Issue 7 sets a precedent for Panoply. Actually, a few. The bounty of works here in this double issue is due of course, to a bounty of deserving work by our contributors. We cast a wider net during our calls for submissions, receiving about 3 times our historical norm! You’ll notice a whole section for prose, and as you scroll, some great works by young writers. In fact, we’re proud once again to debut some wonderful new voices (regardless of their age).

Since there’s so much, here are some browsing tips (in order of appearance):

• Humor – Downgrade, This Isn’t the Story I Intended to Write, The Waffle House Index, Zeng Shangyou
• Love/Romance – My Lover and I
• Pastoral/Nature – Looking Down on Newgale Beach, Path, Perfect Rain, Zen Garden at the Museum of Fine Arts
• Social/Political – Karuizawa Tales, Like a King
• Edgy – Cage Match, Finals, Stalker in Orange, Tawny Kitten
• Characters – Dear Harold, Everyday Blessings, Firebrand, A Girl Called Rose, Mrs. Neustead, Prize Fighter, White Sheets, You, Frank & Mia & Me, Heroes, Loving Spoonful, Padlock, Patriots, A Slice of Lemon on the Side
• Loss/Death – Intuition, Lament, Moth-Hour, Nowhere, South Dakota, Poem for Honduras, Proper Etiquette for the First Year of Mourning, You

As always, we thank our contributors for uplifting us! And we thank our readers for giving us purpose. Feel free to tell your friends and give us feedback! Look for Issue 8 around year-end.

Best wishes,
Andrea, Jeff, and Ryn, Co-Editors

Poetry

The actor who only gets to play a hitman – Jonathan Jones
After – Patricia Anderson
Afterbloom – Lawdenmarc Decamora
and the crows fall – AM Roselli
Astronautics (or, an email I sent to neil degrasse tyson while sitting in whole foods) – Lily Tice – Pushcart Prize Nominee
The Berryman Trick – Tim Kahl
camera obscura – Claudia Radmore
Cezanne – Patricia Nelson
Cheri’s Montana Lounge, Chester, Montana – Michelle Hartman
Cornflower – Madison White
(the crisp settle of the door) – Dennis Reavis
Elkhorn Avenue – Cameron Morse
Escape from Ellenville – Mike Jurkovic
Everyday Blessings – Sally Zakariya
Firebrand – Thomas McDade
Folclore Tale – Leonardo Boix
Fragile – Mary McKeel
A Girl Called Rose – Bella Smith
The Guitarist – Steven Reese
A Haiku Year – Kendra Leonard
Harvest Moon – Jared Pearce
Home Remedies – John Repp
How Long is this Sentence? – Gary Twynam
Interlude at a Closed Chevron, 11:42 pm – Alicja Zapalska
Intuition – Laura Foley
An Invitation – Paul Lubenkov
Karuizawa Tales – Robert Hoffman – Editors’ Choice
Kathleen Remembers the Flood – John Grey
Lament – Anne Whitehouse
Late Night Talk Show Fantasy – Jennifer Dotson
Like a King – Ion Corcos
Looking Down on Newgale Beach – Robert Nisbet – Editors’ Choice
The Man Cooks Greens While Thinking of Words – Tobi Alfier
Moth-Hour – Claire Scott
Mrs. Neustead – Jim Zola
Nowhere, South Dakota – Andrew Kruse-Ross
Numbers – Isabella Colalillo Katz
The Oboe Will Shine Tomorrow – Devon Balwit
The Old In-Out In-Out – Yu-Han Chao
Once Upon a Time – Baisali Chatterjee Dutt
Passenger – Charles Kell
Path – Steve Gerson
Perfect Rain – Terry Brix
Poem for Honduras – Heather Truett
A Priest and an Indian Walk Into a Bar – Jessica Mehta
Prize Fighter – Martin Hopson
Proper Etiquette for the First Year of Mourning – Jacqueline Jules
Rich Farm Land Drew Settlers to Hess – Ryan Clark
Running at 6:45 on a mid-November morning – Brett Cortelletti
Sunflower Ghosts – Robin Gow
Swift Action – G. Louis Heath
Testament – Deborah L. Davitt
Touch This Elephant – Robert Beveridge
Transfusion –Virginia Boudreau
Van Gogh Paints a Self-Portrait – Ann Howells
The Waffle House Index, or: (if the Waffle House is closed the populace is shrinking) – John McCracken
Walking Stick, A Prayer – Keith Moul
Wave – Alan Gann
What I’ve Lost – Carl Boon
Where My Muse Comes From – Daryl Sznyter
While You Were Trying To Be Cool I Was Snorting Flintstone Chewables – Kristian Kuhn
White Sheets – Shelby Curran – Pushcart Prize Nominee
Winter Plunge – Eileen Malone
You – Anthony Carl
Zeit Heist – Nick Romeo
Zen Garden at the Museum of Fine Arts – Mary Buchinger

Prose

The Bedouin Woman’s Smile – Nektaria Petrou – Editors’ Choice
Cage Match – Jodi Sh. Doff
The Dap – Rosanne Ehrlich
Dear Harold – Christine Seifert
Downgrade – Lois Morrison
Finals – Marie Anderson
For Summer – Anusha Srinivasan
Frank & Mia & Me – Charles Leipart
Heroes – Blake Benson
Letters from My Grandsons – Sherri Wright
Loving Spoonful – Alexander Jones
The Moonshine Ruby – Travis Kennedy
My Lover and I – Maggie Boals
One Smoothie is a Tragedy – Matt Dube
Overhead – Soramimi Hanarejima –Editors’ Choice
Padlock – Beth Gordon
Patriots – Stephen O’Donnell
A Slice of Lemon on the Side – Kristen Olsen
Spillage – G. Emil Reutter
Stalker in Orange – Maddie Woda
Tawny Kitten – Tina Bubonovich
This Isn’t the Story I Intended to Write – Guy Biederman
Tollbooth – Kelsey Maki
Wild Cat Menagerie and Great Intercourse Circus – Catherine Moore
Winter Plunge – Eileen Malone
Zeng Shangyou – Jack Feerick