Issue 26: Winter/Spring 2025 | Masthead

Fiction

Waiting for Bones the Tigers Left

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Premeditation

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Five-ish years as Shelly’s Leg

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Poetry

Two-Party System

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You have to run open mouthed

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Ars Poetica at the Bar Formerly Known as The Wall

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On I-80 West

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Dedication for the Academic Filipina (Circa 1930s)

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Nocturne: Remi, I Love You

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Creative Nonfiction

Mothers are the Zest

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Draft for an Obituary

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Translating His Mother with My Own

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Young Adult

The Re-Naming of Things

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Night Terrors

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Lunch Special

Interviews

Ghost Points and Hard Topographies: Facilitating Infrastructures — an interview with Raquel Gutiérrez

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Trust Your Instincts and Follow Your Interests: A Conversation with Middle Grade Novelist Jack Cheng

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Liars And Wives in the “Drag Show of Nuclear Familyhood:” an interview with Sarah Manguso

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Flash Prose

The Casualties

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Luxury

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Grief Is a Question

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The Aquarium

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Garbage Bags

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Translation

Sunset

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Two short poems from VERBO MADRE

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Ghazal

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Mir

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Annabell and Xavier, Uvalde, Texas, November 2022 by Jo-Ann Morgan

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Art

Threading My Story

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Fabric Memorials – Uvalde

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Remembrance of Resistance: Plac Bohaterów Getta, Krakow

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Her Choice

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Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Untitled (you’ve died so many times…)

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Magkano?

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Negretta: Racist Kisses

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Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Walking in Place

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Scarifying

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Breaking the Comb Ceiling

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