Atmospheric

Poetry Maureen Thorson

This place is lousy with candelabra,

the expected dust

and simulacra of violence......

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Fall contests! $1000s in prizes + publication

Winter Fiction Contest: judged by Caitlin Horrocks.

Greg Grummer Poetry Award: judged by Dan Beachy-Quick.

FIRST EVER! Nonfiction Contest: judged by Shauna Cross....

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Rearview Mirror

Nonfiction Lori May

Crossing the neutral ground through the tunnel, or one of the bridges, is like holding one's breath. Time seems to stop. Space does not exist. The matter of...

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Hank: a book review

Book Review Daniel D'Angelo

I have no love (nor hate, to be fair) for country music or folk singers, and zero involvement in their history. I have, therefore, no idea who Hank...

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How We Respond is What It Means

Poetry Marc McKee

In this time it is impossible not to love

at least one monster. Venom laces the air,

you are in a house with

the feeling of every light in...

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Early in the Field

Poetry Grant Souders

Early in the field—

I trace horizon where field makes horizon

gnashed with earth, scavenge for pieces in rubble...

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Ships Before Me

Poetry Grant Souders

Ships before me

meet land

meet indigenous woods

of which they have no knowledge....

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Blunt Not the Heart

Fiction Jim Wyatt

But there was one thought that he couldn’t shake from his mind. He pictured Peg with bloodied, four-fingered hands trying helplessly to pick up her own thumbs....

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Jericho Brown’s PLEASE

Blog K. Goodkin

As books of poems go, Please, Jericho Brown’s first book, is especially unconcerned with subtlety. This is the book’s biggest weakness, though also perhaps...

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Brain Damage

Poetry Eric Burger

I remember once I clung to a massive accordion-folded curtain in a hotel in Boston, looking out at dangerous weather sweeping in off the Atlantic. My room was...

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