He says, “She spoke at Chautauquas while her stepchildren sang and danced. She was married to William Albert Wiseman, your great-great-great-grandfather. The one who founded the Methodist Church on Crocker by Woodland Cemetery. You know where that is, Laura.” Read the full Guest Editor’s Letter.
Guest Editor’s Spotlight: The Hired Man by KateLynn Hibbard
Joshua Trees by Susana H. Case
Jazz Fusion Bolero by Sophie Jupillat
Remembering Hugo by Deanna Northrup
Carolina Wren by Joshua Allen Aiken
Freud Looks At a Picture of His Mother by July Westhale
(Re)Dreaming by Iryna Lialko
My Standardized Home by Terry Barr
The Lunatic Ball & Other Poems by Margo Taft Stever
Laura Madeline Wiseman Interviews Margo Taft Stever
Shards by Laura Yevchak
The Dinner by Ron Burch
Scheherazade by James Gallant
Bathing Caps Required by Timothy Gerken
Rachel Nix Interviews Kelly Boyker of Menacing Hedge
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of twenty books and chapbooks and the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. Her collaborative book Intimates and Fools is an Honor Book for the 2015 Nebraska Book Award. Her book Queen of the Platform explores the life of the suffragist, lecturer, and poet Matilda Fletcher Wiseman. Her critical reviews have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Calyx, and The Iowa Review. She teaches poetry in the Writing for the Schools Program and in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Sam Slaughter is a writer based in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his BA from Elon University and his MA from Stetson University. He is currently at work on his MFA at the University of South Carolina. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of places, including Midwestern Gothic, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Heavy Feather Review. He was awarded the 2014 Best of There Will Be Words and his debut chapbook When You Cross That Line was published in May 2015. His debut short story collection God in Neon will be published by Lucky Bastard Press in late 2015 and his debut novel, Dogs, will be published in 2016 by Double Life Press. He loves playing with puppies and a good glass of bourbon.
