Editor & Fiction Editor – Michael Mejia
Poetry Editors – Katharine Coles, Craig Dworkin, Thomas Stillinger
Nonfiction Editors – Stuart Culver, Jeremy Rosen
Managing Editor – Vanessa Shannon
Consulting Editors – Barry Weller, Mindy Wilson
Print Design – Hailey Rabdau
Web Design – Adam Halstrom
Reviews Editors – Lauren Lipski, Michelle Macfarlane, Alyssa Quinn
Editorial Board – Scott Black, Vincent Cheng, Norman Council, Karen Lawrence, Michael Martone, Stephen Tatum
Cover Image – Grandeur to Olympus No. 872, 2021, 16×20 inches. Archival pigment print. With permission of the artist, ©Edward Bateman. Courtesy of Phillips Gallery.
Spring 2021 | Volume 75.1
Chris Holdaway
Love in the Time of Time
Kimberly Johnson
Fall
Janne Underrinner
Building a Moral Community
Lesley Wheeler
Three Poems
Aristotle Johns
There’s This Spider | Mountain West Writers’ Contest Poetry Winner
Nicolas Reiner
Two Poems
Afton Montgomery
Performing Completeness During Vivisection | Mountain West Writers’ Contest Prose Winner
A. Prevett
Hum, Intimate Whorl
Hum, Intimate Whorl
Phoebe Reeves
Two Poems
Two Poems
Kabel Mishka Ligot
Two Poems
Two Poems
Ellen Suesy
Claro | Mountain West Writers’ Contest Poetry Runner Up
Claro | Mountain West Writers’ Contest Poetry Runner Up
Shane Crosby
The Battle of Ezra Church
The Battle of Ezra Church
Diane Hueter
Three Poems
Three Poems
William Virgil Davis
Three Poems
Three Poems
Merridawn Duckler
Two Poems
Two Poems
Josh Russell
Four Essays
Four Essays
Mark McKain
Swans
Swans
Peter Cooley
Just One of the Afterdeaths
Just One of the Afterdeaths
M.L. Williams
Two Poems
Two Poems
Edward Bateman
Art Feature: At Home in the West
Art Feature: At Home in the West
Elena Karina Byrne
Two Poems
Two Poems
Jeffrey Levine
Two Poems
Two Poems
Stacy Allana Clark
To Be Clean | Mountain West Writers’ Contest Prose Runner Up
To Be Clean | Mountain West Writers’ Contest Prose Runner Up
Jane Zwart
The Art of the Next Life
The Art of the Next Life
Danielle Susi
In Which I Acquiesce (Washington, DC, 2012) | Mountain West Writers’ Contest Poetry Runner Up
In Which I Acquiesce (Washington, DC, 2012) | Mountain West Writers’ Contest Poetry Runner Up
Terri Witek
Three Poems
Three Poems
Hari B. Khalsa
Two Poems
Two Poems
Matthew Kelsey
from Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman
from Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman
Nicholas Samaras
I Once Went Back to Requa
I Once Went Back to Requa
Lauren Hohle
Neighbors
Neighbors
Miranda Mellis
from Two Problems in Three Parts
from Two Problems in Three Parts
Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Don’t Feed the Coyotes
Don’t Feed the Coyotes
Leslie Wheeler
Two Poems
Two Poems
Kirstin Allio
Passage
Passage
Sasha Stiles
True Story
True Story