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25.2 - Summer/Fall 2013
2012 Barthelme Prize
The Compartment
by Josie Sigler (Winner)
The Only Thing We Argue About Is Time Travel
by John Longo
(Honorable Mention)
There was
by Emma Copley Eisenberg (Honorable Mention)
Fiction
The Anatomy of Shame
by Suad Khatab Ali
Two Days in Seventh Grade
by Kevin Brockmeier
Lexa Flying Solo
by Katie Cortese
Tuesday
by Petur HK
The Collector of Thoughts
by David James Poissant
Art Builds Bridges
by J. David Stephens
Nonfiction
True Zeroes
by Michael Copperman
The Slashing
by Matthew Ferrence
Life Cycles
by Jennifer D. Munro
Holding the Plank
by Craig Reinbold
Three-Hour Tour
by Emma Straub
The Sound
by Patti White
Poetry
Reading Hunger
by
Jose Angel Araguz
Two poems:
The children
, and
The storm you say
by
Elizabeth Barnett
Two poems:
loose strife
, and
ars
by
Quan Barry
from Monograph
by
Simeon Berry
When I Go to Prison to Meet My Father
by
Traci Brimhall
A Brief History of Evolution
by
Jim Daniels
Vogue, Vogue
by
Marc Gaba
Two poems: Word
, and
Rat Poison
by
Eamon Grennan
Suffering Song
by
Laura Kasischke
Gin Blossom
by
Austin LaGrone
Dawn at the Dead Sea
by
Shara Lessley
Two poems:
How to Triumph Like a Girl
, and
Down Here
by
Ada Limón
Two poems:
On Metal
, and
Thalassophobia
by
Jamaal May
Image: Psychotherapy
by
Wayne Miller
my regrets/I will not make it to Rio [...]
by
Zach Mueller
Two poems:
Act of Contrition
, and
Chinkhoswe
by
Jacques J. Rancourt
Correction
by
Danniel Schoonebeek
My Father's Shadow
by
Tue Sy
Two poems:
Archipelago
, and
Mendicant
by
Ryan Teitman
Two poems:
Milk
, and
Apology With Whales and Coyotes
by
Chelsea Wagenaar
Love Poem in Four Nocturnes
by
Eric Weinstein
Cane: 1962
by
Kimberly Williams
Two poems:
ways we imagine
, and
patterns of excitement
by
Wendy Xu
The Beating & What Happens When the Boston Crew Finds Out You Ain't Edge
by
Joshua Young
Interviews
"The Cinnamon Tsunami is Here": A Latin@ Writers Roundtable
by Gustavo Arellano, Angie Cruz, Carolina Ebeid, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Juan Felipe Herrera, David Tomas Martinez, and Carmen Giménez Smith
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