• Wherewithal

    Jennifer Habel

    Spring 2019

    I sewed on Paula’s pink dress. I fixed Paulina’s white dress.
    I ripped up and ironed
    Jane’s old black silk dress. If there is any such thing

    as “perfect” love
    or perfection in holiness, I want to know it.
    I am sure I have

    never known it yet.
    I trimmed over my old hat and fixed it for my best one.
    I sewed on

    Jennifer Habel is the author of Good Reason, winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition. Her poems have appeared in the Believer, Gulf Coast, the Massachusetts Review, the Southeast Review, and elsewhere.

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    Megha Majumdar

    What else can I do but read the news in hopes that information will save us?

    The Ken Burns Problem

    Walt Evans

    When Ken Burns’s landmark mini-series The Civil War was first broadcast over five nights on PBS in September 1990, it was perhaps the most star-studded documentary ever produced. Morgan Freeman and Sam Waterson voiced Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, respectively, with Arthur Miller as William Tecumseh Sherman and Garrison Keillor as Walt Whitman. Jason Robards was Ulysses S. Grant, and George Black his Confederate counterpart, Robert E. Lee. Unfamiliar with that last actor? George is my great uncle.

    "Have You Ever Been In Love?"

    Austin Allen

    “I mean, define . . . so there are different phases,
    right? That first rush—‘limerence,’ I guess
    some research calls it—I’ve—there have been cases—
    that’s such a primal, brain-stem craziness . . .

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