issue twelve
summer 2025
in memoriam
Julia Kersey
1960—2025
Poetry
Soon, Softer and Warm
by Marianna Gibson
Ars Poetica
by Megan Nichols
After a Poetry Reading at Tift County Library
by Jeff Newberry
Almost Now
by Patrick Holian
psalm from a gulf coast garden
by Elisheva Fox
Black Bird
by Anne Myles
What Happens All the Time
by Marianna Gibson
Owl Splinters
by Tyler Jagt
I Bless the Dog When He Sneezes
by Lisa Zerkle
Between
by Sean Sexton
Dreams
by Azul
My Friend is Dying
by Christa Fairbrother
The Last Time I Tried to Love a Man
by Emma Bolden
On Finally Understanding That Fossils Are Not Bones
by Pamela Manasco
Don’t Empty Houses Ring?
by Claire Nelson
The Last Human Artist
by Tyler Jagt
The Saint of Unknown Birds
by Pamela Manasco
Fiction
They Think in Circles
by B.C. Brock
Sunshower
by William Hawkins
The Rain Knew
by B.C. Brock
Dead Daddies
by Nicole Brogdon
Crown Shyness
by Chelsea Stickle
A Test of Our Bodies for the Resurrection
by Matthew Hand
Rocks
by Gaby Kiser
Where the Work Gets Done
by Matthew Hand
About the Photographer
For seventy-five years, Malcolm Glass has been publishing writing in all genres. His work appears in fifteen books, including his recent collection of poems, Mirrors, Myths, and Dreams from Finishing Line Press and in magazines such as The Sewanee Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Appalachian Journal, and many others. He has given readings and workshops at Appalachian Writers, the University of Michigan and dozens of other colleges and conferences. Glass lives in Tennessee where he taught creative writing at Austin Peay State University.