Issue Five

SPRING 2023

Kathleen Driskell

Editor's Note

Prose

DeMisty Bellinger

Tony Crunk

Donald Quist

two stories

Lalita Rattapong’s New Microwave

Lyric

Simon Perchik

In the silence above your grave a butterfly

Jen Soong

Jonathan Weinert

Lucky

three poems

Beth Williams

Cherry Picking

John Brooks

Willie Carver

Robert Fanning

Stacie Leatherman

Nathan Lipps

Lakehouse

Waiting for God

jarðskjálfti // earthquake

two poems

Phenomenological Summertime Cocktail

Book Reviews

Debra Kang Dean

The World That the Shooter Left Us by Cyrus Cassells

K.L. Going

The Heart of the Matter: Three Capsule Reviews

Lynette Lamp

The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar by Emily Schulten

Jimmy Long

Back to the Light by George Ella Lyon

Masthead

Kathleen Driskell

Ellyn Lichvar

Lynnell Edwards

Katy Yocom

Editor in Chief

Managing Editor

Associate Editor/Book Review Editor

Associate Editor

Laura Johnsrude

McKenna Horsley

Josh Keim

Tyrel Kessinger

Sarah Ladd

Lauren Mulvihill

Kelsey Thomas

Melanie Weldon-Soiset

Assistant Book Review Editor

Student Editor

Issue Five

SPRING 2023

Kathleen Driskell

Editor's Note

Prose

DeMisty Bellinger

Tony Crunk

Donald Quist

two stories

Lalita Rattapong’s New Microwave

Lyric

Simon Perchik

In the silence above your grave a butterfly

Jen Soong

Jonathan Weinert

Lucky

three poems

Beth Williams

Cherry Picking

John Brooks

Lakehouse

Willie Carver

Robert Fanning

Stacie Leatherman

Nathan Lipps

jarðskjálfti // earthquake

Phenomenological Summertime Cocktail

Debra Kang Dean

The World That the Shooter Left Us by Cyrus Cassells

K.L. Going

The Heart of the Matter: Three Capsule Reviews

Lynette Lamp

The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar by Emily Schulten

Jimmy Long

Back to the Light by George Ella Lyon

Kathleen Driskell

Ellyn Lichvar

Lynnell Edwards

Editor in Chief

Managing Editor

Associate Editor/Book Review Editor

Katy Yocom

Laura Johnsrude

McKenna Horsley

Josh Keim

Tyrel Kessinger

Sarah Ladd

Lauren Mulvihill

Kelsey Thomas

Melanie Weldon-Soiset

Assistant Book Review Editor

Student Editor

Issue Six

FALL 2023

Kathleen Driskell

Editor’s Note: Words about Issue 6, Good River Review, and the Shuttering of The Gettysburg Review

Prose

Michelle Barger

A Summer Snow

Laura Jeannerette

Kedrick Nettleton

S. Evan Stubblefield

Mika Yamamoto

The Wolf at My Door

Let Me Take Him

Uncle Bridge

End-of-Year Teacher Survey for Sunshine Academy

Lyric

Nadia Colburn

Rachel Custer

Liz Femi

Invocation / On the Shortest Day of the Year

Shade

the world is a stool on my head but by all means take a seat

Evelyn Gill

Begin Again

Ken Holland

Fortune Favors the Forgetful / Sifting

James Miller

Chilean Seizure

Richard Newman

Valley of Unending Sunset / Trois chansons

Eric Pankey

The Boredom that Precedes the Rapture / Variation on a Theme By Francis Ponge

Brynn Saito

Dakota Smith

You Don't Believe

DreamThread No. 3

Lynne Thompson

Nancy Woo

This has nothing to do with a plague

And then suddenly I was

Drama

F. J. Hartland

Geronimo

Book Reviews

Katie Massa Kennedy

What Small Sound by Francesca Bell

Robin Lippincott

Blue in Green by Wesley Brown

Melanie Weldon-Soiset

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

Interview

Portia Pennington

A Rare Collaboration: The Multifaceted Work of Playwright Dan O’Brien

Kathleen Driskell

A Conversation with Picture Book Writer Tiffany Golden

The Practice of Writing

Dianne H. Timmering

A Trip to the Abbey

Masthead

Kathleen Driskell

Ellyn Lichvar

Lynnell Edwards

Katy Yocom

Laura Johnsrude

Editor in Chief

Managing Editor

Associate Editor/Book Review Editor

Associate Editor

Assistant Book Review Editor

Student Editors

Alicia Clinton

Kelsey Thomas

Shannon Thompson

Shea Tuttle

Melanie Weldon-Soiset

Contributing Editors

Verna Austen

Kelly Cass Falzone

Janelle Fila

Troy Jewell

Veronica Mattaboni

Judy Matthews

Quincy Gray McMichael

Heidi Taylor

Cristina Trapani-Scott

Elizabeth Wilks