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+featuring

An interview with Alice LaPlante

+prose

Lauren Hamlin, Julie Lekstrom Himes, Robert Glick, Alice LaPlante, John Maradik, Shanthi Sekaran, Catherine Thomas, and Linda Woolford ::

+ poetry

Aimee Baker, Emily Carr, Stephan Delbos, Brian Diamond, Alison Doernberg, Francesc M. Franch, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Chris Haven, Elizabeth Hazen, Johnny Horton, Josh Kalscheur, Jenny Lynn Keller, Amy McNamara, Robert Aquinas McNally, Leah Nielsen, Zara Raab, Michael Schmeltzer, Emma Schoenberg, Teresa Sutton, Christine Tierney, Joseph Voth, and W. Vandoren Wheeler

+art

John Chabalko, Alec Laughlin, and Monica Regan

+what staff say

Raven, a muse with outstretched wings, on the cover of this edition alerts us to a sense of fate that rings with the refrain of "nevermore." Inside we do indeed engage with how people process irreparable loss and change. He visits new voices, notably Emma Schoenberg, recently out of high school, in the guise of hunger in her incredible poem "Pigeons." In the short piece, "Domestic Tornados" by emerging novelist Lauren Hamlin, his strike is ever imminent. However, in the feature interview with Alice LaPlante, we find Raven also teases veteran storytellers with such headaches as finding the form fit to tell the story effectively. The whole issue delights us as we see Raven fly in twists and turns through each of its offerings. –Sandra Wassilie

The fiction represented by such authors as Robert Glick, Alice LaPlante, and John Maradik explores present day, urban culture that will have you smiling at one point, questioning at the next. Once you think a magazine couldn’t be more diverse, Fourteen Hills ups the ante and gives us a sci-fi story “Dust” authored by Julie Lekstrom Himes that goes beyond time and technology. In its poetry selections, this issues continues to stretch form and demand you to look beyond your front-door. Zara Raab visits mythology with contemporary language in her poem “Eros, Eros.” Emily Carr surprises with imagery that twists perspective and questions logic. The interview with LaPlante celebrates an artistic freedom that maintains integrity of the written word. –Jason Johnson