Category: Features

Gilded Machismo: Performed and Punctured Masculinity in Alex Espinoza’s The Sons of El Rey

Alex Espinoza’s The Sons of El Rey captures the generational aspirations and labors of the Vega family, and its men, bringing forward into the light what is confined to the shadows—shadows of the...

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Balancing Conflict and Empathy in Memoir: An Interview with Jeannie Vanasco

Austin LaVigne: Thank you, Jeannie, so much for coming and for being here for this interview for Phoebe journal. You are our 2026 spring judge, which is super exciting, and we’ll have those...

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Ignite

Daniel Lurie2026 Poetry Spring Contest Winner There’s nothing as lonely as the long claw of a train horn.  Like a tail, three boxcars trail in its wake, the first stuffed  with spotted loons...

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DANIELO HOME MOVIES [Last night, in bed, I heard the ocean]

Ja’Net Danielo Last night, in bed, I heard the ocean. Myear against the pillow, I heard waves. Like the thick whoosh & pulse of a womb, in &out of my ear, it moved. I felt it in my...

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Jupiter Window

Adriana Grant...

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Writing From Death and Distance: An Interview with Diane Seuss

Taylor Franson-Thiel: So, we’re just super grateful and excited to be talking to you. I was so excited when you agreed to be our judge. It felt like we took a risk on asking you, because...

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Art Gallery, 55.1

“Kickstarter” by Devon Balwit Cut Paper Collage “Girl With a Pearl Hoop” by Amuri Morris Oil Paint “Taurus Sun” by Ava Bergen Digital Photography of Model Tamika...

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55.1

Purchase a copy of 55.1 here. Fiction Easy-Care by Chey Dugan Crawford by Chris Edmonds Cryptids of Ohio by Sydney Koeplin The Memory Cranes by Kelly Murashige39mg Tar by Erika Niemi Clay Town by...

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54.2

2025 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Two Burials by Jumaana Abdu 2025 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner Notes on Property by Esther Ra 2025 Spring Poetry Contest Winner Bestiary by Seth Peterson Read...

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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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