Majida Halaweh to you who look at me with pity in your eyes: i know your love for me makes you ask how i am but it does not extend beyond that. i know you sit around lamenting my...
“Beautiful Pali Woman” Digital art Manal Deeb is a Palestinian American visual artist born in Ramallah, Palestine and currently living in Fairfax, Virginia. Deeb’s artwork has been...
“Lonesome” Photography Anne Anthony is a digital collage artist living in North Carolina. Her artwork graced the covers of two literary journals, Cracked the Spine and Bartleby Snopes....
Phoebe Phelps I fell in love when I was twenty-nine and he was thirty-two, a respectable age difference. Preferable, actually, because they say men mature more slowly than women. And just in time...
“Pacific Waterleaf” Photography Talitha May is a Portland, Oregon based artist who teaches at Portland State University. Her work appears in Composition Studies, The Shanghai Literary...
p. hodges adams 2024 Poetry Spring Contest Winner the first hand had square knuckles, like a boy; the second hand could hold a teacup neatly; the third hand was furious. i’m getting ahead of...
Rebecca Bernard They agree to meet on instant messenger at midnight. He’s usually on AIM at that hour, gifted with a computer in his bedroom, but she must sneak to the family computer, mute the...
Sara Burge down our street screaming, his voice chasing like a pissy wasp. Sometimes he’s an Apache helicopter. Sometimes Baby’s a mouse on a rug. Sometimes their fights are a riff on last...
Dawn Miller Jack arrives home from university even though it’s not yet spring break. He’s thinner than before he left, his elbows pointed like the sharp angles of the engineering caliper he...
Samuel Ellington And the barn on my left reads get right with God. There’s a gravel-road token that we can make home. Cut grass, gasoline, and I laughed when they told me the Lord is three...
