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    • Fiction 10.2
      • Brandon Sheaffer
      • Andrena Zawinski
      • George Crossman
    • Nonfiction 10.2
      • Jesse Curran
      • Faith Roy
      • Shelli Rottschafer
      • Elizabeth York
    • Poetry 10.2
      • Theresa Senato Edwards
      • Amy G. Smith
      • C. Christine Fair
      • Carole Anzovin
      • Ceridwen Hall
      • Dianna Henning
      • Dick Westheimer
      • Gerald Yelle
      • Jed Myers
      • Joe Cottonwood
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      • Kathleen Goldblatt
      • Kenneth Pobo
      • Libré Cory
      • Linda Jo Reinhard
      • Oscar Gwiriri
      • Robbie Gamble
      • Robert Beveridge
      • Sarah Carleton
      • Sarah Rae
      • Subhaga Crystal Bacon
    • Visual Art 10.2
      • Jane Yoon
      • Jeyi Park
      • Jahin Claire Oh
      • Yoonsuh Chloe Lee
      • Ian Kim
      • Minseo Jung
      • Donghyun Han
      • Suhjin Chey
      • Kayleen Subin Cho
      • Hyungjun Chin
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    • ISSUE 10.1
      • Fiction 10.1
        • Christine Arroyo
        • Judy Darley
        • Will Hodgkinson
        • Stefan Kiesbye
        • Andrea Ferrari Kristeller
        • Greig Thomson
      • Nonfiction 10.1
        • Richard Meadows
        • Vitek Kruta
        • Mike Wilson
      • Poetry 10.1
        • Subhaga Crystal Bacon
        • Elliott batTzedek
        • Ruth Bavetta
        • Beau Beausoleil
        • Abby Caplin
        • Catharine Clark-Sayles
        • Claire Conroy
        • Barbara Crooker
        • Lucille Lang Day
        • Christine Dutton
        • Michael Favala Goldman
        • Gloria Heffernan
        • Courtney Hitson
        • Shirlee Jellum
        • Eileen P. Kennedy
        • Tricia Knoll
        • Ellen LaFleche
        • Eileen Malone
        • Karen Marker
        • CJ Muchhala
        • Linda Jo Reinhard
        • Shelli Rottschafer
        • Jac-Lynn Stark
        • Stephen Trombulak
        • Mydalis Vera
        • Karen Warinsky
        • Phyllis Wax
      • Visual Art 10.1
        • Cathleen Cohen
        • Ahyeon Kim
        • Thomas Riesner
        • Judith Skillman
    • Issue, 9.2
      • Fiction 9.2
        • Carl Boon
        • Carol Dixon
        • Saniya Ghalehdar
        • Shirlee Jellum
        • J.S. Kierland
        • Nathan Perrin
        • Erik Peters
        • J.B. Polk
        • Justin Sangermano
        • Eliza Scudder
        • Erich von Neff
      • Nonfiction 9.2
        • Rida Asim
        • Nelson Byaruhanga
        • Alexis Champmathieux
        • Lindsay-Rose Dunstan
        • Marilynne Eichinger
        • Dianne Harke
        • Tytti Heikkinen
        • Anneli Marks
        • Jim Ross
        • Sarah-Helen Snow
        • Debra White
      • Poetry 9.2
        • Sarwa Azeez
        • Alice Barrett
        • Beau Beausoleil
        • Elliott batTzedek
        • Catharine Clark-Sayles
        • Hardy Coleman
        • Maire Fisher
        • D. Dina Friedman
        • Anita Gallers
        • Michael Favala Goldman
        • Gloria D. Gonsalves
        • Naavya Jain
        • Erin Jamieson
        • Yahia Lababidi
        • Patricia Lucas
        • Angie Minkin
        • Larena Nellies-Ortiz
        • Sean Murphy
        • Jim Ross
        • Lao Rubert
        • Nolo Segundo
        • Hibah Shabkhez
        • John Sheirer
        • Doug Sherr
        • Micky Shorr
        • Richelle Lee Slota
        • George Link Spaeth
        • Jo Somerset
        • Karen Warinsky
        • Phyllis Wax
      • Visual Art 9.2
        • Jason Hyunwoo Bang
        • Teresa Hyoju Chang
        • Dongeun Choi
        • Junho Chung
        • Yewon Han
        • Joohyun Hong
        • Annabel Jung
        • Eun Seo Kim
        • Jian Kim
        • Jihu Kim
        • Lia Mageira
        • Stephen Mead
        • Jim Ross
        • Taegyoung Shon
        • Christopher Woods
    • Issue 9.1
      • Fiction, 9.1
        • Sabrina Bell
        • Sonja Franeta
        • Shirlee Jellum
      • Nonfiction, 9.1
        • Shirlee Jellum
        • Jim Ross
        • Angela Townsend
      • Poetry, 9.1
        • Subhaga Crystal Bacon
        • Stephen Barile
        • Robert Beveridge
        • Kathryn Good-Schiff
        • Kent Leatham
        • Phyllis Martin
        • Livia Meneghin
        • Rainer Pasca
        • Kenneth Pobo
        • Gerard Sarnat
        • Phyllis Wax
      • Visual Art, 9.1
        • Nadia Arioli
        • Janis Butler Holm
        • Jim Ross
    • Issue 8.2 summer/fall 2023
      • Table of Contents
      • Fiction 8.2
        • Ben Bisbee
        • Andrea Eaker
        • Faith Ann Guptill
        • Hari Mitar Khalsa
        • Nilsa Mariano
        • Elizabeth Spencer Spragins
      • Nonfiction 8.2
        • Townsend Anton
        • Cynthia Close
        • Hecate Foley
        • Kristofer Miller
        • Aarron Sholar
        • A. S.
