April, 2023
T A B L E of C O N T E N T S
POEMS
Judith Fox,
When I Write About Us
Rachael Ikins,
The Cat Wears Secret Messages Rolled in Necklace Scrolls: Ars Poetica 
Roula-Maria Dib,
Papyrus Planes
Hedy Habra,
Dream With Art Teacher
Carla Drysdale,
My Mother and I Are Family Again, Happy
Anne Cheilek,
The Work
Ellen Zhang,
Ripening
Karren LaLonde Alenier,
the diet
Joannie Stangeland,
VIII. “a conception of the ideal of life”
Daisy Bassen,
Stock
Oceana Callum,
Historic House
Alison Stone,
Spit Like It Was Yesterday
Wyn Cooper
The Falling
George Franklin
The Other Day
Sarah Lilius,
Side Effects Include Sudden Death
Jim Tilley,
Outdoor Fire
Diane Scholl,
Under the Night Sky
Andrena Zawinski,
Starstruck
Jason Irwin,
Thespian Days
Xiaoly Li,
On the Cypress in Front of Our House
REVIEWS
Susan Azar Porterfield,
Review of From the Belly: Poets Respond to
Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, Vol 1
Karren L. Alenier, Editor
Teresa Williams
Review of When Your Sky Runs Into Mine
by Rooja Mohassessy