ISSUE 34: Spring / Summer 2025

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PUBLISHER/INTERIM EDITOR
Willard Cook

MANAGING EDITOR
Heather Gluck

PROSE EDITOR
Jeff Bond

POETRY EDITOR
Ashna Ali

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Michele Lent Hirsch

ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
Lucille Whittier

WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
Franchesca Viaud


FRESH VOICES FELLOW
Sidney Logan Echevarria

POETRY CONT.

Kami Enzie
Bolaji Badejo


Karl Michael Iglesias
Self Portrait Holding On For Dear Life

Katia Engell
We Go About Our Days

Kristin W. Davis
We live in our heads…

Lizzy Ke Polishan
Golfing on the Edge of Mauna Loa

Luke Sebben
Winter Scene

Merridawn Duckler
Amsterdam

Mina Khan
Two Poems

Nora Rose Tomas
Two Poems

Pedro Deleon
Found

Philip Schultz
My Neighbor Ed

Quinn Franzen
Happiness

T. De Los Reyes
Enthralled

Tala Khanmalek
Exile Sestina

Tim Lim
Two Poems

Tony Nicholas Clark
Geneva's Place

Yamini Pathak
Carrying

Yev Gelman
Mourning Song

POETRY

A Molotkov
Love Letter

Aditi Bhattacharjee
Two Poems

Amari Amai
The REAL Origin Story

Amy de Rouvray
Moray Eel

Anthony Ramstetter Jr
Foursquare: Anonymous Lover

Asa Drake
Three poems

Brittany Micka-Foos
Ghost Peppers

Carlos Andrés Gómez
U.S.-Made Munitions

Carmen Calatayud
Cirrhosis Alchemized

Christa Fairbrother
Word Problems in Math and Civil Disobedience in English

Constance Hansen
Punctums

Dale Cottingham
On Freedom

David Groff
On to You

Emily Skillings
PRELUDE: A LUMP OF PURE SOUND

Erica Abbott
Two poems

Erik Moyer
I Never Kissed My Father Before

Gary McDowell
It Goes Fast

Hannah Cook
The Nectar of Love Is Climbing The Wrong Mountain

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
[&&&: to be afraid of one's own shadow]

Jenna Rose
Two poems

Roey Leonardi
U.S./Soviet Peace Walk: Philadelphia to San Francisco, Summer, 1988

Jim Whiteside
The Way Out Is Through

Joanne Clarkson
Turtle Tears

John Schneider
Yield

Kale Hensley
Two poems

Rachelle Sierra
Ode to My Gas

Sandra Del Rio Madrigal
Two poems

Sarah Chin
Selfish

Seth Leeper
excerpt from the buena vista sonnets: preamble

Yomalis Lourdes Rosario
Two poems

FICTION

Ananya Pandya
Girls Will Do Anything For Love

Isabelle Qian

Sonia

June Glass

In McDonald's

Kriska Desir

The Healer

Mazi Kazemi
The Last Great Lover in Iran

Meghan Proulx
Light Wash Denim Styles

Miah Jeffra
Epicenter

Nikki Barnhart
Static

Rachel Seo
Ministry Work

Sarah Gouda
Smoothie King, Ohio

NONFICTION

M.E. Macuaga
Wild Blossoms

Greta Rainbow
French Tarot on the Credenza

IN TRANSLATION

Didar Amantay, trans. Mirgul Kali
Old Toleutai's Grandson

PHOTOGRAPHY

Three photos by Ameen Abo Kaseem
One photo by Maen Hammad
One photo by Samar Abu Elouf

COVER ART

Tschiegg
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