archive 2012

2012 : January

Sirenomelia
poetry
Diana Khoi Nguyen

Poems Encountered on a Night
of Singular Evolution
poetry
Jon Cone

This Is Not There, Where I Am
fiction
Matt Rowan

The One Armed Man Is Waving
poetry
Alec Hershman

Euchre
fiction
Kate Petersen

Vagabond
(excerpted from Rimbaud's Vagabonds)
poetry
Helen Vitoria

Red Rabbit, Black Rabbit
poetry
David Tomaloff

Ruins of Another Garden
Amy Wright interviews
Kristina Marie Darling

We
poetry
Annah Browning

En Route
Comet
poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

System Analyst
fiction
Gregg Murray

It was August when you left for Texas
poetry
Jackie Anne Morrill

Interval
poetry
Caroline Crew

Every Day Is Single
How I Remember Fucked
I Could Get Used to You
fiction
Parker Tettleton

This, You Leaving
poetry
Raul Alvarez

The, To
poetry
Jake Syersak

Truckness
poetry
Brian Beatty


2012 : February
The Enormous Issue

Since summer peaks...
When a smile...
Orange, then flashing...
Because actions...
poetry
Rachel Springer

Waiting
Introspect
Whither
Electrolux
fiction
Daryl Scroggins

Notes on Lee Miller (Excerpt)
poetry
Megan Burbank

On Fear
On God
poetry
Lisa Marie Basile

Portrait at Noon
poetry
Jane Wong

Nicolle Elizabeth's One Time All I Wanted
review
Kathy Fish

The Red Lobster
In a Subway
Sierra Mist and Sprite
Hot Pocket Reheated
poetry
Alex Sheppard and Marshall Mallicoat

24
poetry
Jessica Poli

Patti Smith's Woolgathering
review

Ressentiment
King Songs
poetry
Matthew Turner

Keats in a Beach Chair
poetry
Ronald Metellus

Six Dreams
poetry
Beth Brezenoff

At the Sinks
poetry
Christian Harder

Lifer
fiction
Richard Chiem

from Bicycles on the Moon
fiction
Scott Garson

study, nine
poetry
Jenniey Tallman

VIII. On freedom...
poetry
Margaret Bashaar

The Suicide's Room
fiction
David Mohan

Figurines
fiction
Robert Vaughan

Ahmed Builds a Miniature Trebuchet...
poetry
Matthew Burnside

Madam Klüg
Teele Square
poetry
Theadora Siranian

[What a terrible cry...]
poetry
Athena Nilssen

Housesitting
poetry
Meg Pokrass

Metaphor
Render
poetry
Bryce Thornburg

The Bet
poetry
Robert Laughlin

A Beautiful Monday
poetry
David Fishkind

Ambrosial Hemlock
poetry
Justin Boening

Song of Tongues
poetry
Joseph A.W. Quintela

A Mastectomy Cycle
poetry
Larry Smith

Juárez
poetry
Mark Waclawiak

Regarding
poetry
Eric Burke

A Clod of Earth
poetry
David Mohan

Blind, Breathing
poetry
Mel Bosworth

John Wayne Gacy
John
poetry
Matthew Porubsky

The 1990s
poetry
Noah Falck

Spit
poetry
Sarah Marshall

Story Without a Name
poetry
Howie Good


2012 : March

Or Any Color, Whether Bright Or Dark
poetry
Elizabeth Witte

A Note on the Type
fiction
Lincoln Michel

Matt Bell
interviewed by
Brandon Hobson

Night at Target
poetry
Ryan Bender-Murphy

(from) 22nd Century Man
poetry
Ryan Ridge

Mother
poetry
Kylan Rice

César Aira's Varamo
review

Asleep in L.A., 1977
Sleep in Honolulu, 1971
Sleep in New York, 1975
poetry
S. Scarlata

The Crab
fiction
Matthew Dexter

Orange Cashew Rice
It Doesn't Matter If It Works Out
poetry/fiction
Parker Tettleton

Station
fiction
Joseph Riippi

Sean Kilpatrick's fuckscapes
review
Chris Vola

Peephole
fiction
Ben Spivey

Featherproof
poetry
Barry Graham

The Christ Child
poetry
Ted Jean

After Catherine
poetry
Whitney DeVos

László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
review

re: mix
poetry
Nathan Neely

Daisies
poetry
Neila Mezynski

Camps
poetry
E.K. Krieg

Aubade
poetry
Chad Scheel

Giglissheth
poetry
Paula Mendoza

Arboretum
Malta
poetry
Helen Vitoria

Ruin
poetry
Doug Paul Case

an essay on the violator of the endoskeleton.
poetry
Melissa Hughes

The Other Woman
poetry
Katie Ratcliff

If Frost Was a Bro:
The Girl Less Hit On [and]
Fat Tire and Ice
poetry
Larry Fleury