      • Poetry 8.2
        • Subhaga Crystal Bacon
        • Mandy Beattie
        • Sarah Browning
        • Carla Manene Cooke
        • Monique Renee Harris
        • Amanda Hiland
        • David W. Janey
        • Marie C. Jerge
        • Karen Kilcup
        • Ellen LaFleche
        • Janet MacFadyen
        • Phyllis Martin
        • Joan Mazza
        • Violet McEwan
        • Susan Middleton
        • Robin Michel
        • Jed Myers
        • Pegi Deitz Shea
        • Kim Suttell
        • Jonathan C. Ukah
        • Karen Warinsky
      • Art 8.2
        • SeHyeon Cho
        • Hwaln Choi
        • Jungyun Han
        • Janis Butler Holm
        • Austin Lubetkin
        • Yerin Nam
        • Jahin Claire Oh
        • Garrett Phelan
        • Margaret Plaganis
        • YooJung Shin
        • Yujin Suh
    • Issue 8.1
      • Fiction 8.1
        • Matthew Curlewis
        • Jim Ross
      • Nonfiction 8.1
        • Jeffrey Lockwood
      • Poetry 8.1
        • Diego Antoni
        • Beau Beausoleil
        • Robert Beveridge
        • Michael Brockley
        • Carol Dorf
        • Michael Favala Goldman
        • Sister Lou Ella Hickman
        • David W. Janey
        • Gail Langstroth
        • Erine Leigh
        • Jonathan Levin
        • Gregory Luce
        • Catherine McGuire
        • Gabriel Rosenstock
        • Sherry Steiner
        • Shihmin Sun
        • Phyllis Wax
        • J. Barrett Wolf
      • Visual Art 8.1
        • Mia Burroughs
        • N. Taylor Collins
        • Edward Lee
        • Jim Ross
        • Edward Michael Supranowicz
    • 7.2 summer/fall 2022
      • Ukraine: in Solidarity
        • Art UA
          • Al Griffin
          • Charlotte Jung
          • Jim Ross
          • Cynthia Yatchman
        • Fiction UA
          • Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi
        • Non-Fiction UA
          • Linda McCauley Freeman
          • Max White
        • Poetry UA
          • Tom Barlow
          • Alice Barrett
          • L. Shapley Bassen
          • Beau Beausoleil
          • Atlas Booth
          • Gavin Boyter
          • Ginny Lowe Connors
          • Agnieszka Filipek
          • Stan Galloway
          • Michael Favala Goldman
          • Marjorie Gowdy
          • Hannah Grace Greer
          • Nancy Heiss
          • Dianna Henning
          • Nancy Himel
          • Richard Holinger
          • Mykola Horbal
          • Kendall Johnson
          • Henry Jones
          • Ellyn Joyce
          • Mar Ka
          • Philip C. Kolin
          • Lisa Konigsberg
          • Donna Langevin
          • Ruth Lehrer
          • Erine Leigh
          • Ann E. Michael
          • Susan Middleton
          • Barbara Novack
          • Winston Plowes
          • Bruce Robinson
          • Ksenia Rychtycka
          • Alice Sanford
          • Mylo Schaaf
          • Lisa Schantl
          • Ann Shenfield
          • Kristy Snedden
          • Tezozomoc
          • Eileen Thalenberg
          • Elinor Ann Walker
          • Ann Weil
          • Nicole Yurcaba
      • General Themes
        • Art 7.2
          • Eugene Hyojoon Shin
          • Jaewoon Jeong
          • Anthony Jeonghoon Kim
          • Sarang Kim
          • Jim Ross
        • Fiction 7.2
        • Non-Fiction 7.2
          • Jim Ross
          • Vera Sandronsky
        • Poetry 7.2
          • Jeevan Bhagwat
          • Albert Black
          • Kai Black
          • RC deWinter
          • Joanne Durham
          • D. Dina Friedman
          • Mar Ka
          • Karen Kilcup
          • Jane Lee
          • Thomasina Levy
          • Joan Mazza
          • Stephen Mead
          • Judith Prest
          • Jim Ross
          • V. Jane Schneeloch
          • Carole Stone
    • Issue 7.1 winter 2022
      • Art 7.1
        • Margaret Plaganis
        • Jim Ross
      • Fiction 7.1
        • Joela Bezzeg
        • Melanie Davis-Kay
        • Margaret Plaganis
      • Non-Fiction 7.1
        • Mark Blickley
        • Jennifer Dupree
        • Owen Lewis
        • Margaret Plaganis
        • Karen Sullivan
        • Madelaine Zadik
      • Poetry 7.1
        • Laurel Benjamin
        • Jess Burnquist
        • David Giannini
        • Ellen LaFleche
        • Laurinda Lind
        • Martina McGowan
        • S.B. Merrow
    • Issue 6.2 2021
      • Art 6.2
        • Jenny Huh
        • Marieken Cochius
        • Abraham Sunday Enebi
        • Jennifer Taeyoung Kim
        • Charlotte Jihee Lee
        • Danny Rebb
        • Jim Ross
        • Abi Salami
        • Danielle Sung
        • Melissa Švigelj
        • Seo Yeunseo
      • Fiction 6.2
        • David Morse
        • Robert Eugene Perry
      • Non-Fiction 6.2
        • Sara Triana
      • Poetry 6.2
        • Chance Chambers
        • .chisaraokwu.
