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STORY OF THE WEEK
Occasions of Sin
By Sandra Scofield
Later, in college, I had to decide for myself about boys: Romance was a dead end but I thought sex would be fine.
POEM OF THE WEEK
Solstice Prayer
By Philip Metres
In the name of the middle, in the snow of the gloom, in the name of the straddle between road and home.
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Fall Issue
FICTION
FICTION
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Fall Issue
FICTION
The Fate of Others
By Richard Bausch
The old man looked over at him, not quite smiling. “I pissed in the fountain.” He heaved a long, slow sigh. “Twice.”
FICTION
OTP
By Ann Beattie
The babies were going to be triplets, but one
dematerialized.
The remaining ones are a boy and a girl.
FICTION
The End of Life
By Yoon Choi
He thinks with joy and conviction that the Japanese are his enemy. It is a wonderful thing to have an enemy.
FICTION
FICTION
FICTION
FICTION
Love Takes Hold
By Michael Croley
When he came back, the drinks freshened, she had slipped out of the dress. He was surprised by how unsurprised he was.
FICTION
The Letters
By Nicholas Delbanco
He had touched a nerve in her, a memory of what it felt like years before to be possessed by fiction and forcing a phrase into form.
FICTION
Naming
By Yelena Furman
I sensed that a name defined who I was and would be in the future. Renaming myself was a little like being reborn.
FICTION
iSTORIES
GO BEYOND
THE MFA
FICTION
Late Rumspringa
By Austin Smith
One morning, after chores were done, chores his boys used to do, Abraham Zimmerman told his wife that he was going to town.
iSTORIES
Toby and Cooper
By Tracy McCallum
Toby’s also got this pug dog that sits under his chair, with a harness that says Service Dog on it. It’s kinda plug-ugly, like him.
GO BEYOND
THE MFA
FEATURES
FICTION
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FEATURES
My Dear Friend
and Yours
By George Saunders
“What would Tobias Wolff do?” is a question that often appears in my mind at moments of duress.
FICTION
Flotsam
By Nancy Hale
It would never do to offend the conductor of a vessel containing the life not only of herself but of the being most precious to her.
NONFICTION
On Nancy Hale’s “Flotsam”
By Ann Beattie
The child does not yet know that having your facts straight won’t make life clear and protect you.
SPRING
CONTEST
WINNERS
First Place
Second Place
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SPRING
CONTEST
WINNERS
First Place
Grief
By David Rabe
He listened, standing motionless and attentive, to the silence, realizing that in compliance with an earlier impulse, he was listening for ghosts.
Second Place
Badger Mountain
By Ryan Cannon
Sky takes laps around the kitchen table with the child screaming into his ear. Nobody’s going to come all the way out here, not in the storm.
NARRATIVE OUTLOUD
Video
Reading Two Poems
By Donald Hall
The dog stopped and stared. A woman's long bare legs stretched up at the edge of the graveyard.
POETRY
CONTEST
WINNERS
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Second Place
Third Place
POETRY
CONTEST
WINNERS
First Place
Addendum and Other Poems
By Hannah Perrin King
On its string of starlight, the moon rose, a stomach of stone. In the yard, the coyotes yipped till it sunk.
Second Place
I Carried My Father Across the Sea
By Gbenga Adesina
He was a child. He was dead. He was the shaft of a Long-tailed Astrapia. He was a forest of bruise.
Third Place
Karyotype and
Other Poems
By Rebekah Denison Hewitt
I’m told I should rethink resolution. Let myself go darker. The way my body does—without permission.
CLASSICS
POETRY
POETRY
CLASSICS
The Joy of Writing and Other Poems
By Wisława Szymborska
I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools, blues for brooders.
POETRY
Wintercearig Waltz and Other Poems
By Kelli Russell Agodon
I add powdered sugar to the angel food cake,
Made with real angels,
I say to the shadows.
POETRY
By Land
By Tyree Daye
I’ve lived on dirt roads that bent and ended at a gate of pines, the dust skipped up didn’t make my mother look like a dream.
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
Presence and
Other Poems
By Dan Gerber
His mooseness was implacable, the light behind him from the trees.
POETRY
When I Lose and Other Poems
By Richard Kenney
When I have fears that we may cease, another genus losing its single species, then I lose speech.
POETRY
Ode to Left-Handedness and Other Poems
By Gregory Orr
So all I could do was cut in clumsy zigzags and feel like a fool.
POETRY
iPOEMS
iPOEMS
POETRY
A Soliloquy Would Imply That the Stage Is Empty
By Michael Wasson
I’m kneeling—praying for this sinner to be saved.
iPOEMS
Red
By Shangyang Fang
By the firewood door I halt and watch a monk, under plum boughs, sweeping flitting shreds of red.
iPOEMS
Priest Lake
By Christopher Warner
Oar blades, vast swirls of cirrus at dawn. The dead move within us in unmoored astronomies.
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2019-11
By Various Artists
New laughs from Pat Byrnes, Seth Fleishman, Mick Steven,
P. C.
Vey, and Kim Warp.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2019-10
By Various Artists
Great new toons by Pat Byrnes, Joe Dator, Andrew Dicus, Felipe Gomez Galindo, and Mick Stevens.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2019-09
By Various Artists
New art and humor by Pat Byrnes, Andrew Dicus, Drew Panckeri, Julia Suits, and Chris Weyant.
