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42.1


SPRING/SUMMER : 2018

cover of issue 42.1

sample
writing

Denise Sweet
Lightwoman's Lament
Sara Raappana
In the Absence of Sparrows, I Learn to Stop Hearing Sparrows
 

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table of
contents

Poetry
Yim Tan Wong
Sleep Suppressants 
 
Denise Sweet
Lightwoman’s Lament 
 
Tyler Kline
Was it Supposed to Feel Good
 
Varun Ravindran
Selfie with Poem
 
Alison Palmer
Memory is a Field that Stirs 
 
Lisa Low
ruby, n. and adj.
Letters, Part 4
Letters, Part 5
 
Lisha Ruan
Promise Me
 
Talia Shalev
May, June
 
John Sibley Williams
We are Not Alone
 
Muriel Leung
“What is there to say?”
“Has a city ever looked so beautiful?”
 
Kara Dorris
[for & against] Longing
 
Danielle Weeks
Prescience
 
Maria Martin
The Order
 
Rebecca Pelky
March
 
Saara Myrene Raappana
In the Absence of Sparrows, I Learn to Stop Hearing Sparrows
When I write heart I mean
 
Christine Robbins
Wake
 
Christopher Citro
Sneaking Back Inside
We Live on a Foreign Planet this One
 
Elizabeth McLagan
Anecdotal
 
Rennie Ament
1676
 
Virginia Konchan
Pastoral
Adam Day
Kiru XXXIII
Kiru XXXIV
Sonja Johanson
Birds of America
Night Poem
Michael Jones
For Your Flash Cards, Please Use a Paper Clip
111116 and Counting
Spencer Smith
Shade
Chelsea Whitton
Panic
Camille-Yvette Welsch
The Bone Orchard
 
fiction
Eric Magnuson
Sometimes They Scream
Tom Williams
Kool Filters 
Monica Boothe
The Second Birth
Emily Cataneo
Wolf Diary
Leyna Krow
The Butter People
Jonathan Cardew
Yes, Mike?
Blood and Tofu
Twin Cities
Brenna Womer
Sugar Glass
I/O
Elisabeth Blair & Jeff Morris
In the Middle of the Room
David Jhave Johnston
Rerites
non-fiction
Emily Townsend
Shattered Self-Portraits in the Process of Restoration
Karen Weyant
Spider Love
art 
Ryan Schaufler
Smokestacks
Mannequin Prison
Ashley Parker Owens
Heavy
Sorry/Sorrow
Decoy
Gretchen Gales
Predator and Prey
Puff the Magic Dragonfly
Daniel Maluka
Black Me
cover for Winter Black
David Sheskin
The Reincarnation of Joan of Arc Outside the Den of the Taliban
The Reincarnation of Pablo Picasso as a Rhinoceros 
 

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Caleb Nelson
fiction editors
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poetry editors 
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art editor
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cover design
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Kimberly Blaeser
Brenda Cárdenas
Dave Clark
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Ann Hanlon
Stuart Moulthorp
Gregory Jay
Todd Wellman
assistant editors
Peter Burzynski
Su Cho
RS Deeren
Alexandra Vieux Frankel
Amanda Haag
Molly Haile
Brian Herrick
Gabriel King
David Kruger
Karisa Langlo
Shanae Martinez
Scott Mashlan
Kevin McColley
Maria Ortiz
Jessie Roy
Conor Scruton
Elias Sepulveda
Theresa Stefaniak
Angela Voras-Hills
Matthew Wamser
Cesca Waterfield
Erich Wegenke