Kerry Madden, Editor
Cover design: Michael J. Alfano
Cover art: “La Iglesia,” 2009, by Inés Orihuela, watercolor on canvas
Contents
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poem
- Madelyn Garner, "The Garden in August"
- Victoria McArtor, "A Good Seasonal Depression"
- Inez D. Geller, "Taffeta"
- Judith O’Connell, "Hoyer Folding Sheets"
- Jessica Jacobs, "Black Abstraction"
- Hilary Sideris, "My Bluff"
- Melissa Boston, "Edna, Sleeping at Grand Isle"
- Mia Sara, "Sonny Jim"
- Tina Parker, "Sunday Night" and "Parker Raising Jesus"
- Susan Terris, "O’Keeffe Country"
- Suzanne M. Levine, "Eve, Poland, 1942" and "United Air"
- Carrie Jerrell, "Love Poem for Route 66," "Love Poem for the Tallgrass Prairie," and "Ubi Sunt for the Family Road Trip"
- Julie Marie Wade, "red"
- Elya Braden, "Sweeter than Today"
- Jenny Burkholder, "New Year’s Eve"
- Kristi Carter, "When a Ghost Touches Your Body"
- Naoko Fujimoto, "Electric Bills"
- Whitnee Thorp, "Coal Sweet"
- Yolanda Franklin, "Vindictive Grace"
- Juliana Gray, "The Mobled Queen," "Thrift," and "Ophelia"
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memoir
- Alison Chapman, "The Paradise Within"
- Heal McKnight, "Traffic"
- Lauren Fath, "My Hands, Remembering"
- Christina Nettles, "Death of an Independent Bookstore"
- Cynthia Ryan, "Rough Edges"
- Stephanie Dickinson, "New Jersey Noir"
- Mary Grover, "Love for Jumpy Insomniacs"
- Julia Shipley, "Let Us Now Praise Rural Women: The Things They Jettisoned"
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story
- Shobha Rao, "An Unrestored Woman"
- Callie Mauldin, "Temp"
- Melissa DeCarlo, "The Rosary"
- Sonia Scherr, "Pearl"
- Heather Dundas, "House Menu"
- Diana Wagman, "Rom Com or Rose and Jack Live Happily Ever After and We Are Not Really Surprised"
- Antonya Nelson, "In the Land of Men"
- Kerry Madden, "Interview with Antonya Nelson"