#28 Fall/Winter 2021

Poetry by…… Alessio Zanelli, Alex Andy Phuong, Alexis Child, Bob Eager, Brian Rihlmann, Charles Byrne, Chella Courington, Chris Blake, Daniel de Culla, David Sapp, Diane Sahms,  Don Clark, Ed Ahem, Fabrice Poussin, Holly Day, James B. Nicola, James G. Piatt, James Mulher,Josephine Batz, Joseph Kerschbaum, Kara Goughnour, Marc Carver, Melissa DeAmaral, Milenko Županović, Otto Burnwell, Robert Beveridge, Robert Ronnow, Roger D. Anderson, Ruby Nambo, Sandro D. Fossemò, Victoria Hunter, W Roger Carlisle, Yash Seyedbagheri, Yuan Hongri Sonnets by……Blake Offret Fiction by……Robb T. White, Arthur Shattuck O’Keefe, Heather Santo, Jeremiah Kleckner, Lamont A. Turner, Michael Neis, Marlon Jackson, Eric Burbridge, J.R. Pfeiffer, Eva Schultz, Eve Marie Dobbins, Michelle Ann King, Doug Hawley, Flash Fiction by……Sandro D. Fossemò, Colin Lubner, Jan Darrow, Zach Murphy, Artwork by…… Daniel de Culla, Debbie Berk, Loretta Grimaldi Photography by…… Loretta Grimaldi

Cover photo by Jude Dillon

Features

Poems

[i can’t remember if this happened in summer] by Josephine Bätz
[we went backpacking to the
outer rim once] by Josephine Bätz
The Crosswalk by James Mulhern
The Deer by Chris Blake
Thing Song by Ed Ahem

Fiction

THE OPEN ROAD by Eva Schultz

Flash Fiction

Night of the Forest by Jan Darrow

Contributors

Alessio Zanelli  ~ Poetry
Alexis Child  ~ Poetry
Arthur Shattuck O’Keefe ~ Fiction
Chella Courington ~ Poetry

Daniel de Culla ~ Poetry/Art
Dough Hawley ~ Fiction
James G. Piatt ~ Poetry
Jeremiah Kleckner ~ Fiction
Kara Goughnour ~ Poetry
Milenko Županović ~ Poetry
Ruby Nambo ~ Poetry
Yuan Hongri ~ Poetry


The Stray Branch

Fall/Winter 2021

#28 Vol 25

ISBN: 9798492909451

Cover Photo by Jude Dillon

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