NONFICTION
George R. Merrill – Featured Writer – Nonfiction
Interview by Wilson Wyatt, Executive Editor
A Shot in the Dark by George R. Merrill
Caroline Bock
Desideratum: Something Desired as Essential
Sarah Barnett
Querencia
Laura J. Oliver
Devotion, A Ghost Story
Alfred Fournier
Morning Ritual
Irene Hoge Smith
Already Broken (Washington, 1950)
Billie Pritchett
What Makes a Home a Trailer
Brandon Hansen
Missed Connection: Brienne
Sue Eisenfeld
From Hell’s Half-Mile to Powerhouse
Jill Dalton
No Business Like Show Business
Lillie Gardner
From Here
Kristina Morgan
Pulling Salt from Water
FICTION
Susan Land – Featured Writer – Fiction
Interview by James O’Sullivan, Fiction Coeditor
Her Gestures, Her Rules by Susan Land
Joe Baumann
Criers
The Marks
Ronan Keenan
Welcome Day
Marlene Olin
A Convocation of Eagles
Andie Davis
Orange
Craig Dobson
In the Sea God’s Cave
Abby Provenzano
Coffee from Arabia
Emily Shilton
Ghost Face Killer and Me
Alexa Weik von Mossner
Something, Somehow, Somewhere
Michael Gazda
Garden
Tara Thiel
In a Middle of a Room
Fatimah Iqbal – Featured Student Writer
Under the Chelsea Lights
POETRY
Adam Tavel – Featured Writer – Poetry
Interview by Anne Colwell, Poetry Editor
Poems by Adam Tavel
Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
Grave by the Sea
Heaven
Gibbons Ruark
Safe As Houses
Diane Thiel
First Light
Zero Hour
Capel Celyn
In the Distance
Catherine Carter
Magnetic Doorstop
In the Plague Year, I Remember Pinkeye
Winter Solstice
Skins
E. Ethelbert Miller
Things My Father Told Me
Shells
The Walk Off
Richard Tillinghast
Law Enforcement
The White Egrets
One Raindrop
At the Edge
Canzona di Ringraziamento
Daddy’s Hands
Shirley Hilton
Earthworms
Pelicans
John Palen
Digging Dandelions
The Old Naturalist
Caches
At the Community Gardens
Jessica Gregg
Sunday Game—Baltimore, 2015
We Got Ice
The Horned Hat at the Insurrection
Mass in Italian
Away We Go
Judith McCombs
Song, Luminescence Leaving
Samn Stockwell
Betty Has Brass Candlesticks in Her Bedroom
Snow is Thrilled by the Wind
The Old Soldier Closes His Eyes and Swings
Richard Peabody
The Bratwurst Kid
Your Rigmarole
Brian C. Potts
Urgllp
Jona Colson
The Oyster
The Wicked Witch of the West
Benjamin Harnett
The Elements of Drawing
Christ—That’s Depressing
Katherine J. Williams
Old Woman Walking
Because of the Other
Abby Caplin
Years from Now
Chase Dimock
Oncology
Jill Michelle
Anniversary Pantoum
Abigail Johnson
An Experience of Grief
Bryana Joy
Jackals
Susana H. Case
Everybody Has a Story About Almost Drowning
Girl, Acapulco
Zen and the Art of Transfiguration: 4 Koans
Holly Karapetkova
Damage
Winner Takes All
Stephen Scott Whitaker
Seven Out of Three Days It Rains
Myth of Great Tailed Grackles
Two Ruddy Turnstones in a Ditch
Sophia C. Vesely
In the Looking Glass
No One Asked for This
This All Won’t Matter
Louise Robertson
After
Fried Chicken, 1981
Amy L. Fair
Sacrifice
An Unfinished Window
Between Rows
Suzanne O’Connell
La Ocupación
Cleaning Out My Mother’s Clothes
The Seven Virtues
Kelly R. Samuels
The Salt in the Pudding
The Lesser Snow Goose
Will Cordeiro
Cloud Theory
Poem in the Manner of Wang Wei
Evening Song
Irina Moga
Asymptote
Devon Miller-Duggan
Lover’s Fight
Michael Carrino
Kokura Luck
Elm Trees
In the Summer Afternoon Sky
Autumn Morning
Paul David Adkins
Attica Prison Rebellion, September 13, 1971: The Last Ride of William “Taxicab” Allen, Murdered Inmate
Attica Prison Rebellion, September 13, 1971: For Your Entertainment, Alfred Williams, Murdered Inmate, Reveals All!
David Galloway
Ascension Day
Carroll Manor Elementary, 1983
the milky way at 47
Sayan Aich Bhowmik
A Room Too Small for Sunsets
Kathryn Weld
At the Window
Still Life
Tender
Meditating on Merton’s Fire Watch
The Opened Room
Margaret Mackinnon
At the End of His Life, William Bradford Studied Hebrew
Flight
Hummingbird
Adam Tamashasky
Bitterroot
The Descent from the Cross
Walt Whitman at the Playground
Pediatric Surgical Waiting Room, 1:30 P.M.
View Through the Lodgepole
BOOK REVIEWS
Wilson W. Wyatt reviews
ISLAND LIFE by Jay Fleming
Anne Colwell reviews
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE by Diane Thiel
Harold O. Wilson reviews
A PLACE TO HIDE by David Salner
Katherine Gekker reviews
BY BROAD POTOMAC’S SHORE: GREAT POEMS FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF OUR NATION’S CAPITAL edited by Kim Roberts
Sue Ellen Thompson reviews
THIS FAR: POEMS by Kathleen O’Toole
Gerald F. Sweeney reviews
THE HENRY BAGWELL STORY by Margaret A. Rice
Harold O. Wilson reviews
NEW VOICES OF POTOMAC edited by Neal Gillen
