We are excited to announce that issue 90.3/4 has gone to our publishing partners at the University of Nebraska Press for typesetting and printing.

To celebrate this milestone in the publication process, find a preliminary table of contents below!

 

Fiction

Little Fingers
Molly Weisgrau

That Type of Girl
Evelyn Maguire

Straight to the Heart
Christine Kwon

How to Write Good or The Bad Story Ever
Max Blue

 

Essays

The Rock
Adam Szetela

Reading
Danica Vukićević/Translation by John Cox

The Good Red Road of Charging Bear
Clifford Canku and John Peacock

 

Poetry

All You Need
Explain What A Capybara Is
Packaging
Tina Gross

Talking with the Dead
Meredith Merritt

Plateau, Two Rearviews
Lisa Coffman

Ah, It Was a Great Ride
Dandelions
Dennis Herrell

Ghazal for Tinfoil Dinners
Spell for the Dead Bird We Turned into Taxidermy
Rachel Layton

Mother’s Voice
Chibuike Ukah

Coda
Brenton Booth

Bloodwork
Kenneth Pobo

Dreams
Warning
David Romanda

Company of Strangers
Meeting with the Red Lobster Birthday Club after Covid
Gaby Bedetti

In my creek
Anne Freier

Her Toast Untouched
Thomas Elson

As He Loved Life
Adele Gardner

Working Out the Kinks
Legacy
Carol Hamilton

U.J.
In a Low Mood
John S. Eustis

The Fifth Season
Terry Savoie

A Tale of Two Cemeteries: The Old
Bette Nelson

Tiny Garden
Christmas in Purgatory
Nicholas Kriefall

Deathbed Insomnia
Tamarack Cameo
Rich Heller

Writing My Obit
Like Peas, Like Whales
Yvette Viets Flaten

How to Survive the Apocalypse
Back to School
Lori D’Angelo

On Passing
Tanque R. Jones

Heartbeats
Mick and Keef
Tony McAndrew

the light scratches and waits
Livio Farallo

Your Bones Shall Not Be the Caller of My Prayers
Alise Palmer

Weary
Peace Ufedojo Haruna

Catch-19
Celesta Nil

Everything We Love Disappears
Lisa C. Taylor

In the train
Marseilles
Ivan de Monbrison

Amarillo City Transit
Bud Sturguess

My Father’s Final Poem
Jason Visconti

Aubade: A Murder of Crows
Frederick Wilbur

Powder Blue Cadillac
The Rescue
Feeding Horses
David Salner

A galaxy of entropies
Roseline Mgbodichinma

As If
Ashes
Margot Block

This Simple Night: A Rondeau
Caleb Delos-Santos

After the Vet’s Diagnosis
When I Move from This House
Laura Sweeney

June
Judy Lorenzen

Once neighbors
There was a rainbow here earlier
Michael Scott Burau

after the second date
David Woodward

End of Semester
Heidi Naylor

Zoo Mom
Target Mom
Easy Mac Mom
Meg Thompson

All I know about an enlarged heart is how to carry it
Chisom Okafor

Relationships
Andrea Moorhead

Girlhood
e.a. gregor

Fable
Russel Swensen

As his Daughter proceeds
The work continues
Carolyn Arcabascio

Friendship
Tricia Knoll

9 a.m. on a Friday
Beck Natale

Something Fishy
Autumn Rain
Leslie Schultz

A Mudskipper’s Love Song
Sher Ting

Last Letter Home
JA Sauvageau

Jumping into thin air to save my self-importance
AN Grace

Riverstone
Natalie Callum

Devotion
You Are the Second Person
You Know This Too
Jessie Raymundo

prelude to canaan surging with patriotic ghosts
one late noon in Palestine
Sodïq Oyèkànmí

Idyllwild during Supply Chain Crisis
Love It or Leave It: Stamp Acts 257 Years Later to Protect Democracies?
Outside Dollar Store Shame on Us
Gerard Sarnat

Wealth is War!
3 Verdicts
John Poff

Two Nights Under Rough Wool
John Schneider

Redemption Moon
Saeedeh Zare Yazdi / Translation: Ali Asadollahi
Wounded Horse
Shahin Shirzadi / Translation: Ali Asadollahi

Laws
Dream feed
Trust
Grit
Max Henderson

What I Learned from Teaching High School for a Day
Laine Derr

Redemption
Robert Pfeiffer

Being Alive
To Keep Unfolding
Love is a Good Thing
Charlene Langfur

you can always taste to see if something’s bleeding
Beech Rubble

Gasoline Alley Days
I Forgot to Remember to Forget
Barry Curtis

A Kitchen
Danae Wright

Cliff Notes for Cats
Julie Marie Wade

Survival
Miranda Wyatt

I Hate My Bladder
Ahrend Torrey

If I Wrote Poems Like I Grocery Shop
John Grey

It’s Come To This
Joan Mazza

In Nueva York
Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena

Bookmark
Andrew Vogel

Paula Drive Notebook
Scott McDaniel

Effing up the Ineffable
Composition
Luke Hankins

Aural/Oral
Susana H. Case

La Cometa Amarilla
A Sensation of Infinity
Geometry or Physics or Maybe Both or Maybe Neither
Patrick Holian

Liar Acrostic
Marjorie Power

Coccyx
spoke too soon
Mary E. Croy

Stunned Surprise
Alan Altany

Divers
Samuel Amadon

A Branch in Her Hands
Lenny DellaRocca

Wanting to Call this Poem Clerestory, I Settle on Collateral Damage
Late April
Shinrin-Yoku, January
Erin Wilson

On the Carousel
Ray Greenblatt

Nesting in Blue Gardens
Sunbeams in St. Peter’s Basilica
Aubrey Roemmich

Peace is a Process
D.A. Hickman

Lost Pond
Phil Huffy

Corn
Okra
Sweet Potatoes
Patrice Boyer Claeys

Dimmit County Soil Management
There Were Different Sirens
Henry Cherry

Eulogy for Miley
Hendersonville, NC
Danny Barbare

The World’s Turned Upside Down
Grandma’s Secret
Allene Nichols

Keepsake
White Stones
Jeanine Stevens

Indiana Summer
fireflies for the first time
my father’s toothache
Nikki Ummel

Birds I Have Known
Alexis Ivy

Frosty Morning
Matthew Brennan

Wheat Stubble
Ben Schwartz

Sunrise at the Shore in South Carolina
Michael Fulop

After a long winter
Driftwood
Lucie McKee

More Than Four
Jim Muyres

fugitive:  no address
fugitive:  stings
fugitive:  snapshots of rabbits
Lisa Roullard

The Cruelest Month
Worse than Nothing
Carson Pytell

From the East It Lows
Devon Brock

The Pest
Becky Parker

Three Untitled Poems
Jerome Berglund

Three Poems in Tsotsil and Spanish by Enriqueta Lunez
Enriqueta Lunez/Translations by Jacklyn Kahafer-Burke, Thomas Lawrence, Amanda Miles, Bailey Spaulding, and Karly Walker

Above a Now Dragged Away
To Scale
Nathan Whiting

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