Travel Genre, an Essay
by Jim Ross
Guest Editor Spotlight
Pale Blue Dot
by Ruth Foley
Art, Poetry, & Literature
Bike Nation
by Dragos Ioneanu
Ankara
by David Russomano
Lunar
by Winston Plowes
The Prairie Demons
by Stephenson Muret
Twenty-seven, Twenty-four
by Maureen Alsop
From Visiting Day on the Psychiatric Ward
by Alan Catlin
This is Traverse City
by Becca Hawk
Cedar Key
by Peter Hurtgen Jr.
Safari through Southern California
by Vakseen
Salkantay
by Claire Ibarra
Waltz of the Romanovs
by Sophie Jupillat
Beggars
by Kenneth Robbins
Olive Wood
by Linda Caldwell Lee
A Place to Call Home
by Derold Sligh
Cover Artist: Travelogue
by Marenne Hoeksema
Interview
Kevin Rodriguez of Bop Dead City
Book Reviews
About Our Guest Editor
Originally from Marrero, Louisiana, April Michelle Bratten has a BA in English from Minot State University in North Dakota, where she currently resides.
The daughter of an USAF active duty father, April grew up traveling and living across the United States and abroad. Her travels have greatly influenced her writing over the years, particularly her three year stay in Incirlik, Turkey. April adores the quiet beauty of the upper-midwest prairies, but she feels the most at home in the American deep south.
Her publications include decomP, Thrush Poetry Journal, Southeast Review, Stirring, Sheepshead Review, and Punchnel’s, among others. She is the Supreme Empress of Up the Staircase Quarterly and a contributing editor at Words Dance Publishing.
April’s next chapbook, Anne with an E, is forthcoming from dancing girl press in 2015. Her other chapbooks include Raw Dogs and Other Metaphors (Maverick Duck Press, 2012) and Drink This (Citizens for Decent Literature Press, 2012.) Her first full length poetry collection, It Broke Anyway, is available now from NeoPoiesis Press.
