleep
• Laurie E. White,
  • “The Deep Geese Mind You”
  • “If There’s Anything I Deeply Mind, It’s the Geese”
• Ryan Walker,
  • “Poems are these flat”
  • “like a television life is in danger”
• Henry Hart, “Lunatics on the Lawn”
• Marci Johnson, “Ars Poetica at the Speed Art Museum”
• Nora Almeida,  “Satire on La Playa a Las Muertas”- Greg Grummer Award
• Dan Ford,
  • “Notes Toward an Aesthetic Philosophy”
  • “Detritus”
• Trina Burke,
  • “Urban Sublime”
  • “Cinnamon Patilles Hot on the Tip of the Tongue”
• Eryn Green, “The Missing Will Be Found”
• Ben Doller,
  • “What Do You Do”
  • “Column.”
• Kimberly Lojek,
  • “Vertical”
  • “[Russian Blue Glove and Cigarette Burning]”
• Mel Nichols,
  • “Day Poem”
  • “Day Poem”
  • “Day Poem”

Fiction

• Kevin Wilson, “The Thumb”
• Caitlin Horrocks, “Somewhere in America a Man Named Jason Brockman Weighs 470 Pounds and I Am Going to Save Him”
• Dan Pinkerton, “You’re Unique, Just Like Everyone Else”
• John Yunker, “The Tourist Trail” – Contest Winner
• K.A. Hays, “Deerhaven”
• Girija Tropp,
  • “Conduit”
  • “Jack”
  • “Fish Tank”
• Chris Gavaler, “Tax Information for Parents of Kidnapped Children”
• Avital Gad-Cykman, “Reunion”
• Mike Young, “All of the Tumbling”
• Josh Maday, “Fiction with Teratoma Preserves”

Artwork

• Marisa Purcell, “Ascendants” (front cover)
• John Kieltyka, “Meeting Doodles”