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Fall 2025 Issue 27.2

Featuring essays by Emily Collins, Carrie Messenger, Wendy S. Palmer, Elizabeth Logan Harris, Sibbie O’Sullivan, Stephanie Anderson, Marianne Janack, Suzanne Roberts, Andrew Bertaina, Jeanne Kay, Lindsey Pharr, Debra Dean, Sarah Olson, Beth Alvarado, Jerry Mathes, Brad Aaron Modlin, Claire Hansen, Jeanine Eyre Bee,. Review Essays by Susan Ito and Amy Lee Scott.

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MULTIMEDIA

The Name Project

The Name Project

“The Name Project,” by Julian Long, is a brilliant meta-memoir experience, and was an honorable mention in our 2023 Multimedia Essay Contest.

CRAFT ESSAYS

A Dash of Dash

A Dash of Dash

Punctuation began as a guide to reading aloud, akin to musical notation, indicating breath breaks and rhetorical shifts, differences in pitch: verbal stage directions. Punctuation as punctum.

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REVIEWS

Two Reviews of Phillip Lopate’s Recent Books

Two Reviews of Phillip Lopate’s Recent Books

Listening to the Silence Meditations on the Messy and the Mundane in A Year and a Day by Juliet Way-Henthorne By Phillip Lopate 216 pp. New York Review Books, $17.95Released October 2023In A Year and a Day, Phillip Lopate holds a mirror up to the messy, often...

NEWS

2024 Multimedia Essay Contest Winner

2024 Multimedia Essay Contest Winner

Winner Announcement for the 2024 Multimedia Essay ContestWe received so many excellent submissions for our multimedia essay prize, and we’re grateful to everyone who participated. This year's judge, Leslie Jill Patterson, has selected the graphic essay "False Alarm"...

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