AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2024 Issue
Published August 1st:
- Meredith Escudier – Way Back When (nonfiction)
- Michael Lyle – Priced to Go (poetry)
- Katharine Davis – The Marimekko Dress (poetry)
- Anne Rankin – Going up Gorham (poetry)
- Nancy Nowak – After Hours (Guggenheim Museum, 1984) (poetry)
- Deborah Wessell – Estate Sale (fiction)
- Jan Mordenski – Sometimes the moon (poetry)
- Carolyn Jabs – Skipping (poetry)
- Sheila Dietz – How Light Travels (poetry)
- Leanne Rose Sowul – New Shorts (nonfiction)
Published September 1st:
- Russell Rowland – Footwriting (poetry)
- Julie Lockhart – Clare’s Boots (nonfiction)
- Lana Hechtman Ayers – The Big Dipper (poetry)
- Cheryl Sadowski – Farewell, in black and white (nonfiction)
- Leslie Lisbona – Impossible Love (nonfiction)
- Peter A. Witt – House Plants Lament (poetry)
- Ellen Notbohm – The Breakfast Whisperer (nonfiction)
- Jennifer Campbell – Hiding Behind a Book (poetry)
- Julie Evan Smith – Marilyn Monroe’s Lipstick (poetry)
- Sandra Marilyn – At the Heart of It (nonfiction)
JUNE/JULY 2024 Issue
Published June 1st:
- Penelope Scambly Schott – I drove him back to the airport (poetry)
- Leslie Lisbona – Washington Heights (nonfiction)
- John Hoyte – Bookmark (poetry)
- Nancy Byrne Iannucci – Spring (poetry)
- Rachel Beachy – Swing (poetry)
- Nancy Kay Peterson – Logging the Land (poetry)
- Kandi Maxwell – The Horses (nonfiction)
- Beate Sigriddaughter – Because It’s Beautiful (poetry)
- Sandra Marilyn – The Laundry Laughers (nonfiction)
- Christine Andersen – The Birdhouse (poetry)
Published July 1st:
- Stacie Eirich – At the Lakefront, beside Sunshine (poetry)
- Daphne Riddle – Sparks (poetry)
- Robert Harlow – A Life Lived in Common (poetry)
- Emily Lacey – Something Different (poetry)
- Joseph O’Day – At Home (nonfiction)
- Stephen J. Cribari – Peregrine (poetry)
- Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew – Maternal Fabric (nonfiction)
- Mary Baca Haque – Notes We Cannot See (poetry)
- William Swarts – Annual Report (poetry)
- Jennifer Pinto – Keeping Diana Alive (nonfiction)
APRIL/MAY 2024 Issue
Published April 1st:
- Carol E. Anderson – Lucky Girl (nonfiction)
- Sharon Whitehill – Her September Familiar (poetry)
- Robbie Hess – Churning (poetry)
- Barbara Santucci – The Nest (poetry)
- Sheila Rittenberg – Full Circle (nonfiction)
- Robin Greene – Everything You’ve Ever Loved (poetry)
- Michael Carrino – This April (poetry)
- Liz deBeer – Blue Jay (nonfiction)
- Richard Higgins – The Block (poetry)
- Peter Devonald – A Necessary Pause in Transmission (poetry)
Published May 1st:
- Amelia Díaz Ettinger – i touch this ripe tomato (poetry)
- Joan Potter – The Night Nurse (nonfiction)
- Susan Zwingli – Just Kids (poetry)
- Tasneem Sadok – Anapana (poetry)
- J.T. Whitehead – The Fool: 0 (poetry)
- Ginny Bartolone – City Sounds (nonfiction)
- Linda Allison – For the Love of Color: Ochre (poetry)
- Anne Bower – Muscle Memory (poetry)
- Stacie Eirich – Atlanta International, Concourse D (nonfiction)
- Stephanie Shafran – One Out of Ten (nonfiction)
FEBRUARY/MARCH 2024 – Two-Year Anniversary Issue