2012 : April

A Benediction
fiction
Sally Franson

Empiricism
from 'Fall'
Untitled (for S.E.)
poetry
Marina Kaganova

How to Play Raft of the Medusa
poetry
James Heflin

Field
The Shrew
Field
The Eve's Apple
poetry
Sara Sutter

The Game
fiction
Tawnysha Greene

Rinpoche
Rinpoche XIII
poetry
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins

Beauty Marks
fiction
Polly Bresnick

Saudade
fiction
Kim Parker

Robert Frost Yells Out the Door
to Emily Dickinson as She Runs
into the Woods with a Bag Full of Clothes
poetry
John Bonanni

way[s]
poetry
katrin thompson

from :or The Whale
Chapter lxxvi
THE BATTERING-RAM
poetry
Chad Faries

sort of
need more pills
poetry
Melissa DeGezelle

Holy City
fiction
Howie Good

Manifest Destination
32 Stitches
poetry
Michelle Sinsky

The River
poetry
Duncan Campbell

News
poetry
Autumn McClintock

Ooze Box
fiction
Gary J. Shipley

Model Home
fiction
Ryan W. Bradley

velvet coat
dublin mussels
poetry
Phil Shils

Room for Rent
poetry
David Dodd Lee

I Know About the Hard Word
poetry
Nicolle Elizabeth

Too
fiction
Elan Lafontaine

What Snooki Saw in the Valley
poetry
Dolan Morgan

on repeat
poetry
Peter Berghoef

The Ship
poetry
Stephen Sturgeon

Dad's Second Visit
fiction
Meg Pokrass

A Good Joke & One Bad
poetry
Meg Pokrass

Interviewing a vast grey space
Burning Flute Origami
poetry
Andrew K. Peterson

Tomorrow Granted
poetry
Josh Gaines

First Video
poetry
Eszter Takacs

goodnight honky
poetry
Zack Haber


2012 : May/June

The "First Come, First Served Up" Issue

another Orpheus poem
poetry
Amanda Vacharat

Rabbit's March
Rabbit, Affianced
poetry
Farren Stanley and Jessalyn Wakefield

Infinity
poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

Management
poetry
Helen Vitoria

Handkerchief Sandwich
poetry
Nathan Knapp

Welcome To Butcherland, Don't Forget Your Bloody Apron
poetry
Robert Alan Wendeborn

Peanut Butter
LP
fiction
Parker Tettleton

Black Diamond
I Didn't Know How to Parent
fiction
Matthew Salesses

Three Aggregations
fiction
Dennis James Sweeney

The Black, Black Jack, the Backstairs Majuscule, the Natives of a Country
poetry
Kit Schluter

Children
fiction
Eric Beeny

Going to Reseda on the 405
fiction
Robert Vaughan

Tuscaloosa
fiction
Betsy Seymour

this poem
poetry
Wahida Omar

so what
poetry
George McKim

After Robert Lax
The One Who Drowned
poetry & fiction
Wes Benson

Agent of Infinite Regression
poetry
Ben Myers

Nate Klug's Consent
reviewed by
Anthony Opal

Architect
poetry
Jordan Antonucci

Making a Shadow
poetry
Laura Ramos


2012 : July/August

Posted Notice -- November 29
Posted Notice -- December 1
Posted Notice -- December 10
Letter to a Tenant -- December 16
poetry
Laura Kochman

Seamus Heaney
fiction
Nicolle Elizabeth

Notes on Lee Miller (Excerpt)
poetry
Megan Burbank

The Bear and the Skunk
fiction
Ben Tanzer

argument against seven plus or minus two
poetry
Ken Taylor

Sexual Dimorphism -- A Nightmare Transcribed From Sanskrit
fiction
Berit Ellingsen

