Abigail Ham 2023 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner I Fight and flight are the typical human reactions to threat, but they’re not the only possibilities. Children in general can’t fight or...
Maeve Barry 2023 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Janet lies in the bathtub with the phone shouldered to her ear. In a long lace dress with its back zipper open. It sags off her chest. She sits in her...
Julie Marie Wade Maybe it starts here: bright swatch of color behind the closet door, yellow as a fisherman’s slicker. The swatter, they called it, and you thought about it even when you weren’t...
Robin Babb “Utopia is uninhabitable. As soon as we reach it, it ceases to be utopia. As evidence of this sad but ineluctable fact, may I point out that we in this room, here and now, are inhabiting...
“Harvest Moon” “Hot Pink” “Fpainting” Elizabeth Schoonmaker ELIZABETH SCHOONMAKER is a multidisciplinary artist and lives in the Town of Plainfield in Upstate N.Y. Through her...
Phillip Crymble ——— for Robert Lowell At Roosevelt, the orderlies were forced to break your wrists — the large brown-paper parcel that you clutched against your breastbone heldin place...
“Stern” “Can you feel our pain” “Envisage” “Critical” “Autopilot” Aluu Prosper Born and raised in Nigeria, West Africa, PROSPER ALUU makes figurative and expressive...
J.C. Rodriguez By rolling together gray hairs, capers, nettles, & tuna in a page ripped from an old tabloid. A tube seared into existence from burnt dust & browned butter. It’s smokable,...
“There is a beauty that remains” “Every woman deserves” Kenneth Ricci KENNETH RICCI is a self-taught NYC artist who has been creating collages for the past seven years. In that time his...
p. hodges adams2023 Greg Gummer Prize Runner-Up come hear me, in my twenty-fifth yeari stopped having sex with gender i meanmy lovers all favored the vestibule of language outside the party i mean i...