Published on February 1st:
- Jeff Burt – Breath (poetry)
- Vicki Addesso – Summer’s End (nonfiction)
- Charlie Steak – acquisition (poetry)
- Ellen Skilton – A Night in Alaska (poetry)
- Diana Raab – Storms (poetry)
- Konrad Ehresman – Aviary (poetry)
- Lisa Low – And Yet This Life (poetry)
- Melanie Faith – Buy the Fanciful Ones: A Tale of New Shoes (nonfiction)
- Andrew McBride – On the Mend (poetry)
- Paul Hadella – Angel (fiction)
Published on March 1st:
- Leslie Lisbona – Hell’s Kitchen (nonfiction)
- Alexander Etheridge – Birthplace (poetry)
- Sharon Scholl – Early Spring (poetry)
- Arthur Ginsberg – The Pillars of Creation* (poetry)
- Michael S. Glaser – Despair (poetry)
- Douglas Cooper – French Broad River (poetry)
- Diane Choplin – Empty Netters (nonfiction)
- Cecil Morris – suddenly the third day of spring (poetry)
- Brian C. Billings – Another One Gone South (poetry)
- D.S. Maolalai – March Weather (poetry)
DEC 2023/JAN 2024 – The Winter, Holiday, & Reflection Issue
Published on December 2nd, 2023:
- Peter A. Witt – Expectations (poetry)
- Christine Andersen – Echo (poetry)
- Brian C. Billings – Eleven Elves in Eight Elfchens (poetry)
- Sherri Wright – Longing for a Close Family (nonfiction)
- Jennifer Campbell – Cordially (in Winter) (poetry)
- Melissa Wold – Thrift Shop Santa (poetry)
- Marianne Lonsdale – Nutcracker Memories (nonfiction)
- Suzy Harris – Fear of Falling (poetry)
- Amelia Díaz Ettinger – Feliz Año Nuevo/Happy New Year (poetry)
- Charlene Stegman Moskal – The Radiator (poetry)
Published on December 17th, 2023:
- J.T. Homesley – This peculiar work (poetry)
- C. DeForest Switzer – Shadows and Silhouettes (poetry)
- Diane Funston – The Walk to Ma’s House (nonfiction)
- Allison Baldwin – Target, at Christmas (poetry)
- Tarah Friend Cantore – How Poppi Met Nonni (nonfiction)
- Steve Wilson – San Marcos Christmas (poetry)
- Nancy Kay Peterson – Christmas 2000 (poetry)
- Kersten Christianson – If Not Glitter, If Not Gold (poetry)
- Ernest Troost – Christmas (fiction)
- Rohan Buettel – Another Christmas (poetry)
Published on December 31st, 2023:
- Alexandra Newton Rios – January 1 (poetry)
- Terri Watrous Berry – Jack and the Box (nonfiction)
- K.L. Johnston – Tanka for the New Year (poetry)
- Inge Sorensen – Christmas Dessert (haiku, poetry)
- Jennifer Smith – Blue Snow Globe (poetry)
- Gregory Cusumano – Days After Christmas (fiction)
- Jeannette Tien-Wei Law – Brixen in Winter (poetry)
- Antonia Wang – Two Dolls and Three Kings (nonfiction)
- Bonnie Demerjian – Sing a Song of Midnight (poetry)
- Cecil Morris – Some Kinder Resolutions for a Better Year (poetry)
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2023
- Stephen J. Cribari – Feeding Time (poetry)
- Angela Kasumova – Letter to an Estranged Father (nonfiction)
- Melissa Witcher – Say It With a Smile (fiction)
- Sharon Whitehill – Circumlocution When Speaking of Water (poetry)
- Suzannah Watchorn – Beyond Vision (poetry)
- N.G. Haiduck – How to Iron (nonfiction)
- Peter T. Cavallaro – Lord of Depths (poetry)
- Lisa Ashley – The Rains of November Have Come Again (poetry)
- Margaret D. Stetz – Class Assignment (poetry)
