April 2015
Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
Boxes
Cynthia Arrieu-King
The House of Schiaparelli
Annie Bilancini
Witness to a Prayer
Vedran Husić
Teach Me Something
Amy Silverberg
EXCERPTS
Selections from The Greenhouse
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
POETRY
Ode to the Cortex
Carrie Addington
Vertigo
Patricia Clark
Broke
Jen DeGregorio
Self As Cenotaph
Elisa Karbin
All My Specters in a Box in Terrified Light
Muriel Leung
Afterwards
Loneliness
Melissa Roberts
Necropolis
Laura Swearingen-Steadwell
Chinese Silence No. 58
Timothy Yu
NONFICTION
Three Cut Short
Kathleen Heil
BOOK REVIEWS
This Boring Apocalypse by Brandi Wells
reviewed by Matthew Mahaney
Paradise Drive by Rebecca Foust
reviewed by M. B. McLatchey
They Become Her by Rebbecca Brown
reviewed by Paul Fess
Bombyonder by Reb Livingston
reviewed by Marie Curran