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ISSUE 20, SPRING 2023
EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS
RAE DIAMOND
blue now
CANDACE HARTSUYKER
The Silent Film Star Remembers a World Where Faces Mattered
ZEBULON HUSET and KATE STRONG STADT
Buried Poem Triptych 2
Buried Poem Triptych 3
DIANE PAYNE
Belated, Half-Assed Apology
Over the Fence
SUJASH PURNA
only the waters
ALI SAPERSTEIN
Childbirth: Ten Facts and a Spoon
HIBAH SHABKHEZ
Buttoned Up
Velvet Darkness
ANN MCDOWELL WAGNER
the animals
CASSANDRA WHITAKER
Diagram of a Fairy Tale
Self Portrait
SHARNI WILSON
Social Media User
POETRY
CALLIE S. BLACKSTONE
I do not need tarot cards to predict our future because I am a proficient witch without them
therapist, exorcist
JAMES CHAMPION
Diary of a Floral Delivery Worker, 2021
The Loam
ERIN JAMIESON
Nail Polish
JAYANT KASHYAP
Child, Father
JOSH MAHLER
Details of a Dream
In a Foreign Land
SHREYASHI MANDAL
Gulkand
LONDEKA MDLULI
For Earth
Ukuthwala
ANDREA MOORHEAD
What a Child Reads
NANCY K. PEARSON
one black pixel
phosphorus
HALEIGH YASPAN
Simpson Forceps, 1910
FICTION
JONATHAN BENNETT
What’s Left
MICHAEL GALAT
Trick Candles
JANE HERTENSTEIN
Civil War Reenactment
BARBARA LAWHORN
Field Corn
CHERISSE YANIT NADAL
Someday Find My Time
CREATIVE NONFICTION
ALYSSA WITBECK ALEXANDER
Latched
MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES
Dark and Twisty With a Side of Optimism
AVIYA KUSHNER
On Burning
RACHEL LAVERDIERE
Toxic Stones
AMY LEE LILLARD
The Masked Woman
MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS
EMILY TEMPLE Winner of The 2023 Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction
Out, Out
CLAIRE PINKSTON Winner of the 2023 Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers
Aubade (Origins of the Blues)
FATIMA ABBY TALL Finalist for the 2023 Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers
A Cow With No Name
MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
Nettie Farris’s The Alice Poems
Reviewed by Cassidy Witt
Shena McAuliffe’s We Are A Teeming Wilderness
Reviewed by Todd Alan Sikkilä
Kristen Renee Miller’s translation of Marie-Andrée Gill’s Heating the Outdoors
Reviewed by Ayaat Ismail
Carrie Oeding’s I Could Show You A Line
Reviewed by Dylan Williams
Chris Offutt’s Shifty’s Boys
Reviewed by John David Morgan
Eco-Poetry in the Face of Climate Change: A Digital Roundtable
Interview by Ayaat Ismail (Please note: this item is also available as a digital download)
Writing and Neurodiversity: A Digital Roundtable
Interview by Erin Wedemeyer (Please note: this item is also available as a digital download)
VISUAL ART
BUGZDALE
blue lives matter series
MICHAEL THOMPSON
Philately series
RONALD WALKER (Cover Artist)
Primitive Suburban series