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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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Christopher Phelps

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Christopher Phelps studied physics and philosophy at MIT before poetry (be)came correct. His work appears or is forthcoming in magazines including Awl, FIELD, Lumina, New Republic, and in the anthology Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality.

Poetry

Fall 2012

Stars by Other Means

By Christopher Phelps

No branch, no twig, no bark spot bare Of steady, twinkling lights applied As to a mummy, this tree an anti-effigy Of nothing left to resemble or resent This tree […]

Fall 2012

Nursing Home; Embodiment

By Christopher Phelps

Nursing Home

Oh, the echoes
Lalia our endpoints
Know, babies and
The demented

Christopher Phelps

Christopher Phelps studied physics and philosophy at MIT before poetry (be)came correct. His work appears or is forthcoming in magazines including Awl, FIELD, Lumina, New Republic, and in the anthology Collective […]