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      • Poetry 2018 >
        • Carlos Hiraldo
        • Martin Ott
        • Karyn Anne Petracca
        • Donald Illich
        • James Reidel
        • Dennis Hinrichsen
      • Fiction 2018 >
        • Rebecca Pyle, "Winter Solstice"
        • Martin Rutley, "Job Offer on Seventh Heaven"
        • Matthew Baker, "Superhighway"
        • Matthew Serback, "How to Make a Boulder"
        • Pavle Radonic, "The Laboratory"
        • Arkor Kolubah, "A Touch of Comfort"
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        • Scott Wordsman reviews Petter Lindgren
        • Alexander Clark, "Postdiluvian"
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      • Fiction 2017 >
        • Kathryn Holzman, "Eating Meat"
        • Kaitlyn Burd, "Nature with You in It"
        • Katie Young Foster, "Promotion"
        • William Cordeiro, "Selections from Whispering Gallery"
        • Alexandra Renwick, "The Life of an Artifact in Duodecadal Glances"
        • Lizzi Wolf, "My Brother's Therapist"
      • Poetry 2017 >
        • Keith Mark Gaboury
        • Mark Decarteret
        • Douglas Piccinnini
        • Matthew McBride
        • Jim Daniels
        • Sally Ashton
        • Raymond Farr
      • Nonfiction 2017 >
        • Charlie Moses, "Dear Friend"
        • Pamela Woolford, "This Is What Happened"
        • Jennifer Martelli, "Phobiacompendia"
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      • Fiction 2016 >
        • Loie Merritt, "The Edge of the Sea is a Strange and Beautiful Place"
        • Mitchell Grabois, "i"
        • Kelle Groom, "25 Reasons to Attend the Gala"
        • Mike Shepley, "Killing Symbols"
        • Jody Azzouni, "Owning Things"
        • Dan Gutstein, "Like Airplanes and Stars"
        • Kate Imbach, "Diamondland"
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        • Jeff Alessandrelli
        • Daniel Coudriet
        • Peter Leight
        • John Wells
        • Jenna Cardinale
        • Isabelle Shepherd
        • Michael Robins
        • Will Walker
        • Bridget Sprouls
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      • Poetry 2015 >
        • Adam Clay
        • Kyle Hemmings
        • Matthew Henriksen
        • Megan Kaminski
        • Emily Kendal Frey
        • Noelle Kocot
        • Katy Lederer
        • John Lowther
        • Nathaniel Sverloff
        • Franz Werfel -- James Reidel
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        • Erin Bedford, "Riesenrad"
        • James Braziel, "Jick's Chevrolet"
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        • Adrian Class, "Or Flights"
        • Erica L. Kaufman, "It Buried Us"
        • Nolan Liebert, "Gravity of Hearts"
        • Heather Noland, "Cosmic Slump"
        • Tom Whalen, "In the Cathedral"
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        • Rebecca Cook, "What the Hammer Said When the Hammer Hit the Girl"
        • Margot Kelley, "Companion Species"
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        • John Buckley and Martin Ott
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        • Matt Rowan, "Dog's Best Friend"
        • Kelli Anne Noftle, "Before She Was Olive"
        • Chris Okum, "Ratatat"
        • Jon Fried, "Cashing In"
        • Lisa C. Taylor, "Visible Wounds"
        • Sarah Kahn, "Break"
        • Rebekah Morton, "Big Sis"
      • Nonfiction Fall 2014 >
        • Stephen Benz, "Night Then Morning: Elko, Nevada"
        • Joseph C. Jiuliani, "Of Stealing and of Being Stolen"
        • Lindsay Chudzik, "Jailface"
        • Robert D. Vivian, "Just After Rain"
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      • Poetry Spring 2014 >
        • Simeon Berry
        • Molly Brodak
        • Wyn Cooper
        • Brian Foley
        • Tim Kahl
        • Caroline Knox
        • Rob MacDonald
        • Benjamin Paloff
      • Fiction Spring 2014 >
        • Gareth David Anderson, "Cupcake"
        • Halsted M. Bernard, "Your Hands"
        • Patrick Cole, "Pick-up Lines"
        • Joshua Graber, "This Fine Experience"
        • Lola Grace, "Natural Birth"
        • Robert E. Tanner, "Non-Disclosure Disagreement"
      • Art Spring 2014
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  • Pedagogy

POETRY, 2020


DAVID DODD LEE, "More Pleasant Adventures," "No Two Alike," "Unfit to Stand Trial"

ISABELLE DOYLE, "Spellbound," "How babies are made," "Mama's Girl"

​KATHLEEN HEIL, "Coming Attraction," "less like an object and more like the weather," "512 hours"

LEONARD KRESS, "Flower Hospital," "The Middle Ages," "Rasalila Dance from the Bhagavana Purana"

LAUREN TESS, "Sepulveda Pass," "Paean"


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POETRY, 2019


CESCA JANECE WATERFIELD, "Saltcherry Chorus: Voice I," "Saltcherry Chorus: Voice II," "Saltcherry Chorus: Voice III," "Lot's Wife, Ado, Turns into a Pillar of Salt," "Une Scène dans Les Roses"

BILLY CANCEL, "with my Chameleon Diet", "Mock Sentinel vs. Consecrated Downer", "this Quantum Stuff is the STILTON", "at POINT NON-PLUS your Garret is Empty"

SCOTT MINAR, "Real Illusions," "Sokratis," "What Palimpsest Means to Me"

GREG GLAZNER, "Burning Man"

