Issue 8: Summer/Fall 2023

Essays/Nonfiction
Last Day
by Jacqueline Herron

Poetry
So You Want to Travel the World
by Sandra Smith

Eye of the Beholder
Intermezzo
by Karen Tongson

Poetry
“LOVE THE FLICKER,” “MOTHERS”
by Kirsten (Kai) Ihns

Conversations
Pursuit Is Everything: A Conversation with W. S. Di Piero
by David Biespiel

Poetry
“Nat Turner’s Dream,” “The Morning Sky,” “More Words,” and “On Television”
by W.S. Di Piero

Poetry
“Hither,” “Submission”
by Jessica Goodfellow

Fiction
The Depressed Baby
by Elizabeth Crane

Diary
Creve Coeur, Part 3
by Robert Fitterman

Poetry
“Hunger,” “Red Bath,” It Is Not a Bridge,” “The Hart”
by Sarah Maclay

Diary
Creve Coeur, Part 2
by Robert Fitterman

Essays/Nonfiction
In Praise of White Hair
by Catherine Texier

Poetry
“Apostrophe,” “Lottery (I’ll never know)”
by Kristin Robertson

Poetry
“Fallen,” “Mirror and Table”
by Brian Kim Stefans

Poetry
“Racket on the Petals,” “Hedge Man,” “Vanishing Point Canto,” “Freddie Mercury in Paradiso,” “Jeanne Lee, Conspiracy”
by Diane Mehta

Essays/Nonfiction
Vanguard Mail Operations
by Kristen Gallagher

Poetry
Morning Without School
by Caitlin Thomson


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