Issue 42

Spring 2021
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Unclassifiable Contest Winner

Kat Mustatea
Voidopolis

Fiction

Stephanie Gangi
The Rescue

Kent Kosack
Stay Golden

Simone Martel
Afternoon in Nairobi

Noley Reid
Meridian

Poetry

Philip Arnold
Pound in Venice, 1963
Valley of the Condor

Roy Bentley
The United States of America in the Summertime
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love

Marianne Boruch
The Pelican Minus a Wing Must Still
So You’re Remembering Sheep Now Too, the Archangel
No Word of the Fires, I Began the Day

Trent Busch
Curt’s Girl
Kick the Tire

Laura Bylenok
Autotheory
Dura Mater

Lila Dlaboha
Maestro
Tremors of Equinox

Justin Hunt
The Winter of Your Flu
Sundown at Huntington

Abbie Kiefer
My Friend Tells Me About the Last Day at the Bass Shoe Factory
When the Flood Came

Laurie Lamon
Who Love Beauty
If You Believe in God

Clay Matthews
Psalm [maybe the hours spent on the other side]
Slings and Arrows

Manisha Sharma
The Vanishing Girls Speak – An Elegy
Discerning Sex Selection

Flash

Dan Kennedy
Paralysis

Matt Greene
Holding the Baby

Editor
Laura Newbern
Creative Nonfiction Editor
Peter Selgin
Fiction Editor
Chika Unigwe
Poetry Editors
Kerry James Evans
Managing Editor
William Warren
Assistant Managing Editor
Kelsie Doran
Assistant Editors
Lori Tennant
William Gerdes-McClain
Shannon Yarbrough
Dalton Monk
Courtney Schmidt
Caleb Bouchard