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

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August 15, 2010

The Short of It

By Cody Walker

About five months ago I wrote a brief, of sorts, on speed. (Let me rephrase: I wrote about the virtues of speed, in short fiction and film.) I promised, at […]

July 10, 2010

July 10: Clerihew Day

By Cody Walker

It’s possible — OK, likely — that my life as an even semi-serious poet was ruined by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Because once I started writing clerihews, once I started concocting […]