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- Issue One
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- Infestation – Nonfiction by Chelsey Clammer
- The Last Ballad of Loretta Lynn – Fiction by Sean Conaway
- A Brief History of Barbed-Wire and How It Affects and Does Not Affect the Life of Hannah Johnson Shoemaker – Fiction by Joyce Goldenstern
- Hoppers – Fiction by Paul Jaskunas
- The Fifth Sorrowful Mystery – Fiction by Dan Mancilla
- Poetry
- The Death of Conan the Cimmerian – Poetry by Tony Barnstone
- East Ohio Truck Stop – Poetry by Scott Beal
- Regret – Poetry by Jenn Blair
- If You Re-write Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” – Poetry by Jeff Kass
- The Towns – Poetry by Kathleen Kirk
- B. B. King on His Bicycle – Poetry by Norbert Krapf
- My Son Points to a Confederate Flag and Asks What It Is – Poetry by Christopher Martin
- Dink’s Tune – Poetry by Kevin Miller
- The Steerage – Poetry by Dale Patterson
- Grace at the Covered Dish – Poetry by Pepper Trail
- American Legion, 1964 – Poetry by David Walsh
- How the People of Woods County, PA Lost the ‘G’ in Drinkin’ – Poetry by Karen Weyant
- Art & Photography
- Issue Two
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- Poetry
- Two Poems — by Laressa Dickey
- Two Poems — by Susan J. Erickson
- Four Poems — by Alan Gravano
- The American Boy — Poetry by Gahl Liberzon
- Dick Dale Conquers the World — Poetry by John A. McDermott
- Great Smoky Mountains — Poetry by Kim Roberts
- Monday Morning Service — Poetry by Bonnie Stanard
- Trish Deserves a Poem of Her Own — Poetry by Steve Trebellas
- American Love Poem After Oz — Poetry by Wendy Vardaman
- Art & Photography
- Issue Three
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- Poetry
- Letter to C, On the Road, Etc. — Poetry by Priscilla Atkins
- Carlos on the Mound or Sweet Home Zambrano (of curse and command) — Poetry by R.L. Buss
- Found Poems: Cultural Fragments of Missouri’s Antebellum Frontier — Poetry by Michael Hoerman
- Barber — Poetry by Sherilyn Lee
- Lines Composed a Few Miles Past the World’s Largest Can of 7-Up — Poetry by Marjorie Manwaring
- Class Reunion — Poetry by Rick Marlatt
- Q U A R A N T I N E S — Poetry by Kevin McKelvey
- Three Poems by Colleen Michaels
- Art & Photography
- Issue Four
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- Poetry
- The Bedside Book of Evel Knievel — Poetry by Glen Armstrong
- Annie Oakley & Captain Butler — Poetry by Kevin Heaton
- Making a Date — Poetry by Kathleen Kirk
- Three Poems by Holly Painter
- American Gothic — Poetry by Dana Robbins
- Doctors Ben Casey and James Kildare Vie for the Devotion of Their Female Patients and Viewers — Poetry by Maria Terrone
- Art & Photography
- Issue Five
- Introduction by Editor Justin Hamm
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- The ‘I’ States — Nonfiction by Sheila Webster Boneham
- Meandering — Nonfiction by Rachael Button
- The Mud Hut — Nonfiction by Allison Coffelt
- Monadnock on the Prairie — Nonfiction by Joyce Goldenstern
- Wild Hay — Nonfiction by Zachary Hawkins
- The Man in the White Suit — Fiction by Curtis Crisler
- Under the Cottonwood Tree — Fiction by Keith Lesmeister
- Poetry
- Five Poems — by Monica Berlin
- Unincorporated (Welch, Minnesota) — Poetry by Colleen Coyne
- King of the Barnyard — Poetry by Thad DeVassie
- Armistice, 1940 — Poetry by Jennifer Fandel
- Farm House (Burning Down) — Poetry by Dennis Hinrichsen
- Crusher Blackwell Says There’s Something You Should See — Poetry by W. Todd Kaneko
- War Memorial — Poetry by Susanna Lang
- Three Poems — by Kristin LaTour
- Three Poems — by Cindy Hunter Morgan
- Steger Piano Works — Poetry by Steve Trebellas
- Five Poems — by Michael Walsh
- Art & Photography
- Issue Six
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- Poetry
- Two Poems — by Liz Ahl
