Lake Effect
Volume 25
Fall 2021
Fiction
- Doug Ramspeck, Dancing in Their Dead Mother’s Dresses
- Michael Czyzniejewski, The Trompe-L’œilist Hits a Wall
- Garielle Lutz, Pressed Powder
- Patrick Thomas Henry, Creatures of the Deep, as Observed from a Distant Shore
- Mark Brazaitis, The Politician
- Jess Williard, Like Lungs
- Arthur Deline, Trashcan Mother
Literary Nonfiction
- Nancy Naomi Carlson, Variations on a Theme
- Gary Fincke, Walking Distance
- Gary Fincke, Selfies
- Abigail Goodhart, Jammer to Watch
- Celia Meade, Ellipse
Poetry
- Ken Meisel, St. Chopin of the Vacant Buildings
- Christine DeSimone, Lessons
- John Moessner, Titian’s A Monk with a Book
- Owen McLeod, Meditation for Beginners
- Weston Morrow, Skying
- Hayden Saunier, Standard Conditions on Earth
- Brett Cortelletti, Portrait of Self as Stranger
- Audrey Gradzewicz, Specter
- Audrey Gradzewicz, Flock
- John Bradley, After Robert Berg’s Photo of Jack Spicer Kissing a Plaster Head
- Frank Paino, Afterward: Magdalene
- Holly Karapetkova, Reading Tsvetaeva While Waiting for My Daughter During Tiny Ballerinas Class
- Jane Zwart, The Problem with Harmonicas
- Ken Letko, Enjoying Illusions
- Ann Hudson, Half Life
- Salgado Maranhao, Like a River 7
- Maria Zoccola, Eratosthenes Measures the World and Finds It Smaller Than Expected
- Peter Connors, Dust
- John Gallaher, The Film That Covers Everything (Architecture 55)
- Lola Haskins, Prairie Horses
- Katie Berta, Remembering That Time in My Life When I Used to Think a Lot About Innocence,
- Peter Cooley, Beds We Lie In
- Stephen Gibson, A Black Iris
- Barbara Daniels, Why People Started Singing
- Siwsan Gimprich, At the Essential Circus
- Alberto Alvaro Ríos, I’m Sorry but I’m Still Evicting the Pigeons
- Caroline Chavatel, A Bird in the Hand
- Al Maginnes, Destroying Angels
- Al Maginnes, Memphis
- Gerry LeFemina, Approaching Fifty
- Gerry LeFemina, Sex & Death Since the Age Fourteen
- Theodora Ziolkowski, The Best Part of a Descent Is Looking Up
- Athena Nassar, Little Houses
- Angie Macri, Twelfth of Never
- Despy Boutris, Fires & Floods
- Despy Boutris, On Love
- Benjamin Dombroski, Crows
- Michael Lauchlan, Hearing Horace Silver
- Michael Lauchlan, Adagio