Issue 44

SPRING 2022

UNCLASSIFIABLE CONTEST WINNER

Helen Hofling
Armory

POETRY

Rodney Jones
Something is Happening, But You Don’t Know What It Is, Do You Mr. Jones
Identifying With Stars In A Time of Pandemic
All Human Time Is Simultaneous

Rebecca Foust
Life Is Beautiful
Positano

Aleš Šteger, translated by Brian Henry
Europe
Returning Home

Meg Reynolds
Discipline
Inheritance

Hala Alyan
Ode To My Lungs
Buck Moon

A. Molotkov
Damp Postcard

FICTION

Becky Hagenston
La Mesa

Derek Anderson
Naplam

Nana Howton
Ghosts

Dinah Cox
“Oh, I Know”

 

Nonfiction

Boyer Rickel
On Insomnia

Jessie Van Eerden
When I Dream Us Into The Book of Ruth

 

Flash

Stevem Ostrowski
Facing It

Michael McGillicuddy
Herald’s Lament

Jessica Alexander & Katie Jean Shinkle
Carwash

STAFF

Editor: Laura Newbern
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Peter Selgin
Fiction Editor: Chika Unigwe
Poetry Editor: Kerry James Evans
Managing Editor: William Warren​
Assistant Managing Editor: Darian Araiza-Samples

Assistant Editors: 
Denechia Powell
Courtney Schmidt
Timothy Connors
Shannon Yarbrough
Merick Alsobrooks
Kelly Piggott
Paul Bryant