Author: Post Road

CRITICISM:

Lydia Davis’s “Happiest Moment” and the
Convoluted Temporalities of Very Short Fiction — Ezra Dan Feldman

FICTION:

Circumstance — Theodore Dawes
Les Abandonnées — Kirby Gann
The Woman in the Barn — Jaclyn Gilbert
Perishables — Becky Hagenston
Children Left to be Raised by Wolves — Carrie Messenger
Doctor Tukes, Off the Clock | Marie to Eleanor, Resenting Her Elasticness — Andrew Morgan
The Room Where Elizabeth Bishop Slept — Paola Peroni
Bells — Remy Smidt

NONFICTION:

Elegy for a Cousin — Brad Geer
Color Palette Blue #3 — Sarah Kennedy
Lift Off — Lania Knight
Eleanor — Joyce Underwood
Heart Attack — Sarah Vallance

POETRY:

Ode to Trains Departing Billings Railyard | River Country — Jeffrey Alfier
Blessed Holy Fuck — Alan Hanson
Mafiosa | Elegy for the Quiet House — Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Talking Faith with a Friend | Regarding His Alzheimer’s — Jennifer Wheelock

ART:

The Shape of Things: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Bakery Off Flatbush — Steve Monroe

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Ann Patchett — Kim Ablon Whitney
Paul Beatty’s The Sellout — Wendy Rawlings
Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation — Angela Palm
The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake — Jason Ockert
Amo, Amas, Amat and More, by Eugene Erlich, paperback edition, 1987 — Jana Martin
New Dark Ages by Donald Revell — Josh Kalscheur
Kent Haruf’s Plainsong — David Huddle
Woody Guthrie: A Life — Holly George-Warren
The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard — Suzanne Cope
A Town of Accreted Myth”: Lauren Groff’s The Monsters of Templeton — W.B. Belcher
Marly Youmans’s Catherwood — Emily Barton

GUEST FOLIO: Edited by Chris Boucher

Letter to a Young Man in the Ground — Lincoln Michel
Selections from The Week — Joanna Ruocco
The Baby — Ethan Rutherford
Carnality — Angela Woodward

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Rosaire Appel, “bearings”

FICTION:

The Fields — Katrina Carrasco
The Small Perfectly Lidded Copper-Bottomed Cooking Pot — Ruth Danon
Limbs — Jennifer Murvin
To Kneel Somewhere in Iowa — Ryan Parker
The Tapping in 1L — Alicia Schaeffer
The Goldfish — Julia Strayer
Delivery — Olivia Worden

NONFICTION:

Rear View — Rhiannon Catherwood
In the Bed — Elisabeth Dahl
So Big Like That — Glenn Deutsch
Clutter — Caitlin Garvey
The Spring Line — Linda I. Meyers
Muscle Memory — Ellen O’Connell

POETRY:

Riding in the Back + Pin Oak — Beth Gylys
Deafheaven Fried Chicken + Poem for Robert Bly — Matt Hart
God’s Child + Sunday Solstice — Jeffrey Schneider

ART:

Menagerie: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Antique Paradigm — Lindsey Drager
Here (or Having Found Godot) — Kyle York

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov — Gabriel Blackwell
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys — Adrienne Celt
The Tale of Despereaux — Matthew Dicks
The True Thought Seems to Have No Author: On Clarice Lispector — Natalie Eilbert
On Immunity by Eula Biss — Julia Fierro
Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels — Brian Morton
César Aira’s An Episode in the Life of A Landscape Painter — Alena Graedon
Mario Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim — Marianne Leone
Vilém Flusser’s Vampyroteuthis infernalis — Dolan Morgan
Fourth of July Creek — Ivy Pochoda
Eugenia Leigh’s Blood, Sparrows, and Sparrows — Patrick Rosal
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman — Douglas Trevor

GUEST FOLIO: Lad Tobin

The Cheating Gene — Elizabeth Flock
Hunger — Debra Gwartney
A Vine Of Roses — Mimi Schwartz
The Himalayas Are Not Flat — Jennifer Sinor

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Kelsey Stevens, “Norwegian Hitchhiker”— photograph

FICTION:

Seeking Advice and/or Assistance re: Mountain Lions — Matt Tompkins
In Her Place — Maria D’Alessandro
Two Tons Of Manure — Libby Flores
Chameleon — Phil Hearn
Greyhounds — Devin Kelly
A Boyfriend, Obamacare, a Cat — David James Poissant
Accompaniment — Gary Sheppard
Lynx — Alice G. Stinetorf
Student Paper — Justin Taylor
How to Sleep with Lions — Wil Weitzel

