Creative Nonfiction
Gary L. McDowell is the author of American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010) and co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press, 2010). His recent poems, essays, and…
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Poetry
Robert Evory is a creative writing fellow at Syracuse University and the Poetry Editor for Salt Hill and thepoetsbillow.org. He earned his Bachelor degrees from Western Michigan University in Creative…
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Fiction
Peter Vilbig is a writer and teacher in Brooklyn, New York. His most recent story, “Receptacle,” can be read in fall issue of the Saranac Review. His short fiction has appeared in Drunken Boat,…
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Poetry
Phillip Sterling’s most recent book is In Which Brief Stories Are Told, a collection of short fiction (Wayne State University Press, 2011). He is also the author of the poetry collection Mutual…
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Poetry
Jeanne Wagner is the recipient of several national awards, including 2011 Inkwell Prize and the 2011 Beullah Rose Prize from Smartish Pace. Her poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, RHINO,…
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Poetry
John Drury is the author of The Refugee Camp (Turning Point Books, 2011), as well as two earlier collections, Burning the Aspern Papers and The Disappearing Town, and two books about poetry, Creating…
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Creative Nonfiction
Yian Chen was born in Shanghai, China. He and his parents immigrated to the Chicago suburbs when he was little. He studied biology at Yale University and moved to Baltimore in 2008 to attend medical…
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Gerardo Mena is a decorated Iraqi Freedom veteran. He spent six years in Spec Ops with the Reconnaissance Marines and was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal with a V for Valor for multiple acts of…
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Poetry
Nicholas YB Wong earned his MFA at the City University of Hong Kong and is the author of Cities of Sameness. He is a finalist of New Letters Poetry Award and a semi-finalist of the Saturnalia Books…
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Creative Nonfiction
After receiving two degrees in English literature from Colorado State University, Jenny Martin moved back east and began a 23-year career in defense contracting. She currently works for an engineering…
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Fiction
When Nick Sawatsky isn't writing, he's studying writing at Hiram College. Or editing said writing or submitting to literary magazines or drooling over MFA program webpages. Or watching Here Comes…
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Creative Nonfiction
Kyle Bilinski lives in northern California where he works as a flight attendant and painting contractor. He recently received his MFA in Writing from Pacific University, and some of his stories and…
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Poetry
Peter Leight lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has previously published poems in Paris Review, Partisan Review, AGNI, and other magazines.
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Poetry
Sarah Giragosian is a PhD candidate in Contemporary North American Poetry and Poetics at SUNY Albany. Her poems are forthcoming or published in such journals as Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, and Measure,…
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Creative Nonfiction
Naomi Kimbell lives and writes in Missoula. Much of her work focuses on facets of mental illness as well as reflections on her declining status as part of the middle class. She earned her MFA in…
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Walking Around: The Sixth Wave of Extinctions
Poetry
Adam Scheffler grew up in Berkeley, received his MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa, and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Harvard. His work has appeared in the Colorado Review,…
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What I Watched On My Summer Vacation
Poetry
Martin Ott and John F. Buckley began their ongoing games of poetic volleyball in the spring of 2009. Poetry from their previous collaboration Poets’ Guide to America on Brooklyn Arts Press, has been…
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Fiction
Phillip Gardner’s stories have appeared in Euphony, New Delta Review, Interim, The North American Review and LIT. He is the author of two story collections, Somebody Wants Somebody Dead and Someone…
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Poetry
Philip Fried has published five books of poetry, the most recent being Early/Late: New and Selected Poems (Salmon, 2011). Publishers Weekly called this book "skillful and memorable," and Tim Liardet,…
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Fiction
Jordan Rossen’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Albion Review, Apalachee Review, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. He has received a Hopwood Award for short fiction from the University of…
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Nicholas YB Wong
A normal heart weighs 350g. Consider living
without one. Organs migrate, have new roles.
Kidneys pumping blood, pancreas counting
pulses, fluidity of grief sluicing forth and
back with lymph – it’s called evolution.
The Chinese eat animal viscera, shapes
supplementing shapes. Grilled duck hearts
on skewers, each a pendant, edible
confinement. What’s locked in the four
chambers if not sufferance crispy, sauced,
a story otherwise too cooked to be told.
Leave the heart to the past and the past
to a museum, 3/F, west wing, where it finds
its neighbors, all ill of systole. The hall
savaged by legato vibrato, a sound
-scape narrating the pain of being caged too
long by ribs. Blood needs nothing but
these false sounds to move on. Trust me.
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