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Fall 2018: Spring, Volume 49, Number 1
Cover Image, “Owls,” by Ellora Bultema

Poems:

• Tally—John Sibley Williams
• Siren Song—Douglas Cole
• The Dead Woman of Baker Street—John Grey
• Ordinary History—John Grey
• Cheap Living—James Valvis
• Tarzan the Aged Man—James Valvis
• Experience—Celine Robles
• Impulses—Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
• Play Therapy—Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
• What Donnie Said—Brian Collier
• The Darkest Side of Love—Eric Paul Shaffer
• The Gray Woman—K.S. Hardy
• A Morning in December—Michelle Hartman
• Smoke Breaks Facing East—Nicholas Hodges
• The Devil—Sarah Brown Weitzman
• The Eyes of God—Ellora Bultema
• Ezra—Jesse Sensibar
• Before You Eat Your Poke Bowl—Amy Lee Kite
• Normalcy Corrects—Katrina Denzer
• Heat waves—Eric Greinke
• The Cold—Eric Greinke
• Bronze Shoes on a Budapest Quayside—Elizabeth Weir
• Spare Change—Carl Auerbach
• Skin—Ronald James Pelias
• Notes on International Communication—Marne Wilson
• Planning an Escape Through a Pinhole of Light—Kevin Le Master
• Depressionism—Michael Milburn
• I’m a Friend of His—DS Maolalai
• Nothing but the Blood—Mary Ann Honaker
• Kissing the Cobra—Ann Struthers
• Poems as Bicycles—Ann Struthers
• Old Men Walk Funny—Michael Lee Johnson
• Just Because Bad Heart—Michael Lee Johnson
• WheelBARREL—Lauren DiEdwardo
• Apology to my Second Grade Self—Lauren DiEdwardo
• April 17th—Katie Pontious
• Dues—Katie Pontious

 

Spring 2018: Fiction, Volume 48, Number 2
Cover Image, “The Raven,” by Sharon Levy

Stories:

• The Secrets of Vinegaroon—Brenton Rossow
• A Presidential Candidate—Ellora Bultema
• Below Where Gods Will Tread—Michael Crecco
• Codes—Nancy Antle
• The ABC’S of HPN—Ron Singer
• The Price You Pay For Being Lucky—Roberta Hartling Gates
• Opening in Silence—Samantha Jankowski
• The Rearrangement—Maggie Hart
• Double Knots—Raymond Arcangel
• The “Craziness Due to Writer’s Block” Aesthetic—Elizabeth Watts
• Morgan—Susan Bryant
• Dinner at Ray’s—Bridget Atkinson Moore
• Spun Sugar—Claire Tollefsrud
• The Light Pole—Emma Bozenda

Fall 2017: Poetry, Volume 48, Number 1
Cover Image, “And We Met in Bisti,” by Sky Katz

Poems:

• Balefire—Denton Loving
• The Demise and Resurrection of the Diving Lady—Virginia Chase Sutton
• Scanning the Black Sky—Virginia Chase Sutton
• Freiheit! Freiheit!—Michael Estabrook
• Lunch with a Poet Laurette—Jeff Alfier
• The Metro to Varketli—Timothy B. Dodd
• Matching Hats—Betsy Martin
• Good Night, Irene—Joyce Janca-Aji
• Like a Clyfford Still Painting—William Doreski
• Capping My Brilliant Career—William Doreski
• Soma is the Teardrop of Agni—Robert Beveridge
• You—Brenton Rossow
• She Looks Back—Patricia Corbus
• I Fell in Love with You Again—Lowell Jaeger
• Predictably Unpredictable—Lowell Jaeger
• Last Date—Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
• Compass—Christiana Carroll
• Stooping—Lauro Palomba
• Blues for Tobi—Jeffrey Alfier
• Blind Woman Dictates a Poem—Tobi Alfier
• Living in the Middle of Nowhere—Tobi Alfier
• Girl Who Couldn’t Hold her Tongue—Chet Corey
• A Couplet for a High School Athlete—Chet Corey
• Relatively Speaking—Matt Zambito
• We Watch Vera Drake—William Snyder
• Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase—William Snyder
• Ambulation Effect and Causation—Ariel Crego
• Margins—John Grey
• My Lick—Danny Earl Simmons
• What They Drive—Ann Struthers
• I Think I Will Go and Live With the Animals—Ann Struthers
• Forgive Me—Ann Struthers
• Guilt Trip—John Field
• Doll—Toti O’Brien
• Becoming Persephone—Mary Ann Honaker
• Ode to Video Games—Eric Katz
• Cowardice—Olivia Parker Sergent
• Plumes—Jacob Rayner
• Relations—Elizabeth Hogan
• 2.5 Almonds—Justin Hyde