BRUCE MCRAE, "Absentee Landlord," "Moth To A Flame," "Glass And Steel," "Lost Ticket"

MAUREEN THORSON, "Think Fast," "The Latin Name Means "Rummaging Tongue"," "Scarlet Letters"
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POETRY, 2018


CARLOS HIRALDO, "Photograph," "Ice Cream Man," "Our Traps"

MARTIN OTT, "The Poem That Got Away"

DONALD ILLICH, "What I Did for the Ocean​," "Ascent," "TNT," "New Birth"

JAMES REIDEL, "Artistes: Expressionist poems of adolescence in pre-World War I Prague by Franz Werfel"

​DENNIS HINRICHSEN, "[on the slaughter of 1048 horses by the Colorado Territory militia / Palo Duro Canyon / 1874]"

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POETRY, 2017

KEITH MARK GABOURY, "Planet X Soap Opera"

​MARK DECARTERET,​ "Nature Show as a Sacred Act," "Men as Enemies of Birds"

​DOUGLAS PICCINNINI, "Painful Meldoy," and "Beware of Anachronistic Thinking"

JIM DANIELS, "Cocaine Roundup," "The Mystery of Teenagers"

​SALLY ASHTON, "And Counting," "Eclipse at Solstice"

RAYMOND FARR, "One Must Stand in the Daylight Mumbling" and "Art as a Consequence of Art" 


POETRY, 2016

JEFF ALESSANDRELLI, "What I Want (Rosetta Stone Remix)"

DANIEL COUDRIET, "Light Never Dandelions"

PETER LEIGHT, "Borderline"

JOHN WELLS, "The Attempt," "Don't Nobody Know"

JENNA CARDINALE, "About the Anchor's Appetite," "Nuisance Behavior"

ISABELLE SHEPHERD, "in your hands," "waking"

HUGH BEHM-STEINBERG, "​Juan Fernández Firecrowns," "Obscure Berrypeckers," "Pine Siskins,"
"​Xinjiang Ground-jays"


WILL WALKER, "Cracker," "Eggs"

MICHAEL ROBINS, "Two Lanes Clear," "All Lined Up"

BRIDGET SPROULS, "Down the Shore"

ALLAN JOHNSTON, "McClurian Sonnet 3"

JOHN DEMING, "Headline News"

CAROLINE KNOX, "Double-Dare," "Wide Border"

DAVID DODD LEE, "The Freedom of the House," "Absent Agenda"

DAVID McLOGHLIN, "The Room," "After the Room," "Three Person Sword," "Taking Everything," "Stockholm Syndrome"


POETRY, 2015

KATY LEDERER, "The Love Tree," "Song," "A Letter"

FRANZ WERFEL-- JAMES REIDEL, "Photograph of Duse," "The Fat Man in the Mirror," "Night Row and Memory"
ADAM CLAY, "Collected Translations," "Winter Song," "Your Hope For"

EMILY KENDALL FREY, "It Did Not Lose Itself Properly"

KYLE HEMMINGS, "The Agony of Saint Cleo," "The Calling of Saint Stanislas," "The Life of St. Xi"

MATTHEW HENRIKSEN, "The Story of God"

MEGAN KAMINSKI, "Lake," "Snowmelt"

NOELLE KOCOT, "After the Purity," "Age of Anxiety," "11.3.14"

JOHN LOWTHER, "W009," "W010," "W011," "S002," "S003," "S004," "L005," "L006," "L007"

NATHANIEL SVERLOFF, "until the next whistle"



POETRY, Fall 2014


STEPHANIE ANDERSON, "01.27.14," "01.30.14," "02.02.14"

JOHN BUCKLEY and MARTIN OTT, “Batman’s Other Utility Belt,” “The Abandoned League,” “Man of Plastic,” “In the Comics”

JOHN ESTES, "skin and all"

ANNE GORRICK, "Lipstick Distances," "The Moon," "The Earth"

HENRY ISRAELI, "Book of Fixed Stars," "Devilish Mercy"

VANESSA COUTO JOHNSON, "The freed lunch," "The tabletop game," "Observe"

KEEGAN LESTER, "The topography of a self-portrait as the other self," "the poem wherein I write and rewrite and rewrite pertaining to a gathering on Balboa Island"

JOHN LOUGHLIN, "Think Tank"

DOUGLAS LUMAN, "Language Primer Over Goat, Ho Chi Minh City"

DANIELLE MITCHELL, "The Worst Valley You Can Imagine"

ALEXANDRIA PEARY, "Instant Transmission of Knowledge," "The Mou-Mou of Enlightenment," "Mixed Border," "Ring Tones"

GEORG TRAKL / James Reidel, "Five Verse fragments from Georg Trakl’s Nachlass (literary remnants) 1912–1914 --Translated by James Reidel"

MARCUS SLEASE, "Bathtub," "Imagination," "E.T."


POETRY, Spring 2014


SIMEON BERRY, "Nix fails the cocktail party audition," "Nix as Addict," "Nix tries to invite the Reader to an Anonymous Meeting"

MOLLY BRODAK, "A Kicked Top"

WYN COOPER, "The Death of Cool," "Tread Lightly"

BRIAN FOLEY, "Plugs," "The Bathers"

TIM KAHL, "Toll Road Gridlock," "War License," "No Lumens"

CAROLINE KNOX, "You can talk with them," "Poem," "Love Poem"

ROB MACDONALD, "How to Survive Childhood," "Origin Story, Perpetual Childhood"

BENJAMIN PALOFF, "2UP," Dianetics"
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