Due to a heavy backlog submissions are currently closed until October 2012. Please do not submit work
at this time. Thank you. Next issue, Spring/Summer 2012 available in March.
Featured poet Jason L. Huskey, from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue
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Featured poet Scott T. Swartz, from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue
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Art published by The Stray Branch.
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Pictured here is "Solange" by Rex Sexton
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Photo pictured here by Rick Hartwell
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Contributors for the Spring/Summer 2011 Issue
Poetry
Karen Kelsay
Annie WillowRaven
David Young
Phil Lane
W.F. Lantry
April Michelle Bratten
Carol Chaput
Roger Singer
Mike Berger
Bryn Clark
Melody Feldman
Caitlin Colford
Sandy Benitez
Howie Good
Robert Wooten
Bill Roberts
Mather Schneider
Shannon Marie Kortbek
Glenn Lyvers
John Grey
James Dye
Laura Spencer
Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Ariel Chance
Matthew Dexter
Irena Pasvinter
Susan Gray
Chloe Viner
Karen Douglass
Brock Marie Moore
Mark Lyvers
Jeffrey C. Alfier
Tobi Cogswell
Serena M. Tome
Peggy Carter
David Lawrence
Ash Krafton
Andrew Gordon Rogers
Paul Gallagher
Cathy Porter
Jude Dillon
Fiction
Faith Sheffield
Chloe Zola
Michelle Reale
Kathryn Lee
Bryn Clark
Flash Fiction
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Artwork
Tray Drumhann
Amber Berk
Debbie Berk
Photography
Caitlin Colford
Nikoo Tarkhani
Debbie Berk
Cover art
"Identity Crisis" by
Tray Drumhann
Contributors
Poems
"Dog Years" by Adam Gianforcaro
"Of Her Hair" by Joseph M. Gant
"Day Unites the Self" by Carl Scharwath
"Departure for D.D." by Allison Meraz
Fiction/Flash
"Hamilton's Heart" by Anita Stewart (Fiction)
"Things Don't Change" by Daniel Gallik (Flash)