Editors’ Features
Bronwyn Mills – The Animal Kingdom; Grand Metaphors
Jessamyn Smyth – Charlie Bondhus: A Poet in Conversation(s) With Art
Andrea Applebee – Dominae and Domains: Cumberland Island’s Strong Women
Jessamyn Smyth – Fort Juniper: A Poet’s Place
Bronwyn Mills & Eric Darton – Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Obituary for a Shipwrecked Sailor
Jessamyn Smyth – Manifest: a conversation with Camille Dungy
Jessamyn Smyth – The Reformation: a Conversation with Katherine Bode-Lang
Eric Darton – The Unusual Door: Preliminary Notes on James Baldwin and Pedagogy
TQ4 Prose Open
Notes from our judge, EJ Levy
Winner
Morgan: a Lyric by Boyer Rickel
Runners Up
The Amazing Furniture Ascender by Alexander Lumans
My Father the Doppelganger by Brian Heston
Finalists/Honorable Mentions
Words in Intercourse: waves. The Waves. woman (an elegy for Virginia Woolf) by Julie Cooper-Fratrik
Please Tell Us Why You Are Not Highly Satisfied (A Series of Open Letters) by Jack Martin
Ode to the Stairs by Andrea Witzke Slot
Baudelaire’s Sister at the Betty Ford by Deirdra McAfee
Fields of Vision by Rachael Peckham
Poetry
– Caesura
– Frederick Douglass: A Triptych
– Vidalia
– At the Dinner Table With God and My Father
– This Body is a Body Collapsing
– Bird
– Language Lessons (featuring “Symphony” by Kevin Hinkle)
– White Descent (featuring “Snowblind” by Kevin Hinkle)
– After Two Years Traveling Abroad, Woman Found Hanging From A Tree
– 5 poems
– Does the Road Run East or West
– iPod Shuffle–When You Want It
– Sensory Deprivation Floats: A Groupon
– Slow-Wave Sleep with a Fairy Tale
– Lutey Rose of the Light House
– Come Sailor Let’s Make War on Time
– Having Weighed the Only Words I Hold
– Not Reaching to Hold Anything
– You Take the Diaphragm Out and the Body Opens Like a Book
– Excerpt from: In June, the Labyrinth
– Reading “Shadowlands” to a Friend at the Sepulveda Dam
– Woman Descending the Staircase
– Excerpts from Vox Populi, an abecedarian chapbook (M, N, S, U, and W)
– Filial
– Everywhere I Haven’t Been Anywhere
– The 30
– Shards
– August Morning, Upper Broadway
– Riddance
– Stack
– For A Minute There I Thought We Were in Trouble
– My Mother as a Keeper of the Treasures at La Purísima
– Cage
– McQueen
– Phu Quoc
– Vesper
– No Philosopher Has Yet Solved The Problem of Evil
– Flying Home to See Your Father
– The Abacus Speaks to the End of Geometry
– Mirrors
– Unspoken
– Acroke
Prose
– If
– Manifest
– Pictures gleaned from a garbage bin
Translations
Anna Margolin (translated by Maia Evrona)
– 4 poems
Alexander Ulanov (translated by Alexander Cigale)
Visual Art
– nyc3
– Neonrest
– Warrior
– Lin
– Frankie
– Fermat 3