Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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May 1, 2020

Goldhound

By Atsuro Riley

The old master (kneeling) mastered me gave good and goad would hie me forth (unsnicked my choke-chain) sicced me loose —  ‘Go birddog you some marvels’ [reaping] Dew-sparks galaxifying the crabgrass […]

May 1, 2020

Permeable

By Elizabeth Bradfield

 — after Leah Wong, from Cape Cod Below us: water (fresh lens). And below that: a different water (salt soused). This youngest end of a glacier-spat spit, this outwash plain, grains […]