Bill Abbott [Philadelphia; Mall Romance]; David Ayers [Bones: A Celebration;]; Roger Blanton [Projectorhead???]; M.R. Brickell [My Last War]; Margarita Casanova [Acanthus; Untitled Photograph]; Sharon Clark [Autumn’s Valiant Flight]; Mike Durham [The Committee]; Eric R. Fish [Fireflies; Her Nap Time]; Brian Fletcher [Anxiety]; Shanda Hayes [Life or Death]; Jeanette Henry [Untitled Photograph]; Scott Honeycutt [Incubus Night]; Jason Johnson [Talkin’ It Out; Echoes In Time]; Sierra Merrell [Uninvited Guest]; Jeff McAfee [To Rosa]; Lori McCallister [The Experiment]; Karen Phelps [Attachments]; Lisa Rogers [Interview With John Bowers]; Michael Roller [Untitled Photograph]; Vince Singleton [Dead Lines]; Bev Steele [Untitled Drawing]; Tiffany Stewart [Wrapped Bird I]; Kary Thomas [Limbs; Amalgamate] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1042/thumbnail.jpg

Michelle Benson [Sugarcoated]; Blaine Boles [A Portrait of My Mother; Ode to Cockroaches; Place d’Italie, June 14th, 2016; To Marlies, The Fun of Living in and Leaving Delirium]; Brandon Bragg [Close to the Moon]; Matthew Brown [Philosophy Department]; Rickey Bump [Meta-Forms]; Gabe Cameron [The Red Maple]; Rebecca Cox [Sentiments 3 & 4]; Brooke Day [Honey, Sweetie, Sugar]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Blue Chair]; Kathryn Haaland Greene [Don’t Let Go]; Seth Grindstaff [Styrofoam and String]; Rick Harris [Respect]; Bradley Hartsell [Mia’s Non-accredited Biology Course of Anthropologic Learning; The In-Between (Or, En Svenska Historia)]; Jonathan Hill [Bethlehem; Interview with Dr. Don Johnson]; Janice Hornburg [The Names of Stars]; Mark Hutton [Midlife; River of Salvation]; Don Johnson [Bucket Soccer; House by the River; Things Partially Obscured, in the Dark or Far Away; Total Eclipse: Rock Creek, Montana]; Kelsey Kiser [Before the Council]; Abby N. Lewis [In-Between, Mirror Perceptions]; Keith Maultbay [Duck Pond]; Katie Murphy [Emily]; Andrew Norris [Illusion and Virile]; Emily Parris [Amethyst]; Shai Perry [Self Discovery]; Jared Sapp [Mavka]; Hannah Schean [Toothless]; Todd Simmons [Pythagorean Decay]; Jodie Strapp [Submarine]; Adam Timbs [Epiphany of a Defeatist Who Stubbornly Fished a Rainstorm on His Birthday, September 7th, 2014]; Michelle Wanzor [Out of Your Control] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1043/thumbnail.jpg

Jillian Bailey [Faded]; Taylor Campbell [Move to Jupiter]; Elizabeth Chapman [Sepsis]; Arizona Clawson [13%; November]; Thomas Chase Clayton [Alcohol, Love, and Other Things that Kill You]; Alexandria Craft [Electric Love; Watauga Lake in Autumn]; Brooke Day [Seated and Lovely]; Kelly Dorton [Alternative Quotes]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Home before Dark (Autumn Reflections along I-26)]; Jeremy Fahn [Close Distance; Meaningless Stare]; Seth Grindstaff [Letter to Dreamer]; Kayla Hackney [The Imposter]; Bardley Hartsell [August Chapel]; Zöe Hester [MOASS]; Janice Hornburg [October Shower; Orogeny]; Mark Hutton [Old South]; Emily Johnson [Delicacy]; Rachel Nicole Lawson [Everystudent]; Emily Williams McElroy [Sacrament]; Andrew Miller [A Field and a Fire]; Tess Montana [Pretty Lips]; William Rieppe Moore [Before the Bird Went Weightless]; Katie Murphy [To Love and to Cherish]; Avery Myers [Heron]; Raina Nief [Escaping Consumerism]; Hannah Purdy [October, 1938]; Elizabeth Rees [Reflection]; Amber Rookstool [Off the Blue Ridge Parkway towards Alleghany]; Calvin Ross [Forest Soliloquy; Keeper of the Plains]; Amanda Sawyers [On Funerals and Family Reunions]; Hannah Schean [The Eye of the Night]; Lacy Snapp [Fear of Getting Wet]; Kalliope Strapp [Masculine vs Feminine]; Adam Timbs [Blackberry Picking; Spring’s First Rain]; Katie Watts [Downed Logs; Over Grown]; Alexis Whitaker [Interruption]; Ashlyn York [Manhandling] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1044/thumbnail.jpg