- Robert Nisbet – Glancing Down at the Carnival (poetry)
- Stacie Eirich – For Every October (nonfiction)
- Paul Cummins – A Good Night (poetry)
- Christine Andersen – Wild (poetry)
- Brian Christopher Giddens – Walk a Block (poetry)
- Peter A. Witt – On Schedule (poetry)
- Colleen W. – Songs in the Subway (nonfiction)
- Travis Stephens – Reminder (poetry)
- John Zedolik – Framed Declaration (poetry)
- Bonnie Demerjian – Wednesday in the Neighborhood (poetry)
- Anne Leigh Parrish – Perhaps (poetry)
- Burt Rashbaum – Late Aspen (poetry)
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2023
- Amy Akiko – Artificial Lawn (fiction)
- R.M. Kinder – The Visit (poetry)
- Barbara Siegel Carlson – The Scent (poetry)
- Cynthia Bernard – Wandering the Mojave (poetry)
- Kristin Van Tassel – deepsea census (poetry)
- M.S. Rooney – Wouldn’t it be something (poetry)
- Regina Berg – In My Mother’s Last Garden (poetry)
- Sarah Das Gupta – Birds at Dawn (poetry)
- Sharon Scholl – Fall Sun (poetry)
- Angela Townsend – Ruth and Oscar (nonfiction)
JULY 2023
- Cheryl Sadowski – My Father’s Coat, in Three Acts (nonfiction)
- Mary Zelinka – Roller Coaster (nonfiction)
- Paul Hostovsky – Beauty (fiction)
- Christine Brooks – the Irish goodbye (poetry)
- Kenneth M. Kapp – Whooshie and Me (fiction)
- Rosalie Hendon – Evanston in June (poetry)
- Sarah Das Gupta – The Pink Rosette (fiction)
- John Surowiecki – Last October (poetry)
- Alexandra Newton Rios – Ser Mujer 2023 (poetry)
- Carole Greenfield – Some Days (poetry)
- Brian Daldorph – Changes (fiction)
- Joshua Zeitler – Queen Elizabeth II died while I was mowing the lawn (poetry)
- Thomas Feeny – The Garden (poetry)
JUNE 2023
- Tarah Friend Cantore – The Bird’s View (poetry)
- Joan Potter – The Old Photographs (nonfiction)
- Susan Shea – Wizardry (poetry)
- Andy Larter – Magpie (fiction)
- Deborah Doolittle – John Greenleaf Whittier to the Root-Bound Marjoram (poetry)
- Angela Kasumova – For Sale: Kawai Upright Piano, $1,250 (nonfiction)
- Ruth Holzer – The Dawn Chorus (poetry)
- Sherri Wright – Haleakala Sunrise (nonfiction)
- Wally Swist – After the Blizzard (poetry)
- Alice Lowe – Duck Duck Goose (nonfiction)
- Riley Davis – My one true love is golden like the sun (poetry)
- Brett Scott – Julia and Chang (fiction)
- Candy Hamilton – Defining Silence (nonfiction)
MAY 2023
- Alice Collinsworth – Wolves (poetry)
- Raymond Berthelot – What They Can’t Take Away (poetry)
- Clarence Allan Ebert – On Observing My Daughter At Breakfast (poetry)
- Tracey Ormerod – The Leaving Moment (nonfiction)
- Sharon Scholl – Late Love (poetry)
- N.T. Chambers – Awakening (poetry)
- Diane Webster – Raindrops (poetry)
- Stacie Eirich – “Hope like Sunlight” (poetry)
- Lexie Kauffman – The Smart One (fiction)
- Peter McNamara – Reverie (poetry)
- Debbie Theiss – Common Loon (poetry)
- Luke Nadeau – Winter, Snow (poetry)
- Dale Ritterbusch – As Simple as That (poetry)
APRIL 2023
- Nicole Farmer – How to Walk Your Dog (poetry)
- Elizabeth Hereford – Rise (poetry)
- Nancy Machlis Rechtman – The Power of the Circle (poetry)
- Serena Burman – Picnic on a Plane (fiction)
- Simone Kadden – When Stars Align (nonfiction)
