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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

Poetry

Aeneas at Carthage from “The Aeneid”

By Virgil, translated by Robert Fitzgerald

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Gnomic Variations for Kenneth Burke

By Howard Nemerov

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First Light

By Howard Nemerov

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In Memory of the Master Poet Robert Browning

By Howard Nemerov

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Marvell

By Howard Nemerov

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A Woman Standing in the Surf

By David Wagoner

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The Captive Air of Chandipur

By Jayanta Mahapatra

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Again, One Day, Walking by the River

By Jayanta Mahapatra

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Fiction

Rudolfio

By Valentin Rasputin, translated by Helen Burlingame

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Drama

Fire at Luna Park: Transcriptions for Four Instruments in Five Scenes

By Theodore Faro Gross

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Personally Speaking

Passage from Egypt: Fragments of an Imaginary Autobiography: I

By Ihab Hassan

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Editorial

Editorial: New Words for Old

By Galbraith M. Crump

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Book Reviews