TABLE OF CONTENTS
MASTHEAD
Editor-in-Cheif – Leia Penina Wilson
Managing Editor – Valentine Sargent
Poetry Editor – Sheila Squillante
Fiction Editor – Marc Nieson
Nonfiction Editor – Heather McNaugher
Associate Editors – Alecia Beamer, Samantha Edwards, Melissa Esposito, Jenifer Hemphill, Kat Knuth, Kim Michalak, Maggie Pahos
Assistant Editors – Madison Mellon, Bernagozzi Brigette, John Brick, Zuri Bryant, Nathaniel Fuller, Dan Kirk, Natalie Metropolis, Kimberly McElhatten, Cedric Rudolph, Julia Silverman, Kayla Washko
Layout & Design – Kinsley Stocum
Administrative Support – Joe Bisciotti
Cover Art – Rita Booth
poetry
Claire McQuerry, Vigilance; Electric City Fairytale; Rust Belt Terza Rima
Laurel Benjamin, River Swellers
Margarita Cruz, Hernan
Eric Paul Shaffer, Everything Must Go
Dan Pinkerton, Aftermath Of The Storm; Vulgar Daydreams; Ruined Upholstery
Lily Jarman–Reisch, Conjunctions
David Radavich, War Memento
Trisha Faye Haefner, I am a Kind of Arachnid Now; Murder Swan (Halsazkaraptor escuilliei)
Jessica Mehta, Night Birds
David Salner, In His Mind’s Eye, in Baltimore
Susie Meserve, Kincade Fire; Solo Parenting with Wildfire
Jonathan Pyner, Aubade with Lung Tissue
Kelly R. Samuels, Narrative Identity, Or the First Story As It’s Told
Thomas McGuire, Du muBt dein Leben andern (Proverbs Magpie Flies By), Transatlantic Killin’ Floor Blues
Adam J. Gellings, What Was Left, Poem with Debris
S.B. Merrow, After Our Trip, I Give Dad a Call
Dawn Manning, Squatters: An Inventory
fiction
Sara Pascarella, Precariat
Samuel Berman, A Good Floor
Vicki Derderian, The Age of Domestic Tranquility
Elizabeth Genovese, Paradise Mansion
nonfiction
Laura Marshall, Bodies
Shayleen MacReynolds, Unburn