Issue 13: The Climate Change Issue
Table of Contents
Poetry
James Owens — “A Woman Photographing Empty Turtle Eggs”
Noah Davis — “Kingfisher on Doubt”
Jill Klein — “Poppies”
Kathleen Kirk — “Sluggish”
Tobi Alfier — “Evening of Island Grace”
Megan Stolz — “teatime”
Jack B. Bedell — “Elliptic”; “Barometric”; “Shift, Dunes”; “Breakwater”
Jocelyn Heath — “Letter from Anacostia Park”
Jessica Reed — “Late Summer in Indiana, as the Earth Passes”; “Once Again Through a Band of Comet Debris”
Virginia Bach Folger — “Hudson Line”
Katie Hogan O’Connor — “Little House in the Woods”
Chelsea Dingman — “After the Tornado, Summer 1989”
Anna Lena Phillips Bell — “Unhomemaking”
Jess Feldman — “I survived the summer”
Ace Boggess — “Hamburger at Hemingway’s”
Kerry Trautman — “Cardamom”
Kathleen Fagley — “Late Afternoon in Gettysburg”
Ron Mohring — “Deer & Dog”
Samantha Leigh Futhey — “Red Clover”; “Intervention in Seed”
Abigail Beckel — “Dinoflagellates”
Mike Wilson — “Descanso”
Fiction
Ken Mohnkern — “American Sweetgum”
Kate Kimball — “Capturing Flight”
Jolene McIlwain — “Seed to Full”
Nonfiction
Justin Maxwell — “Of Sea Monsters”
Katie Kress — “Body Memory”
Jana Richman — “Stay”
Courtney Sexton — “Grave walking”
CLIMATE CHANGE FEATURE
Poetry
Donelle Dreese — “Politicians Discussing Global Warming”; “Framed and Mounted”
Elizabeth Robin — “A Pantoum of Perfect Symmetry”
Sarah Giragosian — “Newtok, Alaska”
Hila Ratzabi — “Letter from the West”; “Prepping”
Roberta Feins — “Outside Seen Only from the Inside”
Karla Linn Merrifield — “Angostura Bitter”; “1947: Everglades’ First Lady Marjory Stoneman Douglas”
Martha Silano — “The New Nature Poem”; “After Several Sharp Caws in Succession”
Lauren Camp — “Across State Road 4”; “Canyon Trail #59”
Jules Jacob — “When Poison Blooms”
Julia Spicher Kasdorf — “Gathering Lines”
Daniela Buccilli — “The Shale Boom”; “The Homegrown Kind”
Iris Jamahl Dunkle — “Laguna de Santa Rosa: Prelude”; “Llano de Santa Rosa Rancho, 1843”; “Lake Jonive”
Liz Drayer — “The Calm Before”
Keli Osborn — “Backup Plan”; “How will the plants grow if the water turns to dust?”
Luisa A. Igloria — “Checking into the Kapuseru Hoteru”
Kate Gaskin — “Monarch Season”; “What Will Come to Pass”
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda — “Fireflies”
Lilace Mellin Guignard — “In the Pew, My Son Draws”; “Fracked Pastoral”
Madison Jones — “Self Portrait in a Broken Mirror”; “Anthropocene”