Readers can now open up our new issue and enjoy the art of Billy Renkl, as well as a whole book’s worth of good writing:
*Poems by Linda Pastan, Robert Wrigley, Lisa Russ Spaar, Margaret Gibson, David Huddle, Andrea Null
* the nine finalists for the 2012 Bevel Summers Prize in the Short Short Story, including the winning story “The Pointer” by Jim McDermott
* short stories on dealing with loss by Gilbert Allen, Marc Dickinson and others
*non-fiction, including a reminiscence of Bible camp by Jeanne Murray Walker and an essay on poet’s notebooks by David Wojahn
* a whimsical editor’s note about buckeyes, literal and metaphorical
In addition see our features, Poem of the Week and rotating quotations from the high and the low.