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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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Nonfiction

Fiction

The Nutcracker

By Tatsuo Nagai, translated by Robert Lyons Danly

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Flash Gordon

By L. Shapley Bassen

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The Little Ice Age

By Susan Herbert

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Five Love Poems

The Way He Turns

By Robert Bly

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The House

By Robert Bly

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The Pillow

By Robert Bly

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Black Tree Trunks

By Robert Bly

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Ferns

By Robert Bly

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Poetry

The Field

By Mark DeFoe

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Letter to a Cousin on His Twentieth Deathday

By William Hathaway

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Speaking of Sounds

By William Hathaway

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Consider

By Andrew Hudgins

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Epithalamium

By Sally Harris Sange

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At Night: Two Poems

Homecoming

By Aaron Kramer

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Nocturne

By Aaron Kramer

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Personally Speaking

Album of a European Year

By Stanley Kauffmann

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Book Reviews