Summer 2013 Volume 35, Issue 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ART

Andy Alcala, "'The Clearing in the Forest,' Édouard Vuillard (1936)" (Cover)

FICTION

CB Anderson, Mavak Tov

Laura Ender, Reposession

Lindsay Tigue, Michigan Central Station Has Been Closed Since 1988

Jessice Masterton, The Sweeper

J. Bowlers, Two on a Horse

Quan Barry, The Emperor

Ryan Trattles, Helpful Produts for Family Men: A User's Guide

Scott Marengo, The Pastor's Brother

Carolyn Watson, The Blue Devil and the Rocket Ship

Nancy Stebbins, Mustard Seed

Bruce Holland Rogers, At First Sight

Mark Jacobs, 'Long About August

Brandi Wells, The Person Capable of Judging Lemons

Luke Fiske, The Man with No Eyes

Misha Rai, Housewives, Mothers

Phedra Deonarine, The Birdcatcher

POETRY

Joshua Marie Wilkinson, A Song Called Offal

Megan Moriarty, The clowns are leaving soon

Stevie Edwards, Nobody Is Lost

Gala Mukomolova, Rabbit I

Gala Mukomolova, Punk Temple Regrets

Oliver Bendorf, Patrón

S.H. Lohmann, Una Pérdida: Santiago

CM Burroughs, omen one

CM Burroughs, all definite conditions are senseless

CM Burroughs, my home having come to this

Christopher Kempf, The Indianapolis 500

Eric Smith, Redaced Minutes from the Ninth of Several Bi-Monthly Meetings of the Department of English, Film, and Meda Studies at a Major State University

Chris Emslie, I May Be a Twin but That Is Not Everything about Me

Shane Lake, We No Longer Speak of the Ghost in the Attic

Elizabeth Lyons, Indiana, Post-Harvest

Elizabeth Lyons, Extinction

Michael Martin Shea, Appendix to a Poem about Maps

Keetje Kuipers, In a Sentimental Mood

Keetje Kuipers, Some Advice for both of Us

Jacques J. Rancourt, Winter's Grace

Traci O Connor, Wandering

NONFICTION

D. Gilson, On Faggot: An Etymology

Heather Kirn Lanier, What They Don't Tell You about a Wet T-Shirt contest

Eric Tran, Release the Panda Bear

Kathleen Rooney, An Open Letter to World War I Soldier Alexander Bradley Burns of Downers Grove, Illinois on the Occasion of My Father's Retirement After Six Years in the United States Air Force Reserves, Plus Twenty More in the U.S. Army Reserves

Dylan Nice, Mushroom Boys

REVIEWS

Leslie Marie Aguilar, Looking for The Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco

Ben Bagocius, Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal

Joe Hiland, Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino

John Thomas Howard, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories by Melinda Moustakis

Kien Lam, Maybe the Saddest Thing by Marcus Wicker

Shayla Lawson, If One of Us Should Fall by Nicole Terez Dutton

Cate Lycurgus, The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral edited by Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep

Katie Moulton, Rise by L. Annette Binder

Evelyn Reynolds, Two-Headed Nightingale by Shara Lessley

Cody c. St. Clair, The Overseer's Cabin by Édouard Glissant, translated by Betsy Wing

MASTHEAD

EDITOR

Jennifer Luebbers

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Katie Moulton

FICTION EDITOR

Joe Hiland

ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITORS

Leslie Marie Aguilar

Tia Clark

John Thomas Howard

Hiba Krisht

Cate Lycurgus

Trevor Mackesey

Ife-Chudeni Oputa

Tori Telfer

FICTION READERS

Kurian Johnson

Elizabeth Klenfoth

Louise Rarick

POETRY EDITOR

Michael Mlekoday

ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS

Leslie Marie Aguilar

Britt Ashley

Doug Paul Case

Nandi Comer

Stephanie Horvath

Kien Lam

Cate Lycurgus

Ife-Chudeni Oputa

POETRY READERS

Aliah Lévonne Jahan'Tigh

Shayla Lawson

Scott Miles

Louise Rarick

Evelyn Reynolds

Tori Telfer

 

NONFICTION EDITOR

Justin Wolfe

ASSOCIATE NONFICTION EDITOR

Leslie Marie Aguilar

NONFICTION READERS

Stephanie Horvath
Lisa Kwong

Ife-Chudeni Oputa

WEB EDITOR

Doug Paul Case

EDITORIAL INTERNS

Eric Altemus

Tess Callero

Lauren Conkling

Panagiota Doukas

Jori Fine

Amanda Gigli

Amber Hendricks

Katie Swintz