 

Spring 2017: Fiction, Volume 47, Number 2
Cover Image, “Facing the Stars,” by Shannon Kramer

Stories:

• Horses—Bill Vernon
• Encounters with the Man Inside my Wall—Jason Namey
• Joy—Josh Patrick Sheridan
• Peregrinus—Ariella S. Levy
• The Wallaby & The Python—Alexis Kale
• The Zyzzyva—Sara Schmitt
• Mercury—Tom Larsen
• Smile—Marissa Carson
• On the Nose—Kevin Tosca
• The Blue Haze—W. Royce Adams
• Dust—Wm. Anthony Connolly

Fall 2016: Poetry, Volume 47, Number 1
Cover Image, “Variations of Reflection,” by Rachel Riemenschneider

Poems:

• Gentlemen’s Club Garden-Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
• Haunted House Attractions-Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
• Intelligent Design-Kelsey Gutierrez
• Your Loneliness It Does Not Become You-John Thornburg
• Signals/Bottles-John Thornburg
• Two Weeks in Bangkok-M. Sioned Curoe
• 1998, Twilight-David Tuvell
• Binding the Strongman-David Tuvell
• For Myself-Katie Rejsek
• Madalena Castillo at the Ferria de Sevilla-Toby Alfier
• One Bedroom Studio-Toby Alfier
• The Letter Z Marries a Stratocaster-Alan Britt
• Anvil Chest-Skylor Andrews
• When Financial Meltdown Strikes Again, What Will Jamie Dimon Do?-Paul Lubenkov
• Home of the Brave-Paul Lubenkov
• Bremer County Cemetary-Joyce Janca-Aji
• CASA de la LUZ-Krikor Der Hohannesian
• Lowness-Krikor Der Hohannesian
• Free For All-Dustin Brown
• Glimpses of Fleeting Insanity-Dustin Brown
• Replacements: Christmas Present, Christmas Past-Tony Tracy
• Sestina for Solomon Grundy-Stephen Cloud
• Exhibitions: Early Maps of the Americas-Stephen Cloud
• Loose Sting-E. Krisitin Anderson
• Harvests-Jeffrey Alfier
• The Wreck of the Leviathan-Jeff Bernstein
• Rush of the Water, Pull of Time-Wiliam Snyder
• Treatise-Cindy King
• Summer’s End-Cindy King
• Our Dog Turns Thirteen-Jacob M. Appel
• He was everything to me, for a brief blazing time in my life-Nick Twemlow
• Serenade-Ekweremadu Uchenna
• I Forget-Ann Struthers
• Stop Thinking about It and Eat Some More Damn Churros: An Ode to the Imagist-Anton Jones
• The Express-Anton Jones
• For Lydia on Bastille Day-Daniel Fitzpatrick
• The Violence of Memory-Daniel Fitzpatrick
• Omen-Chet Corey
• 1976-Jonathan Andersen
• Bailiwick-Jonathan Andersen
• Text to the Centurion Whose Boot Is on My Throat

From the Coe Review Archive:

• Changes-Ed Gorman
• The Modifier-Diane Glancy
• Elegies-Sherman Alexie

Spring 2016: Fiction, Volume 46, Number 2
Cover Image, “Hopeful,” by Nathan Kibler

Stories:

• Black Belt-Adam Berlin
• Neighbors, At One Time or Another-Steve Meador
• Condolences-Robin Vigfusson
• After Alice-Mike Gray
• Blue Bloke-Timothy B. Dodd
• What Goes Up-Will Drickey
• This Guy Should Have a Car-David Pounds
• Grapes-Clare Tollefsrud
• Get Away-KR Rosman