- Trent Busch – Epithalamium (poetry)
- Robert F. Bradford – Hide and Seek (poetry)
- Ann Bracken – Counting (nonfiction)
- G. Milton – The House (poetry)
- Esther Sadoff – I learned self-destruction from a cartoon (poetry)
- Laura & Stephen Feldman – The Phone Call (fiction)
- Peter A. Witt – Memories of Old Things (poetry)
- Marcia Yudkin – The Litterer and I (nonfiction)
MARCH 2023
- Stacie Eirich – Breaking Open Joy (poetry)
- Nicole Farmer – home for the holidays (poetry)
- Janice Northerns – The Landscape of Childhood (nonfiction)
- Corinne Walsh-Williams – 62 (poetry)
- Erin Lunde – Strategies for Defeat (poetry)
- Daniella DiMaggio – The Trapped Door (nonfiction)
- Brian Billings – From One Adult to Another (poetry)
- Jeannette Tien-Wei Law – Trimester to St. Patrick’s (poetry)
- Fred Miller – Shells (poetry)
- E.J. Mathews – The Universe on Rewind (poetry)
- Gloria Lauris – Don’t Miss the Boat (nonfiction)
- David Sapp – Gypsies (poetry)
- Jane Perry – Ginger Cake (poetry)
- Victor Pearn – hi tech goodbye tech (poetry)
- Charlene Stegman Moskal – Bellflower (poetry)
FEBRUARY 2023 – One-Year Anniversary Issue
- Heather Bartos – Resolutions (nonfiction)
- Wendy Bloom – Reflected Light (poetry)
- Susan Hodara – Dear Chair (nonfiction)
- Dawn L. C. Miller – The Hip (poetry)
- Michele Johnson – small (nonfiction)
- Marianne Brems – Feather Meme (poetry)
- Alison Arthur – Thumbing a Ride (fiction)
- Corey Bryan – that’s enough (poetry)
- Francis Conlon – The Books We’ll Never Read (poetry)
- Susan Mannix – Tony Told Me (nonfiction)
- Lauren Oertel – Remember Me (poetry)
- Susan Miller – Stage IV (poetry)
- Foster Trecost – Fish Tales (fiction)
- Leslie Lisbona – Taboule (nonfiction)
- Jennifer Campbell – Seen (poetry)
- Nancy Byrne Iannucci – Heartbreak Hotel (poetry)
JANUARY 2023
- Mona Mehas – “Christmas Tree Thrown Away” (poetry)
- Cindy Jones – “The Gift” (nonfiction)
- Pama Lee Bennett – “Faculty Recital” (nonfiction)
- Lilyth Coglan – “Hide and Seek with Robin” (poetry)
- Charlene Lyon – “Snow” (poetry)
- Ron Theel – “The Rock Garden” (nonfiction)
- E.H. Jacobs – “Rapid Transit” (fiction)
- Robert Nisbet – “Later” (poetry)
- Peter Witt – “Garden Reading” (poetry)
- Susan Reese – “The Leavings” (nonfiction)
- Jeff Burt – “A Birthday Meteor” (poetry)
- Gordon W. Mennenga – “A Windy Day on Sans Souci Drive” (poetry)
- Joan Potter – “The Blur” (nonfiction)
- Clarence Allan Ebert – “Stealing a Night from the Stars” (poetry)
- Ben Westlie – “Hiding from the Moon” (poetry)
- Melissa Knox – “The Lamp in the Room” (nonfiction)
- Elodie Barnes – “Rooting” (fiction)
DECEMBER 2022 – The Winter, Holiday & Reflection Issue
- Zan Bockes – “In Deep December” (fiction)
- Briena Sohns – “My Old Air Conditioner” (poetry)
- Derville Quigley – “The Christmas Tree Shop” (fiction)
- Mary Kate Bunstine – “Birthday Presence” (poetry)
- Austin Gilmore – “Spruce” (fiction)
- RC deWinter – “yuletide carol” (poetry)
- Brant Short – “The Fourth Gift” (poetry)
- Becky A. Benson – “Nourish” (nonfiction)
- Sarah Bruenning – “A Rare Snowstorm” (poetry)
- Ralph La Rosa – “Christmastide” (poetry)
