July is the new June Edition, Editor’s Note This was supposed to be a June edition, but there you go, July rolls in. June 30th, my dad’s birthday, this year, the second one after his death. So as I’ve been building this edition, I’ve been thinking a lot about how…
Read MoreChristina Quintana (CQ) is a New York-based writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. She is the author of the full-length play Scissoring (Dramatists Play Service) and The Heart Wants, a chapbook of poetry (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared in P.S. I Love You, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, PulpMag, and…
Read MoreWinter with Periwinkle by Redfern Boyd Summer gets all the glory. People talk about their lives changing during the hot months. Our season was winter, especially the limbo between Christmas and New Year’s. That time belonged to us, me and Periwinkle, and to our families, who lived the other eleven…
Read MoreJeffrey Alfier’s most recent book is Gone This Long: Southern Poems. The Shadow Field, another collection, is forthcoming from Louisiana Literature Press. His publication credits include The Carolina Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Midwest Quarterly, Permafrost, and Southern Poetry Review. He is co-editor of Blue Horse Press and San Pedro River Review.
Read MoreV.C. McCabe is an Appalachian poet, the author of Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019), a Contributing Editor of Barren Magazine, and Social Media Manager of Animal Heart Press. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in exhibits and journals worldwide, including…
Read MoreClaire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is…
Read MoreEleanor Levine’s writing has appeared in more than 80 publications, including Fiction, Evergreen Review, The Toronto Quarterly, Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Missing Link, Bull: Men’s Fiction, Heavy Feather Review, The Denver Quarterly, Maryland Literary Review, South Dakota Review, and The Citron Review. Her poetry collection, Waitress at the…
Read MoreKatie Kehoe studies library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bayou Magazine, The Appalachian Journal, and The Indianapolis Review. She was a finalist in the NC State Poetry Contest (2019), and winner of the Truman Capote poetry prize…
Read MoreTwo Poems by Nicholas Molbert On Highway 56, the Last Thread Dangling Cocodrie Over the Gulf of Mexico The truck wheezes and rattles as potholes knock our knees to our chins. It’s been years since we’ve come back here. It looks ka-put, like Cindy pranked the town, a…
Read MoreHappiness in the Face of Bipolar Disorder by Sean L Corbin And you worry that this warmth you feel on your shoulders this undeniable fullness in the crook of your arm this dusted-off upward bend at the corner of your mouth you worry that…
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