NONFICTION:

Notes From a Suicide — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

CRITICISM:

Thinking about Zadie Smith — Ryan McIlvain

POETRY:

Caretakers Blues + Devil’s Bridge — Michelle Holley
Cento + Saudade — Jim Whiteside

ART:

Figure 8 + 8 Various Artists

THEATRE:

Pathfinders: A Play by Ben Merriman

RECOMMENDATIONS:

John Banville’s Eclipse — Howard Axelrod
Dignifying the Slog — Carlene Bauer
Everyone’s Invited: Homicide Survivors Picnic by Lorraine M. López — J.C. Crucet
The Great Shame of Knausgaard’s My Struggle — Katherine Hill
Listen Up: Aurally Spinning through Zadie Smith’s On Beauty — Tim Horvath
Suicide by Edouard Levé — Jac Jemc

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Paul Mariani):

Forsaken and Foregone — Scott Cairns
Evolution — Robert Cording
Aquarium — Sarah Cortez
Here Begins the Prologue to the Life of Blessed Anthony — David Craig
The Diving Platform — Kate Daniels
Eighth Floor — Nadine Ellsworth-Moran
There But Not There — Martín Espada
Apples — William Heyen
The Conversion of the Vikings — Mark Jarman
Humani Generis — Philip Kolin
Sonnet — Marianna Krejci-Papa
Small Losses — Kathleen Markowitz
Location, Location, Location — Richard Michelson
Reading Crusoe on the Metro North — Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Clayfeld’s Vampire Fantasy — Robert Pack

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Eugenia Loli, “High Priestess”— collage

FICTION:

Uprooted — C.C. Robin
Murmurings — Jane Buchbinder
Grandpap’s Burials — Casey Quinn
Pity — Lisa Gornick
Allapattah — Michael Hawley
Mine Dont Never — J S Khan
Chiara — Jonathan Wilson

NONFICTION:

Ma Picks a Priest — Marianne Leone
The Backyard — Nicholas Ward
Goodnight Moon — V. Hansmann
The Pass — John O’Connor
Thin, Brilliant Lines — Patrick Myers

CRITICISM:

Thinking/Cartooning — Zak Breckenridge

POETRY:

The Secret Nancy — Nancy Reddy
Hogwash + Fullboat — Christopher Robinson
Our Town + Sinnerman — Wesley Rothman
Glenn Gould + Meeting Rain, Wutai Mountain — Wang Jiaxin (translated by Diana Shi & George O’Connell)

ART:

NEGATIVE SPACE: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Sluts: A Play — Ben Merriman
Tie a Yellow Ribbon — Atar Hadari

RECOMMENDATIONS:

A Treatise on Shelling Beans, by Wieslaw Mysliwski, Archipelago Books, 2013, translated by Bill Johnston — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Just Kids by Patti Smith — Brian Sousa
All the Rage by A.L. Kennedy — Ethel Rohan
Miranda July’s It Chooses You — Shelly Oria
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus — Cari Luna
Three Lives — Megan Marshall
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks — Katherine Karlin
An Altered Book by Cara Barer — Alexandra Chasin
The White Tide — Steven Church
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — David Samuel Levinson
Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani (Akashic Books) — Laura K. Warrell

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Robert Chibka):

Swapped — Kate McMahon
The Sleeping Kingdom — Caitlin Keefe Moran
The Disappearing Wife — Simon Savelyev
Dandy — Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

ETCETERA:

The Little Things — Will Dowd

CONTRIBUTORS:

COVER ART: Gina Kamentsky, “Saga #2,” 2013 found metal, steel rod, ceramic and plastic figures, 9″ x 16″ x 5″

FICTION:

Sunday Lunch And Black Hole — Joy Allen
The Girl I Hate — Mona Awad
Ultraviolet — Kenneth Calhoun
Chix and Quarters — Colin Fleming
Rotten Fruit — Chris Messer
Story — Andrew Wickenden
The Wild Pandas of Chincoteague — Gregory J. Wolos

NONFICTION:

The Revolution Continues, Why Do You Water the Grass? — Rebecca Chace
Donna and the Country Queens — Abigail Carl-Klassen
The Dolphin Lady of Siesta Key — Kathrin Harris
A Class Act — Paul Schmidtberger

CRITICISM:

Frederick Seidel’s Bad Taste — Michael Robbins

POETRY:

