June 2014
Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell
The 2014 Collagist Chapbook Contest
FICTION
Eclipse
Nina Solomon
The Opal Maker
Lâle Davidson
Dolls of Our Fathers
Mika Taylor
Ex Machina
Adrian Van Young
EXCERPTS
You Animal Machine
Eleni Sikelianos
Tribute
Anne Germanacos
POETRY
While Lying on the Back of a Blue Whale
Dot in the Sky
C.L. O'Dell
Five Senryū Re: God
D'Anne Witkowski
A Kung in the Philippine Jungle, 1945
Kenji Liu
Cleopatra Recovered
Matthew Jude Luzitano
NONFICTION
Whiteout
Paul Vega
BOOK REVIEWS
rendezvous by Todd Melicker
reviewed by Caroline Goodwin
American Fraternity Man by Nathan Holic
reviewed by Lavinia Ludlow
Spheres of Disturbance by Amy Schutzer
reviewed by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
Fat Jersey Blues by John Repp
reviewed by Keith Taylor