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

He Was That Dragon
poetry
Nicolle Elizabeth

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



edited by Brandon Hobson and Cooper Renner