Author: Phoebe Literature

Ozark Geography

Megan Blankenship This is the kind of place I grew up: as a child I thought it was a law that names of towns contain “rock”  or “mountain.” I knew four towns, and Little Rock was culture. ...

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Bartending Because Hot People Bartend

Kate Garcia and I want to be hot. I want to be hot in a girl way and a boy way. A bot way. A seventeen-year-old way and like my mom. So hot that the wheels fall off—I’m out of control! So hot I...

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The Worst Portland in America

Jordan Hamel Fraternal twin rivers womb the memorial plaza. A town in utero, pet food cannery,  chapel of ease, hockey rink,  camping store. We carried  folding chairs to the oxbow  behind the...

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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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