Marc Harshman: Holding On; Seascape in Kansas

The thundering season, Dear Reader, passes toward and through us even now, and so then here: Marc Harshman’s two sun-burned prose poems “Holding On” and “Seascape in Kansas.”

These poems originally appeared inĀ SC 5.1. Get yours here, download the issue, and of course subscribe, subscribe, subscribe for more in your mail-/in-box. Read on!

Storm Cellar #5.2 OUT NOW

We’re delighted to announce Storm Cellar Vol. V No. 2, Fall 2016, “TheĀ Wick Offers the Wax.” Check it in: print &Ā ebook.

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Contents

FICTION
Ethan Forrest Ross – Scabs
Michelle Ross – Winkelsucher
J. E. Reich – Old CountryĀ 
Jeff Ewing – Riverside
Curtis VanDonkelaar – Larry and Charlene in Three ActsĀ 

FLASH
Jefferson Navicky – El Beardo
Brenna Womer – Two Week Guarantee
Ann Stewart McBee – Not Even Max
Max Delsohn – The AimĀ 

NONFICTION
Ana Arredondo – Wild Silent Drums
Matt Muilenburg – The Leadoff Men
Laura Bernstein-Machlay – VesselsĀ 

POETRY
Lori Lamothe – Mind Fishing
Rebecca O’Bern – Little Lamb
Ari Wolff – Any Object Can Become Memorabilia
Jaime Garcia – Rubidoux
Melissa Atkinson Mercer – Please say something different
Erica Wright – American Burial Rites; American New Year
Sara Ryan – Wooly Bones
Jesse De Angelis – Poem for Earth
John Sibley Williams – As Spectator to Unenduring Things
Sarah Ann Winn – Introducing the Midwest AmazonĀ 

IMAGES
Amy Kotthaus – Window; Above
Adam J. Gellings – Museum Maps
Christine Stoddard – Bayou Gator 8; I Dream of Elephants
David Todd McCarty – Rodeo Chico
Olivia Inwood – Spatial Transformation #8
Nicole Edine – To Life
Kristi Kohut – Velvet Agate
Jes Trejo – Shoot the Freak
W. Jack Savage – Collecting
Harry Wilson – Ileene’s Dance to the Old Year #3
Cover by Brian Michael Barbeito – A view of the fairgrounds in muted color Ā 

PLUS
Rejected Atlantic Crossings

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Alan Jernigan: two poems

June, we say June, darling Reader, and it’s nice to pack the ice cream stand and the park with our most pro forma clothes and our sheens of exquisition. Or are we air conditioning types? (Do tell.) Today we’re delighted to share two poems by Alan Jernigan: “Sadness Morphs into Luck” and “Kind of Saved Again.”

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These poems originally appeared inĀ SC 5.1. Print issue here, ebook edition here, and as alwayas, the subscribers are a special club. Want to share? Submit. And: read on!

Douglas Luman: A Brief History of Arson

The month of drawing-the-knife is well half over, yeah? Oh Reader, we want to tell you about this Spring we’ve kindled. (Soon.) Today’s vernal equinoxĀ gift is Douglas Luman‘s brillo “A Brief History of Arson“:

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This poem first appeared inĀ SC 4.2. Get hotted up with us — subscribe — buy print — download — read on!

Pushcart Nominees 2015

Dear Readers, about this time each year the Pushcart nomination season offers an opportunity to honor a few of our authors. These choices are tough, as we love all the work we publish, and everyone on the team helped out. For the Pushcart Prizes XLI we nominate:

Check out issues 4.3 and 4.2, and get your copies here. We’d be falling down on the job if we didn’t mention you can subscribe (& order gift subscriptions) thisaway. Also and too, share your work. Read on!