Volume 28, Issue 1
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Featuring work byPOETRY Heather Altfeld • David Baker • Bruce Bond • Christopher Buckley • Robert Campbell • John Hart • Whittney Jones • Elizabeth McLagan • Jill Osier • Karen Skolfield • Erin Elizabeth Smith FICTION L.M. Asta • Ron Darian • C.R. Resetarits NONFICTION John Domini • Mariflo Stephens • Gail D. Storey • Julie Marie Wade TRANSLATIONS Patrick Donnelly • Stephen D. Miller GRAPHIC ESSAY Katie Schmitt INTERVIEWS David Baker • Gail D. Storey BOOK REVIEWS Oz by Nancy Eimers, Reviewed by Robert Campbell • The Wishing Tomb by Amanda Auchter, Reviewed by Tyler N. Moore • In the White Room by Elizabeth McLagan, Reviewed by Shannon K. Winston ART Jennifer Utterback • Aron Wiesenfeld
Jill Osier
He falls loose, a leaf,
to bed. But not as light.
His arms keep coming
home, yes, but heavier
than they left, some other
flesh by sap and dirt,
a kind of night
never leaving his wrists.
Sometimes he wraps it
tight about his head.
Sometimes a band of sky
slips down my hip.
The whole room
swells with him.
But the woods. Each morning
he goes back to them
and brings them
their own scent
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Zone 3 Press sponsors two book competitions: The Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry and The Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Winners receive $1,000 and publication of their book, as well as an invitation to give a joint reading at Austin Peay State University with the contest judge.
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Featuring work byPOETRY Heather Altfeld • David Baker • Bruce Bond • Christopher Buckley • Robert Campbell • John Hart • Whittney Jones • Elizabeth McLagan • Jill Osier • Karen Skolfield • Erin Elizabeth Smith FICTION L.M. Asta • Ron Darian • C.R. Resetarits NONFICTION John Domini • Mariflo Stephens • Gail D. Storey • Julie Marie Wade TRANSLATIONS Patrick Donnelly • Stephen D. Miller GRAPHIC ESSAY Katie Schmitt INTERVIEWS David Baker • Gail D. Storey BOOK REVIEWS Oz by Nancy Eimers, Reviewed by Robert Campbell • The Wishing Tomb by Amanda Auchter, Reviewed by Tyler N. Moore • In the White Room by Elizabeth McLagan, Reviewed by Shannon K. Winston ART Jennifer Utterback • Aron Wiesenfeld
Jill Osier
He falls loose, a leaf,
to bed. But not as light.
His arms keep coming
home, yes, but heavier
than they left, some other
flesh by sap and dirt,
a kind of night
never leaving his wrists.
Sometimes he wraps it
tight about his head.
Sometimes a band of sky
slips down my hip.
The whole room
swells with him.
But the woods. Each morning
he goes back to them
and brings them
their own scent