Another Day — Michael Bazzett
Arnold Schultz Tells the Hug-eyed Boy — J. Camp Brown
Film Sonnet + Film Sonnet — James Franco
Defense Of Poetry + Defense Of Poetry — Christian Anton Gerard
The Moirologist + Geometry — David Moolten
Betty Carter at The Blue Room + Dixie White House Photo — Carolyne Wright

ART:

Richard Hambleton: The American Pop Expressionist—with Introduction by Kristine Woodward

THEATRE:

The Sluts: A Play — Ben Merriman
Tie a Yellow Ribbon — Atar Hadari

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Ayiti by Roxane Gay — Alicia Erian
Manual de Zoologia Fantastica — Melissa Febos
What It Is by Lynda Barry — Joe Garden
The Death of Mr. Baltisberger by Bohumil Hrabal — Pete Hausler
U and I and I — Ryan McIlvain
The Centaur by John Updike — Adam Sexton
The Home For Wayward Clocks — G. K. Wuori

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Carlo Rotella):

How It’s Done: A Criminal Defense Investigator at Work — Patrick Conway
How I Work (KO 0) — Charles Farrell
Winter House — Chris Staudinger

CONTRIBUTORS:

COVER ART: Kevin Van Aelst, “Paradigm Shift,” 2012 Digital c-print, 40″ x 30″

FICTION:

Loan Suite — Emma Healey
Bright Shiny Things — Martin Cloutier
Omniplanet — Robert Uren
Haystacks — Jaime deBlanc-Knowles
The Summer Hannah Wore a Hat — Matt Izzi
The Price of Admission — Jonathan Papernick
The Woman Who Came from the Garden — Rachael Inciarte
People Are Just Dying to Meet You — David Samuel Levinson
Chendru — Amie Barrodale
Upcountry — Josh Wallaert

NONFICTION:

In Jamaica — Liz Solms
Disintegration, Loops — Marin Sardy
Room For My Knees — Frankie Lopes
Lantern Festival — Ellen Goldstein
Urban Guerrillas — Annabelle Larsen

CRITICISM:

Agee’s Astonishment — Brian Norman

POETRY:

In Which I Hoard the Air Escaping + Wait in the Bathtub and It Will Carry You — Angela Voras-Hills
What I Meant When I Said Failure + Through the Looking Glass — Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Matisse in Norwegian Museum Once Nazi Loot, Family wants Returned + Catachresis — Jolene Brink
Freakishly Beautiful Head + Out of Sorts — Jeremy Voigt

ART:

Ground Control: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Sluts: A Play — Ben Merriman
Tie a Yellow Ribbon — Atar Hadari

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Green Darkness by Anya Seton — Debra Ginsberg
Q&A Reflections — David L. Harrison
Eating a Devil’s Lunch with Aleksandar Ristovic — Dan Chelotti
Writing Lessons in Peggy Rathmann’s Good Night, Gorilla — Nancy Zafris
Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage — Rachel Shteir
“Dirty Wedding” — Steven Lee Beeber
The Iceman Cometh Again — Kevin Dowd
Gorilla, My Love” — Linda Schlossberg
The Value of Voice — David Philip Mullins
On Akutagawa’s Kappa — Hugh Sheehy
E.R.B. and the Red Planet — Peter Glassgold
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi — Rebecca Chace
You Are the Robert Walser! — Mina Pam Dick
“Reunion,” Cheever and Ford — Stuart Nadler
Moving Waters, stories by Racelle Rosett — Jessica Keener

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Suzanne Matson):

Animal Behavior — Billy Collins
For the Young Woman I Saw Hit by a Car While Riding Her Bike + Atmosphere — Laura Kasischke
Going to Caldwell — Katrin Tschirgi
Against Uncertainty + Against Imperialism — Christopher Merrill
A Winter Wound — Peter Fallon
Song of Argos — Derek Sheffield
Penguins — Meg Kearney
Judenplatz + Cabin — Jennifer Barber
Southern California Ode (1969) + Climate — Baron Wormser
Chiron, on Achilles + First Tattoo — Caitlin Lahsaiezadeh
Sixteen, + Body, Body — Fred Marchant
Still Life with Light Bulb + Poco a Poco — Betsy Sholl
Poem With Refrain By Linda Nathan — Robert Pinsky
The Other Man + Spending the Night + The Categorical Imperative Poem — David Wagoner

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Mia Brownell, detail from “Still Life with Lost Migration,” 2012; Oil on canvas, 24″ x 20″