“Hidden Moon” by Jonathan K. Rice
16 x 20 inches, acrylic on canvas (private collection)
© 2020 by Jonathan K. Rice
POETRY
Introduction to Pedestal 85
Jeff Bagato – “Contesting the Homeland”
Roy Bentley – “Richly Robed Rhinoceroses Riding in Rickety Red Rickshaws”
Marion Boyer – “All My Flowers”
Sara Burant – “A noticeable degree”
Dana Jaye Cadman – “Gifts”
Dane Cervine – “Koan of the Blue Heron”
Marsha de la O – “What It Sounded Like on the Way to Calvary”
Lawdenmarc Decamora – “Pattaya, after which is stereographic plurality”
Alexis Rhone Fancher – “Hyena”
Joie Filippini – “Taste”
Mónica Gomery – “We thanked her by digging a hole”
Ann Hudson – “Basketball”
Luke Johnson – “Bless the Mouth”
Lynne Knight – “Centering”
Robert Hill Long – “The Hummingbird”
Stefan Lovasik – “The Foundry, 1960”
Glenna Luschei – “Prison Count”
Jane Ormerod – “carnival”
Kerrin Sharpe – “a retired pilot flies asleep”
Amy Small-McKinney – “Wildfires & Other Catastrophes”
Iain Twiddy – “Winter Weight”
Megan Wildhood – “When Do Death and Destruction Break?”
Francine Witte – “Map of Me”
Gail Wronsky – “A non-binary person walked by”
REVIEWS
klipschutz’s Premeditations,
Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Barbara Ungar’s Save Our Ship,
Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Shawn Pavey’s Survival Tips for the Pending Apocalypse,
Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Tim Suermondt’s Josephine Baker Swimming Pool,
Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Dana Roeser’s All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts,
Reviewed by Joseph Hutchison
Irène Mathieu’s Grand Marronage
Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Mehnaz Sahibzada’s My Gothic Romance,
Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Jared Smith’s That’s How It Is,
Reviewed by David E. Poston
Sara Backer’s Such Luck,
Reviewed by Ace Boggess
Nathan Leslie’s Hurry Up and Relax,
Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp
Michael Kriesel’s Zen Amen,
Reviewed by Erica Goss
Francesca Bell’s Bright Stain,
Reviewed by Cindy Hochman