THE VIOLENCE ALMANAC, by Miah Jeffra (2021, Black Lawrence Press, New York, NY, 180 pages, $19.95, 978-1-62557-836-5) Reviewed by Derek Berry The Violence Almanac Centers An American Obsession with Brutality...

We're so happy to have Tucson artist Saraiya Ruano Kanning for the Issue 14 cover. Saraiya is also a short story writer and musician. Her story "Awakening" appeared in Issue 6. The new issue will probably appear in June. It features Kimberly Ann Priest, Lisa Lewis,...

Discreet Conversations Just Below the Surface Go straight. Do not turn. Where you areis neither right nor left. Left is where you leftyour children, not on some broad stretchof highway, but home. Right is the parking loton the outskirts of Vegas. Best to go...

James Wesley Clark left this world January 28, 2021, in Arnold, Maryland, where he was being treated for complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was a poet, journalist, bookseller and collector, chef, and family historian. He was also long known and loved for the...

Island of Cows-São Miguel, Azores Primavera tries to cross past the wireto reach the fallen golden nêsperas.I stroke her head. She nibbles my clothes. HerMaya-blue irises beam through my heart.She licks my cheek with her warm, softsandpaper tongue. She and her pals...

One of our dear editors died in his sleep January 27. J. Wesley Clark published some 400 poems in a writing career that began in El Paso and Mexico City as a stringer for the wire services in the early 1960s. Prior to that, he served with the 82nd Airborne as a...

Lopsided I live in a world of my making. News reaches meand crawls away to make space for more; a cat resides there, maybethe ghost of my former cat, or a stray sleeping with my husband;I prune plants in order to see the foldable cloud-filled sky; housestranspose...