- After a Stroke, My Mother Examines a Photograph of Joe DiMaggio Seated with a Young Boy Circa Late 1940’s — Poetry by Tom Daley
- Elegy for a Sweathog — Poetry by Jeff Kass
- Ghost Rabbits — Poetry by F.G. Mulkey
- Photo from Our Only Trip to Riverside, CA — Poetry by Janeen Rastall
- Mr. and Mrs. Johnson — Poetry by J.D. Schraffenberger
- Two Poems — by Wendy Vardaman
- Mississippi T — Poetry by Aaron Wiegert
- Art & Photography
- Issue Seven
- Review
- Prose
- Poetry
- An American Meditation — Poetry by Shaindel Beers
- The Original Siamese Twins — Poetry by Shevaun Brannigan
- Two Poems — by Grant Clauser
- Confession of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, also known as Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, Union Army — Poetry by Susan J. Erickson
- Two Poems — by Chris Haven
- the benediction of Our Lady of Hyperglycemia — Poetry by Irène Mathieu
- Mechanicsville, Iowa — Poetry by Amanda Moore
- Cherries in the Snow — Poetry by Penelope Schott
- Motel — Poetry by Dick Thomas
- Issue Eight
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- Poetry
- For Shelter — Poetry by Dan Alter
- Louis Armstrong Plays for His Wife in Giza, 1961 — Poetry by Jennifer Bartell
- Waterways — Poetry by Willa Carroll
- Two Poems — by Sean M. Conrey
- Toasts to David Byrne — Poetry by John Paul Davis
- Trespassing — Poetry by M. Brett Gaffney
- Two Poems — by Amorak Huey
- Doc Watson, Bailey Hall, Cornell, 1967 — Poetry by Tim Hunt
- Train I Ride (1953) — Poetry by Jeff Knight
- Two Poems — by Susanna Lang
- Two Poems — by John A. McDermott
- Four Poems — by Jon Tribble
- Autobiography — Poetry by Gale Walden
- Art & Photography
- Issue Nine
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- Poetry
- Two Poems by Luanne Castle
- Two Poems by Ace Boggess
- Lady Day Sings the Blues on Youtube — Poetry by Brian Fanelli
- Paragraph for a Historical Marker Near State Route 107 — Poetry by Matt Prater
- Three Poems by Sandra Marchetti
- Experience Project–> Military Q&A — Poetry by Karen Skolfield
- Two Poems by Ellen Stone
- Art & Photography
- Issue Ten
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- Poetry
- Three Poems by Carol V. Davis
- Slickwater and Sand — Poetry by Ruth Foley
- Dancing Lessons — Poetry by Elizabeth Hoover
- Inez Clark — Poetry by Francesca Kritikos
- Goin’ Nowhere — Poetry by Kristie Betts Letter
- Three Poems by Devi K. Lockwood
- Two Poems by Micki Myers
- Vertebrae — Poetry by Jeremy Michael Reed
- Sputnik IV’s Fall — Poetry by Ronnie Sirmans
- Issue Eleven
- Reviews & Interviews
- Prose
- Poetry
- Wednesday, In Transit — Poetry by Rachel Adams
- One Fatality — Poetry by Ace Boggess
- Beneath the Highway, Between Two Nights — Poetry by Emma Bolden
- Two Poems by Jennifer Clark
- Two Poems by Will Cordeiro
- Two Poems by Tom Daley
- Carrying the Banner — Poetry by Amy Durant
- Self-Portrait as Janis Joplin’s Porsche — Poetry by Susan J. Erickson
- Two Poems by Dennis Hinrichsen
- The Last Sleeper Car from Portland Heading Into the Columbia River Gorge — Poetry by Tricia Knoll
- Cattle Trucks — Poetry by Eileen Toomey
- Art & Photography
- Issue One
- Connect
- American Songbook
- #18 Grief Begone by Max Heinegg
- #16-17 Two Poems by Norbert Krapf and Gordon Bonham
- #13-15 Three Songs by Cal Freeman and The Codgers
- #12 The Ballad of the Bridge to Nowhere by Michael Waterson
- #7-11 Four Songs from Beautiful Blood by The Cousins Project (Steve Mayone and Kristina Stykos)
- #4-6 Three Songs by Cornelius Eady & Swamp Rose
- #3 Cold Wind Blowing by Dustin Lowman (as Arthur Elliot)
- #2 Erie Canal by Greg Dember and CHIEFLY
- #1 Goodnight Irene by C.J. Opperthauser
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reviews & interviews
Michael Gerhard Martin’s Easiest If I Had a Gun — Review by Brandy Whitlock
Interview with Michael Gerhard Martin — by Brandy Whitlock
