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ISSUE 24, SPRING 2025

EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS

KIM CHINQUEE
Athlete
The Car

SARAH BOYKIN HARDY
Theft

COURTNEY SEYMOUR
A Line Has Two Sides; or, Damn, Ms. Librarian, I’d Like to Check out Your Book, Please—An Online Dating Cento

CHRYS TOBEY
Instructions for Ada

VERONICA WASSON
Echoes

 

POETRY

JENN BLAIR
My Father, Nearing Eighty, Recalls

ELIZABETH RAE BULLMER
Body As Rorschach Ink Blots
The Hollowing

PARKER LOGAN
Divas Don’t Cry
Love Me Never

DANIEL THOMAS MORAN
Our Country House
The Forecast for 17 August 24
The New Testament, Abridged

RANEE ZAPORSKI
Slightly Drunk and Thinking About Whales Again
Snow Queen

 

FICTION

DEREK ANDERSEN
Road Rage

MARC BOUDIGNON
Unto the End, For the Winepresses

DELIA MARIA DAVIS
Cultured Women

JULIA HORWITZ
Ham (Water Added)

TOM ROTH
Don’t Be A Stranger

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

MAE JIMENEZ
Piece of Cake

ANYA LIFTIG
Cheryl

STEPH RANTZ
Precious Moments

NATHANIEL VAN YPEREN
Fidelity: A Letter to Wendell Berry on the Twenty-Second Anniversary of Not Belonging

LENA ZIEGLER
Those Who Splinter

 

MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS

Winner of the 2024 Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction: DAVID LAWRENCE MORSE
The Memoir

Runner-up for the 2024 Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction: KIRA NOLAN
Kelp Forest Love Story


Winner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers: AALIYAH ANDERSON
A Negro Possession (download a letterpress broadside of the prize-winning poem)

 

MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS 

makalani bandele’s (jopappy & the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk
Reviewed by Ariana McMurl

Patrick Kindig’s fascinations
Reviewed by Ariana Alvarado

Rebecca Lehmann’s The Sweating Sickness
Reviewed by Brenna Julian

Brad Liening’s You’re Doing It Wrong
Reviewed by Jasper Adams-Smith

Tom McAllister’s It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays
Reviewed by Jenny Recktenwald

Kat Meads’s While Visiting Babette
Reviewed by Carrie Callahan

Joe Sacksteder’s Hack House
Reviewed by Lizzy Roth

Sharon White's Minato Sketches
Reviewed by John David Morgan


A New Future of Translation: A Digital Roundtable Discussion by Ariana Alvarado
Featuring Ariel Francisco Henriquez Cos, John James, Jeremy Paden (also available as a free digital download)

 

VISUAL ART

RACHEL COYNE
Peonies Series (cover)

JASPER GLEN
Fields, The Company
Insomnia
Spring Experts

ROSE WAMBSGANSS
Angel
Genesis