Welcome back. The February 2009 issue of Defenestration has arrived!

February is that sad time of the year when all the snowmen we hired back in December go back to their temp agency. Many of them lost weight in the past couple of months. Some of them left a little yellower than the day they came in. But they’re always a big help in the winter months, and we save a ton of money on heating bills. We will miss them dearly.

Later this year we’re going to theme some of our issues. I’ll have more information on that next month, and I’ll make a formal announcement when the time comes up on our Facebook page and elsewhere. This won’t change our submission structure at all; we’ll continue to accept your poetry, prose, and artwork year-round, as usual.

This month features poems by Li Min Hua, Megan Roth, and Ricki Hunsinger; fiction by Andrew Porterfield, CJ Hallman, and Francisco Nieto Salazar; non-fiction by Andrei Trostel; artwork by Trebor Nehoc; and a new Defenestrati strip written by Adrian Siordia.

Enjoy!

—Andrew Kaye, editor-in-chief