Kaitlyn McConnell is the founder of Ozarks Alive, a cultural preservation project that documents regional people, places and history. Since 2015, she has penned and published hundreds of articles to preserve the region’s story for future generations. These efforts take her down many rural roads, including where she saw this barn in southwest Missouri.
Adam Brooke Davis: Preface to Volume XXXVI: The Farewell Issue
Poetry
Claire Benevento, “What I Imagine Creation Was Like,” “Outside the Garden”
Jason Hochman, “Renewed”
Cecil Morris, “An Inconvenient Truth Realized,” “Great Blue Heron as Metaphor for Love”
Richard Dinges, “Happiness”
Cathy Porter, “An Observation,” “Roses”
Florence Weinberger, “My House is Quiet”
D.S. Maolalai “Somebody Moving”
Yuan Changming, “Skylight on a Summer Night”
Max Gutmann, “At Lake Balaton”
Joanne Holdridge, “Mostly Cloudy, Little Chance of Sun”
Brian J. Noggle, “Springtime Catches me by Surprise,” “I Want to Leave Before the Party Ends”
Robert Peters, “Bugs” (.pdf)
Joey Nicoletti, “Leaving the Thompson Family Farm”
James Tilley, “My Grasshopper Learned Calculus,” “Down Here on Earth”
Lukas Quinn, “Practicing for a Party”
Larry D. Thomas, “Monsoon”
Elaine Terranova, “Lily,” “Not Dying”
Mark Belair, “Three Tractors”
T.N. Turner, “Snow Melts Like Everything Else”
Jay Adams, “The Church of Natural Phenomena,” “Smart, the Way Carrion Eaters Have to Be”
Fiction
Evelyn Somers, “The House on Pink Elephant Road” (novella)
Jack Smith, “Leaving”
Amita Basu, “Shrimps and Gunpowder”
Theo Czajkowski, “Puebla”
Savannah Kluesner, “4:30 Wednesdays”
Michael James Tapscott, “Rotavi Marina”
Thomas Gartner, “Kingdom”
Michael L. Woodruff, “Threshold”
Vanessa Blakeslee, “Winterland” (a novel excerpt)
Mika Yamamoto, “Panda”
Joe Baumann, “A Network of Abandonments”
David P. Langlinais, “A Hopeless Devotion”
R.M. Kinder, “His Mother”
Gary Fincke, “The When of It”
Kelli Dianne Rule, “Ma’donna”
Tung-Wei Ko, “All the Marbles”
Amita Basu, “Shrimps and Gunpowder”
Yichun Jiang, Nikita Yu: A Fiction
Margaret Hermes, “Lori’s Garden”
R. Peters, “Phoradendron Leucaroum Bratus,” or, “The White Viscum Album” (.pdf)
Reviews and Nonfiction
Jack Smith, review of Peter Selgin’s A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space
P. J. Nutting, “The Hobos of Old Quarter”
Dennis Finnell, “Visiting Uncle Orie”
Lee Hester, “Undercover Choctaw”