Table of Contents

Poetry

Elizabeth Spires
On Riverside Drive
Pigeon 7 A.M.
Enso
Jeffrey Harrison
The Cellist
How It Worked
Kate Daniels
Support Group
The Addict’s Mother: Birth Story
Driving
At the Meetings They Say, “Detach with Love”
Metaphor-less
The Daughter-in-Law
Chelsea Rathburn
Introduction to Home Economics
Introduction to Vigilance
R. T. Smith
Tube Rose
Adam Vines
The Philosophy of Subtraction
My Father’s Rod: Fishing the Skinny Moon

Fiction

Alissa Nutting
Foreboding
Hugh Sheehy
The Gift
Rolf Yngve
An August Taxi, la Sirena
Christopher Merkner
What They Presumed
Heather Abel
The Most Moved Mover
Tom Jenks
Ephemera

Essays

John Poch
Freight Dreams
Brad Wetherell
Snafu

Interview

Ernest Suarez
An Interview with Kate Daniels

Portfolio

susan harbage page
Pathways into the Borderlands
audrey goodman
Commentary

Special Feature: Hot Rocks #8

Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez
Introduction
Kirk West
Blues Photos
Gregory Fraser
Cut from the Singing Morning
Mike Mattison
Why I Sing the Blues