Read Ashley McWaters’ poem “Spell Against Drowning” • an excerpt from Re’Lynn Hansen’s memoir “To Famous Cases of Syphilis” • an excerpt from Leah Stewart’s forthcoming novel The Responsible One

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Ashley McWaters

All the Girls

Spell Against Drowning

Roberta Feins

Red Fruit: 1933

Irene Latham

The Institut de Beauté on Marszalkowska Street

Renée Ruderman

No Trespassing

Rae Gouirand

Low Stars

Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis

Riverside Driving Rain

As it Were a Frozen Music

Jean Valentine

Don’t Silence Yourself, No Te Calles

Renée Ruderman

Overcast

Valerie Wetlaufer

One Day I Laid Down the Bruise of You

Tiphanie Yanique Zuihitsu

for the Day I Cheat on My Husband

Hannah Fries

Night Crawlers

Kara Moyer

Cara Mia

Helen Wickes

Greetings to You from Today

Catherine Jagoe

Eyebrows

Edythe Haendel Schwartz

Alice Neel Speaks

Libby Falk Jones

Birthday Pilgrimage, June 20

Liz Robbins

The Circle

Wendi Lee

Nursery Rhymes in the Long Green

Julie Hensley

Pica

Pamela Garvey

Self-Portrait with Joan of Arc

Mary Ellen Talley

Multisyllabic Speech Therapy Practicing Sentences with Darcy

Helen Tzagoloff

Bluebeard Pleads with His Bride

Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Radiation Treatments

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Beatrice Lamwaka

The Market Vendor

Alison A. Chapman

Milton’s Captive Audience: Teaching Paradise Lost in a Maximum Security Prison

Re’Lynn Hansen

To Famous Cases of Syphilis

Gina Troisi

The Red House

Jane Kokernak

Little Creatures

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Leah Stewart

from The Responsible One

Paula Peterson

My Life in Red

Lisa Katzenberger

Silence

Brandy Yates

Clear as Glass

Lorissa Rinehart

Julie and Her Chickens