Issue 20
June 2025
“The Close-Up Distance And Vice Versa” by Dean Franz Pasch
Featured Poet: Madelyn Garner
Bio
Interview
And After
The Black Door
Diagnosis
Negative
Ode to a Nursing Home
So Difficult Watching You
Poetry
Molly Akin
Mothering is a social construct, and I am motherless
Dmitry Blizniuk
Burying the Dead
Lara Chamoun
Confession: You Want to Scream Because —----
Atoms as Frogs as Empty Spaces
Seize Yourself
Maureen Clark
Critical Race Theory
Sandy Coomer
Navigation
Ben Cooper
Fearsome Critters: Fur-Bearing Trout
At Least I’m Giving You the Birds
A Death Rattle, Too, Is Wet
James Ducat
Questions for My Body
Carol Durak
Metabolic in Your Still Body
You May Mock Me
Joel Fry
Daylight
Radian Hong
View of the City From the City
Bethany Jarmul
Things that Remind Me of the Vastness of the Universe
T.F. Jennings
Nameless
Kenneth Johnson
Elegy to the Past
Kip Knott
Seasonal Affective Disorder
J.B. Lawrence
I’ve been out searching for father figures,
Michelle Li
Lullabies for Extinct Things
Svetlana Litvinchuk
On How to Sleep During a Full Moon
Motherhood Half-Dream
Seraph
Kaecey McCormick
When the Sky Blushes Watermelon
Jennifer Mills Kerr
Failed Creation
Graham Murtaugh
hold empty
Rachyl Nyoka
intergenerational transmission
Caitlin Palo
To One Who is Away While the Cherry Blossoms Bloom
Border Folly
Dylan Redford
Instructions
Amy Riddell
The faraway clinic
Frankenstein Fix
Say amen to the prayer of the scalpel
John Schneider
In Winter’s Country
Meghan Sterling
Sonnet with Lilacs and a Crescent Moon
Kaitlin Tan
The Island (fragments)
Summer in Rome
Kathryn D. Temple
Swimming with My Sister South of Miami
Jason Gordy Walker
Nocturne
Jeanine Walker
What Really
Chestnut = Night
Countryside
Sui Wang
On the way to my father’s funeral I see northern lights
All we are made of is borrowed
Penny Wei
Anamnesis
Where the Deer Dies
tc Wiggins
The Future
Alicia Wright
The Sugar Tree
Anne Yarbrough
A Crossing
Yishak Yohannes Yebio
The Year Without Spring
Reviews and Interviews
Nancy Botkin reviews Water Castle by Natalie Solmer
Jonathan Fletcher reviews The Influencers Are Gaslighting Us by Bleah Patterson
Kelly Gray reviews New Stars and Constellations by David Cazden
Ian Haight interviews Ann E. Michael
Peter Mladinic reviews Indirect Light by Malachi Black
Frank Paino reviews The Radiant by Lise Goett
Shannon K. Winston reviews Love as Invasive Species by Ellen Kombiyil
mk zariel interviews Alex Carrigan