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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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Poetry

Inga Abele

Conversation with the Night Woman, After That, Signs, Snare, The Life of the House
Ilya Kaminsky

That Map of Bone and Opened Valves
Carl Phillips

Almost Tenderly, Conquest, Tell Me a Story, Next Stop, Arcadia, The Life You Save
Kascha Semonovitch

Companion Species (II), La Faute, History, Natality, Gare du Nord

Short Fiction Contest Winners

Cara Blue Adams

I Met Loss the Other Day
Meghan Mayhew Bergman

Afterbirth
Nick Ripatrazone

The Bearberry Elegies

Review

Elaine Bleakney on John Rybicki

Review of John Rybicki’s We Bed Down into Water
Joseph Campana on Marjorie Garber

Review of Marjorie Garber’s Patronizing the Arts
Wendy Singer on Aravind Adiga

Review of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Daniel Torday on Sarah Manguso

Review of Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir

Interview

David Baker with Carl Phillips

A Conversation With Carl Phillips