Volume 20, Issue 2
Action/Words Poetry Contest
Judged by Leah Umansky
Winners:
1st place: Beauty is made my fear, by Jane Huffman
2nd place: On the Day My Son Says I Work Too Much, by Frances Klein
3rd place: Aubade for the Lonely After, by Bree Bailey
Honorable Mention: i :, by Sophie Hoss
Ephemera
Tetiana Yatsechko-Blazhenko (a slideshow)
Fiction
Look at Me, for Instance, by Kim Chinquee
Plum Scarf, by Christopher Lee Chilton
Jesus Scratch-Off, by Rachel M. Hollis
The Call of Adventure, by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
July, by Jane Wageman
Nonfiction
Product Description, by Sarah(Qiuqi) Bovold
Psychocartography: Charting the Internal Landscape, by Jacqui Higgins-Dailey
Footnotes to My Dialogue Journal with My Teacher, Third Grade, Spiral Notebook,
by Melissa Fite Johnson
On Greenland’s Sheets, by DJ Lee
Adjustments, by Misha Ra
Digital Disimpaction, by Marylyn Tan
Now You Live at The Hospital, by Ellen Winn
How to Survive the NICU, by Ellen Winn
Poetry
The Hermit (IX): Diagnosis, by M. M. Adjarian
Witness, by M. M. Adjarian
I Want to Show the World its Poison, by Daniel Andrade Amaral
Coming Home After the Shooting at Brown, by Julia Cote
Encore, by Michael Emmanuel
butterfly house, by Ellen K. Fee
Terror Management Theory, by Alannah Hensley
Rhythm “O”, by H.K. Hummel
The Haunting of a Basic Bitch, by Stephanie Jones
We will never meet, by Merie Kirby
Exclusion Zone, by Mike Piero
Sound, by Dani Putney
Defiance, by Esther Sadoff
Ode to New York, by Tiezst “Tie” Taylor
Father, by Lily Tobias
Ebbing, by Avi Velevski
Transformation, by Avi Velevski
Yes, by Avi Velevski
Hanging the Family Photographs, by Lillo Way
Host Community, by Caroline Wilkinson
Paradise, by Caroline Wilkinson
Interpellation, by Danielle Zaccagnino
Graffiti, by Bänoo Zan and Sina Behmanesh
The Lurking Variable, by Linlang Zhao
She Gives and She Takes, by Matthew Zhao
Shark Valley, by Martha Zweig
Oubliette, by Martha Zweig