A use for her stomach
The building of stress
fiction
Brandi Wells

A Game of Re-membering
poetry
Lisa McCool-Grime

a game show network
a rude mechanical
poetry
J.M. Gamble

Van
fiction
Eric Neuenfeldt

Terra Incognito
poetry
Emily Wolahan

University of W
fiction
Sean Lovelace

Royal Jelly Pitch & Yaw
fiction
John Domini

The Fox and the Choir
fiction
William VanDenBerg

because weight is distributed differently when afloat
poetry
Leia Penina Wilson

Butterfly Stroke On Coast Starlight
poetry
Dennis Mahagain

Four Walls, a Door
fiction
Amelia Boldaji

a little poem
poetry
Philippe Shils

A Muse, Amused
poetry
Brian Beatty

Tape Recorder 1988
fiction
Shane Jones

Footnotes to a History of Museums
poetry
Kristina Marie Darling

untitled
poetry
Rufo Quintavalle

Meat Piano
poetry
Mark Walters

Phenology Song for Decaying Skin
poetry
David Tomaloff

On the Altar I Would Lay
poetry
Portia Carryer

What it feels like
fiction
Tom McAllister

Unclean
fiction
LaTanya McQueen

small fugue
poetry
tucker sampson

Zachariah
fiction
Elan Lafontaine

Reverse Curse
poetry
Anthony Opal

come with me to Des Moines
poetry
Liz Chereskin

Before the Audience Leaves
poetry
Eric Burke

Children of Paradise
poetry
Howie Good

Walter in Bandages
fiction
Steve Gutierrez


2012 : September/October

The Third Room
The Stranger
His Turn
Noise
fiction
Daniel Grandbois

The Volta
poetry
Sylvia Chan

Anniversary
a moderate harvest
poetry
Christina Stephens

The Village of Whealbrook (II)
fiction
Sam Martone

Dudes
poetry
Simon Jacobs

The Green Hairstreak's Death
fiction
James Claffey

from Petrarchan
poetry
Kristina Marie Darling

Stray
poetry
Michelle Gil-Montero

from Opera Trans Opera
poetry
Mel Coyle & Jenn Marie Nunes

Your Small House that Faces Away from the Sea
fiction
Michael Grant Smith

Buddhist Rapist
fiction
Jimmy Chen

Wiscasset, Maine
poetry
Tina Barry

(Cross Words)
fiction
Catherine Lacey

a fitting room
poetry
james callen

Southern slope of fulsome
poetry
Vladislav Davidzon

Three Pieces of Toast
fiction
Robert Vaughan

Grinding the Day-to-day Scourge of Aggressive Banality
fiction
Meg Tuite

Mediocrity
fiction
Parker Tettleton

The Imagination of Los / The Writing on the Gate
prose
AE Reiff

Your tongues
poetry
Joshua Burns

Opening Up
poetry
Jane Loechler

Unfisting
fiction
Jamie Grefe

Rescuers Extensively Trained
poetry
Jackson Nieuwland

The Listener Is Called by the Future
fiction
Joseph Scapellato

Four Walls
poetry
Neila Mezynski

Interior with Sky
poetry
Justin Sherwood

Compass
poetry
Robert Laughlin

Batubulan, Bali
fiction
Dennis James Sweeney

How to Express Desire
poetry
Howie Good

Emily as a Flat Pool of Cool Water
poetry
Darren C. Demaree

2012 : November/December
an ending

Halloween II
fiction
Elizabeth Ellen

I Have Things To Do
Four Auguries
The Subway Pole
You Are Invited
Lamps in Every Corner
poetry
Cat Richardson

Treatise on Happiness and Sadness for the Rest of Us
poetry
Penelope Cray

Hotel Problem
fiction
Ella Longpre

How come us from vacuum, to ink such lumen corpus
fiction
West of Kingdom Come

The Poem About Infertility
poetry
Jennifer Jackson Berry

Two from "Buffalo Songs"
poetry
Noah Falck

A Transitive Verb
poetry
Stephanie Lane Sutton

Cazenave
fiction
Janalyn Guo

ninenine
poetry
Danielle Lea Buchanan

The Body as Code for Clay
poetry
David Tomaloff

Three Poems from "The Event"
poetry
Stacey Tran

Quote me the number
poetry
Jal Nicholl

Hole-19b
poetry
Kenton K. Yee

Waifs and Strays
(excerpted from Arthur Rimbaud)
poetry
Helen Vitoria

Observe This
poetry
Harold Bowes

Sandbox Totem
poetry
Kaden Jelsing

Danger Falling Debris
poetry
Howie Good

An Autistic Man Lived on Frogs and Roots as He Wandered...
poetry
Irene Hsiao

Assembly Line
poetry
Shannon Hozinec

A Different Kind of Smoke
poetry
Brian Beatty

Dear cures you don't get over,
poetry
Lightsey Darst

Portrait, Guilt Obscured by Fog
poetry
Ruth Baumann

Ledger
poetry
Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess

Specialties
poetry
Noel Sloboda

The Lord Sits with Me out in Back
poetry
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins

Not Jesus or a Fiery Lake
poetry
Daniel Mahoney

Idle Threats
poetry
Ricky Garni

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