 

Spring 2015: Fiction, Volume 45, Number 2
Cover Image, “Buoyant Parade,” by Anna Carpenter

Stories:

• A Pilgrimage in Space – Caitlin Rose Staff
• A Little Something-Something – Leslie Pietrzyk
• Truck – Kirstin Nelson
• The Lighthouse Ensemble – Nick Bertelson
• It’s 85 Degrees in Orlando – emm borgerding
• Braille, A Love Story – Paul Hostovsky
• Conversion – Esta Fischer
• Spanish Flowers – Miriam Karmel
• The Language of Blood – Zan Bockes
• A Killer Soy Milkshake – Thomas Petrino
• I Don’t Belong Here – Christine M. Lasek
• the tallest woman in the world – Maisie Iven
• 1501 – Monte Jones
• Chivalry – Ekweremadu Franklin Uchenna
• Myths – Haleema Smith
• Junkscape – Mark Antony Rossi

Fall 2015: Poetry, Volume 46, Number 1
Cover Image, “Hidden,” by Nina Wilson

Poems:

• Albert – Fiona Collins
• Hurricane Jumper 1 – Anton Jones
• My Kids’ Favorite Things – Anton Jones
• I Pooped my Pants in Boot Camp – Ron Riekki
• The Alligator in the Kitchen, Lessburg Florida, Wednesday – Ron Riekki
• I Once Had Sex with Halloween – Ron Riekki
• Leaving Libya – Carl Boon
• Choice – Lori Levy
• Habits – Parker Ethan Krall
• Connected in Some Fragmented Way – Laura Coe Moore
• Cats and Dogs – Tonja Robins
• Southern Ohio – Abigail Goodhart
• inside a salem parlor – Jake Tringali
• Think Lutefisk – Sheryl L. Nelms
• The Girl Notebooks – Stephen Whitaker
• As the End of the World Approaches – Ace Boggess
• “So What Happens Next?” – Ace Boggess
• The Importation of Useful Animals – Laryssa Wirstiuk
• Steer – Jackie Duden
• Olive – Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad
• Switch –Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad
• Not in the Mood for Love – John Grey
• The Books – John Grey
• When the Lights Go Out – Ron McFarland
• Thanks for Not Calling – Michael Salcman
• The Wound – Alexander Curren Stinton
• Cava – Alexander Curren Stinton
• Voice from a Carrefour South of the Seine – Jeffrey Alfier
• Lost in Translation – Charlene Ashley Taylor
• Ornithologies – James Mc Elroy
• Glutton’s Prayer – Randal McCraw Helms
• Drought – Gary Metheny
• Not Quite an Angel – Seth Jani
• Epidural – Derek Sugamosto
• The Ocean Carries my Message to You – Melissa Parietti
• Rehearsal – Lauren Bender
• But Enough About Me – Woodrow Hightower
• Like Many Giant Footprints – William Doreski
• Marthy Canary – Kevin Heaton
• January Suns – Joyce Janca-Aji
• October – Joyce Janca-Aji
• Upgrade – D. R. James
• Teacher – D. R. James
• Memorable Cigarettes – John Repp
• We were playing shuffleboard at the Last Chance Saloon when a fight broke out on the tile-chipped dance floor – Brian Collier
• Contrails – Brian Collier
• Weathered – Brian Collier
• Bone Needle – John Sibley Williams
• Such Orphanage – John Sibley Williams
• Blank – Gil Zamora
• The Young Father – Lowell Jaeger
• Who’d do a Thing Like That? – Lowell Jaeger
• (Almost) Best in the World – Alex Andrew Hughes
• It’s All Tangled Up Over There – Martin H. Levinson
• The Color Orange (While I am on Drugs) – Katie Rejsek
• Cosmic Grime – Katie Rejsek
• Kafka Turned Round – Leslie Philibert
• Chicken Curry – emm rose borgerding
• Making Music – Tanner Brossart
• Small and Smaller – Lana Bella
• Lake Mushroom Cloud – Daniel Moore

