Editors’ Features
Cassandra Cleghorn – Pairings
Bronwyn Mills – The River Road
Eric Darton – Direct Transmission of the Oblique
Andrea Applebee – Out of the Dead Land
Jessamyn Smyth – Story, Community, Survival
– Living Pedagogies: an invitation to send creative nonfiction
TQ3 Poetry Contest
Winner
The Humility of St. Teresa of Ávila by Rochelle Hurt
Runners-Up
Legacy by Eric Berlin
Prologue by Jane Medved
Apprentice by Catherine Turnbull
Honorable Mention
Mass Grave, Ukraine by Laura Lauth (Congratulations on winning the AROHO Orlando Prize for this beautiful poem!)
Poetry
Dan Albergotti
–Reel
Brandon Amico
–Settlers
Tricia Asklar
–Before We Can Speak to Her About Death
Laura Bernstein
–Davydov Stradivarius
Cathleen Calbert
–Meals Men Have Made Me
Monique-Adelle Callahan
–Gingerly
Don Colburn
–Along Mink Brook, Early Spring
Kristina Marie Darling
–5 poems from The Arctic Circle
Kwame Dawes
–Détente
–Seventeen
Lauren Eggert-Crowe
–How it Felt to be Born
Beatrix Gates
–Burying Winter
–Dear _________ ,
Sarah Giragosian
–The Last Animal
–Leftover
–Zoo Dream
Veronica Golos
–Ghost Code #3
Juliana Gray
–Balthus, The Victim, 1946
–Honey Don’t
–My Father’s Gun
–Introduction to Juliana Gray’s Poems by CM Burroughs
Chera Hammons
–The Killing Frost
Shannon Hardwick
–The One Who Broke
Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo
–Look
Sarah Janczak
–Somewhere Over Nevada I Realize
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins
–Leave of Absence
–On Being Asked by My Friend’s Minister if I’ve Found the Lord
Gabriel Jesiolowski
–monarch season
Don Judson
–Untitled
Laurie Clements Lambeth
–Enjambment
–Hypertonia
–IN MOTION THE REST (PLATE 541)
Eleanor Lerman
–A Wave Can Be a Particle
Sandy Longhorn
–The Body’s Instinct is to Bloom
–That Which Blooms Beyond Where it is Planted
Brianna Low
–Elegy with Weather
–If Love Finds Us in the Fallout Shelter
Yael Massen
–Let Us Go, My Beloved
Christina Mengert
–Manifestations
Nancy L. Meyer
–At Least The Porch
Tony Morris
–A Small Space After
Karissa Morton
–Desert Eros
–Epistle with Cyclone
Robin Myers
–The Gleam
–Light
Brian Nicolet
–Pantoum for the Greater Erasure
John Nieves
–Sublimation/Deposition
Jenn Marie Nunes
–grammar is political…(an excerpt from ‘Where You Stay At’)
Catherine Pond
–From The Far-Away, Nearby
Nancy Reddy
–A Theory of Disaster
–Bad Magic
–Ex Machina
–Friendly Letter
–Why the McKean County Lifeguards Left Town
Edie Rhoads
–Amina (August)
–Sestina for a Batterer (March)
Anna Ross
–Self-Portrait in Drought
–Self Portrait with Alternate Ending
Carey Russell
–Magicicada
Adam Tavel
–At Bowie Branch Library
–The Executioner Geoffroy Therage Repents for Burning Joan of Arc
Ruth Thompson
–Dementia
Anna Welch
–Bridle
Eric Wertheimer
–Ideology of Sky
Nicholas Wong
–I Love To Be Your Witness
Prose
William Black
–Tuscarora
Chase Burke
–Restoration Efforts Underway
Michael Hawley
–Gadara
Kelvin Christopher James
–Postcards
Translations
Cecco Angiolieri (translated by Brett Foster)
–“Crash and Burn,” “Love’s Hassled Vassal,” “Settling for Little, and Even Less”
George Vulturescu (translated by Adam Sorkin and Olimpia Iacob)
–The Ballad of the Glass
–In the Dew, in the Mist
–On Icy Shores
–The Poem on Easter Night
Visual Art
Otha “Vakseen” Davis III
–Felinity
–Veils of Carnality
Hoda Fakhari
–Hussain, Your Name Will Always Rest Upon our Lips
–Return to the Tents
Ira Joel Haber
–December
–The End of Winter
William Paul Plumlee
–Effluvial
–Flesh
–Gap
–Inter
–Yolk
Louis Staeble
–Haskins Barn
–Night Escape
–Twist
Dr. Ernest Williamson III
–Dance for You
–The Giving of Genius
–In Conversation With My Art
