Table of Contents - Issue Five

Poetry Life 2026

Winner - Sarah Gamard - Dissecting the Rat

Runner Up - Ben Hyland - I’m in Love with the Carnie Girl

Runner Up - Gail White - The Fascination of What Disappears

Gulf Coast of Florida Feature

Lael Mohib - The Whole Picture

Scott Ortolano - Red

Tanya Young - Three Poems

Humor

Emily Menez - Rules of Canasta Club

Poetry

Daivd M. Alper - Myth and Mundane

John Brantingham - Two Poems

Tepper Brossell - In transit while living_____________________

Sharon Hoffman - A Power Doctor

Jordan Souza - Cars

Fiction

Ewan Davis - The Pop Star’s Necromancer

Kent Kosack - Being Towards

Non-Fiction

Megan Cannella - Jeanette C., Memory Care Floor, Room 576, née Grandma Jan

Hybrid

Anna Mantzaris - My Fraud Paper #1: On Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming

Kat Meads & Philip Rosenthal - Disturbed Houses III

Levi Platt - participating in the discourse, or as I like to call it, talking like a real [fancy] asshole.

Visual Art

Leah Oates - Transitory Space, Nantucket, Massachusetts