Spring 2014: Fiction, Volume 44, Issue 2 (Click for full PDF version)
Cover image, “Transcendence,” by Savannah Dearhammer

Stories:

• Plus One – Ethan Wykert
• Notions of a Dead Horse – Heather Job
• Sleepless Nights and Apologies – Heather Job
• Star Dust – Lauro Palomba
• Impact – Maddie Baise
• “Maggie May” – Laura Eppinger
• Where Pickled Jalapeños Grow – Sean Taylor
• Tumble Dust – Diane Constantine 
• Fort – Emm Borgerding
• Blue – Kirsten Nelson
• The Upstairs Sister – Paul Pekin

Fall 2014: Poetry, Volume 45, Number 1 (click for full PDF version)
Cover image, “Never Forgotten,” by Caitlin McKendry

Poems:

• The Opening – Jeffrey Zable
• Smoke Jumper – Matthew Hamilton
• Joansie – Sea Sharp
• Sleeping with Kermit the Frog – Patrick Johnson
• Inner City Tale – Dennis Trudell
• Méliès, the Moon Has No Money – Linda Ann Strang
• The Last Flower – Bruce McRae
• Sister Saint – Heather Rick
• Slipping – Emm Borgerding
• After Without – Emm Borgerding
• The Man at the Pizza Buffet – Brandyn Johnson
• Tiger – Brandyn Johnson
• Metamorphoses – Jonathan Greenhause
• 404 Page Not Found – Kevin Brown
• Orienting Response – Kevin Brown
• melancholy – Elena Botts
• (and jump out) – Elena Botts
• A Poem for Luis – Michelle Donahue
• Hourglass – Susana H. Case
• First Death – Susana H. Case
• Two Poems for Frank Lloyd Wright – John Sibley Williams
• Travelogue – John Sibley Williams
• Memoir – John Sibley Williams
• Absolutely, Positively 4th Street – Brenda Yates
• Indio, California – Colin Dodds
• pantoum of City Temple, Shanghai – Jeffrey Beck
• Buyer’s Remorse by the 405 – Sally Molini
• Title: Alphabet Soup – Patricia P.
• Say Uncle – Phillip Sterling
• Fifi – Charles Rammelkamp
• Refugees – Leslie Philibert
• Lynn Shore – William Doreski
• Like that Cat in the Barn – William Jolliff
• Injury – Domenic Scopa
• Lady Prufrock – Candice Glydwell
• Rejection – Tanner Brossart
• Rewind (Pangaea) – Tanner Brossart
• Disrepair – Canon Parker
• Fly Ribbon – Vladimir Swirynsky
• Directory Assistance, How May I Direct Your Call? – Matthew Woodman
• Place Setting – Myron Ernst
• Life – Dan Morris
• Comfort Loop – Alan Jernigan
• Stupid Childish Ecstasy – Alan Jernigan
• Subway Gospel – Matthew Ulland
• Portrait of the young man… – Joyce Janca-Aji
• True Love – Joyce Janca-Aji
• Sniff – Gale Acuff
• Riverstones – Allison Grayhurst
• Stop Hitting Yourself — Anton Jones
• Last Doctors in Aleppo, June 2014 – Ann Struthers
• Decisions – Brad Garber
• Night School – Larry Narron
• The Oldest Guy in the Arcade – John Grey

Spring 2013: Fiction, Volume 43, Issue 2
Cover image, “Lock and Key,” by Anna Hegland

Stories:

