Drowned River: Fiction by Dale Corvino
Winner of the Christopher Hewitt Award 2015: Fiction
Drowned River
by Dale Corvino
“Good morning, papi, happy Friday,” I greet the bakery owner, a big, hairy Syrian,…
The Challenge of Adherence: Poetry by Noah Stetzer
Though it lacks the deliberateness of fire
setting the bridges or boats once one’s passed
into strange lands or foe’s territory—
dark Rubicon crossed over on horseback,
fighting…
As If: Fiction by Norman Belanger
What time is it?” He sighs, drowsy from a day at the beach.
I move over so he can put down his bag. “The clock…
Inoculations: Poetry by Raymond Luczak
in memory of Bruce Hlibok (1960-1995)
Funny how much New York’s changed
since you died. Rents have gone way, way up.
Brooklyn is shockingly hip…
Quarterly: Poetry by Noah Stetzer
Quarterly
Every ninety days you will sit and you will wait
in a blank little room at the clinic by yourself,
while the doctors and the nurses…
It’s Not Over: Poetry by Joy Gaines-Friedler
The last of the sun
is a silver filament
through the glazed white
elms. Rebirth clings
the way that image
of you—softer now
remains constant.
There is…
Two Poems by Noah Stetzer
Two Poems
by Noah Stetzer
Measure of a Man
Numbers crowd this room: T-cells, viral load,
telephone, clocks, oxygen, and the day.
Longitude and latitude place us here
in the…
This Is A Test: Poetry by Alicia Mountain
This Is a Test
Do you recoil like you should
when the boy says clean
to talk about his body?
In the crook of your arm
you cradle a…