Spring 2019

Relief’s 2019 issue is packed with new poems by some of our favorite voices—Nicholas Samaras, Natasha Oladokun, Linda Mills Woolsey, Daniel Tobin, and many others. CNF offerings include Nelle Smith’s complicated tribute to her native Ohio; lyric examinations of faith, suffering, and loss by Kyle Minor and Ann Weikers; and the stunning debut of Kaylen Dwyer. Our fiction moves from the Middle East to the hills of West Virginia to the California desert of G.E. Kittredge’s “Thy Cell Will Teach Thee All,” in which a burned out rocker attempts to write the ending to his own story. Kelcey Parker Ervick adds Relief’s first full-color graphic narrative, a gorgeous meditation on Nabokov, butterflies, and the coming of age of an artist.

Daniel Bowman, Jr.
From the Editor's Desk

Poetry

Daye Phillippo
Bicycling the Backroads After Supper
Gossip

Richard Prins
Prospect Park

Elizabeth Sackett
Fire

Nicholas Samaras
God Shuffled His Feet
Holy

Shannon St. Armand
The Burial, Post-Miscarriage
Becoming Catholic, Post-Miscarriage

Bill Stadick
Syndrome Psalm

Jack Stewart
St. Jerome Translates
The Shape of the Cold

Jen Stewart Fueston
To the guest who broke
a wine glass at my party

Daniel Tobin
From Where Moth and Rust Consume
Larval

Jeremiah Webster
The Solemn Sea

Mischa Willett
Echo Chamber
Braceleted and Bare
 

Creative Nonfiction

Fiction

Comics

Kelcey Parker Ervick
Speak, Butterfly