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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

Cynthia Arrieu-King

Explaining the Sublime
Tacey Atsitty

Vail Her Stallion; Round Our Wrists
William Fuller

From My Windows
Brenda Hillman

The Elements are Mixed in Childhood
Benjamin Landry

Waver
Alex Lemon

Your Life is The Bed I’m Gonna Lay Down In
Amit Majmudar

Steep Ascension
Philip Metres

The Iraqi Curator’s PowerPoint
Lee Sharkey

Temper as a Porcupine; Nothing but her Velvet Self; His Undoing
David Welch

The Forest Was Destroyed by the Introduction of Grazing Goats

Fiction

Kris Faatz

The Sphere of Time
Daniel Peña Garcia

Flying Mexicans
Bryan Hurt

My Other Car Drives Itself
Andrew Roe

The Riot and Rage that Love Brings
Bryan Shawn Wang

We Raised Them

Essay

Rebecca Gould

Packing My Library: Benjaminian Fragments of a Peripatetic Life
Jeff McMahon

Taking Pictures
Mary Ruefle

My Private Property
Sejal Shah

Deluxe

Review

Joelle Biele

When Time is Running Out: John Koethe’s ROTC Kills
Jesse Donaldson

Generation B-ovine: Sam Byers’ Idiopathy
Sean Patrick Hill

No Greater Darkness: A Review of In Time’s Rift
Anna Journey

Alchemic Kitchens: On Hannah Gamble’s Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast
Anna Journey

What Is Left but Obsession: On Allison Benis White’s Small Porcelain Head
Lori A. May

Life, Edited: Sarah Pinder’s Cutting Room
Mira Rosenthal

Alice Oswald’s Memorial and the Reinvention of Translation
Ryan Teitman

All Things Are Things: Things That Are by Amy Leach
G. C. Waldrep

The Recovery Project Project