Volume 8, Issue 4 December 2023

  1. Contest Winners

    1. Claire Pinkston
      Nocturne🏆 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize
    2. linda harris dolan
      i have genetic heart disease.
      (or: unsaid things.)
      (or: to my husband, on my death.)
      🏆 Majda Gama Editors' Prize

  2. Finalists

    1. Michelle Askew
      Growing Pains
    2. Ben Boegehold
      Burned Rice
    3. Emily Davis-Fletcher
      Wasp Medicine
    4. Gabriel Dunsmith
      Circumambulation
    5. Freesia McKee
      A student asks, “Are we allowed to write about abortion in this class?”
    6. Oak Morse
      The Translucent Between
    7. Erica Reid
      ShuckingFive-Story House
    8. Ziyi Yan
      how prophecy was invented

  3. Poems

    1. tc arkle
      Shorn of the Dead
    2. Jordan Hamel
      Apollo drinks at the pub with his mates while his son takes the Chevy for a joyride
    3. Siobhan Jean-Charles
      morphology of diri ak pwaMastabaLetter to a Tortoise Beetle

  4. Reviews

    1. Lauren K Carlson
      Wherever You Go: A Lyric Collaboration with Alicia Elkort's A Map of Every Undoing in Six Figures
    2. Alicia Elkort
      Review of Talk Smack to a Hurricane by Lynne Jensen Lampe
    3. Daniela Naomi Molnar
      Review of The Lyric Essay as Resistance edited by Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold
    4. Linda Scheller
      Review of When Your Sky Runs Into Mine by Rooja Mohassessy