The success of a young contributor was as precious as if I had myself written his paper.
POETRY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place
Second Place
Third Place
POETRY CONTEST WINNERS
First Place
The Profundities and Other Poems
By Maggie Millner
All day we had been dating, though it couldn’t last, the log raft of my lust already bumping on toward other shores.
Second Place
Not All of Us Get to Be Ghosts
By Leila Chatti
I’d like to be let go, after, like a balloon wafting toward heaven—but I don’t say it, can’t allow my absence the words.
Third Place
Another Poem with Deer in It
By Christie Towers
Because there isn’t a poem in America without deer in it, I send you photos from the road of their every possible crossing.
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
NARRATIVE 10
NONFICTION
If I Owned a Gun
By Andre Dubus III
On the afternoon my father nearly killed me, his oldest son, we were installing new trigger guards on his guns.
NONFICTION
The Third Round
By Josip Novakovich
How do you redeem yourself after a murder? This man may have succeeded. Maybe he’d even saved lives.
NARRATIVE 10
A Short Chat
with Daniel Mason
Back in college, one of my stories was rejected by a journal as “theatrical and self-limiting.”
FICTION
FICTION
FICTION
FICTION
Paris in the Dark
By Robert Olen Butler
My hand was still in my pocket, on my pistol. At the present time, small talk would be preferable to assassination.
FICTION
The Arms of Saturday Night
By Cally Fiedorek
They hadn’t yet kissed, or even talked that much, but late in the school year she’d felt his eyes on her.
FICTION
The Winter Soldier
By Daniel Mason
Lucius: the name, chosen by his father after the legendary kings of Rome, itself was mockery; he was anything but light.
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
Sharing and Other Poems
By John Freeman
In the mouth of Saint Sulpice two men, three women picnic away from the rain, a man in rags beside them sleeping.
POETRY
If the Shoe Fits and Other Poems
By Bob Hicok
They have a simple, uncomplicated message, and I long to be a simple, uncomplicated person.
POETRY
The Dream of Adoration and Other Poems
By David Lee
The voice in the dream asked me what it was I wanted most of all.
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
The Fine Arts and Other Poems
By Ursula K. Le Guin
I miss the many that I was, my lovers, my adventurers, the women I went with to the Pole.
POETRY
Country
By Robin Myers
I love it in the way I love the first crushed fruits spooned into me before words and before choice: I can’t take them out of me and wouldn’t think to.
POETRY
An Elegy Beginning and Ending with a Mouse
By Karisma Price
I won’t remember that little mouse, that furry fist of ears and eyes blacker than omission.
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2018-09
By Various Artists
New laughs from John Klossner, Mary Lawton, Mick Stevens, P. C. Vey, and Kim Warp.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2018-08
By Various Artists
New toons by Pat Byrnes, Felipe Galindo Gomez, Charlie Hankin, Victoria Roberts, and Mick Stevens.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2018-07
By Various Artists
Great new art and humor from Kaamran Hafeez, Mary Lawton, Olivia de Recat, Ellis Rosen, and Trevor Spaulding.
