Issue 71
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2018-2019 Kay Murphy Prize for Poetry
Valerie Hsiung from Tell Me How It Makes You Feel
In Memoriam
Nason Smith Trout Fishing
Fiction
Joy Clark Psalm for a Full Tank of Gas
Katy Mullins Like Father
Graham Todd Love’s Country
Karen Malley He Should Be Back Up Here by Now
Jamie Lyn Smith Airlift
Carolyn Oliver What Comes Next
Nonfiction
Emerson Henry How I Lost My Mind
Alex Ebel The Ecstasy of St. Alex
Poetry
Hussain Ahmed Wi-Fi in a Cemetery
Vineet Kaul Ghazal 7: A Suitcase
Daniele Pantano Homecoming (Langenthal)
Samantha Grenrock Io
Katie Berta Batter My Heart, You No-Personed God
Charlotte Covey star vehicle (the year i moved to st. louis)
Kelly Grace Thomas Burn the Boats
Whitney Kerutis Shuyet
E. Kristin Anderson a headache, the daughter
Rachel Deer-Katz Halloween Sleepover at My Best Friend’s House
Durell Thompson Black Son—
Derek Otsuji Upon First Seeing, Housed at the Bishop Museum, the Kessho Mawashi Belonging to My Grandfather, Skinny Sumo Wrestler
Justin Lacour Untitled Prose Poem (#1)
John Sibley Williams Conch
Gabriel Palacios No Need
Ryan Bollenbach suicide is a milk filling holes in flowers
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