Issue 86.1/2 has gone to the printers and we’re pretty happy to share the table of contents with you.

The volume has a bit of everything:  5 short stories, 6 non-fiction pieces, and 51 poems, plus a section guest edited by Crystal Alberts on Bill Gass.

The contributors range from young poets to critically acclaimed novelists and hail from North Dakota, the U.S., and around the world.

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Editor’s Note
WILLIAM CARAHER

Snow-Covered Ground
JOSEPH BUEHLER

F Is For …
DAVE WIECZOREK

The Snow In Fife
DANNY P. BARBARE

Shadow Matter
J. A. BERNSTEIN

Shadow Portage Fake
EDZORDZI AGBOZO

Everyday
ALAMGIR HASHMI

Nighthawk
MIKE COHEN

Oh, Winnipeg
the car like metal sinks in mud; the pond is a coffin for rain
TOM PESCATORE

Apprentices
Syrians
TS HIDALGO

A Completely Useless but Somehow Essential Guide on How to
Answer the Question “What Is Your Tattoo About?”
SKYLAR PEYTON

what had been
rocking on the heel of an ostrich oxford
MEGAN STRATFORD

Heat Wave Locked Out The Cold
ERIC GREINICE

Hokkaido Seasons
Bears Heart: Haru. Spring
Rain: Natsu. Summer
Hanko: Aki. Autumn
The Nakayama Pass: Fuyu. Winter
PAULA KAUFMAN

THE WAY of ELEGANCE, or Forty-One Dunks
Brett Kavanaugh
CANDICE KELSEY

Wintering
LAURO PALOMBA

Come Winter, Father and Son
ROBERT STOTHART

My Daughter Turned Eleven Today
Creaking Floor, Silent Bed
Phantom Pain
Pushing Up Daisies
JIM DANIELS

A Man Who Lives Alone
After the Gold Watch
An Olive Grove in Crete, 1941
DAVID PRATT

Bachelor Party
DEREIC DUBOIS

[over and over]
[heavy doors]
DARREN C. DEMAREE

Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust
What Good These Gregorian Chants?
JOHN DORROH

Double Helix
RONNA WINEBERG

In Your Mind You Go to Water
Missio Mei
The Beds of Children
KIMBERLY L. BECKER

The Refrigerator
Talmud
JUDITH GOLD STITZEL

Fruit Bowl
MARK DANOWSKY

I Never Wanted to Be an Astronaut
ALAN HAIDER

A Cold House
MICHAEL WALSH

Coal Country
DAVID DODD LEE

A Prayer for My Christian Father
DANIELLE HALE

Partly True, Partly False: My Romance with Law & Order Characters
ARUNI KASHYAP

Echoes in the Song of Time The Night Unwritten Daydreams in
the Dark
TOM MCFADDEN

Rohingya refugees
SANDIP SAHA

Maimed
DANA SALVADOR

Theophilus Luatima at the End of the World
Tourism Theory
GEORGE FRAGOPOULOS

Ivan Krastevs After Europe and the Dramatic Risk of European Disintegration
DANIELA ICOLEVA

If You
MATT MASON

Planet Trump
DANIEL DE CULLA

autumn
ecdysis
ANUM SATTAR

Quilt on Wall
RICHARD DINGES JR.

Special Section: A Tribute to William H. Gass
CRYSTAL ALBERTS; GUEST EDITOR

Festschrift
CRYSTAL ALBERTS

An Interview with William H. Gass
CRYSTAL ALBERTS

Tributes to William H. Gass
ROBERT COOVER
GARTH RISK HALLBERG
JOY WILLIAMS
KATHYRN DAVIS
MATTHIAS GORITZ
MICHAEL EASTMAN

To “Contemplate the World through Words”: On Teaching William H. Gass in the Fiction Workshop
PATRICK THOMAS HENRY

Review of The William H. Gass Reader
GREG GERICE

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