Issue Fifty-Seven

April 2014


 

Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell

The 2014 Collagist Chapbook Contest 

FICTION

Buoyancy
Douglas W. Milliken

Real Live African Pygmy
Meagan Ciesla

The Dead Forest
Nathan Oates

Face
Ravi Mangla

Small Press Spotlight: OW! Arts

Selections from Aviary, Bestiary
Joseph O. Legaspi

Selections from Mammoth
Rachel McKibbens

POETRY

Staying
American Dream
Update
Ali Shapiro

Creed
Henry W. Leung

The woman at the bus stop is not my mother
Raina Lauren Fields

What's That You Said?
Matt Morton

The Fall Forecast
Shelley Wong

Portrait of My Father as Tatooine
Amorak Huey

Salt, Coal
Rosalynde Vas Dias

On Azimuth Avenue
Travis Smith

NONFICTION

Lamarckian Evolution
Amy Benson

BOOK REVIEWS

The Placebo Effect Trilogy by Yuriy Tarnawsky
reviewed by J. Andrew Goodman

Goodnight Nobody by Ethel Rohan
reviewed by Christi Clancy

Citizen J by Daniela Olszewska
reviewed by William Emery

The Devil's Snake Curve by Josh Ostergaard
reviewed by Justin Thurman

 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES