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    • D E Steward
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    • Isabelle Doyle
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    • Cesca Janece Waterfield
    • Billy Cancel Poetry
    • Scott Minar
    • Greg Glazner
    • Bruce McRae
    • Maureen Thorson
  • Fiction
    • On Experimental Fiction
    • Mark Cassidy, "How I Met My Wife"
    • Emily Trachtenberg, "Plum"
    • Hector Donovan-Gonzalez
    • Christopher Linforth, "Zia"
    • Jenessa Abrams, "You Never Wish That Upon Anyone"
    • Eros Livieratos, "On Feeling"
    • Halsted M. Bernard, "Your Hands"
    • Justin Meckes, "The Gash"
    • Reb Livingston, from "Bombyonder"
    • Craig Foltz, "Without Stigma"
  • Nonfiction
    • Martha Wiseman, "Loose Ends"
    • Jan Jolly, "Through My Father's Glasses"
    • Kristina Moriconi, "Still Looking"
    • Wm. Anthony Connolly, "IGY"
    • Cal Freeman, "Loosestrife"
    • W.F. Lantry, "The Strange Beauty of the Unfamiliar"
    • Michael Roloff, "Accretion"
    • Andrew Sunshine, "John Hancock's John Hancock"
    • Diane Payne, "3 micro memoirs"
    • Luc Sante, "Flesh and Bone"
    • Isobel O'Hare, "Failure: A Love Letter"
    • Melissa Wiley, "Barbed Wire Fence"
    • Ashley Wilkinson, "fractional distillation"
  • Art
We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award is
HOW TO BECOME THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by FIONA LU
Pressed Butterflies
"Amaryllis Josephine," Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1805
from The New York Public Library

NONFICTION: "LOOSE ENDS" BY MARTHA WISEMAN

NONFICTION: "THROUGH MY FATHER'S GLASSES" BY JAN JOLLY

POETRY: TWO POEMS FROM EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROCEDURES BY RICHARD RYAL

WISHLIST_ESSAY: "WHEN EARTH MEETS SKY" BY CLINTON CROCKETT PETERS AT THE COMMON​

NONFICTION: "STILL LOOKING" BY KRISTINA MORICONI

TIME_MACHINE: "MID-AMERICAN CHANTS" BY SHERWOOD ANDERSON


NONFICTION: "IGY" BY WM. ANTHONY CONNOLLY

WISHLIST_ESSAY: "OWOSSO" BY MARY BIRNBAUM AT CRAZYHORSE 

POETRY: "THE YEAR I WENT WITHOUT WISHING FOR ANYTHING" BY MARK DECARTERET
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FICTION: "HOW I MET MY WIFE" BY MARK CASSIDY

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WISHLIST_FICTION: "THE MEN FROM ESC" BY CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA AT AGNI

POETRY: TWO POEMS FROM SCHEMA GEOMETRICA BY DENNIS HINRICHSEN

ART: "NAUTILUS LABYRINTH," "TWO ANCIENTS," "SEARCHING FOR THE HOLY GRAIL" BY DOUGLAS G. CAMPBELL

FICTION: "MY FATHER, EDDIE THE BUTCHER" BY DAN A. CARDOZA


​FICTION: "HOW TO MEASURE RAIN" BY STEINUR BELL

NONFICTION: "LOOSESTRIFE" BY CAL FREEMAN

FICTION: "RE MATTER OF THE LONGHORN SKULL AND ONE BALL BUCK" BY J. ALAN NELSON

POETRY: "NEIGHBORS (VI)," "NEIGHBORS (VII)," "NEIGHBORS (I-X) REVISITED" BY DANIEL BIEGELSON


POETRY: "ERNEST AH UM" BY NATAN LAST

POETRY: "TOO MUCH SILVER," "I CLIPPED MY NAILS" BY JIM DANIELS

FICTION:  "PLUM" BY EMILY TRACHTENBERG

POETRY: "ODE TO AUER DEFERENCE," "SUNDAY POEM 7533967," "LE BAIN DE CRISTEL"  BY MICHAEL CHANG​

FICTION: "PLEASE, BOSNIA – PLEASE THIS IS BOSNIA!" BY LIAM MEJIA

POETRY: "COMO UN NIÑO" BY D. E. STEWARD
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POETRY: "THAT THE HOUR OF PARLEY IS DANGEROUS," "ON CEREMONY IN THE INTERVIEW OF KINGS," "THAT MEN MUST NOT BE TOO HASTY IN JUDGING OF THE DEVINE DECREES" BY BENJAMIN PALOFF

FICTION: "INSECT PEOPLE" BY RICH IVES

POETRY: "MORE PLEASANT ADVENTURES," "NO TWO ALIKE," "UNFIT TO STAND TRIAL" BY DAVID DODD LEE


NONFICTION: "THE STRANGE BEAUTY OF THE UNFAMILIAR" BY W.F. LANTRY 

ART: "CONCRETE SCULPTURE" BY MARIO LOPRETE

FICTION: "ZIA" BY CHRISTOPHER LINFORTH
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POETRY: "SPELLBOUND," "HOW BABIES ARE MADE," "MAMA'S GIRL" BY ISABELLE DOYLE

The Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award Winner,
​Tomorrow Music  by Pete Stevens

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  • About
    • Masthead
    • Submissions
    • Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award
    • NJ High School Writing Contest
    • In Print
    • Subscribe
    • Links
    • Internship Opportunity
    • WPU MFA
  • Poetry
    • Richard Ryal
    • Sherwood Anderson
    • Mark DeCarteret
    • Dennis Hinrichsen Poetry
    • Daniel Biegelson
    • Natan Last
    • Jim Daniels Poetry
    • Michael Chang
    • D E Steward
    • Benjamin Paloff Poetry
    • David Dodd Lee
    • Isabelle Doyle
    • Kathleen Heil
    • Leonard Kress
    • Lauren Tess
    • Cesca Janece Waterfield
    • Billy Cancel Poetry
    • Scott Minar
    • Greg Glazner
    • Bruce McRae
    • Maureen Thorson
  • Fiction
    • On Experimental Fiction
    • Mark Cassidy, "How I Met My Wife"
    • Emily Trachtenberg, "Plum"
    • Hector Donovan-Gonzalez
    • Christopher Linforth, "Zia"
    • Jenessa Abrams, "You Never Wish That Upon Anyone"
    • Eros Livieratos, "On Feeling"
    • Halsted M. Bernard, "Your Hands"
    • Justin Meckes, "The Gash"
    • Reb Livingston, from "Bombyonder"
    • Craig Foltz, "Without Stigma"
  • Nonfiction
    • Martha Wiseman, "Loose Ends"
    • Jan Jolly, "Through My Father's Glasses"
    • Kristina Moriconi, "Still Looking"
    • Wm. Anthony Connolly, "IGY"
    • Cal Freeman, "Loosestrife"
    • W.F. Lantry, "The Strange Beauty of the Unfamiliar"
    • Michael Roloff, "Accretion"
    • Andrew Sunshine, "John Hancock's John Hancock"
    • Diane Payne, "3 micro memoirs"
    • Luc Sante, "Flesh and Bone"
    • Isobel O'Hare, "Failure: A Love Letter"
    • Melissa Wiley, "Barbed Wire Fence"
    • Ashley Wilkinson, "fractional distillation"
  • Art