JUNE 2021. Cover Art: Gina Gwen Palacios, Water Tower, 2020  (Artist Website)

JUNE 2021. Cover Art: Gina Gwen Palacios, Water Tower, 2020 (Artist Website)

Introduction

Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager

Not Writing

Brendan Constantine; artwork by Edward Steichen

Big Game

David Donna; artwork by Angelina Gualdoni

Elegy with a Hurricane

William Fargason; artwork by Mari Renwick

Curtain

Melanie Kristeen Robinson; artwork by Twon Pearson

It’s Okay

Ja’net Danielo; artwork by Herbert W. Gleason

What I Have Learned of Sadness

Jason B. Crawford; artwork by Gina Gwen Palacios

Circles

Carolyn Supinka; artwork by Emilie Mediz-Pelikan

When We Watched The Right Stuff

Amy Lerman; artwork by Edward S. Curtis

Crabman

Lisa Creech Bledsoe; artwork by Kirsten Francis

Vaccine Research at the St. Charles Laboratory

Sharon Tracey; artwork courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Dictionary

Romana Iorga; artwork by Sarah Detweiler

Shale

Ruth Williams; artwork by Sarah Detweiler

She Sees A Man Hanging

Danielle Susi; artwork by Gina Gwen Palacios

My Friend Says “Meant” Instead of “Supposed”

Amy Dryansky, artwork by Angelina Gualdoni

The Anxious Lever of Lowering Sky

Robert Krut; artwork by Kirsten Francis

Witness

Ann DeVilbiss; artwork by Jared Leake

In Shaker Heights They Culled the Elms

Carolyn Oliver; artwork by Henry Brooks

Colic

Margaret Draft; artwork by Jared Leake

7 Dreams of Life and Death

Sheila Dong; artwork by Tema Stauffer

[blessed be the humble and the god-like both]

Justin Rigamonti; artwork by Tia Factor

[If you break this sentence in half]

Justin Rigamonti; artwork by Tia Factor

Poem with Thrown Honey

William Fargason; artwork by Mari Renwick

[Contributors]