Inlandia: A Literary Journey
Fall 2022 Volume 13
Masthead
Editor’s Letter
Poetry
David M. Alper, “Behind a Sigh”
Berniece Alspach, “But Now New” ◽ “Preschool Zoom School”
Gretchen Bartels-Ray, “Eclipse” ◽ “Hygiene Theater”
Dmitry Blizniuk, “The Bones of the Landscape,” translated by Sergey Gerasimov
David Carlson, “Woodworking” ◽ “Harlequin Speaks”
N. T. Chambers, “900 Moons” ◽ “Respite”
Douglas Colston, “A Yawning Gap (Hiātus); Or, Erroneous Culture”
Connie Jameson, “RED”
Alshaad Kara, “Featherstone”
Mark Kessinger, “Ken Holds Barbie” ◽ “Forecast” ◽ “a favorite knife, at least” ◽ “Signal Core” ◽ “consider the up”
Joan Koerper, “Joshua Trees in Lone Pine Canyon” ◽ “The Queen of Soul Crosses over the Mountain”
BEE LB, “a catalogue of selves”
Mia Maisha, “Niggas on Campus”
Navilan, “Ergomaniac” ◽ “Face / On”
S. J. Perry, “Inland Empire, August” ◽ “Bird Man” ◽ “After This She Moved to the City”
Tatiana Retivov, “Moribund”
Tim Riter, “A Man of His Times” ◽ “Vine Ripened”
Patricia L. Scruggs, “I See the Ineffable” ◽ “There’s Nothing to Say Except These Things I Love” ◽ “13” ◽ “Emptying the Crate” ◽ “Trying to Write a Poem about Love”
Ruth Towne, “Sum” ◽ “Parable at the Office” ◽ “My Holy Poltergeist” ◽ “Dishes by Hand, Sleight of Hand” ◽ “A Question to the Tea Leaves”
Erika Travis, “before evening comes” ◽ “After” ◽ “Pentecost”
Sherre Vernon, “Before Combustion” ◽ “Holiday Newsletter” ◽ “Bedtime”
Fiction
Dave Gamboa, “The Girl in the Rain”
Kait Leonard, “Trashy Girl”
Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera, “We Watch”
Carol Willis, “Something Extraordinary”
Nonfiction
Marc Frazier, “Prairie State”
Nikki Gordon, “Generation to Generation: Horror and Healing along the 10 Freeway”
Regan Kelso-Spells, “Carrying Mothers and Rainbows”
Kelly Shire, “Oak Glen”
Review Essay
Victoria Waddle, “The Strata of Inlandia”
Art
Kamelyta, “Stockholm’s Requiem” ◽ “Fuck It” ◽ “Dance Till We Die”
Serge Lecomte, “Dressed to Kill” ◽ “Body versus Soul but Then There Is the other Side of the Mountain”
Veronica Ortega, Cover Artist, “Native Abundance” ◽ “Untitled” ◽ “Alviso Rd.” ◽ “Chicana logo” ◽ “Untitled” ◽ “Untitled” ◽ “Rosas en Color” ◽ “Self-Care”
Donald Patten, “to feel”
Barbara Weightman, Featured Artist, “Colors in the Forest” ◽ “Birch Trees in Idyllwild” ◽ “Heliconia Orchid” ◽ “Desert Daisy” ◽ “June Lake” ◽ “Spring in the Desert” ◽ “Sunrise in Indian Wells” ◽ “Wildflowers of Borrego”