Sam Campbell [Nightwatchers; Waffle House]; Brynne Carlisle [Better to be Pissed Off, Than to be Pissed On]; Elizabeth Chapman [Communication]; Megan Cruey [Wearing Hajib in London: The Tale of a Bond Formed Abroad]; Jessica Dunker [The Sound of Color]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Conjuring; Measures of Necessity]; Olivia Ellis [Jungle Fever]; Matthew LA Gilbert [A Conversation With Tamara Baxter]; Lia Hall [A Bookish Love]; Amber Howard [Eve’N Adam]; Kayla Ireson [The Rebuff of Discovery]; Abby Lewis [0.6 Inches; Over the Shoulder of the Moon; Sentries of the Cemetery]; Dillon McCroskey [Paralysis Under Popcorn Ceilings]; Micah McCrotty [Cartography; The Grey Hawk]; Rieppe Moore [Kindle Gathering; Lines Held in Husk]; Raina Nief [Untitled (Blue quilt)]; Hannah Oakes [I’ll Have the Steak]; Emma Owens [Ella Va, Poco a Poco; She Goes, By and By]; Emily Price [Earthworm Exodus; Greenville, TN; Styrofoam]; Lizzy Rees [Untitled (bag with rifle)]; Amber Rookstool [A Goddess’s Hysteria; Cat Scratches; Shaking Ground; Tierra Temblorosa]; Dayton Sheffield [Three Seconds]; Lacy Snapp [Heart Pine; Red Oak; Roble Rojo]; Zoey Thomas [Juliana] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1045/thumbnail.jpg

Cheston Axton [Dropping One Hundred and Twenty Feet in Four Seconds]; Matthew Bennett [Meltdown #?]; Jessica Dunker [Border of Success]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Roan Mountain Rain]; Scottie Garber-Roberts [Scenes in the Life of a Modern Woman]; Haley Grindstaff [Ad Astra]; G. Johnson [The Pool]; Abby N. Lewis [4th of July; Someone’s in the Attic]; Alex Mauger [Gollum Sonnet]; Dillon McCroskey [Do You Hear the Creek Talking?; Fever Dream]; Harley Mercadal [A Contemporary Experience of Death; A Trailer’s Secret; Grad School Conversations; Una experiencia contemporaránea de la muerte; Unforgiven]; William Rieppe Moore [Night Watch; The scent of early morning coffee clouds the dawn]; Matthew Powers [Star Shells; The Ruins of God’s Corpse]; Emily Price [Collards and Turmeric; Flowering Weeds in Late Spring; Fruit, Stone, and Soil]; Amber Rookstool [Autumn-Colored Memory; Once upon a Time a Girl Believed in Magic; There Is a Yellow Rose on the Scroll of My Violin]; Dayton Sheffield [Under the Hummingbird’s Wing]; Trevor Stanley [Be My Baby; Boys Can’t Wear Makeup]; Sam Campbell [An Interview With Darius Stewart]; Zoey Thomas [Lilliana]; Emily Williams [California Butterflies] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1046/thumbnail.jpg

