July, 2014
T A B L E of C O N T E N T S
POEMS
Nancy Carol Moody, Brief History of Mine
Maggie Blake, When I Left for You
Gemma Cooper-Novack, Tulsa
Jose Araguz, Instead of a Postcard
Carol V. Davis, Sentries
Colleen Michaels, In Praise of Swimming at Night
Mary Moore, Venice Beach, 1950
Kevin Phan, Concessions
Diane Lockward, The Morphology of Mushrooms
Gary Hawkins, Boredom
Sandra Marchetti, Storefront
Carol Berg, Love Poem to an Oscillating Fan
Andrea Potos, When the Doctor Looked at the Ultrasound of My Shoulder and Said: “Well You Have a 52-Year-Old Rotator Cuff After All. . .”
Jennifer Jackson Berry, Girl I Want to Be at the Fair
Lisa Cihlar, The Showgirl Reads Books on Hypnotism
S. Jordan, Pies & Thighs
Marq Wilson, Shades
Jimmie Cumbie, Heavy Metal
Louisa Howerow, Early Sunday Morning
Mark Wagenaar, 400 Grams
Susannah Nevison, Lore
Sarah Henning, Concordance for My Grandfather’s Dementia
Rebecca Baggett, Van Gogh, in a Sunflower Field Near Arles, Perhaps Praying
Evelyn Farbman, Crickets, 3:30 AM
Sharon Chmielarz, All Lies in Waiting
REVIEWS
Susana H. Case, Review: Beautiful Problems: Poems, by Anthony DiMatteo
Anne Babson, Adam After the Hurricanes: Foraging for Hope in the Aftermath of Storms in Peter Cooley’s Night Bus to the Afterlife