A Cowboy Cannot Be Without His Hat
Fiction
Calvin Hennick’s stories, essays, and journalism have appeared in dozens of publications, including Bellevue Literary Review and The Boston Globe. He teaches writing at the Grub Street independent…
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A Recipe for Certain Times of Life
Creative Nonfiction
Jill Storey’s essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Gettysburg Review, Zyzzyva, Salon, Brain, Child and many other publications. One of her essays received a Special Mention for the 2010…
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Fiction
Maya Schenwar is a writer, journalist and editor of the news website Truthout. Her journalistic work has been published in Truthout, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and others. She…
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Church of the Pyromaniacs
Poetry
Benjamin Goldberg lives with his wife outside Washington, D.C. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Salt Hill, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Greensboro Review, Grist, The Southeast Review, A…
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Poetry
William Fargason’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Grist, New Orleans Review, Bayou Magazine, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. He is currently a poetry MFA candidate at…
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Poetry
Matthew Sisson's poetry has appeared in magazines and journals ranging from JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association, to the Harvard Review Online. He has been nominated for a Pushcart…
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Poetry
Janice Ko Luo graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles. She has been a Poetry Editor for the literary and art journal Lunch Ticket. She was selected for a…
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Fiction
Timur Jonathan Karaca’s stories have appeared in Indiana Review and Narrative. He is a practicing anesthesiologist, and a student at the Writers Studio, San Francisco. He lives in Oakland.
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Poetry
Meg Hunter is a Special Educator in Charles County, Maryland. She holds an M.S. in Special Education from Dowling College and a B.A. in English from the University of Maryland, where she lived in the…
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Self-Portrait with Oncoming Storm
Poetry
Brandon Amico is from New Hampshire. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Carolina Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, Sixth Finch, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. You…
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Fiction
Tim Fitts lives and works in Philadelphia with his wife and two children. He is on the editorial staff of the Painted Bride Quarterly, and his stories have been published by The Gettysburg Review,…
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Fiction
Barbara Nishimoto was born in Chicago, and grew up along with her two sisters in the western suburbs. She is a Sansei and spent most of her working life as a teacher in such locations as the Alaskan…
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The Mynah Bird Eats Hawaiian Shave Ice
Creative Nonfiction
Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer (forthcoming July 2014 from W.W. Norton: Liveright), Pot…
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Poetry
Kate Peper is a freelance designer and award-winning watercolor painter living in Marin County, California. Her poems have twice been nominated for a Pushcart and have appeared in the Cimarron Review,…
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Fiction
Catherine Carberry serves as Assistant Editor of Mid-American Review and Bartleby Snopes. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including North American Review, The Greensboro…
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Matthew Sisson
Watts Towers of words. Folk poetry penned
from hubcaps, bits of broken lives, lost loves,
and other ephemera. As big as any roadside
Paul Bunyan, elephant, or Indian, and always
wooden, even if concrete verse. Some follies
become a cause celeb, and after conservation
and editing, coffee table book bound. Most
are little more than academic tourist traps,
far, far, from the highway of mainstream
canon. Remember, all poets secretly fear
theirs is a purple, and dinosaur art.
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