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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Spring 2014

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Volume VII, Number 2

Poetry

Lisa Ampleman

Kant the Nephrologist
Melissa Barrett

Our Hearts Knitting Together, Unholy
Gillian Conoley

Plath and Sexton
Jérôme Luc Martin

The Pines; The Hunter Fresco
Stephen Morrow

The New Buoyancy
Brianna Noll

Everything Beautiful Has a Name
Julie Sophia Paegle

Rx Redux; Lake Mead Ticker Tape
Maya Catherine Popa

Sinaia, Romania
Nathan Slinker

Springtime on the Family Farm; A Description of Town

Fiction

Adam Davies

Sheetman
Federico Falco translated by Sarah Viren

Elephants
Caitlin Fitzpatrick

Such Revenges
J.D. Hibbitts

Let What Comes Natural Fly
E.J. Levy

Talk to Her
T. Kira Madden

Souvenirs: An Excerpt
Yannick Murphy

Beauty Shot
Leigh Camacho Rourks

The Plague

Essay

Jacob M. Appel

Sudden Death: A Eulogy
T. Clutch Fleischmann

A Volume of Loss
A. Molotkov

The Endless Moon

Review

Vanessa Blakeslee

In the Belly of the Beast: Andri Snær Magnason’s LoveStar
Scott Esposito

We Are All the Result of Chaos: Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding
Emma Garman

A Debut Long Delayed: Muriel Rukeyser’s Savage Coast
Anna Journey

Burlesquing the Midwestern Gothic: On Mary Biddinger’s O Holy Insurgency
Benjamin Landry

Into Focus: Brenda Shaughnessy’s Our Andromeda
Ryan McDermott

History Boys: William Gass’s Middle C
A’Dora Phillips

Grief’s Dark Universe: The Art of Fado in A Brief History of Yes and Bough Down
Ben Purkert

Music In Motion: If One Of Us Should Fall
Roy Scranton

Not the Man But the Shadow He Leaves Behind: Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer
John Steen

Threat at the Fête: Dan Magers’ Partyknife
Ryan Teitman

One Kind of Menagerie: A Review of Ted Sanders’ No Animals We Could Name