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

Read
Photo of Janice N. Harrington

Janice N. Harrington

Janice N. Harrington’s latest book, Yard Show, is forthcoming from BOA Editions. Harrington teaches at the University of Illinois.

Poetry

Fall 2013

Defeat

By Janice N. Harrington

The fist says:  Break—if you choose to. The fist says:  Weaker the men, stronger the mob. The fist says:  The woman whose face has borne a man's knuckles              will flinch even in moonlight. […]