Author: Post Road

CRITICISM:

Literary Godparenting and the Hemingway Bundle: Stein and Hemingway in the Little Review — Justin Reed

FICTION:

Duct Tape — Michael Brelsford
What Ray Had — Robert Chibka
The Professor’s Chair + My Slinky Ex — Jacqueline Doyle
Haunting Those Same Old Place — B. P. Herrington
The Pond — Anthony Inverso
I’m Your Strangler — John William McConnell
The Closer the End — Shelly Oria
Adjust — Glen Pourciau
Lessons from the Masters — JT Price
Witness — Kate Simonian
The Dog — Mahreen Sohail

NONFICTION:

In the Middle of the Middle of Everywhere — Nicholas Patrick Martin
Chances Are — David Raney
Afterbirth — Nicola Waldron
Becoming Invisible — Amelia Zahm

POETRY:

Curator — Amy Lemmon

ART:

Hiro Ichikawa

THEATRE:

The Bakery Off Flatbush — Steve Monroe

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Scream, a Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction, by Tama Janowitz — Jennifer Belle
Magical Realism Story Collections for the Trump Era — Annie Hartnett
How the 1% Stole America: Days of Destruction Days of Revolt, by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco — Pete Hausler
refusing a word: The Work of Carrie Lorig — Roberto Montes
Marie-Louise von Franz — Robin Richardson
Uwe Johnson — Theodore Wheeler

GUEST FOLIO:

Featuring the Winners of Our Flash Fiction Contest, judged by Suzanne Matson and Elizabeth Graver—

First Place Winner: Bishop Street — Sophia Veltfort
Second Place Winner: Lower Houghton, 1977 — Kara Moskowitz
Third Place Winner: The Raspberry King — Suzanne Warren

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Jody Morlock, “Common Descent”

CRITICISM:

An Element of Blank: Figuring Pain in Graphic Narrative — Thomas Dolinger

FICTION:

Dummies — Greg Ames
Hang It On the Limb — Colin Fleming
What Guy Says No? — Jennifer Genest
Mr. Gates Goes To Washington — Stephen Hitchcock
Water, Water Everywhere — Matt Jones
Tell the Children — Rebecca McGill
Libidonomics — Ross McMeekin
Isn’t That Nice — Halley Parry
Herrenvolk — Timothy Scott
Yellow Snow — Tom Treanor
Going Sailing — Jaclyn Van Lieu Vorenkamp

NONFICTION:

James Dean Posters on the Wall — Michael Hess
Remember Us Now, Wandering — Jess E. Jelsma
Suicide and Marrowfat Peas — Jason Stoneking

POETRY:

Gravel Road + The Gymnastics Teacher — Adam J. Gellings
Sacramento + Big Meteor Storm Heading Our Way — Elizabeth Gold
In Elixir + Rewind — Tanya Grae
Honest Mistake + A Short Talk on the Afterlife — Edward Mayes

ART:

Charles McGill
The Elusive Eagle: Charles McGill and the Anti-Trope, by Joe Lewis

THEATRE:

The Bakery Off Flatbush — Steve Monroe

RECOMMENDATIONS:

A Visit to the Antipodes — Carolyn Ferrell
Calamity and Other Stories by Daphne Kalotay — Nicole Haroutunian
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock — Dylan Hicks
J.R. Ackerley’s My Father and Myself — Dave Madden
The Confessions of Noa Weber, by Gail Hareven — Lisa A. Phillips
On Sweet Lamb of Heaven — Jessica Lee Richardson
The Vegetarian by Han Kang — Matthew Salesses
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell — Robert Burke Warren

GUEST FOLIO: Suzanne Matson, Guest Editor

The Size of It + Jehova + Rabbit Hole + Bootstraps + Pebble + Chair — Andrea Cohen
Invitation — Lia Purpura
Eft + February Morning — Jeffrey Harrison
Newly Met — April Ossmann
Camel In The Room — Tara Skurtu
Port of Miami, from the MacArthur — Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Return to Atomic City — Nancy Dickeman
Handyman Imagines The Battle Of Pueblo + Self Portrait Of Handyman Sanding Floors — Juan Morales
from The Pocket Oracle — Sharon Dolin
Iphigenia, Ascending — Bailey Spencer
Clench + Peony — Michele Glazer
Late Summer — Gail Mazur
How To Avoid A Crash — Major Jackson

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Henry Samelson, “Streaming”

CRITICISM:

Lydia Davis’s “Happiest Moment” and the
Convoluted Temporalities of Very Short Fiction — Ezra Dan Feldman

FICTION:

Circumstance — Theodore Dawes
Les Abandonnées — Kirby Gann
The Woman in the Barn — Jaclyn Gilbert
Perishables — Becky Hagenston
Children Left to be Raised by Wolves — Carrie Messenger
Doctor Tukes, Off the Clock | Marie to Eleanor, Resenting Her Elasticness — Andrew Morgan
The Room Where Elizabeth Bishop Slept — Paola Peroni
Bells — Remy Smidt

NONFICTION:

Elegy for a Cousin — Brad Geer
Color Palette Blue #3 — Sarah Kennedy
Lift Off — Lania Knight
Eleanor — Joyce Underwood
Heart Attack — Sarah Vallance

POETRY:

Ode to Trains Departing Billings Railyard | River Country — Jeffrey Alfier
Blessed Holy Fuck — Alan Hanson
Mafiosa | Elegy for the Quiet House — Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Talking Faith with a Friend | Regarding His Alzheimer’s — Jennifer Wheelock

ART:

The Shape of Things: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Bakery Off Flatbush — Steve Monroe

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Ann Patchett — Kim Ablon Whitney
Paul Beatty’s The Sellout — Wendy Rawlings
Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation — Angela Palm
The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake — Jason Ockert
Amo, Amas, Amat and More, by Eugene Erlich, paperback edition, 1987 — Jana Martin
New Dark Ages by Donald Revell — Josh Kalscheur
Kent Haruf’s Plainsong — David Huddle
Woody Guthrie: A Life — Holly George-Warren
The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard — Suzanne Cope
A Town of Accreted Myth”: Lauren Groff’s The Monsters of Templeton — W.B. Belcher
Marly Youmans’s Catherwood — Emily Barton

GUEST FOLIO: Edited by Chris Boucher

Letter to a Young Man in the Ground — Lincoln Michel
Selections from The Week — Joanna Ruocco
The Baby — Ethan Rutherford
Carnality — Angela Woodward

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Rosaire Appel, “bearings”

FICTION:

The Fields — Katrina Carrasco
The Small Perfectly Lidded Copper-Bottomed Cooking Pot — Ruth Danon
Limbs — Jennifer Murvin
To Kneel Somewhere in Iowa — Ryan Parker
The Tapping in 1L — Alicia Schaeffer
The Goldfish — Julia Strayer
Delivery — Olivia Worden

NONFICTION:

Rear View — Rhiannon Catherwood
In the Bed — Elisabeth Dahl
So Big Like That — Glenn Deutsch
Clutter — Caitlin Garvey
The Spring Line — Linda I. Meyers
Muscle Memory — Ellen O’Connell

POETRY:

Riding in the Back + Pin Oak — Beth Gylys
Deafheaven Fried Chicken + Poem for Robert Bly — Matt Hart
God’s Child + Sunday Solstice — Jeffrey Schneider

ART:

Menagerie: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Antique Paradigm — Lindsey Drager
Here (or Having Found Godot) — Kyle York

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov — Gabriel Blackwell
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys — Adrienne Celt
The Tale of Despereaux — Matthew Dicks
The True Thought Seems to Have No Author: On Clarice Lispector — Natalie Eilbert
On Immunity by Eula Biss — Julia Fierro
Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels — Brian Morton
César Aira’s An Episode in the Life of A Landscape Painter — Alena Graedon
Mario Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim — Marianne Leone
Vilém Flusser’s Vampyroteuthis infernalis — Dolan Morgan
Fourth of July Creek — Ivy Pochoda
Eugenia Leigh’s Blood, Sparrows, and Sparrows — Patrick Rosal
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman — Douglas Trevor

GUEST FOLIO: Lad Tobin

The Cheating Gene — Elizabeth Flock
Hunger — Debra Gwartney
A Vine Of Roses — Mimi Schwartz
The Himalayas Are Not Flat — Jennifer Sinor

