Volume 18, Issue 2
Action/Words Poetry Contest
Judged by Ruth Awad
Winners
1st place: “The Cherry Garden” by Heeseo Lee
2nd place: “Good Mother Manifesto” by Stacy Boe Miller
3rd place: “The First Man to Fall into the Sun” by Alan Sincic
Ephemera
Cover art: Feel Field, by Marc Benja
Fiction
Mars, by Richard Holinger
No One Knew, by Koss
State Change, by Barbara Lock
Hailstorm, by Karen Schauber
Rooster, by Esteban Rodriguez
Nonfiction
It’s Just Sparkling Anxiety, by Joanna Acevedo
Memories of a Mexican Boy from El Paso: Crossing Over into White America, by Daniel Acosta, Jr.
Poetry
if i open my hands, by Logan Anthony
yellow-teethed, by Logan Anthony
Self-Portrait as Leafmold, by Jacob Butlett
October Dusk, by Alice Capshaw
Opioid Crisis, by Erin Carlyle
Wolf Breath Season, by Durell Carter
Once on a Ghost Ship, by Gemma Cooper-Novack
of god and merriment both, by Anna Lucia Deloia
Betta Fish, by Barbara Duffey
Cathedral Windows, by Barbara Duffey
Our Minds Wear Us Like a Glove, by Barbara Duffey
A Love Poem, by Erica Melliza Hom
Ars poetica with a shovel, by Erica Melliza Hom
No, where are you really from?, by Erica Melliza Hom
What we’re leaving behind (map), by Amorak Huey
For Someone Who Listens, by Romana Iorga
Nation, by Mark Jackley
Always the Chance, by Richard Jordan
King Ludd, by Sam Kemp
Memory of the Real Estate Collapse, by Eric Lochridge
Participation Award, by Eric Lochridge
Ars Robotica, by George Rawlins
Treatment for the Movie Adaption of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, by George Rawlins
Overton Win, by Alex Starr