Matthew Powers [Uncle Ed]; Samantha Matney [The Secret Heart: A Memoir of My Grandfather Thurman Cooper’s Life]; Amara Bunten [Ode to Pudding Tane: A Life Well Lived and Poem to Commemorate It]; Amara Bunten [Storyteller]; Tuck Ledbetter [Autumn in Fall Branch, Tennessee]; Madison Stacey [Ultraviolet Thoughts]; Emily Wilson [Lover’s Quarrel]; Zoe Williford [they don’t like you when you’re sad]; AQ Hanna [half-lives]; Claire Webb [Bachata Songs]; Hannah Smith [A Comprehensive Study on Loneliness & the Tide]; Ethan Walker [the divine masculine]; Briana Presley [My Barbies are Disfigured, Not Dismembered]; Claire Webb [The Remnants of Julia Davis]; Kelsey Guy [Build Up, Break Down]; Tyler Wick [On Friends Both Dead and Dying]; Ethan Walker [Bodies Don't Sing], Tuck Ledbetter [Epistle]; Jonathan Stokely [A Thing Out of Place]; Camille Hagelberg [on not knowing]; Hannah Smith [Pavlov’s Lament]; Matthew Powers [Whitehackle]; Aly Puckett [Spookycorn]; Barbara Bell [Kimchi Pot with Lid]; Barbara Bell [Opossum]; Elijah Sells [Self Portrait with Bloody Nose]; Ethan Martinez [Eye]; Goreti Rodriguez [Copper Bug]; Kassidy Albert [Follow]; Kassidy Albert [Out of Bounds]; Kayla Byrd [Untitled]; Kristeen Beasey [Legend of Robert Johnson]; Laree McMurray [Who]; Laura Heath [Hare with Fork]; Lauren Whipple [The Killing of a Sacred Dear]; Rachel Belcher [Still Life with Game, Fruit]; Victoria Neal [Nautical Teacup]; Emma Sheedlo [Spiral]; Elias Murphy [My Gods are old]; Matthew Curry [Realm of Spirits]; Yanik Lazarov [THE CONTRACT]; Gabriel Davis [The Forgotten Dwarf]; Camille Hagelberg [a planet, a bluebird, a landscape]; Haley Jordan [ORCHIDS]; Haley Jordan [PRIVILEGE]; Tuck Ledbetter [Self-Portrait]; Emma Sheedlo [Citrinitas]; Emma Sheedlo [pansies and withered violets]; Tucker Jones [Willow on the Shore]; Claire Webb [Vincent’s Sunflowers]; Jonathan Stokely [Tulip Trees]; Jonathan Stokely [Outside the Holy City]; Tyler Wick [It is Just and Right to Steal Kombucha from Whole Foods]; Ethan Walker [Wind Down]; Abigail Wolfenbarger [Morning Dew] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1047/thumbnail.jpg

Emily Price [Editor’s Note]; Micheal Bumgarner [Artist’s Statement]; Emrie Gilbert [“The Sins of the Fathers Visited upon the Children,” or How I Lived More-or-Less Openly Queer in the Southern Baptist Church]; Korbin Rhue [Playing Gods: An Aspiring Author’s Guide to Creating a Fantasy World That Feels Real to Your Readers]; Kylee Phalen [Prodigal Daughter: A Queer Christian’s Open Letter to the Church]; Ethan Walker [Hit]; Wendy Gourley [Seeing in the Dark]; Elias Murphy [Who I Am]; Andy Demczuk [Lesdiguières]; Amara Bunten [Method Acting]; Sappho Stanley [Like a Bosch]; Wendy Gourley [Butterflies]; Courtney Harvey [roolF eht no sI gniR ehThe Ring Is on the Sink]; Michelle Bravender [Forgotten Magic]; Emily Katt [The Moon-Eyed People]; Phi Hagelberg [Honeysuckle]; AQ Hanna [love, again]; Emma Sheedlo [corrosion]; Hannah Smith [Metacarpal Melancholy]; Hannah Smith [My Mother's Blessing]; Holly Todaro [A Witness, a Testimony]; Sappho Stanley [To the Dried McDonald's Fry in my Bag]; Andy Demczuk [AR for the Ears™]; Phi Hagelberg [a shell-shaped brain]; Phi Hagelberg [where I go when I masturbate]; Phi Hagelberg [A Year or Two Ago]; Chloe Philpot [blessing your hometown]; Chloe Philpot [I SEND MY CONDOLENCES TO THE SOUTH BUT LOVE IS SWEET AND I WANT TO TASTE IT]; Emrie Gilbert [Elegy for my Sibling]; Emrie Gilbert [grave-marker journey]; Emrie Gilbert [Hunter's Blessing]; Amara Bunten [her body is a graveyard]; Emily Katt [To Prepare]; Lilith Erbach [Eden: A Series of Haikus]; John Tipton [The Crash of a Wave]; Tuck Ledbetter [To Thomas Merton]; Tanner Linkous [Turning Off]; Tyler Wick [Late May 2014, the Day after a Storm]; Tyler Wick [An Act of Cleaning]; Tyler Wick [Everyone's Father Is a Carpenter] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1048/thumbnail.jpg

