Issue 5.2 / Summer 2014

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COVER ART: meg willing

Contents

POETRY
Caleb Curtiss — "Self Portrait Without My Dead Sister"
Nick Flynn — "The Book of Ash"
Patrick Clement James — "The Painter"
Tanya Muzumdar — "From a Crow's Nest"

LYRIC ESSAY
Caitlyn Luce Christensen — "A Man Eats Another Man's Heart"

​FICTION
Justin Brouckaert — "Love Stories"
Michelle Crouch — "Wolves Raised by Girls"
Kayla Haas — "Trinity, Ground Zero"

NON-FICTION
Alex McElroy — "First Memory"
Rachel Richardson — "Love Story"

ART
Dmitry Borshch — "Wildbirds Among Branches", "Betrothal of the Virgins", "Daughters of the Dust", "The Making of Brothers", & "The Budding Patriarch"
Aaron Morgan — "Dog", "Enso, 8", "Enso, 9", "Enso, 3", "Enso, 5", "Satan's Cheerleader, 3", & "Satan's Cheerleader, 1"

BOOK REVIEWS
Conversations by Cesar Aira (New Directions, June 2014) review by Craig Chisholm
Century Swept Brutal by Zach Savich (Black Ocean, March 2014) review by Kimberly Ann Southwick
if there's any truth in a northbound train by Ryan Werner (Passenger Side Books, June 2014) review by Craig Chisholm

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Editor-In-Chief: Kimberly Ann Southwick
Production Editor: Shereen Adel 
Poetry Editor: Sophie Klahr 
Fiction Editor: Zach Yontz 
Non-fiction Editor: Ian Carlos Crawford 
Book Reviews Editor: Craig Chisholm 
Layout & Design: meg willing
Readers: Tally Brennan, Ally Evans, Caitlin L. Mcguire, Anthony Michael Morena, John Myers, Rachel Neff, Joe O'Brien, Becca Pollock, Shawn Rubenfeld, Ariane Scholl, Anna Sutton, and Michael J. Wilson

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