• Hard Shell, Soft Shell – Michael Chaney
• Hobo Chronicles – Rashad Harris
• A Scrubland Companion – John Thornburg
• The Lie of the Stones – Ace Boggess
• The Visit – Evan Morgan Williams
• Dynamite Hill – DJ Swykert
• The Art of Apology – Ron McFarland
• Be Better — Suzanne Richardson
• A Girl For The Night — Steven Ostrowski
• The Professors — Tim Gorham
• The Tide — Carol Scott-Conner
• Free Parking – Ariana Lily Uding
• The Truth of High School — Ariana Lily Uding
• Young Man Pallbearer — Peter Madsen
• 2 Minutes 16 Seconds Inside Her Head – Stefani Wright
• CB White in Ruth-Anne’s Escape — William “Kobe” Spencer
• My Pet Skeleton — Lindsay Souvannarath
• Lucky – Chelsey Clammer
• Termites – Diane Constantine
• Have you ever gone to a carnival and got on a ride with a girl you didn’t know and it should’ve been sketchy but it wasn’t then the ride turned out to be ferocious and made you want to vomit a thousand dragons, but, ironically, your sister threw up when you got home? – Paulina Harrison
• Something Good — R Dean Johnson
• Tigers on the Savanna — Sharon Houk
• Prosaic – Emily Weber
• A Motley Spirit — Terry Heller
• Deep Breath — Jennifer Boddicker
• Hewn — Nick Bertelson
• The Driving Instructor Dreams of Flying – Nick Bertelson

Fall 2013: Poetry, Volume 44, Issue 1 (Click for full PDF version)
Cover image, “Human Prism,” by Anna Carpenter

Poems:

• Elvis’ Car — William Miller
• Sojourn — Nylah Lyman
• Perennial Garden Stitch Assist, High Resolution — Nylah Lyman
• Insomnia — Ivan de Monbrison
• Discovery — Robert M. Randolph
• Asymmetric — Robert Huotari
• The Thing You Lift — Robert Huotari
• A Woman’s Apartment — Ace Boggess
• In Deference to the Thunderstorm — Ace Boggess
• Any Insult Would Be Better — Olivia McElwain
• Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico — Lyn Lifshin
• Bankers’ Lullaby — Nancy Carol Moody
• Smelly Poem — Paul Hostovsky
• The Only Question — Paul Hostovsky
• Divorces — Robert Stout
• Radioactivity — Glenn Halak
• Us, we knew — Peter Madsen
• The Rhizomal Magnetic Spleen — Peter Madsen
• True Story Tuesday — Peter Madsen
• Odors — Richard Dinges, Jr.
• Blood in the Wood — David Alexander McFarland
• Old Soul Reflections During Meditation — Brycical
• Something Love Resembles — Jonathan Greenhause
• The Big Guys at Bat — James Hazen
• Punishment: The Pet Gorilla — Kevin Griffith
• Punishment: The Dryer — Kevin Griffith
• Twenty-One — William Spencer
• An Introduction to Algebraic Coding Theory and Alzheimer’s Disease — Zach Wood-Doughty
• A Three Minute Response to Mary Oliver — Joyce Janca-Aji
• My Seance with Toulouse-Lautrec — Noel Sloboda
• Face — Alexander Boyd
• Kaolinite — Caroline Lauth
• Prayers — Savannah Cooper
• At the Bar Full of Rotting Animals — Darien Cavanaugh
• Some Change for the Time Man — Tom Pescatore
• & where do we go? — Tom Pescatore
• April Morning On Long Beach — Michael Carrino
• Can You Smell It? — Patrick Johnson
• Oh, to be a fine, young trailblazer — Brian Collier
• Silent Gift — Robert Karaszi
• Home Comforts — Anthony Arnott
• Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe — Richard Donnelly
• Measuring Heart — Lisa Harris
• don’t stop — Dustin Brown
• Run-on — Paulina Harrison
• Our Father — Howard Winn
• The Prophet Amos Adds A Postscript — William Jolliff
• Artist’s Bio: the Banjo Guy on Fourth and Main — William Jolliff
• Bag of Hope — Michele Bombardier
• Coyote Dreams — M. Sioned Curoe
• The Trick to Being Shameless — M. Sioned Curoe
• For Marica — Ariana Uding
• Dandelion Sugar — Ariana Uding

Spring 2012: Fiction, Volume 42, Issue 2
Cover image, “Smoggles,” by Krysta Sackett

Stories:

• Elise Left — Lucy Shirley
• In The People’s Art Museum — M. Kaat Toy
• All the Same — Paul Many
• Cathedral of Cotton — Liz Gaffney
• Aryan Jew — Adam Berlin
• PK — Ellen Burns
• The Missing — Benjamin Arda Doty
• I Wish I Could Have Say I Loved You — Shelly King
• Varieties of Diets — Kevin Griffith
• Shutters — Nathan Ailing Long