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Kelsey Stevens, “Norwegian Hitchhiker”— photograph

FICTION:

Seeking Advice and/or Assistance re: Mountain Lions — Matt Tompkins
In Her Place — Maria D’Alessandro
Two Tons Of Manure — Libby Flores
Chameleon — Phil Hearn
Greyhounds — Devin Kelly
A Boyfriend, Obamacare, a Cat — David James Poissant
Accompaniment — Gary Sheppard
Lynx — Alice G. Stinetorf
Student Paper — Justin Taylor
How to Sleep with Lions — Wil Weitzel

NONFICTION:

Notes From a Suicide — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

CRITICISM:

Thinking about Zadie Smith — Ryan McIlvain

POETRY:

Caretakers Blues + Devil’s Bridge — Michelle Holley
Cento + Saudade — Jim Whiteside

ART:

Figure 8 + 8 Various Artists

THEATRE:

Pathfinders: A Play by Ben Merriman

RECOMMENDATIONS:

John Banville’s Eclipse — Howard Axelrod
Dignifying the Slog — Carlene Bauer
Everyone’s Invited: Homicide Survivors Picnic by Lorraine M. López — J.C. Crucet
The Great Shame of Knausgaard’s My Struggle — Katherine Hill
Listen Up: Aurally Spinning through Zadie Smith’s On Beauty — Tim Horvath
Suicide by Edouard Levé — Jac Jemc

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Paul Mariani):

Forsaken and Foregone — Scott Cairns
Evolution — Robert Cording
Aquarium — Sarah Cortez
Here Begins the Prologue to the Life of Blessed Anthony — David Craig
The Diving Platform — Kate Daniels
Eighth Floor — Nadine Ellsworth-Moran
There But Not There — Martín Espada
Apples — William Heyen
The Conversion of the Vikings — Mark Jarman
Humani Generis — Philip Kolin
Sonnet — Marianna Krejci-Papa
Small Losses — Kathleen Markowitz
Location, Location, Location — Richard Michelson
Reading Crusoe on the Metro North — Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Clayfeld’s Vampire Fantasy — Robert Pack

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Eugenia Loli, “High Priestess”— collage

FICTION:

Uprooted — C.C. Robin
Murmurings — Jane Buchbinder
Grandpap’s Burials — Casey Quinn
Pity — Lisa Gornick
Allapattah — Michael Hawley
Mine Dont Never — J S Khan
Chiara — Jonathan Wilson

NONFICTION:

Ma Picks a Priest — Marianne Leone
The Backyard — Nicholas Ward
Goodnight Moon — V. Hansmann
The Pass — John O’Connor
Thin, Brilliant Lines — Patrick Myers

CRITICISM:

Thinking/Cartooning — Zak Breckenridge

POETRY:

The Secret Nancy — Nancy Reddy
Hogwash + Fullboat — Christopher Robinson
Our Town + Sinnerman — Wesley Rothman
Glenn Gould + Meeting Rain, Wutai Mountain — Wang Jiaxin (translated by Diana Shi & George O’Connell)

ART:

NEGATIVE SPACE: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Sluts: A Play — Ben Merriman
Tie a Yellow Ribbon — Atar Hadari

RECOMMENDATIONS:

A Treatise on Shelling Beans, by Wieslaw Mysliwski, Archipelago Books, 2013, translated by Bill Johnston — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Just Kids by Patti Smith — Brian Sousa
All the Rage by A.L. Kennedy — Ethel Rohan
Miranda July’s It Chooses You — Shelly Oria
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus — Cari Luna
Three Lives — Megan Marshall
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks — Katherine Karlin
An Altered Book by Cara Barer — Alexandra Chasin
The White Tide — Steven Church
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — David Samuel Levinson
Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani (Akashic Books) — Laura K. Warrell

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Robert Chibka):

Swapped — Kate McMahon
The Sleeping Kingdom — Caitlin Keefe Moran
The Disappearing Wife — Simon Savelyev
Dandy — Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

ETCETERA:

The Little Things — Will Dowd

CONTRIBUTORS:

COVER ART: Gina Kamentsky, “Saga #2,” 2013 found metal, steel rod, ceramic and plastic figures, 9″ x 16″ x 5″