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Issue 97
“Becoming” by Paula Lowe
© 2025 by Paula Lowe
POETRY
Sally Ashton – “Pastoral”
Jan Beatty – “Watershed”
Francesca Bell – “Leavening Agents”
Amanda Bradley – “Rehab Homework #3: Vulnerability”
Daniela Buccilli – “Not an Elegy”
Elisabeth Adwin Edwards – “Boreas”
Alexis Rhone Fancher – “Orbit”
Molly Fisk – “As if it weren’t enough to bear”
Jeannine Hall Gailey – “Revontulet”
Mary Gilliland – “Expect the Ants”
Matthew E. Henry – “when asked if, as a veteran teacher, I’ve gotten used to it”
Lisa Higgs – “April Showers”
Marilyn A. Johnson – “To Rest Here”
Liyah Kinsler – “Cardamom”
Zachary Kluckman – “Chiaroscuro”
Jeffrey Little – “Speak, Memory”
Dana Henry Martin – “Write This (Death is blood seeping …)”
Abby E. Murray – “My Daughter Explains the New World”
Richard Peabody – “Witch Hazel”
Connie Post – “Scuba Diver”
Dan Rosenberg – “November 6, 2024”
Heidi Seaborn – “Almost Like Dying”
Amy Small-McKinney – “Beautiful and Longing to be Known, Amsterdam and Belgium”
Jared Smith – “The Alleys of Home”
Brandon C. Spalletta – “When We Were Younger”
Tim Suermondt – “History Is Lazy Today”
Chad Weeden – “Mint Hill—Late for the Reading”
Bruce Weigl – “Some Speculation on the Grief of Cats”
Zachariah Claypole White – “The Angel Reflects on the Afterlife”
Chante Wolf – “Monkey Hands”
REVIEWS
Leonard Gontarek’s
Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me
,
Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Teresa Dzieglewicz’s
Something Small of How to See a River
,
Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
George Franklin’s
A Man Made of Stories
,
Reviewed by Robert Fillman
Christopher Shipman’s
Mortar
,
Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Francine Witte’s
Some Distant Pin of Light
,
Reviewed by David E. Poston
Erica Goss’s
Landscape with Womb and Paradox
,
Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu