Summer 2014 Volume 36, Issue 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ART

Terrance Hayes, Laugh Riot

FICTION

Diane Seuss, Winner of the 2013 Half-K Prize, Wal-Mart Parking Lot
Alex McElroy, Warmer
Jeff Moscaritolo, The Kissing Exhibit
Rebecca Meacham,Half-K Prize Finalist, Mrs. Williamson Winds the Watch
Karen Heuler, The Stray Curse
John Jodzio, The Indoor Baby
Katie Booth, Pockets
Jeremy Griffin, Birding for Beginners
Christopher Allen, Half-K Prize Finalist
When Susan Died the First Time
Carol Guess and Kelly Magee, With Fox
Summer Wood, Winner of the 2013 Fiction Prize, Boomerang
Lisa Beebe, Wildflowers
Joseph Celizic, Invention of Door
Caitlin O’Neil, Wolves

POETRY

Amy Woolard, In Ground We Trust
Tommye Blount, Gepetto’s Lament
Airea D. Matthews, Black Hole Observed Over Time
Airea D. Matthews, Positive Curvature
Sam Ross, Lichtung
Michael Levan, Poet’s Guide to the Foucault Pendulum Oliver de la Paz, Labyrinth 50
Oliver de la Paz, Labyrinth 51
Oliver de la Paz, Labyrinth 53
Oliver de la Paz, Labyrinth 54
Analicia Sotelo, Ariadne Discusses Theseus in Relation to the Minotaur
Simone Muench Wolf Cento 53
Simone Muench Wolf Cento 54
Simone Muench Wolf Cento 55
Michael Lee Grindstone 65
Nate Marshall, juke
Caitlin Scarano Half-K Prize Finalist, No Men in the Title, a Poem to Birds and Places
Hieu Minh Nguyen, The Dock
Hieu Ming Nguyen, The Ocean, Maybe
Sarah McCartt-Jackson, from Letters
Corey Zeller, Factory
Phillip B. Williams, History of Masculinity, American Aesthetic: An Exhibition
Matthew Olzmann I’ll Forgive John Keats, But Not You

NONFICTION

Matthew Clark, Fully Automatic

MIDDLE SPACE FOLIO

The Editors, Editors Note
Terrance Hayes, Horn and Rings
Bruce Beasley, Disconnected Limbs Wandered Seeking Everywhere for Union
Stephen Matthew Brown, Sor Juana Insurgentes 31.3 Stephen Matthew Brown, Sor Juana Insurgentes 31.4 Annelyse Gelman, The Vigilante
Dustin Parsons, Drop Off
Kristin Robertson, Abecedarian of the Death Moment Alexander Rothman, Consonance

MASTHEAD

EDITOR

Katie Moulton

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Britt Ashley

FICTION EDITOR

Trevor Mackesey

ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITORS

Leslie Marie Aguilar, Alexandria Barkmeier, Scott Fenton, Peter Kispert, Elizabeth Klehfoth, Jasmine Sawers

FICTION READERS

Tia Clark, Joe Hiland, Aaron Kessler, Kien Lam, Roark Mackesey, Michael Mlekoday, Ife-Chudeni Oputa, Louise Rarick

POETRY EDITOR

Nandi Comer

ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS

Leslie Marie Aguilar, Ben Bagocius, Alexandria Barkmeier, Aliah Lévonne Jahan'Tigh, Kien Lam, Ciara Miller, Ife-Chudeni Oputa, Tyler Simnick

POETRY READERS

Doug Paul Case, Alex Chambers, Peter Kispert, Louise Rarick

NONFICTION EDITOR

Stephanie Horvath

ASSOCIATE NONFICTION EDITOR

Leslie Marie Aguilar, Alexandria Barkmeier, Nandi Comer

NONFICTION READERS

Louise Rarick

WEB EDITOR

Leslie Marie Aguilar

EDITORIAL INTERNS

Rachel Brown, Decker Cavosie, Annie Hunt, Blakely Meyer, Elizabeth Stilwell, Hannah Waltz, Meredith Waters