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Fall 2024

Fall 2024. Vol. 47 No.2

Poetry

Contest Winner

Fundament

By Sasha Pickering
Winner of the 2023 Foster Poetry Prize / / Reciprocity says let me love you and I’ll let you love me. I’ll taste your criticisms so long as you’ll lick my praises....

Matching Red Flower Barbie Sundress, a Parting Gift

By Kimberley Orton
Dear Artist, / This piece reminds when I was little, I found a songbird bleeding from its mouth under my window. Lost direction. My first deathtouch. First brush. Choke (d) chirp. I...

the night sky is an arcade game

By Anne Baldo
the night sky is an arcade game, pixelated with stars. we bleed ultraviolet, nova hearts, sunspots in our eyes: clutch for cosmic strings. divided by quarters, by phases & cycles of hope....

Reviews

Pigeon Woman by May Swenson

Reviewed by Gary Lemco

Nightlight by David Barrick

Reviewed by SJ Grimes

Letdown by Sonia Greenfield

Reviewed by Jeri Theriault

The Truth is Told Better This Way by Liz Worth

Reviewed by Melanie Janisse-Barlow

Throwing the Diamond Hitch by Emily Ursuliak

Reviewed by Michael Roberson

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