Current Issue
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