An interview with and poems by alum Jayne Benjulian (poetry, ’13) appear at Shadowgraph Quarterly:
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A poem by alum John Minczeski (poetry, ’90) appears at Shadowgraph Quarterly:
It was like the distant harps of angels,
A filtrate of furnace and towels
I’d used to wipe up the dog’s manifest
Destiny. It was a flag,
A minor rearrangement of molecules.
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A poem by alum Lesley Valdes (poetry, ’15) appears at Shadowgraph Quarterly:
I saw them again.
I thought it was a dream.
Then I remembered yesterday
at Las Cruces, where I get the avocado
and cilantro, where they never mind the dog.
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A flash fiction piece by alum Adam Jernigan (fiction, ’15) appears at Shadowgraph Quarterly:
She did try. But the Jew died anyway. She never knew his name, never asked, just spoke in the little broken German she’d learned. Take. Move. Eat. Bucket. Blanket. No…
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Two poems by alum Rosalynde Vas Dias (poetry, ’06) appear at District Lit:
Found
Of course I scrabbled around the tail of the car
scavenging the marbles off the parking lot.
And then corralled them on the countertop
in a rubber band off some broccoli or something.
And I looked at them tonight—cat’s eyes. Things
turn up. If you think about them long enough
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Two poems by alum Nathan McClain (poetry, ’13) appear at District Lit:
Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
She thought she was alone. My father had left her. She’d hum in the kitchen— she thought she was alone— her song the sound a needle makes lapping
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A poem by alum Rosalynde Vas Dias (poetry, ’06) appears at TAMSEN:
You walk to the river—
maybe it is snowing heavily,
you only have yarn mittens,
thin and holey. You look
at the steely surface eating the flakes,
the other shore veiled, lost.
Should there not be a boat,
a boatman? Or you lie in the dark,
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A poem by alum Jennifer Givhan (poetry, ’15) appears at the Kenyon Review:
1. Domestic Adoption:
No joke, black babies are cheaper—
white ones cost ten grand more. That’s not
how she phrased it on the phone
after the gauge of my uterus
had fixed itself on empty.
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A poem by alum Peg Alford Pursell (fiction, ’96) appears at The Cortland Review:
A poem by alum Hannah Fries (poetry, ’10) appears at The Cortland Review:
Sillage de la Reine
Rhizomes from a Tuscan iris
cured five years, jasmine,
orange blossom, tuberose,
(bergamot to lighten the head),
perfect blend for a lover
of gardens and soft intensity,
petals’ sticky uncurling
in sunshine’s glaze.
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