Winter 2021

Dedicated to Nicholas Johnson and Maureen Holm, co-founders of BigCityLit

Life in the Slow Lane by Nicholas Johnson

Poetry

A Constellation of Poets

#YesAllWomen

Attachment Theory

Talking to Strangers

Peter Neil Carroll

Crazy

Brass & Blue Plexiglass

New Year’s Morning in Mystic, Connecticut

Marc Alan Di Martino

In the Midst of the Peaceable Kingdom

NON-SPECIFIC ELEGY

My Private Chernobyl

Asynchronous

lingua franca

He Called for Mama

Pamela L. Laskin

Jorge Mario Bergoglio Erased

REVIEW ☆☆☆☆☆

Pizza Rat

Jennifer MacBain-Stephens

Dream Poem #5

FRIEND REQUEST FROM THE DEAD

Limitations

Blastomere

Solstice, Lake Shore Drive

Home, Snail-Mail Me

The Sharing Circle

Victoria Twomey

Digging Graves

Elisabeth von Uhl

Untitled

Elisabeth von Uhl

Navigation

Of Iron

Fiction

A Phone Call

Maxim Matusevich

Branching Off in Shadow Heights

Richard Squires

Nothing Lost in Translation

Sunburn

The Summer of Ebright

Lydia Tai

THE VIEW FROM THE BALCONY

Leeore Schnairsohn

Nonfiction

Flip Flops on Madison

The Kaddish of Pandemic

Judy Bolton-Fasman

Reviews

Said No One Ever by Gregory Crosby

Pamela L. Laskin

Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic Edited by Alice Quinn

Rachael Warmington