Fall 2012: Poetry, Volume 43, Issue 1
Cover image “C’est La Vie,” by Alison Charles

Poems

• Being All the Bus Drivers Simultaneously – Daniel Poppick
• An Argument for the Twentieth Century – Daniel Poppick
• Walk Disney – Daniel Poppick
• Ice (Zlatar, Yugoslavia, 1985) – Jim Daniels
• Turning Early – Jim Daniels
• Leaving Men in the Midwest. Or, She Dreams, She Slips – Lyn Lifshin
• Taxidermy – Jill Whitehouse
• Bret – Jill Whitehouse
• Winter – Richard Stolorow
• The Cat on Page Ten (reading from Animal Farm) – Sioned Curoe
• Barbed Wire, Electric – Sioned Curoe
• A Cold Christmas Somewhere – Jack Vian
• Virginia – William Robison
• love song for male pattern baldness, the open bottle of Lunesta on a nightstand – Chloe Reichelt
• a centuries too-late letter to Paul from Tarsus – Chloe Reichelt
• Light Empowers – Vinati Bhola
• Unforeseen Trouble with Safety Goggles – Lauren Coe
• 2 Men Kiss/A Dollar and a Dream (or the odds of unequal and opposite attraction) – Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran
• Province Elevated – Terrell Jamal Terry
• Nostalgia for a Valley Unseen – Terrell Jamal Terry
• a handbook to dying on a 3 mile island – Brendan Moore
• Feed the Need – Matthew Laffrade
• Brother Swartzentruber’s Market and Novelty – William Jolliff
• Epiphanies in the Form of Birds – Rob Schultz
• Robert Johnson – William Miller
• Pavlov’s Dog – William Miller
• Selected Letters – John Azark
• Glum – Michael Milburn
• Aging – Ann Niedringhaus
• The Last Page (Happily Every After) – Felicia Owens
• Flowers for Moloch – Christopher Barnes
• Things We Have Seen Before – Jeffrey N. Johnson
• Cosmogony – William Spencer
• Civitate Dei – William Spencer
• Rhinoceros – Donald Illich
• Cartoon Characters – Donald Illich
• The Luncheon – James Doyle
• Jellyfish – James Doyle
• Gardeners – Perry Thompson
• The Attics of the Sea – John Thornburg
• Good Weather in the Domain of Queen Mab – John Thornburg
• Train Atlas – John Thornburg

Spring 2011: Fiction, Volume 41, Issue 2  (Click for full PDF version)
Cover image “Hmm,” by Samantha Jacobo

The full, online PDF version of this issue.

Stories:

• The Eating Rules — Dwight Hilson
• Phipp — Susan Taylor Chehak
• Places to Change — Nick Bertelson
• Autumn Idol — Dennis Vannatta
• Night Walking Woman — C. Rochelle Weidner
• The Homecoming — Hailey Malone
• Midtowners — Hailey Malone
• What Grows Back — Kate Ristow
• The Ossuary — Forrest Schrader
• Another Word for Serendipity — Robin Lane
• Case Study — Robert Marshall
• I Was Melvin Sanders — Marvin Shackelford
• Perdido — John Thornburg
• Elise Ivey — Mike Sauve

Fall 2011: Poetry, Volume 42, Issue 1 (Click for full PDF version)
Cover Image, “Red,” by Ellen Burns

The full, online PDF version of this issue.

Poems:

