Grist Journal | Issue 11
PROFORMA CONTEST WINNERS | ESSAYS | FICTION | INTERVIEWS | POETRY | GRIST ONLINE
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PROFORMA CONTEST WINNERS
ERIC DOVIGI (First Place)
Here Is a List of Words I Prefer
PHILIP SCHAEFER (Second Place)
BRIAN CLIFTON (Third Place)
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ESSAYS
TIMOTHY LAURENCE
Aerophobia
DANA LEVIN
THEA LIM
Epidermis, Dermis, Subcutis
SCOTT WALLACE
Shaping the Narrative of a Journey to the Ends of the Earth
CHELSEA WAGENAAR
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FICTION
MAY-LEE CHAI
Useful Phrases for Immigrants
WHITNEY COLLINS
The Pupil
BILL GAYTHWAITE
The Forgetting Boy
ANDREW GRETES
PHIL HEARN
Scarecrow Divining
SCOTT NADELSON
Trust Me
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INTERVIEWS
KATHERINE BOO (BY MOLLIE SWAYNE)
Alternative Records
DOROTHEA LASKY (BY KATIE CONDON)
The Sort of Bliss I Strive For
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POETRY
LESLIE MARIE AGUILAR
Malinche
Only the men have horns,
KENZIE ALLEN
Particular Bees
JACK B. BEDELL
My Daughter Says, Tell Me
BRANDON JORDAN BROWN
A Particular Sort of Longing
ANNE CHAMPION
St. Catherine of Alexandria
EMILY CORWIN
hello, malaise
rancor
CHELSEA DINGMAN
Letter to My Future (Ex)
Praise for the Natural World
JOSHUA JENNIFER ESPINOZA
Heartbreaker
RITA FEINSTEIN
Definitions of Strength
KRISTIN GEORGE BAGDANOV
Word
SARAH GIRAGOSIAN
River Road
PETER GRANDBOIS
All We Wished to See
Dearest Love
KIMBERLY GREY
We Were Civilized When?
CERIDWEN HALL
After California
Habitation
BOB HICOK
Just checking in
Updating Descartes
ERIN HOOVER
Conversion Party
NICK LANTZ
The Survivorship
ANTONIO LOPEZ
When Ama Asks Me, “Describeme El Escuau?”
ANN STEWART MCBEE
Fragments of Manna Unsent by Sam
NAWAL NADER-FRENCH
Sometimes a Mother is
EMILIA PHILLIPS
My Ob-Gyn Suggests I Consider Cosmetic Labioplasty
JEREMY RADIN
Ode to the Tender Flesh Just beneath My Belly
SIMON SHIEH
Little Snow
MARTHA SILANO
Song
MAGGIE SMITH
ANALICIA SOTELO
The Minotaur’s Letter to Ariadne
Theseus Returns from the Athens Treatment Center
ANTHONY SUTTON
Birthday
BRIAN TIERNEY
Lagan, Liguria
AVNI VYAS
Marcus Aurelius in Freshman English
FRITZ WARD
From Born
Failing English
JOE WILKINS
Instructions for Poor White Country Boys Wishing to Be Poets
DAVID WINTER
Jasmin et Cigarette
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GRIST ONLINE
ESSAY
SUSAN BRIANTE
Some Notes on the Document after 11/8
FICTION
SARAH KOSCH
NICKALUS RUPERT
NINA SCHUYLER
JESSICA WALKER
POETRY
HEATHER ALTFELD
KIMBERLY ANDREWS
The Collapse
No one needs another poem about the Second World War
JENNIFER JACKSON BERRY
Are they wild or feral?
Linen Birthday
JULIA BOUWSMA
Each Morning Drowns in Open Air
Feeble Minded
Interview with the Dead
Shed Night
The Tray of Spaces
KAYLEB RAE CANDRILLI
My horoscope is my future husband’s horoscope & we are both considering T (or, when Aquarians share all)
My shadow looks more like a man than i do, so i am both fearful and envious
Sinners must live with what their sins sow
PETER LABERGE
Season in Which I Have No Body
Revlon
M.E. MACFARLAND
MICHAEL MARBERRY
KARYNA MCGLYNN
Maw-Maw’s Pineapple Pantsuit
We Sang Mozart’s Requiem in the Back of the Cruiser
SAM ROSS
Indiana, Not Indiana
Livestream
Tableau Vivant
RAENA SHIRALI
the village “goddess” talks to herself while applying kohl
the villagers’ story
