January, 2015

T A B L E of C O N T E N T S

POEMS

Eric Paul Shaffer,
Midnight Snow and Stars

Michael Brosnan,
The Year to Come

Candace Pearson,
Versed

Carol Ellis,
First Line

E. H. Brogan,
Birds Vol. 2

Vladislav Hristov,
Two Poems from the Bulgarian
Translated from Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Diane Scholl,
Watch Night, 1862

Bill Freedman,
The Unnamed

Doug Ramspeck,
Sacred Ruins

Anthony Sutton,
Prayer from a 15-Year-Old Boy Who Just Wanted to Be Straight

Marq Wilson,
But you mean all these things

Laura Madeline Wiseman,
Signing Away the Soul

Matthew Stark,
Like a Little Bell, He Trembles

Roger Desy,
Climb

Ruth Williams,
Surviving on Equations

Emmanuel Flores,
I Asked You to Paint a Portrait of Me, So You Asked Me
to Write a Portrait of You

David Seter,
Weakness

Juleigh Howard-Hobson,
The White Rabbit Glossa

Florence Weinberger,
Cautious Light

Ariana Nash,
In the Bone House

Geri Rosenzweig,
For God’s Amusement

Joan Colby,
The Japanese Culture of Suicide

George Moore,
A Note on the Troubling Popularity of Suicide

John Bradley,
The Zen of Translation

Ross Losapio,
Guernica

Sarah Carleton,
Falling Hard

Joannie Stangeland,
Having Made My Beds

REVIEWS

David Seter,
Nighthawks by Katherine Hastings