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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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Judge Debra Gwartney has just selected the winner of the 2023 Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest!

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Thoughts on Thot: Fragments, Echoes, Bullets, Hauntings

Thoughts on Thot: Fragments, Echoes, Bullets, Hauntings

Thoughts on Thot: Fragments, Echoes, Bullets, Hauntings By Chanté L. Reid96 pp. Sarabande Books, $17.95Released October 2022Chanté L. Reid’s Thot, though only 80 pages, is immense. Reid jam-packs the pages of her book-length essay in scope, emotion, thought, and...

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Chthonic

Can you remember your first underground tunnel? The bulkhead steps that were covered in spiderwebs? Your great uncle’s wine cellar? The New York subway system? Mine was a concrete pipe that the local creek ran through…

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