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Poetry

Issue 15

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Campbell McGrath is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems, and XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in scores of literary journals and anthologies, as well as the New Yorker, Atlantic Magazine, Harper’s and the New York Times. McGrath’s writing has been recognized with some of the most prestigious awards in American letters, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, a United States Artists Fellowship, and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.” He lives with his wife in Miami Beach, and teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University.

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Issue 14

Grocery Store Translator

Joshua Gottlieb-Miller is a PhD candidate in poetry at the University of Houston. His writing can be found most recently in Talking Writing, Brooklyn Rail, and Miracle Monocle. Currently Joshua tutors in a Writing Center, is the weekend desk attendant for the Cy Twombly Gallery at The Menil Collection, and teaches a senior memoir workshop for Inprint as well as poetry for Writers in the Schools. Joshua lives in Houston with his wife, Lauren, and son, Owen.

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Issue 14

Grocery Store Scientist

Joshua Gottlieb-Miller is a PhD candidate in poetry at the University of Houston. His writing can be found most recently in Talking Writing, Brooklyn Rail, and Miracle Monocle. Currently Joshua tutors in a Writing Center, is the weekend desk attendant for the Cy Twombly Gallery at The Menil Collection, and teaches a senior memoir workshop for Inprint as well as poetry for Writers in the Schools. Joshua lives in Houston with his wife, Lauren, and son, Owen.

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Issue 14

Grocery Store Musician

Joshua Gottlieb-Miller is a PhD candidate in poetry at the University of Houston. His writing can be found most recently in Talking Writing, Brooklyn Rail, and Miracle Monocle. Currently Joshua tutors in a Writing Center, is the weekend desk attendant for the Cy Twombly Gallery at The Menil Collection, and teaches a senior memoir workshop for Inprint as well as poetry for Writers in the Schools. Joshua lives in Houston with his wife, Lauren, and son, Owen.

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Issue 14

When I am a mother

Mandy Moe Pwint Tu is a writer and a poet from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work has appeared in Longleaf Review, Tint Journal, and perhappened mag, among others. Find her on Twitter
@mandrigall.

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Issue 14

Dastardly

Weston Richey is a writer and academic. Weston earned a BA in philosophy and English from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University—Newark, and is now a PhD student in English at The University of Texas at Austin. Weston’s work has appeared elsewhere in Pigeon Pages, Strange Horizons, and FreezeRay Poetry.

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Issue 14

A Man of My Own Sex

Weston Richey is a writer and academic. Weston earned a BA in philosophy and English from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University—Newark, and is now a PhD student in English at The University of Texas at Austin. Weston’s work has appeared elsewhere in Pigeon Pages, Strange Horizons, and FreezeRay Poetry.

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Issue 14

Sometimes I Am Too Impatient for Poetry and Also for Sex

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J. Bailey Hutchinson is a poet from Memphis, Tennessee. Her debut collection, Gut, won the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She is an associate editor at Milkweed Editions, and her work can be found in Muzzle Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, and more. A complete list of her work can be found at jbaileyhutchinson.com

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Issue 14

The Moonshine Economy

Jake Goldwasser is a poet and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. You can find his poetry in The Spectacle, The Meadow, and elsewhere. His cartoon work has appeared in The New Yorker, Weekly Humorist, and elsewhere. He is a New Jewish Culture Fellow for the 2020-2021 cycle, for which he is teaching a graphic memoir seminar. You can find him on Instagram at @jakegoldwasser.

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Issue 14

The Weather in Brooklyn

Jake Goldwasser is a poet and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. You can find his poetry in The Spectacle, The Meadow, and elsewhere. His cartoon work has appeared in The New Yorker, Weekly Humorist, and elsewhere. He is a New Jewish Culture Fellow for the 2020-2021 cycle, for which he is teaching a graphic memoir seminar. You can find him on Instagram at @jakegoldwasser.

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Issue 14

Alien Abduction Insurance

Corey Ginsberg’s prose and poetry have appeared in such publications as The Fiddlehead, Yemassee, Third Coast, and The Gettysburg Review. Corey enjoys eating spaghetti, spoiling her dachshunds, and listening to The Beatles.

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Issue 14

Patrizate (intransitive verb)

Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer is a poet from Maryland. Their work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Memorious, The Roanoke Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and L’Éphémère Review. They were a poetry semifinalist for the 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press) and the 2019 and 2020 recipient of the Bryn Mawr Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize.

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