Our first issue features two poems by pulitzer-prize-winner Franz Wright alongside poetry from Kendra DeColo, Laura Cherry, Chris Hall, Mary Beth O’Connor, and Suzanne Frischkorn. The fictions section includes early excerpts from Kate Racculia’s forthcoming novel Bellweather Rhapsody (2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Christine Gentry’s fictionalized memoir of her father’s life. In Norah Piehl’s “A Whole New Look,” a beautician unfolds the story of her life to a client, and in Cat Ennis Sears’s “Split Spine,” a woman agonizes over her choice to terminate a pregnancy. This issue also features paintings by Sean Flood and photographs by Jarrod McCabe.