Spring 2018: Vol. 46, Issue 2
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard
FICTION
Mary Hostetter
Berry Patch
Jon Sealy
Circulation
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Some Thoughts On Marriage Before I Wed
Jake Maynard
Barely Runnable
POETRY
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
He Seems Different, 1999, From the Series Soul Erased, Joyce Scott
Scorned, He Implodes, 1999, From the Series Soul Erased, Joyce Scott
Guns As Angel’s Wings, 1999, From the Series Soul Erased, Joyce Scott
Repent, 1999, From the Series Soul Erased, Joyce Scott
Sap
“To believe in this living–”
Rebecca Gayle Howell
The Granny Woman’s Note
The Basketmaker’s Note
The Stone Carver’s Note
Jane Hicks
Abscission
Take This Leaf
Follow
Persist
Lisa J. Parker
Hillbilly Transplant: Pondering Park Dominoes and the Death of Celia Cruz
Hillbilly Transplant: Working at the Metropolitan Opera
Cleave
Passing of Grief
Joshua Lee Martin
Tonic Exorcism
Cutting
Linda Parsons
Kinpeople
D.A. Gray
Cave Country
One Evening in Early Spring
Mary Ellen Miller
Willow
INTERVIEW
Silas House
A Conversation with Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon & Rebecca Gayle Howell
CRAFT ESSAY
Pauletta Hansel
Truth and Consequences: On Writing and Not Writing Poetry
BOOK REVIEWS
Leah Hampton
Weedeater by Robert Gipe
COVER PHOTOGRAPH
Children of Shangri-Lost by Stephanie Strasburg
Dancers from the “Children of Shangri-Lost” prepare to perform a story of their families’ journey from Bhutan to Nepal to Pittsburgh at City of Asylum in the Mexican War Streets on Tuesday, July 5, 2016. From left, Rabina Phuyel, 17, sits as Bandhana Bhattarai, 15, winces while getting her hair braided by Binsha Bhattarai, 15. Continuting right, Ritika Chamlagai, 15, takes a photo of her handiwork on Deepa Phuyel’s braids, age 20, and on the bottom right, Hera Nepal, 17, looks on. All the young women now live in Baldwin. With around 5,000 people, the Bhutanese community is one of the largest refugee and immigrant communities in Pittsburgh.