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Table of Contents — Issue 5

    Children's/Young Adult
  • Audrey Abbott Iacone - Excerpt from Burnt
  • Bob Alexander & Sally Alexander - What Can Laura Do? excerpt from She Touched the World


  • Fiction
  • Daryl Farmer - On the Old Denali Road
  • Laura Hogan - Burning on the 405
  • Laurie Koozer - Hillcrest Valley Parade
  • Shirley Sullivan - Black Smudge
  • Todd A. Whaley - Flutter
  • Andrew Wingfield - Wonders of the World


  • Interview
  • Bob Alexander
  • Sally Alexander
  • Ander Monson
    Nonfiction
  • Susan Jo Burwen - Another Side of Paradise
  • Bonnie Jo Campbell - Garlic Mustard Diaries
  • Jennifer L. Johnson - Burning Red Cedar
  • K.T. Landon - Catch and Release
  • Robert McGowan - Fences
  • Laura Esther Wolfson - Climbing Montmarte


  • Poetry
  • Cynthia Belmont - Viewing the Hessian Treasures; Yes, You, October
  • David Blair - Gouache; Highway; Rustbelt
  • Elizabeth Bodien - The Harvesters; Evelyn Snake Woman
  • Di Brandt - Gracias; Poets in NY
  • Mary M. Brown - Finding Bethel
  • Daniella Buccilli - The Gentle Giraffe Talks to Her Father
  • W.E. Butts - Thrush and Squirrel
  • Rick Campbell - Verbs for Armadillos; Philosophy Made Simple; Sitting in the Emergency Exit Row; A Theory of Humours
  • Naomi Cohn - Jews in Space; The River Effra
  • Jim Daniels - Landfill America; Northern Lights; Watching Another Drug Bust; Defeat in the City Game
  • Todd Davis - Questions for the Artist
  • James Deahl - Giving Thanks; Kaufmann's Dining Room
  • Brent Fisk - Natural Selection; Dry Spell, July 1931
  • Stephen Frech - The Space a Fall Opens; Of This Death, An Unknown Number; Enter the Minotaur
  • Leonard Gontarek - Stones (drawing); Ascension II; Silver 3
  • Sandra L. Graff - A Poet Reads Her Work
  • Emily Gropp - These First Days; Horse, Black Pearls; Geography Lesson
  • T. Mozelle Harris - The Burden of Home
  • Elizabeth Hoover - Trivia; Mint
  • Richard Jackson - Wait for the Tone, Then Leave Your Message; Thirty Sentences for You
  • Emily Johnston - Dusks in Fairbanks--March
  • Miriam Jones - Dandelions and Puppets; Degenerate
  • Janet R. Kirchheimer - Taking Flight
  • John P. Kristofco - Thirteen Mountain Souls
  • William Kupinse - Osier
  • Miriam Levine - Winter Fire
  • Ada Limón - Precious Territory; The New World of Beauty
  • Joan Mazza - After Two Days
  • Jo McDougall - Leaving the Summer Rental Near Bar Harbor, Maine; A Fair Day
  • Ander Monson - The Usual Kind of Coma; Short Sermon On/For the Serious Number; Dear Boar
  • Julie L. Moore - Reasons to Stay; Something to Amaze
  • Joyce Odam - Gray Landscape
  • Nancy Pagh - To the Woman Who Stole My Visa Card
  • Karen Porter - Something Old in the Neighborhood
  • Todd Possehl - Partitions
  • Jonathan B. Rice - Cavatina after the Rainless Year
  • Fernand Roqueplan - Shoalwater Ridge
  • Mike Schneider - How Well I Go with Dirt; Crows
  • Matthew J. Spireng - This One Goose; Bison, Yellowstone
  • Richard St. John - A Blessing in Baltimore
  • Mary Swander - Dead Man's Float
  • Philip Terman - Under the Flyway; Speaking to the Woman with My Brother's Heart
  • Jeffrey Thomson - Landscape with Pigeons and the Tree of Heaven
  • Jim Tolan - Breath Robins; Half a Man Loves a Woman in Two; Stray
  • Isaiah Vianese - We Should Dream
  • Julie Marie Wade - Blake; Whidbey
  • Michael Walsh - Shore; Inheritance
  • Andrea L. Watson - Inventing the Land
  • Laurelyn Whitt - Man With Light in His Hands

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