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Jack Driscoll: The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot |
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| Jerry Bumpus |
Anaconda [An excerpt from the novel] |
| Jack Marshall |
Two Poems: |
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2nd Amendment
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I have a fear of heights
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Thanks so much to our guest editor Alexis Rhone Fancher for making this one of our largest and best poetry issues—she selected 50 works by 38 poets, and we believe Steve Kowit would have been delighted, too!
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| Alexis Rhone Fancher |
An Intro Note |
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| Michelle Bitting |
I Don’t Want a Funeral |
| Laurel Ann Bogen |
Kisses I Remember |
| Elya Braden |
Two Poems: |
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Diaspora |
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Expiration Date |
| John F. Buckley |
Season’s Greetings |
| Peter Neil Carroll |
Free Trade |
| M. Doretta Cornell |
Perhaps |
| Darren C. Demaree |
Three Poems: |
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A Night So Beautiful We Had to Burn Down the Senator’s House #34, #35, and #36 |
| Jude Dillon |
Two Poems: |
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[You’re on the last drop] |
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[A large whiskey has focus] |
| Elisabeth Adwin Edwards |
Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear or For Your Information |
| Michael Estabrook |
Internal Monologue |
| Vern Fein |
In a Short While |
| Michael C Ford |
State of Grace |
| Jeff Friedman |
Hole [Prose poem] |
| Bill Gillard |
Sheol Farm |
| Tony Gloeggler |
A Good Bad Day |
| Mitchell Krockmalnick Grabois |
Harsh Chord |
| Robert J. Howe |
The Gather Inn |
| Joseph Hurtgen |
Americans |
| James Croal Jackson |
Two Poems: |
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After the Lancaster Beer Festival |
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Half |
| Richard Jones |
The Leather Flask |
| Sneha Subramanian Kanta |
Why No One Writes Anymore of the Moon |
| Christina Kapp |
Fixer-Upper |
| Robert S. King |
Two Poems: |
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How to See the World |
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Hearing an Atheist’s Confession |
| Ellen LaFleche |
Prayer for Despair |
| Ellaraine Lockie |
Contribution to Creativity |
| Clint Margrave |
Two Poems: |
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In Our Twenties |
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The Role of Art |
| Catfish McDaris |
Two Poems: |
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A Tornado of Trouble |
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Ghost |
| Lisa Marguerite Mora |
How the Moon Came Roaring |
| Jim Natal |
How Fitting [Haibun] |
| Linda Neal |
Plums, Maybe Plums |
| Simon Perchik |
Four Poems: |
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[Again and again you begin each night] |
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[Even without a caress its petals] |
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[For a few hours every night the floor] |
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[You sleep with the coat buttoned] |
| Cliff Saunders |
Bed of Victories |
| Lisa Segal |
Two Poems: |
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If a Song’s |
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What Lola Wants |
| Beate Sigriddaughter |
Neruda’s Mermaid |
| Pam Ward |
Why My “T” Sticks |
| Florence Weinberger |
Picasso’s Four Bulls |
| Terry Wolverton |
Keep a bullet in your pocket for times like these |
| Jim Zola |
The Window |
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| Jerry Bumpus |
The Dirigible [Flash fiction]
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| Mitchell Krockmalnick Grabois |
Carnality [Flash fiction] |
| Toni Ann Johnson |
Home |
| Thomas E. Kennedy |
What Does God Care About Your Dignity, Victor Travesti? |
| Roisin McLean |
The Threshold of Things Lost |
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| Darrell Black |
Two Artworks [Drawings]:
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A Really Bad Trip |
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Bunte Moo |
| Duane Locke |
Three Artworks [Mixed Media]:
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Sur-Object U-567 |
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Sur-Object U-594 |
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Three Graces |
| Nancy Parshall |
Three Photographs:
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Artsy Shadows |
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Eclipse in a Puddle |
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[Purple Harvest] |