Chris Walonski [Superstition]; translation by Cindy Castle [Superstición]; Leticia Pizzino [Unlocking Hearts]; Amara Bunten [Deep River, Shallow Water]; Holly Todaro [Salvatore Elboro]; translation by Allen C. López [Salvatore Elboro]; Courtney Harvey [A Letter]; Cassie Selleck [Past Time]; translation by Rachel Reid [Pasa Tiempo]; Rhea Norris [Lying in Plain Sight: Deception through an Eating Disorder Lens]; Michelle Bravender [Life Half Lived]; Diane Mallett-Birkitt [I Am That Mom]; Donna Paulson [Barren Voices]; Zach Hicks [Amnion]; Emily Price [beestings]; Mallory Spisak [Annihilations]; Emily Price [ars protestor]; Jessica Dunker [Short Supply] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1049/thumbnail.jpg

AQ Hanna [dream journal]; AQ Hanna [diario de sueños]; AQ Hanna [in the car, alone], AQ Hanna [June]; AQ Hannah [July]; Cade Campbell [Young Love]; Cade Campbell [Amor Juvenil]; Hannah Smith [Anesthetic Love Song]; Hannah Smith [Canción de Amor Anestesiada]; Claire Webb [i'm sorry all you bath lovers]; Claire Webb [Moonwalker]; Claire Webb [Serenity]; Claire Webb [I wasn't There the Night He Died]; Elizabeth Carpenter [Constellations]; Elizabeth Carpenter [On This Farm]; Elizabeth Carpenter [In Their Narrative]; Rachel Kincaid [Morning Glories]; Ben Bilderback [Edward Hopper's Nighthawks]; L.C. Francis [Diary of a Trans Girl]; L.R. Tipton [Thank You]; L.R. Tipton [I Miss You]; Abigail Wolfenbarger [Fluoxetine (20mg)]; Raven Rhue [Framed]; Raven Rhue [Bath]; Raven Rhue [The Need for Brevity]; Emma Sheedlo [in November I burn monsters]; Emma Sheedlo [Roadside Cycles]; Emma Sheedlo [an open letter to my black pumps (and the girl who wore them)]; Hayden Cogdell [Caustic]; Hayden Cogdell [Chlorine]; Hayden Cogdell [From the Tunnel, I Heard Death]; Hayden Cogdell [Hum]; Hayden Cogdell [The Rite of Rot]; Percy Smalygo [honeysuckle leaves caught between your teeth]; Percy Smalygo [american reckoning]; Percy Smalygo [perseus]; Percy Smalygo [you're doing fine]; Eleanor Flory [char.lady]; Liam McCroskey-Shope [Flowers]; Liam McCroskey-Shope [The Old, The True]; Liam McCroskey-Shope [My Home in Seymour]; Alexis Calain [Condemned be the Fruit]; Alexis Calain [Roe to Rights]; Alexander Brown [God Bless Appalachian Modernization]; Alexander Brown [Kick of Love]; Sierra Arguello [Hallowed Be Thy Kingdom]; Sierra Arguello [Unfinished Set]; Sierra Arguello [Where Ends Meet]; Sierra Arguello [Why I Don't Let Go]; Abby Clement [History]; Abby Clement [Home]; ACE [Who Am I?]; Kelsey Ann Guy [HATE: HATE]; Kelsey Ann Guy [Reality Check]; Kelsey Ann Guy [I Know My Ending]; Remy Indigo [Glass Houses]; Camille Hagelberg [I only have one plastic