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After the Flood
After the Rain
Aubade for Aging
Bad Translation
Borderlands
Cliff Diver
Clockwork Overture
Complicity
Diaphonous
Does My Slashed Achilles Tendon Make Me More Feminine
Erasure
Frida Kahlo and Other Women with Missing Parts
From Slag to Sanctuary: A Daughter Reflects
Gathering
Hallelujahs
Harold
Hibiscus Remembered
Hodges
Home
House Centipede
How to Commit Arson and Not Get Caught
I began making resolutions*
I Put On My Mother’s Coat and Her Dreams Fell Out
Issue 01
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
A System of Linear Equations
Errands
Sex For the Recently Divorced
The Period Calendar
Variations On Numbness
Fiction
Bread and Butter
Guarding Charlene
Reflections on My Parents’ Past
Window
You Are The City
Flash
Blind Little Rain God
Love Letter to You at 85
Milk
Preservation Project
The Boxer’s Soliloquy
The Joy of Peeling
The Roaring River
The Wake
Welcome Home, Kakuda
White T-Shirt
Interviews
Issue #1 Interns
Porochista Khakpour
Masthead
Notes From the Editors
Poetry
Casey Drops Blue
First Cigarette
Frames
Genesis
my roommate is from the plane he walked off
New Religion
Strays
Temp
The Girl at Petco
The Tocai Fruiliano Is At 54 Degrees
Issue 02
Beanstalks
A Pair of Days in April
After the Bombs
Birthday Kisses
First Responders
How to Move Forward
I’m an Asshole: Marathon Monday
Into the Night
Letter to the World
Marathon Monday
Stay
Thank God for Naps
The Real in the Real
When She Closes Her Eyes
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
Cycles
Loss, Faith, Chaos
Missing Girl Scout Cookies
The Beat Goes On
Fiction
Chessboard & Newspaper
Delia Done Wrong
Fine
Hefty Bag
You, The Ex, and the Neighbor
Flash
Ashes
Babyfeet
Jeff
Last Night with Aphrodite
Simple Pleasures
The Last Day
The Only Scars I Choose
The Other Side of the Bed
Watch and Memorize
You
Interviews
Erica Dawson
Featured Poems: Othello and Desdemona | Dan and Alex
Staff Interview
Masthead: Issue 2
Notes From the Editors
Poetry
All This
Bill Evans
Breaking Fast
Coming to Terms
Dead People’s Possessions
Eros | Psyche
Inheritage
Marriage
The Denial
The End of Daylight Savings
Issue 03
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
Ice-Locked
Navigating the Margin
The Drunkest Band In Town
The Real 1984
Fiction
If It Hurts
The Siege
Two Trunks
What Daddy Was
Flash
Elias and the Moth
Flooding
Moments
Salomé
Silent Night
Still Life
The Call
The Public Pool
White Horse
Masthead: Issue 3
Notes from the Editors
Poetry
A Memory of Anya’s Birth
At a Crowded Party, I Am Not Envious
Aubade with Still-Visible Moon
Backyard
Bluebirds
Bully
Dark Wisconsin
Dream of the Jar
In the Dream You are Not Dead
More than Luck
Scientific
we have on display a nascent child
Issue 04
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
As We Gather Around Ourselves
Episodic Boys
Fascinating Rhythm: In Praise of Punctuation
Fiction
Ants Go Marching
Death Music Heroes
Fortune Tellers
Jazzmen
Msc Whistling
The Cutoff Bridge
What About the Moon
Flash
Lineage
Once
The Eleven O’clock News
The Language of Little Things
What Grows Untended
Masthead: Issue 4
Notes From the Editors
Poetry
A Wife is a Hope Chest
Intro to Boredom 101
Jack Imagines a Different Map
Momos
Mussel
On The Gulf in Alabama
Rare Soul
Self-Portrait as Joan Jett
Twenty Years of Dead
Weight
Issue 05
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
In My Hands
Villanelle
Fiction
At the Boarding House
Dances So Pretty
Flash
A Most Common Monster
At After
Bodies
How to Leave a Child in Four Delicious Recipes
Roytype
Saturday’s Treaties
What I Didn’t Want
Issue 05
Masthead: Issue 5
Notes from the Editors
Poetry
Abstract Onomatopoeia
Alonely
Between Worlds
Black Robin
Directory of Directions
Early Charts
Ephemerality
For Healing
How to Fix the Roof
How We Love
Pomegranate
Recoil
Red Fox
The Carefree
The Continuum
Utah
Without
Issue 06
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
Out of the Garden
Pierce Impressions
Fiction
Chapel
Neighbors
Seven Thousand
The Balloon Sessions
The First Days
Flash
A Half-Formed Moon
Foxes
Moon Water
Shooting a Horse
Starlings
The Harvest
The Long Walk
Tightly Knit
Unbalanced
Wish
Without Permission
Masthead: Issue 6
Notes from the Editors
Poetry
1982
Adoration #83
Auntie’s Laugh
Blueprint
Brown-Skinned Paranoia
Cleaning His Felt Hat
Communicating with Crows
Let Sleeping Dogs Sleep
Minor Dogma
Missing a Verse
Salmonella
Some Good Thing May Yet Happen
The Invention of Gunpowder
This Happened
Where Stood a Stake
Issue 07
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
Detritus
Everyone Goes Upstairs
Fiction
A Communion
Makoma
The House in Hewlett
Flash
All I Know
Hooray for Earth
Lighthouse
The Only Show On Earth
What Is a Cistern?
