Poetry Suite by Emily O’Neill
“curled together
like pages of a book fallen into the bath—they can’t read us”
Letters: Writing Donald Hall, by Charles Bane, Jr.
“Tonight, here, poems have raised their oars to the sky”
Scott McClanahan Says Don't Fuck Around Near a Table Saw by Lavinia Ludlow
“A teen stripper amputee emerges from the curtains with a pasty on the end of her “nub””
Poetry Suite by Jeanann Verlee
“Me, a rusted hammer. Me, a sweet & lovely
disaster. How much beautiful must I kill?”
How I Hugged a Spaceman by Joseph Blair
“Spiritualized would pull Ladies and Gentlemen out of retirement”
Life After Life After Death by Robert Lashley
“I will not completely conquer this pain in my lifetime, but I will fight”
Casting Tracks: Cliff Barackman and Sasquatch Culture by Joseph Blair
““Keep an eye out,” Cliff advised. “There have been recent sightings around here.””
The Things We Know Nothing About by Margaret Malone
“I was prepared to play it up. Strangers! Having sex! By a pregnant woman’s hedges!”
As If Knowing the Answers Ever Changes Anything, by Matty Byloos
“capable of loving beyond the categories of sexuality and gender”