        • Martins Deep
        • Tracy K. Lewis
        • Elana Mallov
        • Cynthia Manick
        • Alexandra Naughton
        • Aaron Sandberg
        • Irene Willis
      • Interview
    • Issue 6.1 w/s 2021
      • Interview with Nyibol Bior
      • Non-Fiction
        • Cynthia Ezell
        • Sven Kretzschmar
        • Dora Rollins
      • Fiction
        • M.A. Blickley
        • John Sheirer
        • Eileen Werbitsky
      • Art
        • Hyeseon Kim
        • Rayoung Lee
        • Sofiya Levina
        • Lois Mclohon
        • Jessica Mehta
        • Martha Nance
        • Aluu Prosper
        • Howard Skrill
      • Poetry
        • Gale Acuff
        • Yuan Changming
        • JP Howard
        • Kari Flickinger
        • Diana Dinverno
        • Sven Kretzschmar
        • Jed Myers
        • Amanda Choo Quan
        • Brad Walrond
        • Allison Whittenberg
    • Issue 5.1
      • Poetry 5.1
        • S.B. Merrow
        • Tommy Twilite
        • Janlori Goldman
        • Michele Sharpe
        • Gerard Sarnat
        • Mervyn Taylor
        • Eve Lyons
        • Lois Roma-Deeley
        • David G. Walker
        • James Steck
        • John Mannone
        • Karen Anderson
        • Ron Burch
    • Issue 5.2
      • Art
        • Henry Jones
        • Min Sung Park
        • Sabrina Jovic
        • Claire Hahn
        • Monica MG
        • Subha Roychowdhury
        • Sève Favre
        • Na Yeon Kim
        • Janet Biehl
        • Min Seung Kim
        • Rachel Joohyun Lee
        • Taeyoung Kim
        • Neumia Marin
        • Michelle Brooks
        • Edward Michael Supranowicz
        • Shannon Kernaghan
        • JRM
        • Hyewon Cho
        • Jaeho Kim
      • Fiction
        • John Sheirer
      • Poetry
        • Anne Casey
        • Shirley Jones-Luke
        • Olivia Romo
        • Barker Thompson
      • Non-Fiction
        • Linda Seidel
        • Jessamyn Smyth
    • Issue 1.2
      • Contributor Bios issue 1.2
      • Poetry
        • Mandy Beattie
        • Janet Bowdan
        • Patricia Crandall
        • Jason Kaufman
        • Anna Leahy
        • Christina Lovin
        • Brandon Marlon
        • Carrie Nassif
        • Natasha Ramsey
        • Joseph Ross
    • Issue 2.1
      • Contributor Bios
      • Justin Barisich
      • D. Dina Friedman
      • Anita Gallers
      • Carolyn Gregory
      • Christopher Jarmick
      • Sheila Maldonado
      • Nicole Newman
      • Neil Silberblatt
      • Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
    • Issue 2.2
      • Contributor Bios
      • Fiction
        • Desirée Jung
      • Interview: Leslie McGrath
      • Non-Fiction
        • Alicen Grey
        • Allyson Whipple
      • Poetry
        • Vinita Agrawal
        • Rebecca Alexander
        • Laura Foley
        • Megan Gosney
        • Sterling Higa
        • Alison Lock
        • Jose Treja Maya
        • Jed Myers
        • Richard King Perkins II
        • Stephen A. Rozwenc
        • Kate Rushin
        • Barbara Ungar
        • Dan Wilcox
    • Issue 3.1
      • Contributor Bios
    • Issue 3.2
      • Art
      • Fiction
      • Interview
      • Non-Fiction
      • Poetry
      • Contributor Bios
    • Issue 4.1
      • Art
      • Fiction
      • Interview with Ellen Meeropol
      • Poetry
      • Contributor Bios
    • Issue 4.2
      • Art
      • Fiction
      • Non-Fiction
      • Poetry
      • Contributor Bios
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Ernie Brill

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