43.3 Summer 2019

Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Christina Harrington, Kristy Bowen, Sara Saab, Rob Shapiro, Ashia Ajani, Leslie Marie Aguilar, Jeff Musser, and many more.

This project was supported [in part] by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Art Feature

Paintings

Jeff Musser

 

Fiction

As We Rise from the River

Christina Harrington

The Familiar

Ryan Reed

 

Nonfiction

The Hunger Palace

Kristy Bowen

 

Poetry

Love Poem for the way Objects Breathe in Summer

Sara Saab

Yellow House

Alfredo Aguilar

Sunlit and Forever

Rob Shapiro

Psalm for the West

Rob Shapiro

Gods of August (1972)

M.K. Foster

water study / 6

Emily Jern-Miller

Old News

Pamela Alexander

Uncle

Pamela Alexander

Don’t You Know A Dead Lizard Is Bad Luck

Ashia Ajani

Zugzwang

Samiah Haque

Corner Store

Taylor Byas

Pantoum for Black Boys

Taylor Byas

Winter Count

Molly Sutton Kiefer

A Pan Is

Molly Sutton Kiefer

Bugs and Blueberries

Alejandro Lemus-Gomez

Mabel

Alison Prine

All the Small Fires

Patrick Dundon

The Warmth of Toilet Seats in Public Restrooms

Andrew Hemmert

I Call to the Year

Ronda Piszk Broatch

God’s Eye

Michael Dhyne

Keyhole

Elspeth Jensen

Always Moving

Elspeth Jensen

Cohabitation

Jessica Lee

Autumn in the East

Jami Macarty

Mackenzie, 36

Alicia Mountain

I Think You Almost Admitted You Loved Me

l. reeman

The Good Luck Spiritual

Rick Bursky

On Silence

Leslie Marie Aguilar

Convalescence as Blooming Landscape

Leslie Marie Aguilar

Ceruminations

Jenna Le

I Said Screen Time is Over in One More Minute

Josette Akresh-Gonzales

Alcohol

Anthony Sutton

Garden Animals

Anthony Sutton

Autobiography

Leigh Sugar

Nilas is an Ice Crust Newly Formed on the Sea

Emily Jaeger

Lantern Tree

Anne Marie Champagne

No Song

Elizabeth Langemak

 

Interview

Sonnet as Ghost: An Interview with Chanda Feldman

Ryan Teitman

 

Notes on Contributors