• Craft Lecture, Featured Content
    Dani Shapiro

    We cannot suspect what we cannot imagine.

    Featured Content, Fiction
    Mariah Rigg

    “Be careful with her,” Mom said.

    When I screwed up my expression, she said, “The divorce was bad.”

    Poetry
    Rafael Alberti translated by John Murillo

    Oh, surprise of fallen snow,
       vigilant, invasive!

    Fiction
    Claire Chee

    My sisters and I don’t usually share grudges but this one we passed between us like a spoon for tasting.

    Nonfiction
    Pamela Royston Macfie

    The phrase “the unthinkable is always possible” beats within me, but sticks in my throat. I don’t want to be my mother.

    Fiction
    Reginald McKnight

    I think a horrible, stupid thought, so it won’t happen. I think it once, and then, usually, it goes away for good.

    Poetry
    James Davis May

    you wouldn’t call it a miracle—no, that seems too much—
    though you’re not sure what other word quite fits.

    Nonfiction
    John Jeremiah Sullivan

    The hostess seated them at the booth immediately adjacent to ours. I was starstruck, more starstruck than I would be in later life meeting actual celebrities.

    Poetry
    Christopher Bakken

    the almond trees have opened their wounds to the sun,
    each blossom an awareness specked with blood.

    Fiction
    Jenny Xie

    Later, Tabitha would put things together in a way that she could understand, regardless of the truth—how Henry could both want and fear a certain future.

    Review
    Mary Jo Salter

    It is sometimes difficult with poets, especially with Auden, to determine whether form or content demands his greater attention—though we begin with the fact that in the best poems they’re inextricable.

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