• Boxy Poem for Mr. Beck — Paul Hostovsky
• C. Bowen, Plumber — Paul Hostovsky
• That Place Back There — Scott T. Hutchinson
• East St. Paul — Erynn Norris
• City Portrait #2 — Ariana Uding
• Tom Mix — William B. Wright
• House Beautiful — Liz Drayer
• Mad Woman of Suburbia — John Grey
• Photography: Silhouettes and Grays — Stefani Wright
• i am dying of famine — Mikaela Cook
• Oklahoma Two-Part Poem — John Thornburg
• Friends of my Childhood — Ann Struthers
• Not Knowing Why — Ann Struthers
• Writing Moby Dick — Ann Struthers
• Alcott’s Axe — Ann Struthers
• Mother and Marmee — Ann Struthers
• Coleridge and Wordsworth’s Gang — Ann Struthers
• Dancing Among Women — Ann Struthers
• Phlebas the Phoenician — Ann Struthers
• The Road to Work — Ann Struthers
• Planting the Cherry Seed — Ann Struthers
• The End of the Day — Ann Struthers
• Union County Street — William Jollif
• What About This Weather? — William Jollif
• Med Head — Tony Tracy
• Stuff of Legend — Tony Tracy
• Gentlemen — Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
• Reminiscing About Hoffa at the Ivy Rose Motor Inn — D.A. Lockhart
• The Endless Unknown — Arlene L. Mandell
• Seven Billion Divided by One — Sharon Rose
• Old Coat — William Spencer
• The Question — Whitney Hu
• Nomad — Hannah Keast
• Pied Brunch — George Such
• Paul and Victoria — Eric Paul Shaffer
• Without Turning On the Lights — Eric Paul Shaffer
• Dutchman’s Pipe — Ann Robinson
• The Tree — Andrew Spencer
• Peculiar Smoke — Michael T. Young
• Riddle — James Valvis
• At the Gym — James Valvis

Spring 2010: Fiction, Volume 40, Issue 2 (Click for full PDF version)                                                                                         Cover image, “Untitled” by Sarah Chobanian

Stories:

• Stronger than Skin — Brandon Boudreaux
• The Coyote Dies — Nick Bertelson
• Puree — Terry Heller
• Recovery — M. Eileen Cronin
• Proof — Sharon E. Trotter
• The Disappearing — Wendy Fox
• Summer of Cats — Taylor Eagan
• The Bent: The Awakening — rachel kann
• The Essay — Mary Pat Musick
• After the Storm — Amanda Axley
• Tiger Tiger Burning Bright — Aaron Stypes
• Take Up Serpents — Lisa Harris
• The Machine — Fred Waage

 

Fall 2010: Poetry, Volume 41, Issue 1 (Click for full PDF version)
Cover image, “Fields of Perspective,” by Erin Brandt

Poems:

• My Sisters in Iowa — Judy Ireland
• Sweeping — Judy Ireland
• The Orange Era — Hailey Malone
• I Die Stage Left — Hailey Malone
• Moonwalkers — Hailey Malone
• Bust — Paul Hostovsky
• Bureaucratic Copy For Good Temps — Rob Cook
• To the March Hare — Diya Chaudhuri
• The Lives of Commerce (4) — Jeff Alessandrelli
• Sleepwalker — Tonya Ward Singer
• Rodeo Girl — Steve Shilling
• spoon full of sugar — Rhian Beutler
• Love in Motion — Kacie Svoboda
• a vision of freedom — Kacie Svoboda
• This Place I Am — William Jolliff
• Still Fishing — William Jolliff
• Some Notes After the Fact — Nancy Carol Moody
• She Holds Me In a Vial — Jason Bradford
• Trouble Breathing — Jason Bradford
• Marine — Jason Bradford
• Under the Surface — Janice D. Soderling
• The Whale Hunt — Kai Laursen
• Honeysuckle — James Doyle
• Climbing the Skyscraper — James Doyle
• I Come From An Oboe Family — James Doyle
• Dear Alexander — Jennifer Ettinger
• Dance Imperative — Phyllis Grilikhes
• Arson — Julia Wendell
• Peonies — Julia Wendell
• “thursday, august 4th, columbus circle” — Leigh Vandebogart
• A Recipe for Diaspora — Iris Garcia
• Pieces in the Loam — Rachael Van Essen
• Liqueur With Birds on the Bottle — Timothy Black
• Lips — Lyn Lifshin
• Moon and Freckle — Nick Bertelson
• Some of the Women — Nick Bertelson
• Waterfall — Joel Solonche
• Exercise For Forgetting — Vivian Eyre
• Nutrition — Leta Keane
• The Mountain — Elle Pryor
• The Tender Worms — Stephen Germic
• A Year Without Poetry — Amanda Moore
• Opening the Hive — Amanda Moore
• The Broken Leg — Amanda Moore
• Ithaca — Amanda Moore
• September 10 — Amanda Moore
• Cahokia — Hannah Craig
• It’s Like This — Robert Parham
• True Miracles — Ann Struthers
• Before Venus Rising — Ann Struthers
• The Road To Work — Ann Struthers
• Interstate Vesper — Taylor Eagan
• In Addition To Water — Taylor Eagan
• Some Lines for Len Schrader — Charles Aukema

