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Three Poems by Sara Moore Wagner

Sara Moore Wagner lives in West Chester, OH with her husband and three small children. She is the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award, and the author of the chapbook Hooked Through (Five Oaks Press, 2017). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals including Poet…

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Drivers Ed by David Armand

Drivers Ed By David Armand It’s Saturday. Early in the morning and my parents are already dropping me off at a strip mall in downtown Covington, Louisiana, where I’m going to spend the next eight hours taking a drivers education course so that I can get my license the following…

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Encounter by Benjamin Kessler

Encounter By Benjamin Kessler Turns out Studs Henry had been keeping exotic animals on eleven acres east of Red Butte. That’s pretty fucked, forcing zebras and meerkats to freeze through the high plains winters. Making things worse was the fact that, right before Studs ate his gun, he opened all…

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Two Poems by Adam Tavel

Adam Tavel’s third poetry collection, Catafalque, won the Richard Wilbur Award (University of Evansville Press, 2018). You can find him online at http://adamtavel.com/

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The Sound of Silence by Amanda Hays

The Sound of Silence By Amanda Hays Ray couldn’t decide which of the oozing, bleeding bags of meat would most please his brother. The overhead lights in the meat section of the Piggy Wiggly were dim, the air cool. After much deliberation, he tossed one of the packages into his…

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The Sound by Weston Morrow

The Sound by Weston Morrow I’m standing on a bluff looking out over the Sound, and from this point I think I can see my life, like a thin, white cloud, moving so quickly across the sky. Sometimes, over Puget Sound, the clouds hang in the sky for a long…

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Two Poems by Kimberly Ann Southwick

Kimberly Ann Southwick is the founder and editor in chief of the literary arts journal GIGANTIC SEQUINS, which has been in print for over eleven years. ORCHID ALPHA, her full-length collection will be published with Trembling Pillow Press in 2021, and a micro-chapbook of hers LAST TO BET: the near…

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We Are Cut From Shorter Days by Anthony Okpunor

Anthony Okpunor is an emerging Nigerian writer who discovered poetry and writing in general, as a better form of self expression. He is a student of the University of Benin, Nigeria at the time. He was shortlisted for the 2019 Nigerian Student Poetry Prize. He was also shortlisted for the…

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Last Winter My Father Abandoned Me in the Forest With My Brother, Who Was Eaten by a Witch; I Burned Her to Death In the Spring. by Juleigh Howard-Hobson

Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s work has appeared in many places, including Think Journal, Great Weather for Media, Able Muse, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Prime Number Magazine, War Literature & The Arts, Consequence, and The Lyric. She is a Million Writers “Notable Writer” and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of…

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Three Poems by Ash Goedker

Ash Goedker received her MFA in poetry at the University of Idaho where she was the Editor-in-Chief at Fugue. She was the winner of the University of Idaho’s Academy of American Poets Prize and a finalist in the 2016 Indiana Review ½ K Prize. Her poems have appeared in Breakwater…

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