winter/spring 2022
Cover: Mirror by Scott Conary
Art
Jules Feiffer
Leaping for Joy
Grant Snider
The Librarian’s Guide to Book Etiquette
First Lines
Tim McGuire
Snowy Days
Matt Collins
And How It All Began
Opportunity Knocks
Sentence Structures
Matt Collins
And How It All Began
Scott Conary
Still Life Stories
TSR Interviews
Patricia Marx
Patricia McCormick
Robert Lopez
Roger Rosenblatt
On My Writing Desk
Fiction
Karen Shepard
News from the Adult World
Mary Mannion
Car Ride Down
Larissa Urcia
New York Avenue
Sheila Eby
An Unfinished Basement
Liam Edward Talty-Johnson
make believe
Blessing J. Christopher
An Unfinished Basement
NonFiction
McKenzie Watterson
Running Through Us
Amre Klimchak
Bodies of Water
Morrell Michael Avram
A World Gone Made
-an excerpt from I Am the Storm
Jen Cooper
When We Make It Home
Hudson Hess
Infestation
SBU Undergraduate SHORT
Fiction PRIZE
Camry Romney
Hosanna!
Poetry
Terrance Hayes
For the Evening
A Bouquet of Flowers
The Underworld Marvin Gaye
Walking Tour
Charif Shanahan
Infidelity
Imago
Kasey Jueds
Litany (Somehow)
Away in February
Megan Pinto
First Spring
Nancy Keating
The Grammar of Flour
The Grammar of Smiling, or Maybe the
Pointlessness Thereof
Nathaniel Kostar
Swimming in the Bayou
George Bilgere
Lullaby
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Billy Collins
Once in a Dog’s Age
writerly advice
On Inspiration
On Plot
On Character
On Writing About Real People
On Humour & Humor
On Writer’s Block
On Work Habits
On Revising
On Endings