Kerry Madden, Editor
Cover art: "The Orchid Electric" by Kimberly Ball
Cover design: Michael Alfano
Special Feature
Jamie McFaden, "An Interview with Emily Rapp Black"
Read online
- Mary Ruefle's poem "South on Seven"
- Melissa Crowe's memoir "Caro Nome"
- Emily Rems' story, "Andy"
Listen to poets online
Hear Ashley M. Jones, Laura Secord, and Lauren Slaughter read their poems on our Listen page.
Contents
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poem
- Jacqueline Saphra, "Aubade"
- Tina Barr, "Still Life"
- Heather Bartlett, "When I Was a Boy"
- Michelle McMillan-Holifield, "When Morgan Freeman Reads T.S. Eliot"
- Kateema Lee, "Legacy"
- Laura Secord, "Taking One for Angela”
- Ashley Jones, "Birmingham Fire and Rescue Haiku, 1963," "De Soto Leaves a Negro," "How to Make Your Daughters Culturally Aware and Racially Content During Christmastime," "List of Famous Alabama Slaves," and "Corn Silk Barbie"
- Colleen J. McElroy, "Lessons in Deportment" and "Learning to Love Bessie Smith"
- Jude Deason, "Great Aunt Mona"
- Gail White, "Dame Edith Sitwell"
- Lauren Goodwin Slaughter, "Euphemism,” "The Bathroom," "Waiting for Another Call from My Sister in the Middle of the Night," "Back to Jackson," and “Before The Birth of Venus”
- Samantha Pious translating Renée Vivien
- “Le Violon” / “The Violin”
- “Sur la Place Publique” / “Above the Public Place"
- M. L. Brown, "Running" and "Synonym for Lichen"
- Kate Daniels, "Reading a Biography of Thomas Jefferson in the Months of My Son’s Recovery"
- Mary Ruefle, "South on Seven," "Jean," and "The Failure of Poetry,"
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memoir
- Melissa Crowe, "Caro Nome"
- Mollie Hawkins, "On Weddings"
- Sharanna Polk, "Forever Flint"
- Zhanna Slor, "What’s Five Feet in Front of You"
- Amy Bailey, "Woman’s Body Found"
- Grace Cho, "Crust Girl"
- Casie Cook, "A Temporary Vessel"
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story
- Alina Stefanescu, "Carpool"
- Emily Rems, "Andy"
- Judith Teitelman, "Guesthouse for Ganesha"
- Julie Stewart, "By a Thread"
- Yellena Urazbaeva, "The Gospel According to the Mother"