Contents – Volume 12

POETRY

Jacob M. Appel

Thanksgiving Assembly
Aunt Hilda in Hollywood
The Girl Next Door

Sylvia Karman

Would It Change a Thing
Wakeful

Judith Bowles

Three Amazing Things

Caroline Maun

What If I Told You
Get Inside
Luck
Telling It

Kim Roberts

Book of Knowledge

Irene Fick

The Loneliness of Supper
I Donate My Aunt’s Clothes to the Unfinished Business Thrift Shop

Chris Jansen

Why Do I Need Poetry Anyway?
Requiescat
The Good News Is
Spin the Bottle

Meredith Davies Hadaway – Featured Writer

Meredith Hadaway Interview
by Anne Colwell, Poetry Editor In Green Ink
State of the Union
Thanksgiving
“On A Broad Reach They Are Magnificent Craft”
“Dead Are Deadly”
Spiderweb in a Sycamore Tree

Martin Shapiro

Breaking Away

Sherry Chappelle

Handel and Hendrix Walk into a Venn Diagram

David Xiang

A Creature Lives in Every Poem

Kristina Morgan

The House After Him in Thirteen Places
Coin Toss
Notes to My Mind on a Heated Afternoon…
Grandmother

Ace Boggess

Breakdowns
The President Is Keeping Extremely Busy
We Spent Last Night with Alice Cooper

Max Roland Ekstrom

The Last Mother of Sodom
Young Augustine
The Otter

Alamgir Hashmi

Seasonal
Bread
Adam’s Peak

David Salner

Night Train
Black Paintings, White Dust
Where Shells Come From
The View from Heaven
Wyoming Afternoon

Marvin Jonathan Flores

El Salvador

Barbara Westwood Diehl

For the Gentleman and His Fedora

Andrena Zawinski

Anchorless in the Light
I Didn’t Want Him to See Me.
Self Portrait, Out-of-Focus
Circling the Tables

James Norcliffe

The Man Who Turned Himself into a Gun

Ron Riekki

On Refusing to Believe the News of My Third, Yes, Third Next Door Neighbor Being Killed by a Gun
Ambulance, 2 A.M., I’m Driving
But We Can’t
(The Number of the Heat) When the Fires
The Three Words

Gail Braune Comorat

The World’s a Shitty Place

Katherine Gekker

I Am the Last Radium Girl

Allen Stein

A Pat-down at Dallas-Fort Worth
Evensong
A Room with No View
Herman Melville, Customs Inspector Number 188

Simon Perchik

Five Poems

Beth Oast Williams

Just Beneath the Surface

Christine Higgins

A Year of Mourning
My Mother’s Voice

Terence Young

What We Keep

 

FICTION

Barbara Lockhart

Liriope

Marilyn Janus

Firewalking

Mark Jacobs

The Harp in the Cellar

Kristina Morgan

Crossing the Lethe

Alison Thompson

A Rose by Any Other Name

Catherine Stratton

Birdsong

R.H. Emmers

Crows Always Tell the Truth

Cameron Blais

Was

Daun Daemon

Regrets

Scott Bradfield

Adventures in Responsible Living

 

NONFICTION

Richard Stuecker

The Idea of Order at Ocracoke

Charlene Fischer-Jehle

The Last Concert

Sepideh Zamani

We Are Waiting for the Storks to Come Back

Merideth M. Taylor

Miss Mary and Merideth

Brice Particelli

Dancing at the Bay of Sharks

Christopher Linforth

Yaddo of the South

Sam VanNest

Broken English, Body Language: A Friedreich’s Ataxia Memoir

Kerry Leddy

Beside Myself

Roberto Christiano

And the Stars Were Shining

BOOK REVIEWS

Gerald F. Sweeney reviews
WHAT ELSE YOU GOT? FREELANCING IN RADIO
By Mary Saner Harold O. Wilson reviews
SAFELY TO EARTH: THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BROUGHT THE ASTRONAUTS HOME
By Jack Clemons Joan Cooper reviews
THE ANIMATORS
By Kayla Rae Whitaker Suzi Peel reviews
ELIZABETH GILMAN, CRUSADER FOR JUSTICE
By Ross Jones Crystal Brandt reviews
LISTENING IN: ECHOES AND ARTIFACTS OF MARYLAND’S MOTHER COUNTY
By Merideth Taylor James O’Sullivan reviews
CHESAPEAKE REQUIEM: A YEAR WITH THE WATERMEN OF VANISHING TANGIER ISLAND
By Earl Swift