a note from the editor

poetry
(the passionate stuff)
Newamba
Edic Obame
Adriana DeCastro art
Richard King Perkins II
Mel Waldman
Eric Bonholtzer art
Paul Pikutis
CEE
Je’free
Michael Ceraolo
the HA!man of South Africa art
TendaiI R Mwanaka
Colin Gilbert
Joel McGregor art
Kevin John Dail
Joshua Copeland
Nick Brazinsky art
Diane Fleming
David Lawrence
Julie Kovacs
Holly Day
R. N. Taber
Adrienne Sass Paek
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Janet Kuypers
Kenneth DiMaggio
Sonya Feher

prose
(the meat & potatoes stuff)
Heather Rae Nelson
Üzeyir Lokman ÇAYCI art
Ronald Brunsky
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz art
Ernest Dean
Paul Baker art
Julia O’Donovan
Aaron Wilder art
J. Rollins Hughes
Jay Marvin art
Fred Venturini
K. Agnihotri
C. Patrick Murphy
Kelsey Noble
Cheryl Townsend art

(art from Scars Publications may be sprinkled throughout the issue...)