Current Issue: #23—Silence & Power
SILENCE
POETRY
TINA CARLSON: In the Embassy of Silence
W. TODD KANEKO: Looking Outside Airplane Windows
All the Things that Make Heaven and Earth
Horses’ Mouths
ROSEBUD BEN-ONI: Efes Wrestling with the Poet Who Won’t Look Away
Poet Wrestling with Neutrinos She {Allegedly} Cannot Feel
AMELIA MARTENS: Morning Walk: September 11, 2018
JOHN A. NIEVES: Long Dash
LUPE MÉNDEZ: The Arkema Plant—Crosby, TX
THEOPHILUS KWEK: Transformations
LIZZY FOX: Fashion—1860
CREATIVE NONFICTION
AKIKO YOSANO, translated by MARISSA SKEELS: Excerpts from Postpartum Confinement
YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
MARGO LEMIEUX: The Gift
YAN FÉCU: The Repeating Island
FICTION
MICHAEL MARTONE: Two Monologues from Winesburg, Indiana, a small town between Fort Wayne and South Bend and not that far from Warsaw
Mario Talarico’s Peonies
Sue Johnson, Parking Enforcement Officer
MICHAEL NYE: The Good Shepherd
TIPHANIE YANIQUE: Extermination
POWER
POETRY
BRAD ROSE: No Tomorrow
JIHYUN YUN: Benediction as Disdained Cuisine
PAUL TRAN: The Real Housewife of Orange County
ELOISA AMEZCUA: I Haven’t Masturbated in Five Days for Fear of Crying
I Haven’t Masturbated in Five Days for Fear of Crying
JADE HURTER: Crystal Vision, with Chrysalis
JAKE SKEETS: Drift(er)
Red Running Into Water
LAUREN ESPINOZA: Rio Grande Valley Triptych
GABRIEL DOZAL: The Border Simulator (Is This Language a Desert Also?)
LIZZY FOX: On Power
CREATIVE NONFICTION
RITA BANERJEE: Birth of Cool
YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
BETH LITTLE: Where Did You Go?
NOAH WEISZ: The Otchka
FICTION
MICHAEL MARTONE: Two Monologues from Winesburg, Indiana, a small town between Fort Wayne and South Bend and not that far from Warsaw—
Maurice Milkin, Eraser Carver
The Weeping Willow Windbreak of Winesburg
GABRIELA DENISE FRANK: Muertos
MARK POWELL: Narrowing