
NONFICTION
George R. Merrill – Featured Writer – NonfictionInterview 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 – FictionInterview 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 – PoetryInterview 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 reviewsISLAND 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