Issue 5

Poetry by Melissa Broder, Natalia Ortegon Trevino, Stuart Dischell, Neil de la Flor, Rose Auslander, Karla Linn Merrifield, and Whitney Mackman. Nonfiction by Dinty Moore, Rebecca Cook, and Jan Becker. Fiction by Debra Dean, Jane Deon, Hector Duarte Jr., Jessica Barksdale, Zacharia Arthur Rupp, Katrina Johnston, and Courtney McDermott. Interviews with Melissa Broder, Natalia Ortegon Trevino, Dinty Moore, Debra Dean, and Joe Clifford. Visual Arts by Alex Dukal, Terry Wright, Fabio Sassi, Sheri Wright, and Ira Joel Haber.

FEATURED AUTHORS

• Melissa Broder
• Dinty Moore
• Debra Dean

NONFICTION

• Of Idle People who Rove About, by Dinty Moore
• Romance, by Rebecca Cook
• Life in the Shade of Modern Babel, by Jan Becker

POETRY

• MEAT HEART (Selected poems), by Melissa Broder
• Threnody, by Stuart Dischell
• Beneath the Blast, by Stuart Dischell
• Burning Up, by Neil de la Flor
• The (        ) of Purity, by Neil de la Flor
• Hi, Little Prince, by Rose Auslander
• Threading Desire, by Karla Linn Merrifield
• The Gyre Up Close and In the Kitchen, by Natalia Ortegon Trevino
• Second Marriage, Stew, by Natalia Ortegon Trevino
• After the Melanoma, by Natalia Ortegon Trevino
• Chippendales, by Whitney Mackman

FICTION

• Excerpt from The Mirrored World, by Debra Dean
• The Weight of What’s Left, by Jane Deon
• Extracurricular, by Hector Duarte Jr.
• Bus Driver, by Jessica Barksdale
• Squatting, by Zacharia Arthur Rupp
• Lost Treasure, by Katrina Johnston
• The Secret of Mothers and Daughters, by Courtney McDermott

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS

• Dinty Moore: A Most Mindful Writer
• Joe Clifford: On ebooks, blogging, self-promotion, and rehab
• Debra Dean: The Mirrored World
• Melissa Broder Might Be a Cowgirl, Might Be a Crone
• Natalia Ortegon Trevino: On Being a Poet

VISUAL ART

• Alex Dukal: Regreso a Casa
• Terry Wright: Digital Art
• Fabio Sassi: Circles
• Sheri Wright: Photographs
• Ira Joel Haber: Sunday Collage

El Sastrecillo Valiente, by Alex Dukal