Table of Contents

JERAH CHADWICK

Winter Country

Introduction

ROSEMARY MCGUIRE

Luke

ELIZABETH BRADFIELD

Eight Years

Legacy

Roughnecks and Rakes One and All, the Poet Speaks to Her Subjects, Polar Explorers

Correcting the Landscape

Creation Myth: Periosteum and Self

Remodeling

Concerning the Proper Term for a Whale Exhaling

We All Want to See a Mammal

August, McCarthy, Alaska

MARTHA AMORE

Geology

SUSANNA J. MISHLER

Anniversary at the Evening Cafe

Poem That Begins in Address to Nikola Tesla and Ends Up Offshore

Hemispheres

Tired, I Lie Down in the Parking Garage

Eve of the Apocalypse

LUCIAN CHILDS

The Go-Between

Black Spruce

AMBER FLORA THOMAS

Marlboros at Dusk

Aubade

A Woman’s Jewelry

Hotel Reverie

Lake Shore Deer

Come in from the Sky

In the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

Era of a Happy Heart

Here

ALYSE KNORR

Fact-Checking

Anchorage Epithalamium

Moose are over-running the park and this makes me think of love

The Object Towards Which the Action of the Sea Is Directed

The Sleeping Lady

Conservation & Rehabilitation

TERESA SUNDMARK

Worse Disasters

Trespass

INDRA ARRIAGA

Fragments

Pedazos

In the Bay

En la Bahía

There was a time, she said

Hubo un tiempo, ella dijo

19 Crescent

19 Crescent

EGAN MILLARD

Mondegreen

Agni

Koimesis

Vacation

ZACK ROGOW

The Voice of Art Nouveau

M.C. MOHAGANI MAGNETEK

Creep

Shhhh-Be-Quiet

SHELBY WILSON

Misread Signs

Fireweed

LESLIE KIMIKO WARD

Nest

AMY GROSHEK

What Goes Around Comes Over

The capacity for true love expires at age 25

Rubia Writes a Poem About Light for a Contest

Dinner at Her Place

Pearly Everlasting

GABRIELLE BARNETT

Mountain Man

TEEKA A. BALLAS

Carrots, Peas: in D minor

Cupid’s Arrow

SANDY GILLESPIE

The Trees Tell the Story

MORGAN GREY

Breakers

LAURA CARPENTER

Mirror, Mirror

KATE PARTRIDGE

Model

Earthquake Park

M 4.0, 21 km S of Knik-Fairview

DAWNELL SMITH

What Would Derby Do?

VIVIAN FAITH PRESCOTT

The Minister’s Wife

Tales in Fairyland

Can I touch your Chinese Hair?

Before the World of Men and Boys, There Was the Land of Girls

JERAH CHADWICK

Cold Comforts

Legacy

Returnings

Lesson of Bread

A Sense of Direction

Stove

The Life to Come

MEI MEI EVANS

Going Too Far

Works Consulted