Author: Phoebe Literature

A text that read “I love you” and a follow up

grace (ge) gilbert A text that read “I love you” and a follow up to qualify what that meant. That there is something familiar, like we’ve seen each other in a past life. The guilt of the dream...

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Missouri Pastoral 01

Brooke Spalding I’m angry when neighbors roll slow and talk                         about god through the salt-caked  mini-van...

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Shell Game

Apollo Chastain “You can win a pistol!!!” I remove the white chiclet gum,       which I have been chewing so long it’s lost flavor,   from under my tongue. I hand...

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Deboning

Alex Bortell I shed fistfuls. Natural poacher, confused when I’m born finless. You hold two catfish by the gills. Spear me in the Muskegon. The Cougar’s ashtray lined with buds. I sift through...

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54.2 Contest Winners

Poetry Judge: Corey Van Landingham Winner: Bestiary by Seth Peterson “Bestiary” captures the wonderfully mythical world created through a six-year-old’s imagination, as well as the gravity of a...

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Two Reviews of Corey Van Landingham’s Reader, I

Enjoy two lovely reviews of Corey Van Landingham’s Reader, I by our Poetry Editor & Assistant Poetry Editor. The Heritage of Marriage: A Review of Reader, I by Victoria Jean...

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Living Heartbeat by Heartbeat: An Interview with Halle Hill

Connor Harding: Welcome Halle! Thank you so much today for coming out and spending some time to talk with us about your process, and, of course, about Good Women. I thought we could start our...

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Chasing Joy and Dead Deer: An Interview with Aaron Burch

Faith Palermo: Thank you so much for speaking with us! I want to start off by asking a bit about your latest book, A Kind of In-Between. The memoir is a collection of shorter essays that capture...

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54.1

Purchase a copy of 54.1 here Fiction Roadkill by Naomi Brauner Forbidden Fruit by Shreya Fadia Into Each Waiting Pocket by Kindall Fredricks Young Tommy Jones by Grant Jensen Team Player by Shanley...

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Art Gallery, 54.1

“The Hedges” by Kel Hudson Watercolor and ink “Empire” by Albert John (A.J.) Belmont Drawing “Leaning House”  by Albert John (A.J.) Belmont Drawing...

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