- Crystal McQueen – “Snow Days” (nonfiction)
- John Grey – “Separation Anxiety” (poetry)
- Jennifer L. Gauthier – “The Willow in Winter” (poetry)
- Will Neuenfeldt – “Children’s Cookies” (poetry)
- Kraig Kiehl – “Help?” (fiction)
- Marianne Lonsdale – “Parting Gift” (nonfiction)
- Victoria Clayton – “Mount Kenashi” (nonfiction)
NOVEMBER 2022
- Jesse Curran – “What a Nature Poem Can Learn from a Love Poem” (nonfiction)
- Ursula McCabe – “Sweet Moon” (poetry)
- Alison Sanders – “Dear Anthony” (fiction)
- Anna Stolley Persky – “My Mother, Feminism, and Barbie” (nonfiction)
- Sheryl Guterl – “Haunted Lake” (poetry)
- John Sheirer – “Mid-Summer Saturday” (microfiction)
- Caroline Randall – “lightning bugs” (poetry)
- Melissa Wold – “Happy 125th Birthday Miss Earhart” (poetry)
- Marie Look – “Climbing a Hill in China With My Father” (nonfiction)
- Jayne Martin – “Consider the Dawn” (poetry)
- Mary Padgen Michna – “Rain Drop” (poetry)
- Michele Annable – “Suspension” (fiction)
- Ron Theel – “The Holding Tank” (nonfiction)
- Hawke Trumbo – “Sunrise Dances” (poetry)
- Sharon Whitehill – “Farewell Season” (poetry)
- Colleen Wells – “Cut and Carry” (poetry)
- Carol Barrett – “Dusk” (poetry)
- Natalli Amato – “Feed” (nonfiction)
OCTOBER 2022
- Robert McParland – “To Thoreau” (poetry)
- Rebecca Ward – “Mysteries” (poetry)
- Kate Marshall – “Bridging” (nonfiction)
- Carol L. Gloor – “Pain Management” (poetry)
- Nick Wynne – “Never Too Late” (nonfiction)
- Christine Andersen – “Lines” (poetry)
- Andy Oram – “Cradling” (poetry)
- Jennifer Campbell – “The Unboxing” (poetry)
- Laurel DiGangi – “A Special Place” (fiction)
- K.L. Johnston – “Afternoon by the Brick Pond” (poetry)
- Katharyn Howd Machan – “Lydia Palmer: Redwing, 1888” (poetry)
- Meredith Escudier – “A Painting features Forever” (nonfiction)
- Carole Greenfield – “Trace Fossils” (poetry)
- Jonah Meyer – “i have flown from my home” (poetry)
- Sandra Marilyn – “The Color of Noise” (nonfiction)
- Paul Dubitsky – “You Never Know” (fiction)
- Steven Deutsch – “What the Old Want” (poetry)
- Melissa Donati-Pizirusso – “untitled” (poetry)
SEPTEMBER 2022
- Beth Ford – “The Train” (fiction)
- Judith Yarrow – “Life at Large” (poetry)
- Claire Galford – “A Hawk in the Night” (nonfiction)
- Braden Hofeling – “Distance” (poetry)
- Kristin Chemis – “Artifacts” (poetry)
- Nancy Kay Peterson – “Six Months After Father’s Leave-Taking” (poetry)
- Stacie Eirich – “Sunday Afternoon on the Eagle Trail” (nonfiction)
- Lucy Fox – “Hiding in Plain Sight” (fiction)
- Michael Shepley – “Eagle Fantasy” (poetry)
- Pat Hulsebosch – “Just a Glimpse” (nonfiction)
- Travis Stephens – “First & Last” (poetry)
- Ethan Kahana – “A New Heart from Somewhere” (nonfiction)
- David Curry – “Choreography” (poetry)
- Sharon Scholl – “Grandpa Taught Me To Garden” (poetry)
- Megan E. O’Laughlin – “Voicemail” (nonfiction)
- Karen Luke Jackson – “The Heart Unfurled” (poetry)
- Alice Lowe – “Jacaranda” (nonfiction)
AUGUST 2022
- Alison Arthur – “Field Work” (fiction)
- Robin Greene – “A Woman and a Waterfall” (nonfiction)
- Sharon Whitehill – “A Victorious Tilting” (poetry)
- Fredric Koeppel – “Luck” (poetry)
