42.1 Winter 2018

Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Arabella Proffer, Dan Beachy-Quick, Duy Doan, Meghann Plunkett, Jenny Molberg, Chelsea Dingman, J.H. Bond, Danny Thanh Nguyen, and many more.

ART FEATURE

Selections from the series Biomorphic Garden Party

Arabella Proffer 

FICTION

The Spring Before My Father Shot Himself

J.H. Bond

NONFICTION

Frito Pie and Other Toxins

Danny Thanh Nguyen 

POETRY

Syllabus for Homer

Dan Beachy-Quick

Psalm

Lily Starr

I Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am

Luther Hughes

Still Life Elegy

Luther Hughes

40

Shana Youngdahl

Inventory

Katy Kim

Nine days after the drowning

Caitlin Roach

Oz

Lane Falcon

An Erasure by Philomela

Kristen Brida

Sonnet for Streptococcus pyogenes & second puberty

Sam Rush

Sonnet for eating & hormone injection

Sam Rush

I’m Fine, Thank You for Asking! I’m Fine, Thank You for Asking!

Jaz Sufi

My Mother Sent Cards

Natalie Homer

A Poem About Trees That Isn’t Actually A Poem About Trees

Julian Randall

Hedgehog in the Fog

Duy Doan

Lacuna

Maja Lukic

Inheritance

H.R. Webster

Hayy ibn Yaqẓān

H.R. Webster

Epistle from the Hospital for Emily Post’s Wedding Gift Return Etiquette

Jenny Molberg

Epistle from the Hospital for Harassment

Jenny Molberg

The Darkness the Dead See

John Gallaher 

Strange Necessities

Anna Mebel  

Untitled Erotic (Providence Housing Directories)

Amy Pickworth 

Avishag Raises the Temperature

Sarah Antine  

Seed Bead

Chip Livingston  

After shoveling the raccoon’s jaw from the asphalt we wake to the loss of our teeth

Brennan Bestwick  

Military Kites

Mary Jo Thompson 

Kill

Mary Jo Thompson  

On the Anniversary of a Failed Suicide

John Allen Taylor  

House/Hold

Jesse Lee Kercheval  

After W.S. Merwin’s Gardens

Daniel Moysaenko  

Ars Poetica

Leslie Sainz  

Jellyfish

Joseph J. Capista

Articulation

Bellee Jones-Pierce

The Second Step

torrin a. greathouse

Determining More Needs

Eileen Rush

A World Within a World

Chelsea Dingman

Revenge Porn

Meghann Plunkett

April

Hannah Shea

[a bridge collapsed]

Malcolm Miller

INTERVIEW

The Fire Is the Art: An Interview with Garth Greenwell

Scott Broker

Notes on Contributors