*Loch Raven Review, Volume 21, No. 1, 2025*

Poetry

R.A. Allen
Subtext II

JC Alfier
Mistress Moon

Tobi Alfier
The Calculus of Longing
Bitter Moon

John Amen
Descartes
Odysseus
Helen, the Later Years
Lazarus

Brenda Stevens Baer
When an Atheist Invents a New God
Take My Dead, Please
Dreaming is Psyche Telling Stories

Lysa Cohen
The Empty Chair

Rick Connor
Counting Woodpeckers
I Love a Bench in the Sun

Laurie Didesch
Funeral Director

John Dorroh
Hashimoto’s Revenge

Robert Estes
French Hotel Morning

Alexis Rhone Fancher
Pre-Holiday Pantoum
New Year’s Resolutions
Fill In the Blanks (A Condolence Card Template: When (Child’s Name Here) Dies)

Vern Feins
BEE-LESS

Robert Fillman
Sunday Night, On the Patio, with the Fall of Icarus
Warren G. Harding’s Last Words

M. Frost
Sainte-Chapelle

Christopher T. George
Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, 1940
Once He Wrote

John Grey
RESCUE

James Kangas
Divertimento
Folding Underwear at the Kitchen Table

Jennifer Karp
Outbound

David P. Kozinski
Two Places at Once

Ron Lauderbach
Ocean Beach Equipment Rental
A Jobsite Late 1960s
Remembering You
Candy Store at the Summit

Patrick Meeds
Portrait of My Father

David Milley
To the Thrift

Miracle Ogbogu
The Fear Our Parents Had

Franzi Roesner
Curriculum

Susan Shea
Bringing in the Harvest

Claudia M. Stanek
Photo Never Taken

M.P. Strayer
Breath and Air
Annapurna Dreams

Naomi Theirs
Moods

Diane Webster
UPSTAIRS HAND
WAITING
THIN AIR

Robin Wright
Before the Day is Over

Cary B. Ziter
As You Know, Two to Tango

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Fiction

Susan Groff Johnston
Not Happening

John Riebow
The Shed

Sean Ryan
Andy

Nick Young
HUE, ’68

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Non-Fiction

Anna Sophia Claudio
Into the Light

Jim Forgione
Escaping the Heat

Judith Nies
The Place Where I’m From

Matthew Snyderman
Schaden-celluloid

Ellis Shuman
Quills in the Dark

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Reviews

Jim Doss
The Long Goodbye, Reviewed by Dan Cuddy

Rena Fleming
An Spidéal Shoreline and Hillside, Reviewed by Dan Cuddy

Eric Greinke
Speaking for Everyone, Reviewed by Ginny Phalen

Greer Macallister
The Thirteenth Husband, Reviewed by Mary Sophie Filicetti

Michael Lee Rattigan
as grass becomes flesh, Reviewed by Anthony Seidman

Julia Wendell
Daughter Days, Reviewed by Virginia Crawford

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