Autumn 1946 | Journal

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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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Editor’s Notes

Editorial: The 1946 Short Story Prize Contest

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Poetry

False Country of the Zoo

By Jean Garrigue

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Mary Winslow

By Robert Lowell

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At a Bible House

By Robert Lowell

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The First Sunday in Lent

By Robert Lowell

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Grandmother

By Byron Vazakas

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Palisades Park: 1913

By Byron Vazakas

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Fiction

You Can Wreck It

By Walter Elder

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You Never Go Back to Sleep

By Arthur Mizener

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Nonfiction

Book Reviews