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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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2024 Contest News

2024 Contest News

2024 Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize Winner!Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest. Our judge, Sarah Viren, has selected the essay “Washtub, Whelk, Widow, Woods” by Jessie van Eerden as the 2024 winner. Here is...

REVIEWS

Stories of the Street: Reimagining Found Texts

Stories of the Street: Reimagining Found Texts

Stories of the Street Reimagining Found Texts  Stories of the StreetBy David Lazar136 pp. Nebraska Press, $24.95Released November 2024           Recently, I taught a workshop in hybrid forms, focusing on the ways that prose and poetry must sometimes collide if we...

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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