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MASTHEAD

Executive Editor – Sheryl St. Germain

Editor-in-Cheif – Sheila Squillante

Managing Editor – Samantha Smith

Fiction Editor – Marc Nieson

Nonfiction Editor – Sheila Squillante

Poetry Editor – Heather McNaugher

Associate Editors – Rhea Dunn, Jeffrey Bolden, Melanie Destefano, Rachel Geffrey, Shelby Newsom

Assistant Editors – Lily Wasserman, Joanna Pizzuti, Julia Eldred, Trevor Dawson, Samantha Smith, Rachel Roux, Ian Rawson, Sarah Capdeville, Elisa Kownacki

Alumni Editor – Stephanie Vega, Amy Lee Heinlen, Tess Wilson, Katie Cline, Beth Royce, Kelley Thomas

Copy Editors – Rachel Geffrey, Shelby Newsom, Sarah Capdeville, Elisa Kownacki, Lily Wasserman, Joanna Pizzuti, Julia Eldred

Layout & Design – Kinsley Stocum

Administrative Support – Kelly Kepner

Cover Art – Andrea Walls, “Spinal Tap”

Poetry

  • Mia Acumi Malhotra, Isako’s Rules to Remember; After Hiroshima

  • Zoe Hitzel, Male Bonding

  • Leslie Prosterman, Topograph

  • Terri Glass, Haiku

  • Michelle Bonczek Evory, Dream

  • Zeina Azzam, Syria’s Disappeared

  • Sarah Spitzer, Your brain is just an organ; on navigating academia and other complex phenomena

  • Margo Davis, Tonight I question; Census Bureau

  • Michael Walsh, The Drifting Web

  • Elizabeth Dodd, Ecological Anachronisms

  • Deborah Kelly, The Gamete

  • Jeff Pearson, A Story of Pine Bark Beetles

  • Kayleb Rae Candrill, pages from What Runs Over

  • Jennie Frost, Sometimes I Like to be Serious, but Mostly My Body Is A Joke

  • Todd Kaneko, Year of the Monkey; Ancestral Memory; Fish Are Jumping; Cattle Mutilation; American Hecatomb

  • Chera Hammons, What Happens Then

  • Jack Bedell, Island Road

  • Mary D’Alleva, Out of the Blue

  • Jonathan Travelstead, Groundhog Day

  • Lisa Moore, Walking the Greenbelt

  • Lynn McGee, Sweet Concrete Dream

  • Tegan Daly, Miles Away, Black Earth

  • Charlotte Covey, love poem for poor missouri

  • Casey FitzSimons, Pierce the Dark Night; Stick by Stick

  • k.lynn johnson, excerpt from a letter

  • Catherine Young, Stone Circle

  • Lynne Thompson, Snow Geese in Butte, 2016

  • Gail Newman, Exile

  • Chelsea Celestain, So Cool, So Calm, So Fair

  • Colin Deitz, Lilacs

  • Erin Slaughter, Hunter S. Thompson was here (too)

  • Elizabeth Rees, Mouse, 2.0; Lingual Extrusions Found June 18, 2013

  • Suzanne Langlois, Brick

  • Alison Pelegrin, Anything We Want

  • Bryce Berkowitz, Whoever You Hate I Love & Whoever You Love I Hate

fiction

  • George Hovis, Old Folks and White People

  • Patrick Hansel, Two Rivers

  • Tayla Boerner, Ties that Bind

  • Anne Ney, Lessons of the War

nonfiction

  • Erika Meitner, HolyMolyLand

  • Salma Salama, A Tagiya Seller

  • Elizabeth Dodd, Contributions to the Understanding of the Color of Water

  • Heidi Czerwiec, AM I BLUE?, or, If It’s Not a Blewit, You Blew It

  • Jennifer Case, Habitat Imprinting

  • Gretchen VanWormer, Get to Prairie

  • BK Loren, Summer Community of Writers 2017 Keynote: Writing in the Anthropocene: A Talk, Not an Essay

  • Maria Luiza Brisbane, Loving Language: An Interview with BK Loren