45.4: Flyover Country

Our current issue was guest edited by Ruth Awad. This issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork by Ohio writers including: Dionne Custer Edwards, Taylor Byas, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Sean Cho A, Manuel Iris, Dennis James Sweeney, Jyotsna Sreenivasan, and many more.

Art Feature

Photography

James Dickerson

Fiction

4.

Annie Johnson

The Gift

Jyotsna Sreenivasan

Nonfiction

The Conjugations

Dennis James Sweeney

To Dance with Abandon(ment)

K Anand Gall

Poetry

Affirmation Circle #3

Love language. i mean. a poem about love and language.

Sean Cho A.

Scenes from that day:

Cynthia Amoah

Sonnet for Longing Being Mistaken for Sadness

Wreckage

When I Marry a Poet, We Will Argue Over Descriptions

Taylor Byas

BENEATH THE DRAGONBLOOD TREE

Akhim Yuseff Cabey

LAKEPHRASIS

Marianne Chan

Memoriam

Keloid

Teri Ellen Cross Davis

Disruption

How Many Points of Breaking

Dionne Custer Edwards

In Attempts to Bring You Back

Urbanshee Predicts The Birth Of Toni Morrison & Writes Her A Letter

World in Which the Word Father Is Replaced by Hood

Siaara Freeman

Belonging/Partenencia

Manuel Iris

During lunch, Ms. Anne says

A Golden Shovel for My Friend Michael

Yalie Saweda Kamara

Half-Life

Amit Majmudar

Among the Goldenrods

Khaty Xiong

Used To Be

Abecedarian for My Estranged Mexican Tongue

Felicia Zamora

Poem Beginning with Nas & Ending in a Lover’s Mouth

I Can’t Look at Horses Without Thinking About Love

Geramee Hensley

Review

Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang

Arah Ko

Arrow by Sumita Chakraborty

Maya McOmie

Notes on Contributors