Spring 2016 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •Dedication

• •An Editor and a Poet

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

• •Approaching Limits at Carolina Beach

  Jason Bradford

Out of Place

• •Losing the House

  David Gessner

Fiction

• Apology

  Brad Watson

• Dear Clarice

  Adrienne Celt

• We Are Not Alone!

  Reg Saner

• The Mad King

  Daniel A. Hoyt

• What We Fed to the Manticore

  Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

Nonfiction

• The Journey Home

  Shuchi Saraswat

• In the Peanut Hospital

  Belle Boggs

• Dispatches from Anywhere but Here

  Angela Palm

• Death Next Door

  Cary Holladay

• •Going Downhill From Here

  Laurie Clements Lambeth

• Introduction to “Becoming Earth”

  David Gessner

• Becoming Earth

  Eva Saulitis

Poetry

• What They Told Me

  Maryann Corbett

• After Yet Another Man Tells Me “I Don’t Want to Hurt You”

  Anne Barngrover

• Another White Christmas in Virginia

  Safiya Sinclair

• The Mountaineer’s Daughter

  Sarah Giragosian

• The Second Moon Colony Will Not Fail,

  Sarah Giragosian

• Mother Love, a Blues

  Shara McCallum

• You

  Shara McCallum

• Desideratum

  Adam Tavel

• Obsession #248: Moths

  Jennifer Clark

• Hereafter

  Rose McLarney

• While You Are Shaving, It Rains

  Leila Chatti

• Upon Realizing There Are Ghosts in the Water

  Leila Chatti

• Lost One, Kept One

  Sally Ball

• The Woman in Our House

  Zeina Hashem Beck

• Asmahan

  Zeina Hashem Beck

• Listen

  Zeina Hashem Beck

• •Violet

  Lucien Darjeun Meadows

• Homosexuality

  Lucien Darjeun Meadows

• •When World is Whale

  Gillian Cummings

Reclamation

• The Lives of Babes

  Tayari Jones

• Melvin in the Sixth Grade

  Dana Johnson

Map

• from Ford Over

  John Pluecker

Poem in a Landscape

• A Poem Is Its Own Animal

  Eric Magrane

The Strip

• from Conversation 1

  Tommi Parrish

Back Matter

• •Notes and Recent Awards

• •Credits