44.1 Winter 2020

Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Brenda Miller & Julie Marie Wade, Michael Wasson, JoAnna Novak, Rowan Sharp, C.R. Resetarits, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Erin Slaughter, L.A. Johnson, Adam Clay, Hedgie Choi, Caits Meissner, and many more.

This project was supported [in part] by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Art Feature

Collages

C. R. Resetarits

Fiction

Larynx

JoAnna Novak

Slow Burn

Rowan Sharp

Nonfiction

The Closet

Brenda Miller & Julie Marie Wade

O V E R T U R E S

Michael Wasson

Poetry

Elegy for the Longest Year

Revisionist

Inertia

Carlos Andrés Gómez

Moving a Piano with the Three Other Men in My Family

Joshua Clayton

Growing Bold

Caits Meissner

When I See Pictures of My Nieces Playing in the Snow

Katie Berta

Stick/Poke

Kate Stoltzfus

Note Slid Under a Hotel Room Door

L.A. Johnson

Subject/Object

Love Poem for Your Consideration

John Byrne

Beauty Examined

Proper

Kyle Carrero Lopez

As Above, So Below

Vessel

Michael Mlkeoday

Twenty-Second Year

Sunless

Yongyu Chen

Moon

Robin Rosen Chang

To My Dead Neighbor

Derek Graf

The Alarmist

Alison Palmer

Visiting the Barn the Night Before I Burn it Down

Ian Hall

The Quickening

Anne Price

My Life Back Then

At Dusk, Lightning

Kathleen McGookey

Calling From Montana

Travis Truax

Speaking in the Second Person

Claire Sibley

origin of the elements

Tatiana Johnson

Wife of the Ash Tree

Caylin Capra-Thomas

Canticle for a Farmland Arsenal

Nocturne with Reservoir

Connor Yeck

Loitering and Soliciting

Hedgie Choi

Pulling Teeth

Susan Milchman

Ghost Contemplates the Shape They Found on the X-Ray

CJ Scruton

Flânerie

Emily Franklin

One Night We Drove Through the Rockies

One Night we Drove Through Idaho

Kathryn Merwin

Arabesque: The Oldest Language

Adam Clay

we look back in winter

Samantha Futhey

Coyote

Erin Slaughter

Review

Review of Inside Ball Lightning by Rainie Oet

Cameron Gorman

Review of Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez

Louise Ling Edwards

Review of The Crying Book by Heather Christle

Josie Kochendorfer

Notes on Contributors