Spring/Summer 2017

Shani Abramowitz

• Clean
• Sunshine Boy

Terry Allen

• There Was No Need to Run off to Join the Circus

Jonathan Andersen

• Space-time Is Curved, Bounded but Infinite

Robert Avery

• Tranche de Vie
• No Angel

Noah Bennet

• A Brief Biography of the Last Roller-Skating Waitress

Ace Boggess

• My Story

Kathy Butterworth

• You unzip your mind

Abby Caplin

• Naiad’s Den
• Stewie the Neighbor’s Borderline Squirrel

Jay Carson

• Only Connect
• The Echoes of Wind Gap

T. Clear

• How to Burn an Ex-Lover’s Poems

Darren Demaree

• You Don’t Have to Die Well for Me #52

Gail DiMaggio

• Flash and the Land o’ Lakes Girl

Kristen Elde

• Layover Season

Jennifer L. Freed

• Dry Season
• Climbing out of a Well

Bill Glose

• Behind the Curtain

Jonathan Greenhause

• Our History Moves in Waves
• Next Time,

Jim Gustafson

• Necessity

Carol Hamilton

• Useless Information

Danielle Hanson

• Height

Ben Heins

• Texting, Pre-First Date

William Hilary

• Last Minute Revisions
• Unpolished Stone

Elizabeth Hitchcock

• Mastering the Divine

Maisie Houghton

• Love Poem

Seth Jani

• Curriculum Vitae

Susan Johnson

• Forget Ten and Two
• It’s the Same Life

Claire Keyes

• Swinging
• First Job/Sixteen

Mary Louise Kiernan Hagerdon

• The Un-Wedding

Andrew Kuhn

• At the Sluice

Lee Landau

• Didn’t You Ever

Sam Lane

• Better than dogs

Samantha Lê

• Summer Sale

Sidney Lee

• in time

Laurie Lessen-Reiche

• The Zeus I Loved

Kevin J. McDaniel

• Burn Out

Scott McDaniel

• The Lament of the Stanley 33-425 Powerlock 25-Foot by 1-Inch Measuring Tape at Having Been Chosen that Fateful Day
• My Affair

Gary Metras

• Isola Bella

Irene Mitchell

• Company

Tom Montag

• Speed-reading Early James Tate
• Early Spring

Ann Niedringhaus

• 1953

Robert Nisbet

• The Impresarios

Bibhu Padhi

• Summer, Dhenkanal

Charles Rammelkamp

• Rigoletto

Elizabeth Rees

• The Origins of Capitalism
• Bicycle Thief

Louise Robertson

• DNA

Virginia Smith Rice

• Into the Crowded Sky (Affect, Affliction)

Chris Souza

• Fever

Joseph Stern

• We Work to Keep a Constant Flow of Goods

Henry Stimpson

• Mechanical Garage Dirge

Allison Taylor

• Get Home Safe, Darlin’
• Home Schooling

David Thornbrugh

• We’ll Always Have Paris

Barbara Tramonte

• Should I Care
• Native New Yorker

Emily M. Trask

• The Mistake that Water Made
• The Drying Wrack

Jay Udall

• Lost Feather, Little Wing
• Outside

Kari Wergeland

• Fishing

D.C. Wiltshire

• accompaniment

A.D. Winans

• Back from an MRI

Liu Ying

• Nest of Love

Joseph Zaccardi

• Girl with Mandolin

Poetry Contest Winners

Elton Glaser — First Place

• The Fifties, from the Back Row

Janet Reed — Second Place

• Toughs: A Pantoum to Third-Grade

Charles Atkinson — Third Place

• Less

Allen Tullos — Honorable Mention

• The Dream of Calibration

Anna Mullen — Honorable Mention

• Oshodi Birds

Matthew J. Spireng — Honorable Mention

• Haunted

Roberta Marggraff — Honorable Mention

• Arcade

Fiction Spotlight

Oonagh C. Doherty

• Working Class Cred

Celia Hameury

• The Dollhouse