Issue Eighty-One

April 2016     


Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell

FICTION

Out of Step in the Kingdom of Our Lord
David Peak

Plans
Matt Runkle

In Re
Ilana Masad

Concerto (with subtitles)
Zsófia Bán
Translated by Erika Mihálycsa

EXCERPTS

Shadows in Summerland
Adrian Van Young

POETRY

A Bird in the Hand
Epilogue
Meghan Dunn

This Could've Been Yours if You Wanted It: the Mountains
Kaveh Akbar

North Street
Emily Pulfer-Terino

The Current
Mike Puican 

Epic of the Material World
Holly Iglesias

For What It's Worth
Courtesy of Strangers
Heather Nagami

If I Don't Black Out
Ross White

Inside the Cathedral
Melinda LePere

NONFICTION

Freeze Frame
Ruth Gila Berger

BOOK REVIEWS 

Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife by Jennifer Nelson
reviewed by Maggie Millner

Don't Smoke in Bed by Sara June Woods
reviewed by manuel arturo abreu

The Sound of the Sundial by Hana Andronikov
reviewed by Denton Loving

 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES