Contents

Jesse DeLong
27 May 2014

Lindsay Adkins
Fabric Tricks
Memorial

Bill Barone
Almost Like Church
Crippled Dog Dreams of Running

Catherine Connell
Desolate, My Desolate
Waiting for My Father’s Bus in Mombasa

Patrick Lawler
Bless the Animals Bless the Beatific / Bless Leslie Marmon Silko
Bless the Words We Have Created / That Send Us Back Pictures of the World

Keagan LeJeune
Crabbing
Crossing the Mississippi Bridge

Alice Mills
until then
what to say

Vi Khi Nao
Miscarriage
Nocturnal Core

Edward Nudelman
Red Tide
Utilitarianism Made Simple

William M. Rivera
Free as a Bird
A Literal God

James Valvis
Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
The Weakest Link

Art by James Deeb

James Deeb holds an MFA from Western Michigan University. His art has its philosophical roots in texts like Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, the work of the German Expressionists, and the writings of authors like J.G. Ballard and Charles Bukowski. Deeb refers to this artistic strand as the dystopian minority opinion.