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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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Winter 2014

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Volume VII, Number 1

Poetry

Sarah Blackman

New Myths for the Republic of Family Life
Danielle Cadena Deulen

We Are Bored; American Curse
Kimiko Hahn

Circles and Breasts
George Kalamaras

Water Museum
Drew Milne

refrains
Liz Robbins

[the crab]; [the ram]
William Wright and Adam Vines

The Bloom, the Furnace, the Stars: An Elegy for Jake Adam York
John York

Fifty Cents

Fiction

Suzen Rita Chang

Dignity
Alberto Chimal

The Waterfall
Michael Czyzniejewski

The Nudist Contemplates Cannibalism
Lindsey Drager

The History of Risk and Restlessness
Mai Nardone

What You Bargained For
Nance Van Winckel

Excerpts from the novel EVER YRS

Essay

Mylène Dressler

Live Toy, Dead Toy
Gary Fincke

The Physics of Desire
Anne Germanacos

Worms, or AZ, my intellectual hero, wears a wig
K. E. Ogden

Self-Portrait as Playlists

Review

Gabriel Blackwell

On Love Among the Particles by Norman Lock
Vanessa Blakeslee

End of the Road: Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane
Amy Butcher

The Art of Losing: Sarah Manguso’s The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
Anna Journey

Gleaned from a Vacancy: On Victoria Chang’s The Boss
Jacqueline Kolosov

Intolerable Tenderness: A Review of Mary Szybist’s Incarnadine
Timothy Liu

On Obscenely Yours by Angelo Nikolopoulos
Jenn Mar

The Art of Failure: Memory and Apartheid
Maya Catherine Popa

Poems from the Mid-Apocalypse: A Review of Our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall