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Ernest Williamson III
Dr. Ernest Williamson III has published poetry and visual art in over 400 national and international online and print journals. Some of Dr. Williamson’s visual art and/or poetry has been published in journals representing over 35 colleges and universities around the world. Dr. Williamson is an…
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George Witte
REVENANTS Hair hennaed to a martial tease, left arm and leg dead weight, brain seared by errant surgery and strokes you mangle social niceties, harangue off key, laugh late at jokes old friends find inappropriate. Your garden flourishes and sours untended, rampant in neglect. Rose arbors buckle under thorns; the Women’s Club no longer tours.…
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Matthew Zapruder
YOUR STORY dear old friend are you angry why won’t you write me beloved teacher is what I called you in my mind mild morning california depressing light uncertainly standing between the rooms I ask myself why such anger I walk downtown busy worrying all day I feel I am sure a man is…
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Franz Wright
WINTER BRANCHES AS TERMINAL SYMPTOMS Black crayons blindly scribbling, identical name diamond-etched in the blue mirror of oxygen; glass branch conducting, waving at you and only you. Window window in the wall, what’s that crossing the sky without sound? Lone bomber with plenty of fuel but no country to return to. So, a few of the not so meek sheep…
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Roberto Tejada
ELEVATOR INVENTION … Language-learner fearful of error as to pronounce the Americans as partway back from the dead devoid of the primary sources, phrase in semicircle, who could tell by the handwork, lever left by the glass-piece, radiance by flexible curve and grommet. Safebox at the stroke of twelve, and in the Georgian corridors…
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Mathias Svalina
CHILD Step one: Obtain a newly born human baby. Step two: Every morning tell it it is magnificent. Every night tell it it is an abomination. Repeat this process every day until the child moves out of your house. Step three: Proceed with the usual child-things: love, uniforms, etc. Step four: The full sum…
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Sanchari Sur
BOYS WILL BE BOYS boys will be boys, dida used to say, the clichéd refrain ringing out every time my “boy” cousin got himself entangled into nightmares of his own making. like when he broke dadu’s murano vase while playing cricket, a gift from one of his well-to-do foreign returned students, or when he was…
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Jamie Quatro
A Cupcake Boutique of One’s Own (or, Mrs. Woolf Said She Would End the Recession Herself) But, you may say, we asked you to speak about the current economic recession; what has it got to do with a cupcake boutique of one’s own? I will try to explain. I sat down upon a kitchen stool…
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Rodney Nelson
DITTY the falcons had come in March along with high water it did not want to be spring whatever it had been the water was not leaving but the falcons were here and every turn of wing said die to a pigeon the cold earth and its layer had to give up to sun but…
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Samina Najmi
→ 2012 Map Literary Nonfiction Prize ← ABDUL for my Abbu As a professor of multiethnic American literature, I often teach the writings of immigrant authors. We ponder what it means to speak of “home” and belonging, and their opposites: homelessness, exile, and the experience of displacement so layered that people can spend their lifetimes unpeeling, unfolding,…
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Adam Moorad
HEART OF OCCIDENT Prologue It was the dry end of a bender. The earth was scorched and fissured. The masses elevated the fools into rich heroes. The sky rained missiles. Night became perpetual. The land was ash, the air dust. I raked for poker chips in the rubble of Harrah’s. A scrawny blonde strumpet approached…
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Joseph Massey
WRACK ZONE It’s the ocean sounding out a panic I otherwise couldn’t pronounce. Ouroboric vowel fixed to a low sky’s loop of variable white. • Decayed rope of bull-head kelp distends from tide- tamped sand. Mind mirrors that surface, shape, at the moment I imagine if I thought far enough I’d leave my face.…
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Joshua Mckinney
INVASION Strides the warrior forth from a GameStop, bearing a blast shield with a blazon gules; its coded constellations, bullet-peened, embed the absent meaning of the war. The event escapes, but KryonMYnuTs rules: 30 kills: 4 deaths and no air strikes intervened. The kill-cam’s slow-mo captures every death, creates an image of purpose as…
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Tara McDaniel
CARNAGE IN THE TIME OF GAGA: A ROMP IN THE AESTHETIC FIELD OF GURLESQUE POETICS A decade ago two Gen X female poets, Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, identified an emerging trend among disparate female poets born of the same generation. It was not a theory or an organized movement but rather a new…
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Reb Livingston
REPORT FROM BEHIND THE CASTLE To deal with the King, one must go behind the curtain in the castle—for the best interest of everything official. This way the people won’t notice. So much. They will not care to notice. Am I about to marry to the King? There are ladies here. Ladies mounting one another. …
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Katie Kohler
2012 Map Literary Nonfiction Contest Honorable Mention 10/31/98 I am a cautionary tale. I am the after-school special you tell your college-bound daughter to watch, the pamphlet on drinking/date rape/safe sex you pick up at the university health center. If you work up the nerve to listen to my story, you cannot help…
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Bob Hicok
Things I never would have said at the job interview As an executioner, I’d have been inclined to show the dead man’s head his dead man’s body after the whisk of the guillotine, giving his mouth a last chance to move in the shapes of a name he’d never say again, Catherine is a lovely set…
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Kate Greenstreet
549 At the time when things were formed and put in place, could be “icy” or “i cry.” You do what the man wants, don’t you? It’s like how money is based on gold. There are no windows. No source of light apart from the projections of old movies. Just those films of the carnival…
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Diane Glancy
THE EXECUTION OF WATER Table of Contents Book i of John Cadenza Book ii of John Cadenza Book iii of John Cadenza Book iv of John Cadenza Book v of John Cadenza Book vi of John Cadenza Book vii of John Cadenza Book viii of John Cadenza Book ix of John Cadenza Book One…
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Ian Ganassi
FOLLOWUP STORY How many lashes to make price water house As my mascara runs down an alley? He’s no fun, he falls right over. Standing where I am, thinking about where I’m not. A sad part, but of the show. Sitting for his portrait, What would be The opposite of Dorian Gray? And in the…