- Clint Martin – “A Transformer Kind of Moment” (nonfiction)
- William Falo – “The Heritage Park War” (fiction)
- Mark Jackley – “Trucker Coffee” (poetry)
- Alexandra McIntosh – “The History of Everything” (nonfiction)
- Adnan Onart – “Joy of Chewing Gum” (poetry)
- Paul Rousseau – “Widowed Memories” (nonfiction)
- Satish Pendharkar – “Flamingos” (poetry)
- Emily Rankin – “The Basil” (nonfiction)
- Margaret D. Stetz – “Robins” (poetry)
- Thomas E. Strunk – “We Were Bugs” (nonfiction)
- Maureen Sherbondy – “Mutiny at the Club” (fiction)
- Caryn Coyle – “What I Can’t Forget” (nonfiction)
- Susan Pope – “The Place Between” (nonfiction)
- Kate McNairy – “Autumn” (poetry)
JULY 2022
- Iris Melton – “Bees” (fiction)
- Cosmo Goldsmith – “Paperboy” (poetry)
- C.T. Holte – “Jukebox” (poetry)
- Chris A. Smith – “Upwellings” (poetry)
- Josephine Greenland – “Sweeter Than Your Name” (fiction)
- Valerie Valente – “Someplace Else” (poetry)
- Leslie Dianne – “The Greeting” (poetry)
- Ken Cathers – “before the sky” (poetry)
- Reena Kapoor – “My Grandmother in One Sentence” (nonfiction)
- Alexander Etheridge – “Fable of Love on Fire” (poetry)
- Lana Hechtman Ayers – “House Hunting” (poetry)
- Margaret Kelliher – “King” (fiction)
- Pete Zenz – “Elegy to Winter” (poetry)
- Samantha Ashe – “Places I Have Unexpectedly Found Tears” (poetry)
- David Blumenfeld – “Polio” (nonfiction)
- Ale Malick – “Life’s a Mystery” (fiction)
- Suzanne Ondrus – “Two Poems from Ouagadougou” (poetry)
- Ann Ingalls – “Between My Toes” (poetry)
- Lindsay Dudbridge – “Why the Rabbits Run” (nonfiction)
JUNE 2022
- Bonnie Demerjian – “The Turning” (poetry)
- Joyce Miller – “3 haiku” (poetry)
- Brigita Orel – “Posted” (fiction)
- Tad Tuleja – “A Full Moon in Winter” (poetry)
- Sarah E N Kohrs – “Beyond the Window” (poetry)
- Thai Lynne – “A moth and her flame” (poetry)
- Gail Purdy – “A Lifeline” (nonfiction)
- Hilary Stanton – “Memories of Arenal” (poetry)
- Carol Coven Grannick – “Surprise on the Tollway Enroute to New York” (poetry)
- James Blears – “The Clock” (poetry)
- Rob Lowe – “Pilgrim” (poetry)
- Mike Paterson-Jones – “Jeffrey died healthy” (fiction)
- Catherine Coundjeris – “Sparrows I Have Known” (poetry)
- Barry H. Gordon – “Who Knew” (poetry)
- Yuan Changming – “Heartfelt: A Bilinguacultural Poem” (poetry)
- Mathieu Cailler – “October Baseball in Mississippi” (fiction)
- t.m. thomson – “Crumbs” (poetry)
- Carl Hubrick – “The Swinger” (poetry)
MAY 2022
- Lisa Spencer Trecost – “The Lost One” (poetry)
- Alyssa Harmon – “nephelococcygia” (poetry)
- Kenneth M. Kapp – “The Package” (microfiction)
- Heather Sager – “We Went Walking” (poetry)
- Tanner Rubino – “In a Living Room” (poetry)
- Abigail Mathews – “Grandma’s Refrigerator” (nonfiction)
- Jessica (Tyner) Mehta – “Familial Territory” (poetry)
- David Patten – “Perfect Teeth” (fiction)
- Haley Grace – “Fight for Bedtime” (nonfiction)
- Hugh Blanton – “Life’s Revenge” (poetry)
- Tiel Aisha Ansari – “Reflections of the Rio Grande” (poetry)
- D. Dina Friedman – “Because The Wind Is Rising And This Week There Was A Microburst” (poetry)
- Bonnie Demerjian – “Three Scenes in Sunlight” (nonfiction)
