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

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Andrew Collard

Andrew Collard is the author of Sprawl (Ohio University Press, 2023), winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. He currently lives with his son in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches writing at Grand Valley State University.

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

Lo-Fi Citadels

By Andrew Collard

Now that I have been estranged from them, the corridors and signals of the grid seem little more than an intrusion on the landscape and the people commuting through it, […]

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

Bus Stop Promenade

By Andrew Collard

it’s not as if I chose it this bag of organs I carry badly or so I think before the crowd of watchful laborers and joggers congregating at the bus […]