Cicadas

by DIRK FERGUSON | 1st Place, student prose contest Your first memory is of trees. Later there…


3.15

by SARA ROSE HOTALING time is wholly unconcerned with the demands of the soul. a body moves through…


Two Houses

by ISABELLA DOEKSEN | Sarah Stecher prize, student poetry contest In my Mother’s home Mere…


Opossum

by ZACH MURPHY Pete and Richard’s orange safety vests glowed a blinding light under the scorching…


Moonflower

by ALI SEIBAL | 2nd Place, student poetry contest I bloom with the shy flowers of the dark Finding…


No One Need Know

by MELVIN EINHORN My boss, Arthur, was innovative and magnetic. I learned that he composed the ad…


A Better Place

by JAMIE CUNNINGHAM | 2nd Place, student prose contest Anna May was the eldest member of the little…


Lamento decirte

by MICHELLE GLANS Florida sighed its big wind and our tree fell, broke the gate’s iron teeth, sent…


Racecar is a Palindrome

by ROBERT REEDY | 3rd Place, student prose contest The splendor of the world has been enriched by a…


Sonnet as Testament to the Orange Tree

by SOPHIA ZHAO This is how our history begins: an orange tree folded into pasture, sunrise sifting…