SPRING 2018
UNCLASSIFIABLE CONTEST WINNER
Shawndra Miller
Bleeding the Butterfly
POETRY
Elisabeth Murawski
Mime on Little River Turnpike
Thirst
Bruce Bond
Politics
Clarity
Todd Davis
Learning to Tie a Fly
What My Aunt Virginia Says When She Visits
Sarah Munroe
Poem That Begins With Hafez
Thinking About My Father Around His Birthday
Susan Terris
The French Girl Who Hates to be Eurydice
The French Boy Who Must Be Faust
Michael Salcman
John Updike’s Trash
Seven or Eight Reflections on Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Jehanne Dubrow
Scholar Sharpening His Quill
Tefillah for an Adjunct Professor
On Teaching Art Spiegelman’s Maus
John Sibley Williams
Aftermaths
If
Giving Thanks
Emily Vizzo
What Magic You Bring You Bring to You Alone
FICTION
Wes Civilz
First World Problem
Nancy Dinan
The Exact Opposite of Deja Vu
Aimee Pogson
Bells
Luke Muyskens
Shotgun to an Empty Seat
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Angela Bullock
One Summer Night and a Winter Death
Jessie van Eerden
Blessed is the Impossible Heart
STAFF
Editor: Laura Newbern
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Peter Selgin
Fiction Editors: Kerry Neville & Allen Gee
Poetry Editor: Laura Newbern
Managing Editors: Abbie Lahmers & Faith Thompson
Isabel Acevedo
Brittany Barron
Morgan Coyner
Pooja Desai
Leah Kuenzi
Ernestine Montoya
Roe Sellers