Issue 78

Table of Contents

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2022-23 Kay Murphy Prize for Poetry

Sally Lipton Derringer

balconies 

Fiction

Phoebe Oathout 

Stephanie Frazee

Jude Whiley

Choo Yi Feng 

Deya Bhattacharya

Nine Parties from Before Rent Was Too High 

Salamander Night 

The Brain Named Itself

Voices from the Line 

Survival Instinct  

Nonfiction

Linda Scotto

Asha Singh 

David Patteson

Isabelle Mongeau   

Killing Goats 

Snowflakes in California 

Waiting on Susan 

My People 

Poetry

Chloe Cook 

Laura Ruby 

Amelie Langland 

Foolan Flopez 

Rhienna Renée Guedry 

Taylor Zhang 

Kevin Grauke 

Harryette Mullen 

Michal Jones 

Michal Jones

Maris Zoccola

Ernest Ògúnyẹmí

Cindy King 

Maggie Yang

Brad Richard 

Brad Richard 

  

July Submission

The Angel Makers Speak

Listed in the Lagniappe 

RIP My Dad’s Beloved Chickens 

Two Captains 

Billet Doux 

Wintering

Haiku Garden 

BLACK BODY I 

THE 2 WHITE WOMEN HOSTS 

blessing

Book of Poems 

Anamnesis 

Remembering // Obsolete 

Beginning with a Moment of Bliss in My Youth 

Zuihitsu on the Letter M