Fall 2017: Truth-telling

"Writing in the Forest" © Jennifer Powers; used by permission]

Observing the World—Inside and Out

‘Guess it's safe now,’ she said, after she caught me looking and shed the fleece. Underneath, she wore a T-shirt with a print of a pair of handcuffs and the line Lady Cops Like to Have Fun Too.

—"Everything that Rises"

New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they publish throughout the issue cycle.

Personal Stories

Telling the Truth About the Modocs by Robert Aquinas McNally

First-Person Reports

Three Boxes by Joseph Walsh

More Than Just a Political Slogan by Robin L. Flanigan

Messages from a Former Cambodian Prison by Alyssa Sorresso

Everything that Rises by Steven Volynets

The Dark Is What Makes Us by Meghan Moore-Hubbard

The Ruins of Gary, Indiana by Joseph S. Pete

Interviews

Author Talk: Julie Wittes Schlack by Elizabeth McShane

Kathleen Spivack: Shaping What You Write by Jennifer Jean

Fiction

Beacons by Julie Wittes Schlack

Special Feature

How Transparent Should Poetry Be? by Steve Lewis

Do Poems Need to Be Accessible? by Neil de la Flor

Art

The Malevolent Guild of Pastry Chefs by John Peacock

Murder on the Ghost Train by John Peacock

Talking to Each Other

Agreeing with the Other Side Can Be Revolutionary by Phoebe Farag Mikhail

Twelve Tips for Living in the South by Allison Futterman

Trump Is Our Fault, Too by Steven Lewis

Genre Borders

30-Year Drought by Abigail Uhrick

Application for the Post of Lesser Poet Laureate by Grady Kane-Horrigan

To the Curly-Haired Barista by Megan LeAnne

Why I Write

When the Pieces Don’t Seem to Fit by JoeAnn Hart

Bearing Witness, Past and Present by Marc Nieson

Poetry

Driving Lessons by Nausheen Eusuf

Lawrence Welk by Giavanna Munafo

Mad Libs: Deep State by Susan Terris