Issue 27: Summer/Fall 2025 | Masthead

Fiction

God Showed Up on Labor Day

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25

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After the End

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Poetry

Steps for Making Carrot Halwa

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Top of the Cyclone

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The Minor Bridge Between Us & Other Poems

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Americana

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Recrudescence & Other Poems

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Never Stop Moving & Other Poems

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To Live Another Life

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Polly Pocket

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Creative Nonfiction

I Was a Good Soldier, Then I Was Nothing

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The Body Shipped Back from Nam Wasn’t Dead Enough

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Curb Conversations

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No Such Thing as Just One M&M

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Young Adult

The Weight of Snow

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The Protest

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Lunch Special

Becoming: A Multimodal Exploration of Identity & Family with Cathy Linh Che

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Interviews

Pushing the Boundaries On Hags, Slags, and Sluts: Poet Katie Beswick in Plumstead Pram Pushers

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Flash Prose

Mother Drops Her Pills in the Garbage

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4358 Lawn Avenue

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Storytelling

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Scent Map

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Translation

sign and chair by Natalie Christensen

sign and chair, archival natural pigment print on Italian cotton rag, dimensions variable, 2019

Art

Natural Selection

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Deconstructed Self

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Three Woodcuts

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Painting with Paper

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Extended Whirlpool of Negatives

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The River

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Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Three Poems from Ghost Planets

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After Victor Hugo and other poems

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Those who were born with the land

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Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Grandma Lake

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The Body Shipped Back from Nam Wasn’t Dead Enough

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