Spring 2016
2016 Cover Art by Michal Mahgerefeth
EDITOR’S NOTE:
Drafting the introduction to a literary journal is akin to writing an obituary. The creation phase is done, nothing new is going to happen, I know how the journal turned out. The hard part is figuring out what to include. When the journal is also the 30th anniversary issue, this task is even harder ( . . . Read More)
Contest Winners
“Fire on Water” by Rosemary Gallick
ART: Fire on Water by Rosemary Gallick:
PROSE: I AM the Tule Tree by Kelly Ann Jacobson
POETRY: Cicadas Browned in Olive Oil by Eric Forsbergh & Mallows by Pamela Murray Winters
TABLE OF CONTENTS
POETRY
Sarah Ann Winn / Glinda on the Wire /Glinda at the East Main Street Baptist Rummage Sale and Church Bazaar
Stan Galloway / Endless Somehow
Kelly Cherry / On Intuition
Mical Schneider / In the First Year of Year of Your Absence
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens / a sparrow’s death
Jen Stein / Ridgewalking / Summiting
Eric Forsbergh / Lake at Night / Cicadas Browned in Olive Oil
Bill Glose / Lighthouse Brick
Carina Yun / A is / Whiskers
Diana Smith Bolton / A True Story Metaphor for Failure
Adam Tavel / A Baptism and Hired Hand
Sally Rosen Kindred / Dickens at Ten
Benjamin Rader / Commencement Address (I-80 West)
Pia Taavila-Borsheim / Fashion Forward / Union Square
Nancy Mitchell / If Not for the Blood / Catkins
Pamela Murray Winters / Mallows
PROSE
Stephanie Dupal-DeMartin / The Boy and the Bear
Will J. Fawley / Uprooted
Amanda Whiting / Derby Town
Kelly Ann Jacobson / I AM the Tule Tree
Linda Morefield / What You Wish For
Matthew Dulany / Spur of the Moment
Jim McClellan / The Calendric Conspiracy of 1752
Ellen Boyers Kwatnoski / Like with Like
ART WORK
MIchal Mahgerefeth / Blue Ridge Mountain (cover)
Allen Beland / Copper Kettle
Georgette Grossman / Dahlia Droplet
Willa Friedman / Rainbow Lights
Emily Shepardson / Storm Approaching
Clive Pates / vii. Transfiguration Series, Avon Hall, Washington, VA
Bob Friedman / Manhattan
Pamela Godfrey / Field of Flowers
Peter Sittner / Squiggle
Stacy Slaten / Lineworks 9
Elizabeth Lynch / The Eggplant Family
Ray Orkwis / From Chateau, Lake Geneva, Switzerland
Rosemary Gallick / Fire on Water
