Issue 13 : Summer 2018

INTERVIEWS	Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad	Joy Is Not Promised to You
ESSAYS	Joshua Bernstein	The Gospel of Dearth
	Tom Larsen	The Nightmare Next Door
	Jerome Richard	Good and Decent People
	Janette Schafer	The Miracle of Ordinary
FICTION	Eric Barnes	Time Space
	Thomas Jacobs	The Death of Z
	Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio	Fighting for His Brother Recognition
	Matt Whelihan	A Painter’s Secret
POETRY	Roy Bentley	Orville Wright Lies Prone in a Flying Machine as His Brother Wilbur and Associate Dan Tate Give It a Running Start
	Nandini Dhar	This Allegory Landscape
	Deborah Flanagan	Cross-Country Skiing and Bratwurst: A Brief Study of Angela Merkel The List of Unusual Deaths The Right Way Home
	Alice B. Fogel	As If Epiphyte Mood Piece
	Marc Frazier	Meditation One
	Stephen Gibson	The Art of Poetry: Summer of Love Dec. 7th, 1941
	Carolyn Oliver	Interlopers
	Sergio Ortiz	Nightbird Shortcut
	Katherine Riegel	Driving Through Alabama Helpless Wonders
	Barbara Kreader Skalinder	In Defense of the Marriage Act
	Jane O. Wayne	The Hazards
	Tori Grant Welhouse	Scottish Husband
	Michael T. Young	Song The Mind as a Poor City Planner What the Mind Hungers for
TRANSLATION	Mirza Sakit translated by Murad Jalilov and Kevin Rabas	[The nightingale is plucking out its feathers.]
	Stanislav Stratiev translated by Risa Shargel	The Snow Kept Falling
FEATURED ARTIST	Epiphany Knedler	Illuminating Disparity: Economic Inquality in the Midwest

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