Issue 2, Fall 2023

Summer Poetry Contest Winners, Judged by Professor Richard Strier, Department of English, The University of Chicago

1st place: Abscission by Corinne Walsh

2nd place: Returning from Islands by Nina Adel

3rd place: Anniversary by Nancy Cook

Honorable Mentions: 
Death (She/Her) . . . by Hollie Ziskind  

In the Pockets . . . by Sara Backer

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Poetry

Three Poems by Blake Auden

Two Poems by Joshua Kulseth

Two Poems by Kristan LaVietes

“Oregon Pastoral” by Trina Gaynon

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Fiction

“Twinfish” by Hudson Saffell

“Margo” by Jim Hanley

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Nonfiction

“Repeated Passages” by Chris Arthur

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*Cover Illustration by Kallie Hunchman