Current Issue
Devon Balwit, Emma Bolden, Don Brandis, Rick Campbell, Craig Cotter, Barbara Daniels, Amy Davis, Lauren Davis, Gary Duehr, Katherine Fallon, Gary Fincke, Lara Frankena, Mark Halpern, Elizabeth Carothers Herron, Mary Ann Honaker, Eli Karren, Philip Keinholz, George Longenecker, Demree McGhee, Joe Milazzo, John Moessner, Catherine Parnell, Arthur Plotnick, Suzanne S. Rancourt, Gerard Sarnat, Joel Savishinsky, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Charles Springer, Dante Di Stefano, Andrew Steketee, Margaret Stevens, Benjie Su, James Swansbrough, Amy Watkins, Eric Weil
Cover art by Lauren Silex
THANK YOU
Thank you to everyone who recently sent us a book or chapbook during our Spring open reading spell. We will be falling in love with your manuscripts over the next several months. It is such glorious anguish to read you and hear your music yet still knowing that we can only publish the books that sing to we all.
Young Adulting
by Maggie Light The year is 2002. The setting is a basement office cubicle. The protagonist is me. Nobody seems to notice that I haven’t done a moment of work in four days. I’ve been too busy composing emails to my college friend group, descriptions of my boozy...
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