In this issue: goats: MRIs, honeysuckle, a car named Clem, Teddy bears, an obsession with surfing, the false promises of the Instant Pot, and more.
Table of Contents
POETRY
Nathan Hoks | What I’ve Learned about Form | Poem of Appearances | Calisthenics
Nathan Kouri | After Carla
Gaven Lover | I Am Asked If Grief Is like Being in a House
Tim Wood | from The Waves
Rachel Abramowitz | The Garden of Eden
Patrick Donnelly| Sciatica
Katherine Gibbel | Crash Report | The Salubrious Poem
Xiaoyan Zhao Drasnin | Horizons | The Red Barn | Between the Orchards and the Swamp, July 4th, 2020
Stephanie L. Harper | Pelvic Organ Prolapse | The Shape of Unsayable
Meredith Ann Fuller | Defiance
Lloyd Wallace | Wind Pickle | Crater Song
C. L. O’Dell | What Holds Us In | As the Night Lives inside Me
Matthew Moniz | Stratovolcano, Stratis Doctrina
Daniel Moysaenko | Phantom World | Raining/”Raining Down”
Rebecca Foust | Igloo
Kimberly Grey | These Structures Separated from Desire That Cannot Be Separated from Desire
CJ Evans | When Friends Pick Nice Restaurants | Ars Poetica
FICTION
Clint Bentley | Cairn
Chelsey Johnson | Bystanding
Nicole Klostermann | Yogurt
Courtney Zoffness | Imagination Exercise
Julia Meinwald | Visual Learner
Jeremy Griffin | In the Valley of Dry Bones
NONFICTION
Kathryn Nuernberger | Onslaughts
Clinton Crockett Peters | Imagination Messenger
Catherine Campbell | Surfboard
Margaret Schwartz | The Instant Pot
Anne P. Beatty | The Beautiful Mundane: An Only Partial Renunciation of Updike
ARTWORK
Rebecca Clouse | Dawgalisque: Hugo, from her series Mutisse! Watercolors after Matisse, with Dogs. In the series, Clouse substitutes “dawgalisques” for Henri Matisse’s odalisques (reclining nude women). Dawgalisque: Hugo is after Matisse, Nu au fauteuil, 1920.
