Nick Molbert
Nicholas Molbert Living After the Theory of Everything It gives me insight to reconcile bafflements long-held, like mangoes and poison ivy sharing a plant family,and it gives me the prescience [...]
Kim Winter Mako
Kim Winter Mako Right-dog Vs. Left-dog Eight lines lit up and Tracey reached for the phone. Aurelio pushed her hand away. “Watch me,” he said. He started with the top [...]
Josh Myers
Josh Myers What Fascism Means to Me By the shrinking border of the forest there’s a bird that’s learned to imitate a chainsaw. In a language I’ve forgotten, power is [...]
Hema Padhu
Hema Padhu Silent Downpour It’s been raining for three days straight. It’s monsoon season, and the streets of Mumbai are flooded but mercifully empty as I walk to work this [...]
Carol Duran Quinn
Carol Duran Quinn Darién The tracks began to curve, and there was a cry in the curve of them, but it was not the sound of brakes. Steel bore down [...]
Sam Sax
sam sax - Winner, 2016 Poetry Contest From contest judge, Melissa Kwasny: "It is the poem's immediacy that strikes me each time I read it, a north-wind immediacy that is [...]
Daniel O’Brien
Daniel T. O'Brien - Runner-Up, 2016 Poetry Contest Self-Portrait as Token [Offering] First, they took me from my mother and dressed me in my golden casing. I was directed into [...]
Lisa Buchanan
Lisa K. Buchanan - Runner-Up, 2016 CNF Contest A Bedtime Story From Your Future Sometimes you’re the pursued, screaming around the moonlit hills in a silver sled; more often, you’re [...]
Hadara Bar-Nadav
Hadara Bar-Nadav Sheet What contains and cancels the strange, still body. Veil, shroud, shred. Scratch of fabric that roars. Drape the mirrors so you cannot see your seeing, so form [...]
Michelle Bitting
Michelle Bitting An Hour North of Lee Vining, California Who remembers where we stopped for jars of orange neon cheese and the tangled black knots of faux flies my father [...]
Samantha Deal
Samantha Deal Placeholders for a Father [Found During His Mother's Funeral] How else to explain those hands? How he sat in the front pew & held his fingers like [...]
Denise Jarrot
Denise Jarrott Doomsday Book next to a river that seems too dangerous to encounter the afternoon leisure town watching water watching rocks Joshua with a bag of cherries a book [...]