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Spring/Summer 2023 (purchase)
Creative Nonfiction
Louise Ling Edwards “Water: Twelve Views"
Poetry
Carolyn Hembree – “Poet as Odalisque”
Katie Berta – [I, If Here on Earth]
Chelsea Dingman – “One Night Stand" and "According to Levinas, the Self is Attested to through Speech and in Relation to The Other"
Kevin McLellan – “A New Hole in My Jacket Pocket" and "Physiology"
Alexa Luborsky – “Graphic" and "Shed on the Way to Gleiwitz"
Michael Meyerhofer – “Cosmology in Reverse”
Rochelle Hurt – “Hilma af Klink--Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 16 (1915)"
Arah Ko – “Second Tongue"
James Kelly Quigley – “Circulation" and "Stone Fruit"
Kellam Ayres– “At the Drive-In”
Jason McClosky – “Directions for the Inflammable Air (H2) in a Bull's Bladder Experiment" and "Directions for the Nitrous Air (NO) in an Air Pump Experiment"
Ruth Awad – "The Bull of Heaven"
Fiction
Stephanie Mullings – “Many of Many Tenths” (2022 Literary Awards Honorable Mention)
Rebecca Bernard – “Boy on Fire”
Neal Hammons – “The Mermaids”
Molly Reid – “You Move I Move We Move They Move”
Lena Valencia – “The White Place”
Where We're At
Drew Buxton – “A World Nobody Owns"
Isaac Willis – “Altgeld's Castles"
Co-Editors: Liz Harms, Michael Hurley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Christopher Kempf
Poetry Editor: Ángel García
Fiction Editor: Amanda Bales
Assistant Editors: Claire Christoff, Weston Morrow, Nina Sannes
Editorial Assistants: Matthew Fash, Madeline Furlong, Chelsea Hill, Carrie Johnson, Justine Mercado, David Miller, Jason Pfister, Deon Robinson, Andrea Sielicki, Zach Simon, Erin Stoodley, Hannah Thorpe, Chris Vanjonack
Editor-at-Large: Philip Graham, Jodee Stanley
Advisory Board: Amy Sayre Baptista, Traci Brimhall, James Brunton, Lindsey Drager, Matthew Minicucci, Marcus Wicker
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