“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