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    • On Experimental Fiction
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    • 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
POETRY​, 2022
RICHARD RYAL, "In Case Of Earthquake," "In Case Of Silence"

MARK DECARTERET, "The Year I Went Without Wishing For Anything"

DENNIS HINRICHSEN, "[Schema Geometrica] [KALAMAZOO 1972], [Schema Geometrica] [Portrait of my Second Birth as Scripted by J.G. Ballard] [Dir. Nicholas Ray]"
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POETRY, 2021

DANIEL BIEGELSON, "Neighbors (VI)," "Neighbors (VII)," "Neighbors (I-X) Revisited"

​NATAN LAST, "Ernest Ah Um"

JIM DANIELS, "Too Much Silver," "I Clipped My Nails"

MICHAEL CHANG, "Ode to Auer Deference," "Sunday Poem 7533967," "Le bain de cristal,"

D. E. STEWARD, “Como un Niño”

BENJAMIN PALOFF, "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"

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"

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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    • 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