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

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June 26, 2018

Scaffolding

By Dora Malech

[Continued from “Pros[onn]e[t]”] * Where the title of Nikki Wallschlaeger’s Crawlspace, published by Bloof Books in 2017, pointed the reader toward the collections’s subversive sonnet form as an enactment of both interiority […]

June 15, 2018

Pros[onn]e[t]

By Dora Malech

[Continued from “Crawlspace”] * Thinking about contemporary sonnets, shadow sonnets, American Sonnets, and so on and so[nnet] on, I’m fascinated both by the poems themselves and by what the poems […]

June 5, 2018

Crawlspace

By Dora Malech

[Continued from Age of Glass] * Face me in your sonnets so I can permanently grieve is really what the roses say to the antebellum purling dog tags of myself. […]