For Eloise Klein Healy
by Tara Ison
Lunch Ticket Special Masthead
Lunch Special
Essays
A Word from the Editor
by Diana Odasso
Reflections from a Former Editor
by David Bumpus
Sometimes You Start, Right
by Raymond Gaston
Mission Critical
by Katelyn Keating
The Promise of Purpose
by Arielle Silver
Poetry
Islam for Americans
by Khadija Anderson
Things to Know for Compañer@s:
A No More Deaths Volunteer Guide
by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Walmart Poem
by Antoinette Brim
Chorus Girl
by Angela Brommel
Poem My Mother Doesn’t Want Right Now
by F. Douglas Brown
Stormy
by M.L. Brown
Ode to Her Unibrow
by Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
Morning at the Welfare Office &
We Speak of August
by Valentina Gnup
The Windmill Farm
by Jose Hernandez Diaz
Comfort Woman
by Tanya Ko Hong
Smutgrass
by Joe Jiménez
Flight
by Shelly Krehbiel
You Move Me
by Gina Loring
The Loneliest Place in the World is in a Crowded Room With You
by Allie Marini
Ears
by Maiana Minahal
Rain in L.A. &
In Memory of Her Memory
by Jim Natal
Why you can never go home again &
self-portrait
by Michael Passafiume
Broken Heart
by Daniel G. Reinhold
Why I Am Not a Taxidermist
by Lauren Schmidt
Tanager
by Anna Scotti
Loss of Lemons
by Chrys Tobey
Fiction
The Weight of Grace
by Naomi Benaron
The Book of Dead Birds, excerpt
by Gayle Brandeis
“Mulligan,” excerpt
by Steve De Jarnatt
This Is How It Begins, excerpt
by Joan Dempsey
You’re Not Going Anywhere
by Wendy Dutwin
A Map of Everything, excerpt
by Elizabeth Earley
Coyote in the Blood
by Seth Fischer
The Pilgrim
by Michael Leal García
Dog Eyes
by Gordon Lee Johnson
Joshua Tree
by Dawna Kemper
Dust
by Topper Lilien
Behave, excerpt
by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Gods and Buses
by Yuvi Zalkow
Creative Nonfiction
To America
by Lisbeth Andriessen
Till Death Do Us Part
by Deborah Bauer
Missing
by Antonia Crane
Out of the Swollen Sea
by Tammy Delatorre
Never Could I Leave You
by Jacqueline Heinze
Writing Begins with the Breath, excerpt
by Laraine Herring
Crickets
by Wendy Hudson
After Striking a Fixed Object
by LaToya Jordan
Everything You Ever Wanted, excerpt
by Jillian Lauren
Harley and Me, excerpt
by Bernadette Murphy
A Short History of Insanity
by Noriko Nakada
Lower East Side Library:
A Love Affair
by Rochelle Newman
Gun, Needle, Spoon, excerpt
by Patrick O'Neil
Interiors
by Wendy C. Ortiz
Nagasaki:
A Life After Nuclear War, excerpt
by Susan Southard
The Storm Between Us
by Hazel Kight Witham
Just a Suit , 2016
Writing for Young People
The Distance Between Us, excerpt
by Reyna Grande
Shadowshaper, excerpt
by Daniel José Older
Literary Translation
Hanoi, Silences
by Valentine Goby, translated by Christine Buckley
Visual Art
Landscapes and Animals
by Heather Hewson
Just a Suit
by Raymond Gaston
Cures for Stagnation
by Courtney Putnam
In Remembrance
by Daniel G. Reinhold
Lives of Mothers and Children
by Michelle Templeton