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Long-time MacGuffin typesetter and designer Ione Skaggs makes her final mark in vol. 39.1. We send her off in grand style with a new story with a post-modern bend from MacGuffin favorite Gracjan Kraszewski to open things up, and close with a touching story that ruminates on both art and artists from Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt. In poetry, Karen Marker admits she’s “Been Following You on Instagram” and Laura Grace Weldon muses on the theater of our own lives in “Rich People We Know Offer Theater Tickets;” all this plus a four-poem spread of food-related poetry to inspire your next charcuterie foray.

7: Charles Grosel – Goat’s Beard
8–9: Karen Marker – I’ve Been Following You on Instagram
10: Laura Grace Weldon – When Rich People We Know Offer Theater Tickets
11: Jane Vincent Taylor – Essentials
12–18: Gracjan Kraszewski – Margaux Himmel: The Sickness unto Death
19: William DeGenaro – On the Beach, Gdansk
20: Sandra Anfang – What They Saved
21: Sandra Anfang – What we do for love
22–23: Michael Rogner – Note to Reader
24–25: Sal Ragen – Two Soldiers
26: Sal Ragen – Cattywampus
27: David J. Bauman – All the Difference
28-32: Robert Rifkin – A Dickensian Childhood in the Bronx
33–41: Ross McMeekin – Waves Crash into the Water that Becomes Them
42–43: Linda Carney-Goodrich – Grand Climacteric
44: Linda Carney-Goodrich – My Mother’s Eyes Were Birds
45: Ana María Carbonell – Swooshes
46–47: Diane Pohl – Mid-Century Modern
48–49: Erik Tschekunow – Phone Room
50–51: Jay Brecker – metamorphosis
52: Barbara Draper – The Birch Tree
53–64: Bob Johnson – Lady Liberty
65: Emily Kerlin – Imagined Mercy
66–67: G. R. Kramer – Tom’s Cove
68: Susan Roberts – Wounded Pastoral
69: Karen Elizabeth Sharpe – Sleeping Dogs
70: Phillip Sterling – Things We Desire
71: Jack Steward – Black Ants
72: Jane Vincent Taylor – Fourteen Lines to the Gecko
73: Hollie Dugas – I, Symbiosis,
74–81: Bethany Snyder – Turn the Page
82–84: Jean Kane – I States
85: Susan Roberts – 13
86: Linda Carney-Goodrich – When the Social Worker Tells Me No One Wants a Teenage Girl
87: Gerry LaFemina – Next Stop, 72nd Street
88: Ken Meisel – Love’s Body
89: Diane Pohl – Sighting Rosamond
90–91: Robert Collins – Resusci Anne
92–96: Joan Haladay – Old Friends in Older Houses
97: Carol Aust – Pink House
98: Carol Aust – Crossroads #4
99: Carol Aust – Crossroads #7
100: Carol Aust – Accordion Solo
101–102: Elizabeth Kerlikowske – The Woodworker Loved a Witch
103: Nancy Hextable Mohr – locker room talk
104–105: Charles Grosel – Thirty Years Later
106: Jennifer Jordan – Horace
107: Lisa Rua-Ware – Thriving
108: Rachel Marie Patterson – Chances
109–115: Emily McNally – One, Two
116–126: Susan S. Levine – Break
127: Gerry LaFemina – Salsa Bowl
128: Laura Grace Weldon – Last Jar of Fermented Hot Sauce
129: Laura D. Weeks – What’s the Russian for Horseradish?
130–131: Erik Tschekunow – Prison Peaches
132–134: Elaine Fowler Palencia – Hem at Midnight
135–144: Katrina Denza – You Look So Beautiful in This Light
145: Meggie Royer – Living Will
146–147: Carol Gilbertson – Water Lost
148–153: Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt – You Don’t See Collies Much Anymore
154: Kurt Luchs – Around the Block
155–160: Contributor Notes

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