Issue 20, Spring 2025 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MASTHEAD

Editor-in-Cheif – Sheila Squillante

Managing Editor – Kristy Mahoney

Fiction Editor – Anjali Sachdeva

Nonfiction Editor – Marc Nieson

Poetry Editor – Heather McNaugher

Associate Editors – Madisen Bellon, Tessa Kilby, Kimberly McElhatten

Assistant Editors – David Brady, Ashley Christian, Elias Dubus, Teddy Friedline, Maddy Kapisak, Nadine Lehrer, Elena Polinsky, Aliana Schaeffer, Jessica Steward

Copy Editor – Bailey Sims

Artwork Choices – Sheila Squillante

Cover Art – Solace by Oreen Cohen

Layout & Design – Kinsley Stocum

poetry

  • Cindy Buchanan, January in the Park

  • Claire Cella, Bull-of-the-Woods

  • Maureen Clark, Kiwis

  • Bahar Davoudi, The Bend in Time

  • Brian Delaney, Lilypad

  • James Engelhardt, Orienteering

  • Michael J. Galko, Cloudy thoughts a week after my daughter went to Athens to study the classics…

  • Catherine Grossman, Mosaic

  • Charles Haddox, Central El Paso Summer

  • Judy Kaber, Yellow

  • Petra Kuppers, Bow to my Devonian Sea Ancestor

  • Matthew Martello, Arriving in the North Again

  • Joan Mazza, Can’t Sleep; All Night Turning

  • Michael Milburn, Getting There

  • Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, What is the Shadow of Your Bird Self Casting?

  • Caitlin Palo, at my year’s end

  • Kathryn Petruccelli, Love Letter to the Moon

  • Jennifer M. Phillips, Consider the Kettle Pond; Endangered Species; Forest Teaching

  • Amir Sommer, Mirroring

  • Marya Summers, For Once in My Life

FICTION

  • Meryl A.H. Franzos, Toro Nagashi

  • Catherine Gammon, Garden Song; Rain. Cardinal. Wren.

  • Jacqueline Kolosov, I Am Holding Your Hand

nonfiction

  • Lea Page, Center of Gravity