Spring/Summer 2015

Jeffrey Alfier

• The Sun Well Set

Maria Luisa Arroyo

• La Finca de Tabaco: The Tobacco Farm, 1951

Nan Becker

• If a wren knows not of death

Mark Belair

• New England

Anthony Botti

• Middlefield, 7.14.12
• Housekeeping

Mark Broeske

• PrairieLand

Joseph Buehler

• A Green Meadow Cell

Charles Cantrell

• Untying the Knot

Jo-Anne Cappeluti

• Window Seat
• Her Father, Dying in Ohio

Jacob Chapman

• Time on Your Hands

Nicholas Michael Clark

• Puddle Moon

Douglas Cole

• Trunyan

Ralph Culver

• Bargainers

Douglas K. Currier

• Suddenly, strawberries
• The sun is shining

Frank De Canio

• Summery Summation

Hollie Dugas

• Elusive Souvenirs

Adam Durso

• Hunger

Jennifer L. Freed

• Knife Thrower
• How to Love Your Teenage Daughter

Laura Glenn

• Planktonic

Bill Glose

• Mural in Reverse

David Gross

• Rubber Guns

Janet Hagelgans

• Hantush, Iraq, 2003

Lisa Hartz

• Study of Lillia, Carolus-Duran, 1887

Lowell Jaeger

• It’s a Thirsty World

Susan Johnson

• Helping Grandma Move
• Old Barn

Laura M. Kaminski

• At the Sink

Ellen LaFleche

• Credo for things that crack and break

Paul Lamar

• For Ethel

Charlene Langfur

• Trying to Get Back on the Path
• I Think We Can Rescue Ourselves

Daniel J. Langton

• Sehnsucht

Lyn Lifshin

• Marilyn Tries to Remember the Bedroom She Had When She Was Nine
• Nights It Was Too Hot to Stay in the Apartment

Carol Lischau

• There Must Have Been a Cause

Ted Lord

• Devotional
• I want

Peter Ludwin

• Morning at Lake Leo

Brian McCarty

• Imaginary Friends

Dimitri McCloghry

• Verdict

Sandy McCord

• Sunflowers in London

Joyce Meyers

• Beginnings

John N. Miller

• Missing, In Action

Greg Moglia

• Budapest… Vienna… Prague

Robert Nazarene

• The Antonym of Abraham Lincoln

Patty Dickson Pieczka

• Trade Winds

Michael Poage

• Scottish Sonnet
• ‘Being Zeus’

Suzanne Rhodenbaugh

• The Dying Man Visit

Nicholas Roos

• Love Cells

Yosef Rosen

• Too Far Gone

Eric Roy

• Dropping In

Scott Ruescher

• On a Chicken Bus in Guatemala
• Carp

Doug Rutledge

• Speculate

Richard Schiffman

• Boys and Branches

Matthew J. Spireng

• Civil War Ancestor

Adam Stengel

• Poem-a-Day

Sokunthary Svay

• Embody

Marc Swan

• Last Leg of the Journey

Eugenie Juliet Theall

• Bathtime

John Urban

• Reminiscences

Marty Walsh

• Bedtime Story

Will Walton

• London

Robert N. Watson

• Heaven

Steven Winn

• Desert Petroglyphs

Laryssa Wirstiuk

• Bodega Mangoes

Barry Yeoman

• Arc of the Sun

Poetry Contest Winners

Matthew J. Spireng [First Place]

• Good Work

Beth Paulson [Second Place]

• Each Life Converges to Some Centre

Diana Wolfe Larkin [Third Place]

• I Walk in the Gentle Wood

Fiction Spotlight

Deborah S. Prespare

• No Weight

Featured Poem

Marian K. Shapiro

• Ground