ISSUE 12, SPRING 2019

 POETRY


COLIN DARDIS
Morning Has Broken Me

WIL GIBSON
Harvest

LAUREN HALDEMAN
Are Floods, Even Room
Fang Song
Whirling Bird

ROMANA IORGA
Alter Ego
This Bruised Shadow of a Promise

SARAH MCCARTT-JACKSON
For My Husband
Hard River
Harvest Crush

SARAH JOHNSON
Epidemiology of Saipan

MOLLY MINTURN
Panorama
Purgatory
The Ghost

JOSH ROLNICK
Ram

BRIAN WEINBERG
Shiva Arcana

STEPHEN SCOTT WHITAKER
Incantation Against Gossip. For Three Voices.

THEODORE WOROZBT
Dead Lift
Resting
Torn Soul Approach

 

 EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRID


AZURE ARTHER
Sediment

LUCI BROWN
Rhonda Recalls the Origin of Death to Snake Baby
Rhonda Recalls the Way the Ground Moves
Snake Baby Has a Whole Mess to Tell Wichita

JENNIFER LEE
Witness

KARINA LUTZ
Missing in Action

LUKE ROLFES
Broken Cross on a Hillside (or Health Risk Assessment)
Showdown

MARVIN SHACKELFORD
Commission
Everyone a Stranger
War Bride

GARRETT DE TEMPLE
Panama City

MATTHEW VOLLMER
Founders

 

 FICTION


REBECCA BIHN-WALLACE
Found

STEPH KARP
The Matchsticks

DAVID OBUCHOWSKI
The Neighborhood, The House

VARLEY O'CONNOR
Photographing the Dead

JESSICA SIMMONS
Untethered

 

 CREATIVE NONFICTION


ERIC FREEZE
The Sharing Economy

DEBRA GROVES HARMAN
Mary and Goldfish

ANDREW HARNISH
But Peace Does Not Destroy Everyone

DEBORAH LUTZ
The Thrifting Sublime

ANNE VALENTE
Turtleshells

 

 THE CALVINO PRIZE WINNER


AMY PARKER
PICA CEREMONY (for feeding hungry ghosts)

 

 MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS


SARAH ANNE STRICKLEY
Miracle Monocle Reviews: A Prefatory Note From the Faculty Editor

QUAID ADAMS
Transgressing the Boundaries of Mind and Form: A Review of Matthew Vollmer’s Permanent Exhibit

ANDREA PIGNATO
Recognizing Distance As Everything In-Between: A Review of Anne Valente’s The Desert Sky Before Us

ADAM YEICH
From Trauma to Starvation: A Review of Varley O’Connor’s The Welsh Fasting Girl

 

 VISUAL ART


ISABELLE BALLARD
Coral Snake
Ophelia: Nothing But Flowers
The Feast of the Assumption at Muna

ARWEN DONAHUE
Bird Woman
Rained Down

HANNAH JEREMIAH
Projected Body Memories

XEK NOIR
Come

NOUEL RIEL (Cover Artist)
Inertia
The Thinnest Portal
Womb of Manifestation
Womb of Nothingness (Cover)