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Poetry


JUSTIN RIGAMONTI | NOTHING

MICHELLE BITTING| Maybe Red Devils Run from My Heart

TALIA PINZARI| Dutiful Keepers

KEN HOLLAND | Breach

JOSEPH BYRD| Son of a Cop

MICHELLE STOLL | The Slip

GRACE MCGOVERN | Flexion

SHARON DU| Haining Funeral

STACI HALT | God and Everybody

​MAYA MIRACLE GUDAPATI | The Dreamworld Radicalizes

RIVKA CLIFTON | Transistor

KUHU JOSHI | ANTELOPES

JENNIFER MOLNAR | Contact binary

MCKINLEY JOHNSON | Before He Leaves Me

​JOHN MUELLNER | MY BOSS'S BOSS ASKS IF I'M A TOP OR A BOTTOM

AMANDA GAINES | AN ANGEL CONTEMPLATES GROWING UP

MEGAN MERCHANT | We will pretend this is more than a poem (isn't it though)?




Fiction

DAWN MILLER | Shark Boy





Creative Nonfiction

CANDICE KELSEY | Girl with a Canoe

JOHN JACOBSON | Dancing With Louise Glück



Visual Poetics


GBOLAHAN BADMUS |the boys with smiles the colour of mango pulp


























Book Reviews


SHIRLEY DEES | "Ghosts and Grief: Navigating Moral Creedence in Anbara Salam’s The Salvage" 

ISAAC RANDEL| “Wild Soft Hope": The Beauty of Endurance in Donika Kelly’s The Natural Order of Things





Vol. 16, Fall 2025



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