Volume 2, Number 1 – Summer / Fall 2026
INTERVIEWS
ESSAYS
Last in Line (Detail) By Don Hata
POETRY
JAMES CAGNEY
“Operating Heavy Machinery”
This month’s free poem
“Between a Rock Wall and an Immigrant”
“Interview with a Rose”
RON KOERTGE
“The City”
“Cincinnati, 1947”
“Parkview1-9426”
“The Sun is Worried”
CHARLES HARPER WEBB
“Being Dad”
CECILIA WOLOCH
“Boy in the Pennsylvania Coalfields, circa 1929”
CRISTINA NEHRING
“Encounter with a Narcissist”
ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER
“For the Sad Waitress at the Diner in Barstow”
“Bambi Explains it All”
“this small rain”
“June Fairchild isn’t dead –“
MARIANA LIN
“Why They Go Crazy”
“Leaving the Land of White Lilies and Cocks”
VANESSA POSTER
“Ribbons”