hairtie, so I have to do this when it snaps]; Camille Hagelberg [I]; Camille Hagelberg [overlapping folds]; Camille Hagelberg [october euphoria clouds]; Eleanor Weedman [I Am]; Eleanor Weedman [Radio]; Eleanor Weedman [Sunday]; Eleanor Weedman [Asphalt]; Elias Murphy [Ineffable Love]; Elias Murphy [Micheal Knowles]; Madeline Rodenberg [My Mother is a Fish]; Madeline Rodenberg [Rosemary's Baby]; Dominique Snedeker [Primal Instincts of Childbirth]; Dominique Snedeker [Seasonal Delirium]; Dominique Snedeker [Time Plays Tricks]; Haleigh Almbarak [Self Portrait 3]; Haleigh Almbarak [Supermarket Waltz]; Haleigh Almbarak [We Call This Girlhood]; Cal Blagg [Near Yet Far]; Cal Blagg [QPR], Cal Blagg [The North Calls]; Iris Caldwell [Sunny Summer Afternoon]; Iris Caldwell [Twilight Zone]; Iris Caldwell [Twilight Zone]; Iris Caldwell [When Losing a Friend]; Oliver Gragg [the cat and the finch]; Keeley Michael Cook [The Necessity of Coincidence]; Laken Greene [The Schoolgirl Revelation]; Laken Greene [Your Alzheimer's]; Laken Greene [Youthful Skin]; Morgan Fellers [Uriah’s Reprisal]; Elliot Lucey [Vampling]; Amanda Demirović [Fragments of Home]; Rebekah Autumn Gobble Standbridge [Tree Bark]; Laree McMurray [Conversation Piece]; Ava Martin [Golden Eagle]; Elizabeth Rowe [Home]; Callie Honaker [Eyes on Me]; Kathryn Ford [Aphrodite's Fountain]; Nathan Lanning [No Color]; Goreti Lopez [Transformation]; Donald Miller [Making Peace with the Past]; Nathan Wurmser [Creation]; Carson Haley [Requiem]; Rebecca Cox [Model Audi R8]; Morgan Bakaletz [There's Yearnin' in the River]; Blake San [Curio]; Suzi Peter [Going Insane Under Carnival Lights at the Tennessee Valley Fair]; Elisabeth Denis [Smoke]; Nicholas Artrip [Interlude in Numbers]; Elias Murphy [How to be a Man]; Briana Presley [Uncanny]; Quinn Daniels [FWD: ENGL 2120 002 — Messed Up, May Not Make It To Class]; Abby Clement [Dust Bunnies]; Elias Murphy [Sisyphus’ Notice]; Claire Webb [Lady]; Claire Webb [Birria Tacos]; Colby Lee Dugger [Little Lord Hellbender]; Claire Webb [The Lighter]; Claire Webb [When the Rain Comes Down on Leitchfield Road]; Raven Rhue [Where Words Fail]; Adeline Rosebush [Wraith of the Grave]; Gabriel Tabor [Of Gorro, Protector of Lorhèa]; Polaris Storm [The Deer of Nightshade]; Anonymous [The Chipped Beak of Birds]; Emma Sheedlo [The Goddess of Magnolia Valley]; Judges’ Biographies

Excerpt: Having the skills and knowledge to adequately respond to technology-based information demands has never been more important. When the library at East Tennessee State University was opened in 1999, it was the first new academic building that had been constructed on the campus in a number of years.