issue 12 (2016)
Collage by James Tate, from the James Tate Tribute in Issue 12. (Courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center)
FEATURES
PORTFOLIO: DIANE SEUSS
Yes I Levitated
Past Tense (things were, but it’s all a blur)
American Run-On Sentences
Wax Nostalgic
I Look Up From My Book and Out at the World through Reading Glasses
Self-Portrait under Janis’s Shoe When She Sang “Ball and Chain” at Monterey Pop, 1967
A TRIBUTE TO JAMES TATE
Celebrations
Kurt Heinzelman
Dean Young
Ishmael Klein
Rafael Campo
Arisa White
Dobby Gibson
Adrian C. Louis
Dorothea Lasky
Matthew Zapruder
Lee Upton
Lisa Olstein
Archives
NOVEL EXCERPT: CAITLIN HORROCKS
from La Belle Excentrique
Etienne, Montmartre, 1888
POETRY
FRANNY CHOI
furiosa
Comet
Solitude
ARISA WHITE
After Watching Obama Win His First Presidency, We Go See Tina Tuna
KENYATTA ROGERS
Reincarnation
Entry
DENISE JARROTT
Easter Lily: Disclosure
Tea Rose: Union
DERRICK AUSTIN
O-P-U-L-E-N-C-E
KAZIM ALI
Missal
Zephyr
May
CLINT SMITH
For the Taxi Cabs that Pass Me in Harvard Square
SARA JUNE WOODS
ESTRADIOL
Dear Hairless Alice
ROCHELLE HURT
Selfward
MARINA WEISS
Musketaquid
CINDY E. KING
Real Housewife Goes Home
CODY ERNST
Budding Seans
AMARANTH BORSUK
ASMR Poem-Stimulus Test #1
HIEU MINH NGUYEN
Punish
EMMA WINSOR WOOD
road head
JENNIE MALBOEUF
Some Things Have Been Heard Enough
CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH
My little sister is in love with a girl who has our mother’s name.
Everyone keeps talking about having children
Carve a space to hold our mother.
CHRISTOPHER KEMPF
Venice Beach
NANCY CHEN LONG
Knot-Box, Blood
ANN-MARIE BLANCHARD
Her Majesty the Queen
EMILY VIZZO
Your Down
FATIMAH ASGHAR
Don’t Read the Comments
sitting in my rapist’s old house
CALEB WASHBURN
Apostle Thomas at the Glory Hole
JOHN PAUL DAVIS
Self-Portrait as a Husband
KOKOY F. GUEVARA
Noli me tangere
ANIS MOJGANI
Baltimore
D. A. POWELL
The Last Gasp of My Earthquake Life
Twilight
FICTION
LUCY BIEDERMAN
Trinkets
CHARLOTTE HOLMES
Flood Season
KETTLY MARS trans. ZOE BALACONIS
Lobo
REBECCA BERNARD
The Maw of My Heart
NONFICTION
JULIAN SHENDELMAN
Ghost Planet
JAMI NAKAMURA LIN
Dreamscape #8: The Geometry of Wanting and Forgetting
DIANE GLANCY
Why the Rocks Have Ears
ART
KEVIN HORAN
Cover Art: “Sherlock #2” and “Carl #1”
MICHAEL REEDER
The Ghost I Used To Be
CORAL SILVERMAN
Mirror Collage
COKE WISDOM O'NEAL
Untitled, from the Blue Nude Series
HEATHER EVANS SMITH
Mold Me
JENNIFER L. BALKAN
Untitled
AMY FRIEND
Parallel
We Are Reflections
ERIK JONES
Mirrors
NATHAN MELLOTT
Cherry Blossoms
EMMA STEINKRAUS
Sundown, Arkansas
JUSTIN PLAKAS
Council
MIKE SMITH
Gate City, VA, 2002