Masthead: Issue 07
Notes from the Editors
Poetry
An Exile’s Daughter
Angles
Astronomy
Coming Down
Lover’s Psalm
Millstone
Mouse
Open Letter to Timothy Liu
Peaches
Pie Bird
Pomegranate
Pugilist at Best
Revelation in Iowa City
The Sky Falls at Midnight
Tohu, Tikkun
Issue 08
Art
Evidence II (Love Letters)
Ilusión Efimera
Single
Skin
Waiting for the Storm to Pass: The Third Meaning
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
Living Myth
The ISO Room
Fiction
Everything Between
Marinara
When Something’s Broken Near Water
Flash
A Marriage
The Mortician’s Tale
Masthead: Issue 08
Notes from the Editors
Poetry
Estella Rose
First Kiss in the McDonald’s Parking Lot at Night
Green Psychosis
Guerilla
My Father as a Redwood Tree
Prayer for My Father’s Frontal Lobes
Rhode Island Red
The First Time I Sinned
The Landlord and the Optimist
The Stranger, the Sojourner Passes By
Issue 09
Art
Cell
Dead Leaf with Water Drops
Happiness
Murakami
Water Angel Series Excerpt 5
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
In Love, In Grief, In Literature: A Literacy Memoir
Nine
Stranger
Fiction
>
A Different Water
Birthday Doves
Dragon Slayer
Glory of Infants
Loving an Ant Sadist
Flash
How to Be a Good Member of Group Therapy
Hula Hooping
Teenage Beach Party
The King of Naked City
The Selkie Wife
White Hot Apocalypse
Notes from the Editors
Poetry
Ark for the Axolotl
At My Son’s Favorite Mexican Restaurant After He Died
Blues
breakable bodies
Good Girls
I Move into a Castle
Lottery Tickets and the Odds of Retirement: A Meditation
My Uncle, the War
The Black Bull’s Bride
The Boat of My Body
The Cut Maple
Your Appointment Book is Empty
Issue 10
Art
Cathedral
The Weather Within a Poet’s Heart
Time Game
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
Dogs
Fiction
Exposure
Father’s Day
How to Tie a Half-Windsor Knot
Maybe We’ll Never Wake Up
Miss Teen USA
The Salt Gift
Flash
Animal Time
Contortions
Gift
Pillows Apart
Solstice
The Other Woman
Notes from the Editors
Poetry
All in the Stars
Before Cursing God, I Pray to my Wife
Blight
Conceit
Emily as Indiana
halo
In Kabul
In the Ötztal Alps
Learning to Drown
On Picking Blackberries
Watching fireworks at Kings Island Amusement Park, I cover my ears
What I Sometimes Forget
Issue 11
Contributors
Creative Nonfiction
Ghost World 1 – Heritage
Gravestone Rubbings from the City of Light
That
Fiction
Like Hell You’re My Neighbor
Rising and Falling
The Lantern Bridge
Flash
Matinee
On Water
Your Face Will Stay That Way
Notes From the Editors
Poetry
Chiromancy
Crocodile
Four Children, Fifty-Seven Envelopes
Me Too
Montgolfier’s Balloon
My Father Apologizes to my Mother for Last Night
My Father’s Child Watches a Room Burn
Poem for Katie, Queen of Ohio #42
Why You Shouldn’t Declaw Your Cat
Issue 12
All That Glitters
At Fourth and Union
Basement II
Bloom
City of Robins
Counting Cars
I Knew You
Japanese Garden Dawes Arboretum
Johnny Worked the Carnival
Jojo Is Finding His Way
Last Offices
Note from the Editors
Pasture Statues
Post-Scripts I Delete When I Email You to Tell You I Found Your Novelty Nicolas Cage Sock Behind the Dryer
Questions for the Orca J35 Tahlequah
Roads
Someone I Barely Knew Died
The Great Listener
The Sun Birds
To Cheer You Up
Twenty Ways to Make Your Marriage Work
Viola
When the Fathers Were Gone
Issue 13
Lamb Chops
lamictal love song
Mano Po
My Sister Wants To Know
Noelie and Her Beehives
Notes from the Editors
Notes from the Editors
One Painting
o—o—o
Perspectives
Prime Numbers
Shame Catcher
Song for Your Broken Heart
Spring of Cicadas
Sunlit
Telemarketer Loneliness
Tell Your Doctor
The ABCs of Writing Series
The Firewalkers
The Flight Attendants
The Ghost Farmer’s Girl
The Last Leaf at Myrtle Beach
The Moment After the Moment of the Splash
The Ship
The Talk
The Thing With Feelers
The Warmth of her Bread
Theoretical: a bird falls from the nest
Waves
You Can See the Prison from the Community College
Briefs Blog
Special Issue: Spry Lit x The Poetry of Science
Daniel Chonde, Scientist, Beaver
Editor’s Preface
Foreword
Grip
Her Volcano
Looking
Makinde’s Quantum World
Nature
Phylum Cnidaria
Spry Lit x Poetry of Science: Issue Contributors
The Shades of Us
To Be Understood
Truth in Numbers
Under the Eucalyptus Tree
Village-in-a-Dish
X-Ray
Submissions Guidelines
Spry Literary Journal
Poetry