Spring 2009: Fiction, Volume 39, Number 2                                                                                                                                           Cover Image, “blues” by Katie Hohmann

Stories:

• Four Daily Do’s — Richard Lee Zuras
• Dog Catcher Day: 1982 — Nick Bertelson
• The End of Stick Man and Hat Head: The Comic Drawn Almost Daily During Mr. Ryan’s Sixth Grade Science Class Period 4 — Shellie Zacharia
• Into the River — Molly Maslin Arbogast
• Frogs, Strings, Bangs, and Things — Emily Hipps
• LILY — Mary Rudy
• Tenderness — Kestrel Slocombe
• She Said I Crossed Her Boundaries — Robert M. Zoschke
• JIM — Todd Easton Mills
• A Note to the New Homemakers — Shane Alan Noecker
• Descant — Mary Ann O’Gorman
• Spoons — Taylor Eagan

 

Fall 2009: Poetry, Volume 40, Issue 1 (Click for full PDF version)                                                                                             Cover Image, “Rooster, a Self Portrait” by Elizabeth Gaffney

Poems:

• Cracker Ceremony — Tim Staley
• Breaking the News — Charles Springer
• Bearded Swimmer — Cat Dixon
• Analyzing Throat Sensations — Jason Bradford
• Box of Disquiet — Suzanne Scarfone
• Elevator Music — Teresa Breeden
• Vivian in Vino Veritas — Ann Struthers
• Against Ornamentation — Ann Struthers
• Falling — Kristine Ong Muslim
• potatoes — Ethan Connor
• I Love You — Hayley Berkshire
• God, Dan — Paul Hostovsky
• Flies — Ralph Burns
• In the Barking Park — Stephen Kessler
• Scratch Pegasus — Stephen Kessler
• Sleeping with Lorca — Lyn Lifshin
• How to Approach Visual Poetry — Linda Back McKay
• Attention Historians! — Darrell Epp
• Cytology — R. D. Drexler
• Ringo — Amorak Huey
• The Good Life — Brian Daldorph
• My Father’s Voice — William O. Burns
• Aardvark — William O. Burns
• change — Kacie Svoboda
• The Precision Haircut — Andrea Bates
• At the Strand — John Azrak
• Cattle Guard — Gwen Monohan
• Hades Tailgating — Jesse Dunstan
• Sign of Spring — Richard Dinges, Jr.
• Winter — Kiely Prouty
• A Sundial — John McKernan
• sunday matinee — Andy Johnson
• His Early Promise Unfulfilled — Bruce McRae
• Stop the Clock — Bruce McRae
• Halfway Between — Dan Pette
• Sonnet on a Line from Elizabeth Bishop — Anne Higgins
• check out them clouds: — Ayla Crosswhite
• fades to yellow: — Ayla Crosswhite
• someone’s gonna die: — Ayla Crosswhite
• My Astrophysicist Brother Takes a Nap — Robert J. Tillett
• Ceremony — D M Gordon
• Close the Door — Michael Malan
• The Myth of Washington’s Wooden Dentures — Douglas Collurd
• Trauma Patient #25 — Carol Scott-Conner
• Cotton: A Sort of Sestina — Eric Paul Shaffer
• A Small Gathering of Light — Eric Paul Shaffer
• Animal Dreams — Jane Medved
• Crows — Justina Cline
• Art Appreciation — Alison Hornbeck
• Autumn Furlough 1943 — Jeanette I. Winthrop
• Fleda Brown Removes ‘the parade’ From Her Poem — C B Follett
• My Mother’s Bones — C B Follett
• Dali’s Dream — Ellie Grossman
• Afflicted — Raul Clement