Issue 11
October 2020
Designated Poet: Liz Marlow
Bio
Interview
Gellah’s Badge
Matya’s Separation
6,000 Corpses from the Siedlce,
Poland Ghetto Arrive at Treblinka
Chaim Rumkowski Envisions the Moon
as a Gentile Woman
Chaim Rumkowski Remembers Meeting
a Girl Made of Sweet Kugel
Chaim Rumkowski on Deportations
Chaim Rumkowski on His Exodus from
a Russian Shtetl to Poland
Poetry
Matthew J. Andrews
How
Daniel Biegelson
When the Clouds Break
You are a Pair of Knitting Needles on an Otherwise
Empty Rocking Chair in a Close Up that Opens
a Documentary About a Documentary Filmmaker
Making a Documentary About the End of All Things
Judy Brackett
from “The Innocents”
Syzygy: The Full Long Nights Moon
While She’s Thinking About Weeks of Bad News
Abigail Chabitnoy
Every Woman Who has Turned to Earth is Reaching
Through My Mouth
Remember Lilith
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
Not Made of Wool
Sarah-Jane Crowson
Mouse Bones
Preserve
Barbara Daniels
20 Questions
Let Touch Be
T. Dallas Saylor
On Opening
Norah Esty
Still Life without Apple
Doris Ferleger
Emergency
Peter Grandbois
The echo of bodies
Who will be returning and who has been lost
Jeannine Hall Gailey
January is a Mouth of Doubt
Romana Iorga
questions for trees
Luke Johnson
Bless the Mouth
Catalina
Deadwind
David Mills
To the Bones: About the Beads: Talking
Sara Moore Wagner
Regular Magic
Girl as a Deer Shedding the Velvet
John Newson
The Art of Fixing the Broken Thing
Jason Olsen
The Women of Davenport, Iowa Have
Run out of Ways to Describe Pain
Simon Perchik
Two Untitled Poems
Allan Peterson
Phase Transition
Richard Prins
Fear Music
Katie Richards
Aurora Borealis
Sandra Rokoff-Lizut
Turning Ten Today
Donna Spruijt-Metz
First We Become Flesh
Messengers of Chaos
Lisa Trudeau
Fear of Falling
Troy Urquhart
Sometimes, a Body Lies.
Gina Williams
Dear Captor
Cyril Wong
Early Fragment
Book Reviews
Gail Goepfert’s Get Up Said the World
(reviewed by Carol Sadtler)
Kashiana Singh’s Crushed Anthill
(reviewed by Dustin Pickering)
Nicole Santalucia’s The Book of Dirt
(reviewed by Monique Ferrell)
Luke Hankins’ Radiant Obstacles
(reviewed by Frank Paino)