The Pollination Circuit
It’s not easy to move one hundred twenty-five beehives from Texas to California.
ISSUE 31: FALL 2015
Fiction Prize
Lisa Hall Smiles
The first foot is found on August 20, 2007, on the shores of Jedediah Island, and it is Lisa Hall who finds it.
Poetry Prize
PR
Zest is a soap brand and the thin bright skin / around the bitter pith of citrus and a quality / that depressed persons struggle to muster.
Fiction
Red-Eye to Nowhere
A flare on the side of the road, kerosene smell, women’s chatter and the crackle of oil, the hiss of fish sauce in a wok.
Poetry
Year of the Horse
What animal, / do you reckon, would suction be the stomach of—
Essays
John Grisham, Moral Revolutionary
Growing up, I had a lot of awkward literary prejudices.
Interviews
Simcoe County Noir: An Interview with Kevin Hardcastle
My relationship to Simcoe County is a contentious one.
“And Always: Surprise”: An Interview with Erina Harris
My new project is the most crazy, ambitious (often feels impossible!) thing I have undertaken in poetry.
Reviews
I Just Wanna Be Around Adults, Really: Masculinity in Andrew Forbes’ What You Need
The shirtless boy had earlier shown me a snakeskin nailed to a board.
No Aversion to Versions: Elise Partridge’s Unlikely Ensemble in The Exiles’ Gallery
Elise Partridge died last winter, shortly before The Exiles’ Gallery was published, after a lengthy battle with cancer.
