Backchannels No. 3 / 2020

Marc Darnell – obituary for a calendar (poem)

Frank Dullaghan – Twenty-Third December (poem)

Darrell Petska – In Dream (poem)

Brian Kerg – Rabbit’s Foot (fiction)

Sean Devine – Two Poems

Lisa Clark – Echo of Him (fiction)

John Tustin – All the Scars (poem)

Evan Balkan – Locked In (fiction)

David Anthony Sam – Half life (poem)

Amirah Al Wassif – From Daughter Baraka to Mother Eve (fiction)

Peycho Kanev – Three Poems

D.R. James – Two Poems

Lynn Capling – The Way Ahead (flash fiction)

Carlene Gadapee – Border Children: My Seventy-Seven Year Old Father Sits in His Rocker and Weeps (poem)

Tina Klimas – Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man (poem)

David Lohrey – Two Poems

Edward Lee – Abandoned Train (art)

Catherine A. Coundjeris – A Sacred Stillness (poem)

Darren Demaree – with an empathy so fatal #89 (poem)

Linda M. Crate – the story is over (poem)

Shannon Morrissey – Vinyl (fiction)

Todd Mercer – Jimmy’s First Train, Grand Trunk Western (poem)

Roger McKnight – The Hair Apparent (fiction)

Rob DiLillo – How Earth Loves Water (poem)

Jeff Burt – The Way the Starlings Frolicked (poem)

Neil Harrison – Big Al’s Sure Fire Smoked Fish (fiction)

Keith Kennedy – Eagle (poem)

Bruce McRae – Two Poems

CL Bledsoe and Michael Gushue – How to Fold Laundry (poem)

Edward Lee – Life Buoy (art)

Sandy Rochelle – Nighttime Visions (poem)

Edward Lee – Dead Conversations (poem)

Howie Good – Two Poems

Adrian Slonaker – Sniffling in St. John’s (poem)

Ligia de Wit – Sweet Unrequited (fiction)

Sean Lause – Midwest Photographs (poem)

J.L. Moultrie – We’re as Bold as Windchimes at Twilight (poem)

Jan Wiezorek – Green Garden (poem)

Yvonne – Marathon* (poem)

Kyle Hemmings – MH1 (art)

Marianne Brems – Two Poems

Marie Anderson – Orphans (fiction)

Michelle Tuplin – I-94 (fiction)

Mike Sullivan – A Peaceful Place (fiction)

James Piatt – Out Beyond (poem)

Gary Thomson – Deception (fiction)

Richard Risemberg – Vengeance in Gray (fiction)

N.S. Yancey – Enough (poem)

John Hicks – Hardware Store (poem)

Gary Van Hass – An Unknown God (art)

Margarita Serafimova – Untitled (poem)

Brian W. Budzynski – The Tenement (poem)

Gale Acuff – Feathered (poem)

G. Timothy Gordon – Spring Kiss (poem)

Masthead

Mary Bardsley, Editor
Leslie Caton Frey, Editor
Laura Johnson, Editor

Cover art by Mary Bardsley

With huge thanks to our intrepid readers, Melissa Chapman and Erick Brucker

Support us on Patreon

Facebook: Backchannels Journal
Instagram: backchannelsjournal
Twitter: @Backchannelsj