Lake Effect
Volume 27
Fall 2023
Lake Effect 2023 Cover
Credit: Penn State Behrend
Fiction
- Aimee Parkison, Kindness Among the Looted Bodies
- Aimee Parkison, Murder Ballads
- Andrew R. Touhy, Arms
- Michael Czyzniejewski, The Alien Assimilates
- Michael Malan, Trick or Treat
- Michael Malan, Saying Goodbye
- Michael Malan, Terminal Gravity
- Robert Roensch, Popsicle Stick Cathedral
Poetry
- David Shumate, Beneath the Full Moon
- David Shumate, On Normal Days
- David Shumate, Chinese Painting
- Mark Sullivan, Chalk Drawing
- Alice Friman, Speaking of Diversion
- Alice Friman, The Elusive Art
- Hollie Dugas, Love Poem to the Wicked Witch of the West
- Doug Ramspeck, Green Coat
- Nicole Rollender, You Can’t See Ghosts
- John Gallaher, Time Is an Emotion
- Andrew Hemmert, Should All Our Greatness Be Forgot
- Grant Clauser, Taking Down the Lights
- Terri Brown-Davidson, Moonlit Cranes by the Rio Grande
- Julie Danho, The Couple in Front of Me at the Coffeeshop
- Lola Haskins, In the Fifth Year of His Parkinson’s, Tim Visits Morocco
- Adam Scheffler, Ode to Kentucky Horses
- Angie Macri, Familiar
- John Bradley, Someone Once Lived Inside This Song
- Lauren Watel, That Summer
- Ian Cappelli, The Stenographer Describes Their Notes
- Ernesto L. Abeytia, Remembrance: el Canal de Castilla (Two)
- Stephanie Staab, Ode to a German Handyman
- Romana Iorga, I Took the Moon like a Moose for a Walk
- Elton Glaser, In the Bucket of Crabs
- Paula J. Lambert, This Place, too, a Loss: Blue Whale
- Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton, Extinct: Cylindraspis Inepta
- Luis Miguel Nava, Rivers
- Ashley Kunsa, The New Manifest Destiny
- Kristene Kaye Brown, A Walk, a Remembrance
- Hannah Dow, Love Poem with Iron and Stone
- Hannah Dow, Mother Language
- Brian Whalen, Tip of the Tongue (Lethologica)
- Lance Larsen, Last Night I Touched a Great Horned Owl
- Lance Larsen, Two Mornings After the Capital Insurrection, We Go Birding
- Lance Larsen, I Ask Advice of Caliban
- Frank Paino, Pieta: Father Mychal Judge
- Ann Keniston, Self-Portrait as My First Memory
- Ken Meisel, Poem with Anguish in It
- Kevin Clark, Dexter’s Reed
- Kevin Clark, Reading Larry Levis at Dusk in November
Literary Nonfiction
- Jessica Cuello, Love, Untethered
- Dagne Forrest, Residuum
- Matt Martinson, Trout and Trout Remains
- Gary Fincke, Hands: A Memoir