Menacing Hedge

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issue 5.01 :: summer 2015

Jay Gershwin
Hemingway Kool-Aid

Kat Giordano
The Elephant in the Room

Connie Guo
The Contemplative Musings of a Goldfish

Brenda Mann Hammack: Six Poems
Little Grace with Killer Doll
Former Dial Painter Testifies Before Illinois Industrial Commission, 1938
Case of the Exquisite Corpse
In Which the Love Lunatic Sits on the Edge
of My Bed and Weeps
Jennet Device, Age 9, Afflickted by Wrothful Familiars after Giving Evidence in the Trialls of Her Mother, Her Brother, and Her Sister
In Which the Cunning-Woman Says a Charme against Morning

Jennifer Hanks: Six Poems
Corpse Poetica
What Home Was
Becoming
Diamond Dogs
Small Enough
Bone Heel Sermon 1

Lissa Kiernan: Four Poems
The Family Farm
When It Happened
Icarus Blues
Facebook Status Update #23

Andrew Koch: Five Poems
Headwaters
Year of the Easter Egg
Alphabet Game
Year of the Flood
Vexillology

Kathleen Brewin Lewis: Three Poems
Make Believe
Narrow Escape
Firefall

Amy Elisabeth Smith: Four Poems
I Am a Thorn In the Gorse
Sangamon County
She Is Born Above His Cheekbone
North Pond, Maine

Emily Stoddard: Six Poems
Revisionist History
Ricochet
Preservation Principles
Descent into Restlessness
The First Law of Motion
Knowing is a Wildfire

FEATURED ARTIST: MANDEM
An Interview with MANDEM

INTERVIEW: Jane Huffman
An Interview with Darren C. Demaree about his book, "The Pony Governor"

Deborah Bacharach: Five Poems
Given a Choice
A Word for It
Hagar Despised Sarai
Hagar's Banishment
What Hagar Said That We Have All Said

Krista Cox: Six Poems
Repetitive Motion Injuries
Rape Poem #3
The Persistent Appeal of Synchronized Drowning
The Secret Life of a Secret Collector
Explanations for Silence
Butcher's Goodbye

Timothy Day
The Sunniest Spot on all of Earth

Amber Edmondson: Six Poems
The Infinite Hours
Things They Don't Tell You about Snakes
Palms Against
He Suggests Ritual Sacrifice to Appease the Gods in Which, He Believes, the Mayans Believed
Adaptation
The Historian's Apprentice Shares a Secret

Alicia Elkort: Four Poems
You Must Not Disappear
A Hanging
Mermaid
Red

Ruth Foley: Four Poems
Homecoming
Arethusa
Confession
Echo

Fox Frazier-Foley: Six Poems
Erzsébet Báthory Learns Her Aristocratic Family's Concepts of Justice…
Erzsébet Báthory Is Impregnated by Her Peasant Lover…
Erzsébet Báthory Inflicts Increasingly Harsh Physical Punishments…
Erzsébet Báthory Writes, "You Will Find a Man in Me," to Her Aggressors…
Erzsébet Báthory, Barred from Attending Her Own Trial, Is Convicted…
Erzsébet Báthory, Blood Countess, Is Said to Sometimes Visit…

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