Christopher Woods  

The Way There / 1 

Carnival Bargaining / 33 

Claire Donhue Roof 

Water, Rock, Wind / 2 

Amelia Earhart's Plane Disappears / 3 

Lindsey Bartlett 

Vacant Childhood / 5 

Kate Sweeney  

The Map Room Bar (Bucktown, Chicago) / 6 

Lynn Lifshin  

The Night Robert Frost Died / 7 

Robert Fillman  

The Frame Maker’s Hands / 9 

Bibhu Padhi  

Once Again, Father / 10 

Quinn Carver Johnson  

Obituary for Icarus / 12 

Things About the Things We Lose / 13 

Ralvell Rogers II  

Their Last Deed / 16 

Kerrigan Chapman 

Reconstruction / 18 

Bill Oliver  

New Frontier / 20 

Dick Bentley 

At the Dog Show / 34 

Gary Lechliter 

The Gun in Dorothy’s Hand / 35 

Luke Rolfes  

Bubbleheads / 36 

William R. Miller  

Booth’s Teeth / 38 

David Rogers  

Possible First Lines of a Novel / 40 

Stone / 41 

Anne Graue 

Somewhere in Kansas / 42 

Janet Shell Anderson  

See the Thorn Twist in your Side / 43 

M. Nassori Pavone  

Couplet / 46 

Janice Northerns 

Anniversary / 47 

Special Section: POET LAUREATES OF KANSAS: A CELEBRATION:

Jonathan Holden  

Morgan’s Barbershop / 53 

Denise Low 

Cedar Woods Cemetery / 55 

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg  

When the Sun is Closest to the Earth / 56 

You Are Never Alone / 57 

Wyatt Townley 

Walking Contradiction / 58 

Closing Night / 59 

Eric McHenry 

Writing Numbers / 60 

Horoscope /61 

Kevin Rabas  

I Used to Gig Here, Live Here / 62

Living Room / 63

Huascar Medina

Remorse / 64

Where the Songbirds go at 3 am / 65

When is Mango Season in Puerto Rico *A Trip Advisor Question from Jack / 67

Kami Olson 

Rest / 68

Accord / 69

Jason Ryberg 

It’s Funny, the Thing You Think About, When a cop Puts a Gun to Your Head / 70 

Until Further Notice / 72 

David Starkey  

Remembering Mt. Rainer Drive / 73

Nicholas LaRocca 

Longboys / 74 

Christopher L. Michael 

PS: The Hometown Hero Grew up to Murder Children / 86

William Rudolph 

To be Locked Out is to be Let In / 88

Paul Garson 

The Blind Beast / 90

John Sibley Williams 

At the Bottom of all Rivers / 95

Symptoms of Manhood / 96

William Doreski 

The Failure of the Aral Sea / 97 

Dené Dryden 

Atomic Reconstruction of a Garden / 99 

Cameron Morse 

Looking at the Courtyard / 101 

Morgan O.H. McCune 

Inland / 103

LeighAnna Schesser 

Kansas in July is a State of Mind / 104 

Roy Beckemeyer 

Rainstorm Reminiscence / 106 

Winter Moon / 107 

We Citizens / 108 

Laura Washburn 

Tropes Long Since Gone / 109

Lindsey Martin-Bowen

REVIEW: Denise Low's Shadow Light / 113

Linzi Garcia

REVIEW: Wyatt Townley's Rewriting the Body / 118