Susannah Nevison – Preparing the Animal (Poetry)
Poetry Contest Winner Susannah Nevison Preparing the Animal I’ve been watching your hands for weeks, watching the rain gather its woolen shawl around the house, while you sharpen tools, lay [...]
Tobias Wray – Sci-fi Aubade (Poetry)
Poetry Contest Runner-Up Tobias Wray Sci-fi Aubade Say God breaks his covenant and floods return Manhattan to the deep where future fisherman dive for pearls. Say a diver blacks [...]
Xujun Eberlein – Clouds and Rain over Three Gorges (Nonfiction)
Nonfiction Contest Winner* *"Clouds and Rain over Three Gorges" was listed as a Notable essay in the Best American Essays of 2015 Xujun Eberlein Clouds and Rain over Three Gorges [...]
Nikki Moustaki – Big Blue (Fiction)
Fiction Contest Runner-Up Nikki Moustaki Big Blue Ren Holloway wanted the presidency of the South Florida Parrot Society so badly he wasn’t beyond poisoning John and Judy Conure’s birds. John [...]
Tori Malcangio – Ever Seen Sedona? (Fiction)
Tori Malcangio Ever Seen Sedona? I’m kneeled on the old woman’s green shag carpet, bubble-wrapping forty-three Tiffany- crystal miniature presidential busts from her china cabinet. Lance is across the [...]
Todd Davis – Cenotaph
Todd Davis Cenotaph I dream my dead father spends most of the afternoon’s hours stacking rock he gathers from the dried riverbed. Drought means he must carry five-gallon buckets to [...]
Joelle Biele – When You Were at Children’s I Wanted to Go Back to When
Joelle Biele When You Were at Children's I Wanted to Go Back to When you were small, we went to the garden store, the cart you sat, sometimes stood in, [...]
Michalle Gould – Dirge for a Dinosaur by Its Bones
Michalle Gould Dirge for a Dinosaur by Its Bones Longing impresses itself into the form of the world that surrounds it; replicating itself physically, in the image of the objects [...]
Marjorie Stelmach – Keeping
Marjorie Stelmach Keeping But I remain sad like a sunset [...]
Peter Cooley – And Then
Peter Cooley And Then all the little perishings! The little! More wounding to me than the evening news’ rat-a-tat-tat in other continents! The star inside the mayonnaise jar I find [...]
Edward Mayes – Mola Salsa
Edward Mayes Mola Salsa We remember now it was Luis Buñuel Portolés Stropping his razor in the first frames Of Un Chien Andalou, the moon split in two By a [...]
John Hoppenthaler – Bamboo
John Hoppenthaler Bamboo “She likes the big Bambú!” He’s grunting & singing off-key like an idiot frat boy, shit-eating grin on his arrogant George Walker Bush-looking face, & Oh, I [...]