Vol. 89 nos. 1 & 2

Winter/Spring 2023

EDITOR’S NOTE

Editor’s Note, Christie Hodgen

FICTION

Phoenix, Ian Christopher Hooper
A Forgotten Language, Michael Tod Powers
Vamoose, Kathy Anderson
The Year of the Bears, J. Nicole Jones
Richard Burton Stole Our Dreams of Mexico, Anthony Gomez III
The Three Little Pigs, Amy Rowland
Quinn & Son, Rosanne Scott
Education and Other Preparations, Larry Flynn
Rope Swing, Siamak Vossoughi

ESSAY

Winter, Jen Silverman
Disintegration, Karen Fischer

ARTWORK

Introduction to the Artwork of Delita Martin
Paintings & Collages, Delita Martin

POETRY

Out Here, a chapbook, Julie Marie Wade
Two Poems, Katie Berta
Charlie (Bird) Parker’s Horn(s), Denise Low
 Two Poems, Jean Nordhaus
Three Poems, Jennifer Perrine
Fables, Bruce Bond

AWARD SERIES

Marriage: A Crossword, Nadia Born, Editor’s Choice Award
A Visit to Haifa Circa 2018, Devon Ross, Robert Day Award for Fiction
Two Poems, Jasmine Ledesma, Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry
On Emptiness, Joyce Dehli, Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction

REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES

Brevity and the Genre-less Text, Liz Tascio
Linda Gregerson, The Poet’s Poet, Publishes New Poems, Denise Low
Fractal and Fracture of the Feminine Experience, Jesi Bender