FEATURED WORK

ALLISON SOMMERS:
JEFFREY MICHAEL HARP:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

RHETT ISEMAN TRULL:
  • Talking All Day to the Dead (p)
ZACHARY SCHOMBURG:
  • A Horrible Flood of Lava (p)
  • Love is When You Build a Boat From All the Eyelashes in the Ocean (p)
  • Landscape (Lava) (p)
JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM:
  • Avian Omens (p)
SARAH BARTLETT AND EMILY KENDAL FREY:
  • Caged (p)
LEIGH STEIN:
  • As Soon As You Meet Someone You Know the Reason You Will Leave Them (p)
  • Keeping the Minotaur at Bay (p)
JIM DANIELS:
  • Pollywogville at Nineteen (p)
LARISSA SZPORLUK:
  • Animal-Man (p)
EVAN BEATY:
  • Safari (p)
CHARLES HARPER WEBB:
  • Brain Silos (p)
  • Sarcastic Fringehead (p)
MATTHEW ZAPRUDER:
  • After Reading Tu Fu, I Emerge from a Cloud of Falseness (p)
  • Automated Regret Machine (p)
  • Together Yet Also Apart (p)
LUKE KENNARD:
  • Grapefruit (p)
  • Variations on Tears (p)
  • Gravedigger: The Movie (p)
MAURICE MANNING:
  • A Ringer Washer on the Porch (p)
  • Ars Poetica Shaggy and Brown (p)
ANDREA SCARPINO:
  • White Folks’ Kitchen (p)
RON MOHRING:
  • Anne’s Lace (p)
  • Throwing Nothing Away (p)
DENISE DUHAMEL:
  • American Express, 2006 (p)
ELYSE FENTON:
  • The War Bride Waits (p)
LILLIAN BERTRAM:
  • ‘Incident’ (p)
  • This Is Not A Sing-Along (p)
CODY TODD:
  • Ophelia dans le noir (p)
ALEXIS ORGERA:
  • The Marriage at Cana (p)
BETSY WHEELER:
  • Unauthorized Biography of Christopher Sholes (p)
  • How Very Lewis and Clark of Me (p)
  • {Cottage Relic I} (p)
ANA BOZICEVIC-BOWLING:
  • Retired Opera Singer Mouths a Friend’s Name Through a Fever (p)
OLIVIA CLARE:
  • Reverence is not Idle, I did not Stand Stunned (p)
JOSHUA A. WARE:
  • [11 January 2007] (p)
  • [08 April 2007] (p)
NOAH GERSHMAN:
  • The Enthusiast (p)
MARY JO BANG:
  • Her in the Eye of the Hurricane (p)
  • Time to be Tamed (p)
MATTHEW YEAGER:
  • Tuxedo (p)
GINA OCHSNER:
  • A Song for a Day (f)
SHANE JOAQUIN JIMENEZ:
  • The Two Empresses of Mexico (f)
SCOTT BLACKWOOD:
  • Film Footage of the Smallest Gestures (f)
ELIZABETH ESLAMI:
  • Inheritance (f)
EMMA NEALE:
  • Colin, from Relative Strangers (f)
BARRY WADE SIMMS:
  • The Pond Below Our House (f)
ABBY STEWART:
  • Words for Everything Else (f)
ALLISON SOMMERS:
  • Into Exile (a)
  • Treats (a)
  • I Will Be a Home for You (a)
  • The Woodsman’s House (a)
JEFFREY MICHEAL HARP:
  • Annointed (a)
  • Untitled (Floating) (a)
  • The Yawning (a)
  • This Luscious Transmutation (a)
SU BLACKWELL:
  • Magnolia Tree (a)
  • The Old House (a)
  • The Quiet American (a)
JULIEN PACAUD:
  • Cover Art for Issue 4 (a)

STAFF

EDITOR
  • Ryan P. Young
MANAGING EDITORS
  • Will Burdette
  • Sami Amad
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
  • Miriam Greenberg
POETRY EDITOR
  • Sarah E. Smith
ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS
  • Nicky Dearling
  • Laura Maher
  • Malachi Black
FICTION EDITOR
  • Jaime deBlanc-Knowles
ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITORS
  • Sebastian James Langdell
  • Paige Normand
ART EDITOR
  • Rebecca Wadlinger
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
  • Anastasia Drabicky
BUSINESS MANAGER
  • Maria E. Acosta
READERS
  • Joseph Ahearn
  • Elizabeth Frye
  • Louisa Hall
  • Brian Hauser
  • Dorothy Meiburg
  • Rachel Murray
  • Mary Sharpe
  • Cara Zimmer
FOUNDING EDITORS
  • Jessica Piazza
  • R. J. Lambert
  • James Capozzi
ADVISORY EDITOR
  • Kurt Heinzelman