Volume 50, Issue 3 | Winter 2020/21

In this issue: Pat Benatar, hemochromatosis, funerals, hotel linens, running amok, prison food, a cult, freight, teen sexuality, the blues, and more.

Table of Contents

FICTION
Venita Blackburn | Live Birth
Maija Mäkinen | 1993
Bronte Lim | Petite Ceinture
Ben Lasman | Cult Weekend
Kate Osana Simonian | The Kiss
NONFICTION
Clancy Tripp | Goon
Jenny Ferguson | On Bloodlettings
Diana Cejas | National Baptist Hymnal
Sarah Shotland | Flatten Clean
Laura Price Steele | The Host Body
POETRY
Rita Dove | Blues, Straight | The Spring Cricket’s Grievance: Little Outburst | A Sonnet for the Sonnet | Green Koan
Corey Van Landingham | Reader, I
Mike White | Animal
Bailey Cohen-Vera | Self-Portrait as Orientation in the Peaceful Country
Brian Ascalon Roley | After the Occupation
Jeddie Sophronius | The Land’s Testimony
Tracie Morris | [untitled]
Michael Dhyne | Portrait of My Father as a Young Man
Candice Wuehle | alpineglow ii
Katie Berta | Sometimes I Feel Exactly Like Satan | Getting Down on Your Knees Really Works | I Said Yes to Make Sure He Used a Condom | I’m Wife | “Sometimes it grieves me that I have never loved anyone. I don’t think I’ve ever been loved either.” | Birthday | Because I Want To Die, I Go to Nordstrom Rack
Vicente Huidobro, translated by Jonathan Simkins | Hand of the Moment
Amanda Peery-Wolf | The Women’s War Museum | Adam | Otherwise Provided by This Act (Section 13a) | What to Say to Night | The Time of Least Resistance | Seer | WHAT CAN I SHIP

ARTWORK
Jodi Perry | Patti’s Home Sweet Home