Animalia

FOREWORD

Foreword by Alanna Weissman

FICTION

The Beautiful Ones by Don Zancanella
Bear by Zelime Lewis
The Fox by Thomas Wolf
The Rabbit Nest by Nathan Gower 
Raptors by Mark Gallini
Canis Major by Jason Richard Phillips
Caw, Sasazuka by Martin Piñol
Arowana, Infinity by Thomas Anderson
Finding Honey by Daniel Reiss

NONFICTION

Exene by Kate Broad
Sentries by Emilie Pascale Beck
Cheyanne by Margaret Brosnahan
Two Thoracotomies by Angela Tang-Tan
Complications of Captivity by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

POETRY

Migrations by Ashley Oakes
Elegy with a Horse in a Field by Subhaga Crystal Bacon
Signs by Suzanne Underwood Rhodes
Harrier by Ted Kooser
Self-Portrait as Recovering Executioner by Misha Tentser
I Am Going to Find the Finest Rotisserie Chicken by Fez Avery
Goodbye to the Last Female Northern Rhino by Leonora Simonovis
Hollow a Tender Hole by Linda Neal
Dust Bath by Dave Malone
Chihuahua Mix to Foster or Adopt by Amanda Quaid
Vanquished by Terrance Owens
Petting Zoo by Emily Couves
Coaster by Caroline Barnes
Rabbit Walk by Brett Warren
The Stubbornness of Bodies by Nancy Mayer
Call and Response by Tammy C. Greenwood
After oral surgery, I am by Jen Karetnick
Crab Eating by Cat Wei
Birdhouse by Irene Sherlock
Biding by June Rowe
Chance in Ukraine by Nancy Kay Peterson
Kin of Weightlessness by Andrea Giedinghagen
Fascination by Megeen R. Mulholland
Consumption by Rebekah Denison Hewitt
southern, black, & widowed by Michele Evans
CVS, 77th & Broadway by Olivia Ciacci
Hippocampus histrix by Maurya Simon
Life Cycle by Melissa Joplin Higley
Moonrise Over the Ocean by J.P. White
City Creatures by Rachel Dillon
August by Laurie Kutchins
Part Cow by Kate Stoltzfus
After the Arachnid by James Gonda
To the Anole I See Every Day in the Stairwell of My 55+ Community by Diane Gottlieb
When Seas Heat Up by Jayne Marek
Animals Decide When to Die by Jayne Marek

EXTRA

Book Review: Dreaming the Animal in the Twenty-First Century
– The Gift of Animals, edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming
– Blue Elegies by Helen Ruggieri
– Catch and Release by Sarah Van Arsdale
Reviewed by Amelia Christmas Gramling
Cover Art by Maya Perry