Issue 14
August 2022
Featured Artist: John Simpkins
Artist Statement
Inner Being
Over My Head
Pangolin Dream
Peacekeeper
Prophet
Seeking Balance
Sri Yantra
The Flood (Closed)
The Flood (Open)
Poetry
Marcia Arrieta
Velocity
Tom Barlow
Assumptions
Mary Elizabeth Birnbaum
Weather and Mending
David M. Brunson
Gravity Well
Listening to Piazzolla, Tierra del Fuego
B.J. Buckley
Catechism
Cranium
Radiology: Cranial Film
Douglas Cole
Cape Blanco
Jennifer Dorner
Elegy with Black Sand
Visual Disturbances
Peter Grandbois
To light the hidden things
With each step I kill
Grant Hackett
Haikoans
Max Heinegg
As If Time were Kind
Paul Ilechko
Portraits from Life
Joseph Kerschbaum
Jamais Vu
Linda King
shadowgraced
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios
As if the World were Made of Nothing but Hunger
We Know a Thing by its Hunger
Laurie Kolp
When the fifth grader answers the question
When the Room Becomes a Funeral Parlor
Laurinda Lind
Focal Point
Matt MacFarland
Self-Portrait: Robert Cornelius, 1839
Al Maginnes
Heart Pine
Liz Marlow
Franz Stangl’s White Clothes
Sara Contemplates Where Her Parents Might Be
Sara Learns of Franz Stangl’s Death
James Miller
Heat
N. Minnick
The Talk
Matthew Murrey
Before the Dancers
Ink
The Lessons
Lorrie Ness
At the Table
John Riley
Night Bells
Hilary Sallick
Feathers
John Schneider
Blank Canvas
Eden
Interrupting Darkness
Roger Singer
Sometime Night
Annette Sisson
Death is not
Joshua Michael Steward
The Kitchen Sink
Elisa Subin
Three Micropoems
Nathan Tompkins
Fading
Jonathan Travelstead
Cloud Fable
Lucy Western
Eurydice
Rara Orbis
Reviews
Kimberly Kralowec’s We retreat into the stillness of our own bones
(reviewed by Anne Peters)
Daniel Biegelson’s Of Being Neighbors
(reviewed by Anthony Procopio Ross)
Paul Brooke’s The Skald and the Drukkin Tröllaukin
(reviewed by Chris Vola)
Naoko Fujimoto’s GLYPH
(reviewed by Francesca Preston)
Nick Francis Potter’s Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine
(reviewed by Mary Ansell)
Miriam O’Neal’s The Half-Said Things
(reviewed by Mary Beth Hines)
Interviews
Wind & Children: An Interview with
Linda Scheller
(interviewed by Gary Thomas)