“the fire within” by kerry rawlinson; © kerry rawlinson, 2017

 

POETRY

Introduction by John Amen
Introduction and Poems by William Blackley
Introduction and Poems by Stefan Lovasik
Jan Beatty – Kat Talks the War Inside Her
Matilda Berke – Échappé
Annette C. Boehm – Operator
Travis Burke – 25 Hours from Northern Iraq
William Conelly – Medal Winner
Beth Copeland – Explication
Sabrina Fedel – Zero
Kristin Fitzsimmons – The subcommittee
Emily Frisella – Album, August 1938-1944
Karen Paul Holmes – War Bride
Mark Kessinger – Joe in Repair
Laurie Klein – K.I.A.
Zachary Lunn – MEDEVAC
Diane Marshall – Rotation
Ruth McKinney – Opposites
Barbara Presnell – Planting the Garden
Steven Ratiner – Drum
kerry rawlinson – Desert Storm
Kerrin Sharpe – after my father
Paul Sohar – War in Snow
Katherine Soniat – Orphan Joy
Sherre Vernon – The Emperor
Bruce Weigl – Two Poems

 

REVIEWS

Mary Makofske’s World Enough, and Time,
Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Amanda J. Bradley’s Queen Kong,
Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Mischa Willett’s Phases,
Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Mary Dezember’s Still Howling,
Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Eleanor Goodman’s Nine Dragon Island,
Reviewed by David E. Poston
Justin Hamm’s American Ephemeral,
Reviewed by Francine Witte
Judy Kronenfeld’s Bird Flying through the Banquet,
Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Karen Volkman’s Whereso,
Reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
John Elsberg’s Not Quite Ocean: Selected Poems,
Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Richard Schiffman’s What the Dust Doesn’t Know,
Reviewed by David E. Poston