- Gigi Guizado – “Salsa y Reggaeton Went Silent” (poetry)
- Nancy Machlis Rechtman – “Don’t Bury Me Alone” (poetry)
- Corinna Underwood – “Autumn” (poetry)
- Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch – “Call Me Mary” (fiction)
- Charles Tarlton – “Seabird” (poetry)
- Allison Wehrle – “Grateful Heart” (nonfiction)
APRIL 2022 – National poetry month
- Stacie Eirich – “i am learning to be still” (poetry)
- Frank William Finney – “Snowscape” (poetry)
- Darrell Petska – “To Old Grass and Weeds” (poetry)
- Philip Davison – “A Collection of Three” (poetry)
- Jennifer Weigel – “Broken Wing” (nonfiction)
- J.V. Foerster – “Black Lines” (poetry)
- Mieke Leenders – “A mind like a broken arm” (poetry)
- Sara Sherr – “Where to Start” (poetry)
- Grace Huynh – “Family dinner #3” (poetry)
- Nicholas Barnes – “lament” (poetry)
- Kersten Christianson – “Guidebook for Heart Protection” (poetry)
- Travis Stephens – “Inventory of the Night” (poetry)
- Kat Stubing – “Heartworm” (poetry)
- Stacie Eirich – “Earth’s Joy” (poetry)
- Robert Okaji – “Night’s Turning” (poetry)
- Alexis Pearson – “Next Stop” (poetry)
- David Goad – “Meeting” (poetry)
- Ed Higgins – “Below Beach Sands” (poetry)
- Stephanie Buesinger – “7:00 PM, JUNO” (poetry)
- Benjamin Leuty – “Two Pages” (poetry)
MARCH 2022
- Sarah Henry – “Mardi Gras Season” (poetry)
- Steve Gerson – “A wind blew through” (poetry)
- Johanna Tollefson – “Benthic: Definition- the flora and fauna found on the bottom, or in the bottom sediments, of a sea, lake, or other body of water.” (poetry)
- John Grey – “Shine On” (poetry)
- Michele Tjin – “Life and Love as Seen Through My Plum Tree” (nonfiction)
- Dianne Thomas – “And It Must Follow” (poetry)
- Jeana Mahan – “My Youth” (poetry)
- Amelia Díaz Ettinger – “The Single Story of a Latinx Pinocchio” (poetry)
- Hope Nisly – “At Dawn Where Two Worlds Meet” (nonfiction)
- Nancy Byrne Iannucci – “Primitive Prayer” (poetry)
- Gale Acuff – “Some People Die and Go To Hell and Some” (poetry)
- Jon Wilder – “Paradise on High” (poetry)
- Stephanie Buesinger – “Hashtag Icarus” (fiction)
- Uday Khanna – “This should’ve been an Urdu ghazal instead” (poetry)
- Jen Prince – “Some Evidence” (poetry)
- Erin Lorandos – “summer season” (poetry)
- Terri Mullholland – “Sawdust” (fiction)
- Rich Boucher – “Astronomers Estimate That There Are at least Seven Letters in the Word ‘Romance’” (poetry)
- J.T. Whitehead – “The Lovers: VI” (poetry)
- Chris Talbott – “lapis lazuli” (poetry)
- James Callan – “Catch and Release” (nonfiction)
- Brian Yapko – “Lost on the Mountain” (poetry)
- Jeff Burt – “But It Deepens” (fiction)
- Walter Weinschenk – “My Eyes are Small” (poetry)
- Emily Donaldson – “Mud Season” (poetry)
FEBRUARY 2022
- Heather Bartos – “Succulent” (poetry) and “In Praise of Pink” (nonfiction)
- DS Maolalai – “The lawsuit” (poetry)
- Pamela McCarthy – “Maybe Death Smells Like Onions” (fiction)
- Juanita Rey – “In the Department Store” (poetry)
- Foster Trecost – “Time-Tested Tenets” (fiction)
- Nancy Byrne Iannucci – “Witch” (poetry)
- Jon Wilder – “Morning Texts” (poetry)
- Marianne Brems – “Not Too Often” (poetry)