Issue 13
October 2021
“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”— James Joyce (Mixed media, 9 ½ x 11 on wood panel) by Megan Merchant
Featured Poet: Kimberly Kralowec
Bio
Interview
[One childhood day—the sky indelible]
[In the thicker sky of coastal cities]
[We will never gain the steep]
[We retreat into/ the stillness of our own bones—]
[A cloud formed in the lobby]
[We listen to candlelight burning, thin]
[I rearrange my inner ear]
[The sanderlings choose to run]
Featured Artist: Megan Merchant
Artist Statement
“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.” I
“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.” II
“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.” III
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
“Resist much, obey little …”
“You are the trembling of time, that passes between vertical light and darkened sky.”
“Ink, a Drug.”
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
“Nothing could have survived our life.”
Poetry
Lorelei Bacht
Fundamentals
Two Soldiers
What is a bird?
Allison Blevins & Joshua Davis
How We Stand in Every Type of Light
Michael Boccardo
Alone in the Wilderness, You Know My Name
Why My Mother Speaks of Deer
Phillip Watts Brown
The Escape Artist
Night Rations
Some Endings Are Artful
Erin Carlyle
In Dreams, Pt. 1
Ed Coletti
Floating
Will Cordeiro
Enigmas
Susan Michele Coronel
The World is Always About to End
This is How You Tell the Perfect Story
Alexandra Crivici
Camouflage
Praying
Ann DeVilbiss
Collection of Mouths
Shelter in Place
George Franklin
Illegible
Audrey Gidman
I am myself & myself is a river
Self-portrait of my body (which is a place) as a place (which is my body)
Meghan Elizabeth Kelley
Bentgrass
Bird’s Eye
Gabrielle Langley
Haunting
Spring Equinox: Pandemic
Ulalume González de León (translations)
Interstitial
Signals Broken Recovered
Together Apart
Celia Meade
The Ghost in Me
Patrick Meeds
Something Will Surely Grow
Strategies for Living
Michael Mercurio
some other world
there is neither world nor wine enough
Jeanne Morel
Even Though
Karen Neuberg
Amidst Ongoing Hellos and Goodbyes
Claire Nicholson
Nesting
Toti O’Brien
Dead Brother
Paulann Petersen
To My Coffin-Tree
Shelley Reece
On the Margin
Hilary Sallick
Love is a shore
John Schneider
Myanmar Monk
Puzzle Pieces
Joshua St. Claire
Buck
Paul Telles
A Photojournalist Encounters Shostakovich in a Parking Lot
Jeanne Wagner
There’s No Place to Write His Name
Erin Wilson
“What if the soul indeed is outside the body”
Michael T. Young
Unsolved Mysteries
Reviews
Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Outgoing Vessel
(reviewed by Kameron Ray Morton)
Kelly Gray’s My Fingers Are Whales and other stories of Cetology
(reviewed by Emilee Kinney)
Meghan Sterling’s These Few Seeds
(reviewed by Robin Reagler)
Mac Gay’s Our Fatherlessness: Poems
(reviewed by Chris Vola)
Kelly Gray’s Instructions for an Animal Body
(reviewed by Terra Emerson)
Anna Leahy’s What Happened Was:
(reviewed by Audrey Gidman)
Chloe Martinez’s Corner Shrine
(reviewed by Naoko Fujimoto)
David Mills’s Boneyarn
(reviewed by Martin J. Levine)
Deborah DeNicola’s The Impossible
(reviewed by Frank Paino)
Interviews
Ghostly Collaborations: An Interview with
Flower Conroy and Donna Spruijt-Metz
(interviewed by Nan Cohen)
“Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.” —John Cage (Mixed media, 9 ½ x 11 on wood panel) by Megan Merchant