Creative Nonfiction
Along with two books of travel essays—Guatemalan Journey (University of Texas Press) and Green Dreams: Travels in Central America (Lonely Planet)—Stephen Benz has published essays in Creative…
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A Busload of Banjo Players
Creative Nonfiction
Jon Pearson is a writer, speaker, and artist. He has been published in numerous publications and was nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize. He lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife and writes now…
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Poetry
Chris Souza lives and works in Massachusetts. Previous publications include: Gulf Coast, Bellingham Review, Connecticut Review, New Delta Review, West Branch, and Laurel Review, among many others. Her…
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Fiction
Nathan Alling Long lives in Philadelphia and teaches creative writing and literature at Stockton University. His work appears in over a hundred publications, include Tin House, Glimmer Train, Story…
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Poetry
JJ Mitchell is an essayist who writes widely on environmental and socio-political issues for the Huffington Post and other publications. His poems have either appeared or are forthcoming in Tar River…
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Fiction
Fredric Sinclair grew up in Connecticut and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Jersey Devil Press, Chelsea Station, and Long River Review, among others. He…
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Fiction
Caitlin Mullen is a first year student in the Stony Brook Southampton MFA program. She received an MA in English from NYU and a BA in English from Colgate University. She lives in Brooklyn, where she…
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Narcissus Brings Me Flowers
Poetry
Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and received her MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. The recipient of fellowships from Dickinson House and Quest Writers Conference and awards…
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Nocturne without Counterexample
Poetry
Jessica Goodfellow’s books are Mendeleev’s Mandala (Mayapple Press, 2015) and The Insomniac’s Weather Report (Isobar Press, 2014). Recipient of the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from the Beloit Poetry…
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Poetry
Chris Harding Thornton is a seventh-generation Nebraskan who writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. She holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, an MFA in…
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Poetry
Peter LaBerge is the author of the chapbook Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015), recently included on the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow List. His work appears in Beloit Poetry…
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Summer, in My Early Twenties
Poetry
Merrill Oliver Douglas lives in Vestal, NY, where she does freelance writing for trade magazines, university publications, businesses and nonprofits. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an…
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There Are More Storm Clouds than What You See Outside Your Window
Poetry
Lisa Grove's poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, A cappella Zoo, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles, where she's a senior editor for the California Journal of…
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Fiction
Christopher Green currently lives in Brooklyn, where he also hosts a monthly fiction reading series, The Prose Bowl, and its accompanying podcast. He holds an MA in English from the University of…
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Poetry
Robyn Anspach has an MFA from University of Michigan. She currently works as a data analyst at Google.
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Chris Souza
July will have us roasted by noon. I’ll work
the dewy light: water verbena, fill the baths
and offer seed, open-palmed, to chickadees
who sort for peanut hearts with abandon,
all gratitude being mine and misspent.
They weigh nothing with a firm grip and eye me
like round inscrutable mirrors or God at the Arnolfini
wedding, enough foreknowledge to choke anything.
I tell my students circles are signs of security,
the feminine, a general application of interpretation,
but don’t be surprised when the artist reverses
your expectations, when it’s what you trusted
that devoured you like a body gone rag with heat.
And the daughter you were has faded, and the daughter
you have acquires the usefulness of unlearning you,
and you still baffle over your mother,
who is your grandmother’s ghost here to remind
you, all palms end in supplication.
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