A poem by alum Laura Swearingen-Steadwell (poetry, ’14) appears at The Collagist:
Out of town, down
along the cliffs and walls
sunken in surrounding earth,
ahead for miles, the towns, farms,
vineyards, and gentle hills of Umbria,
gold and orange, soaking up the open sun,
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Two poems by alum Melissa Roberts (poetry, ’12), Afterwards and Loneliness, appear at The Collagist:
Afterwards
The room feels small or large
depending on how small you are within it
and whether or not a man is touching you
while you’re thinking about something else—
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Three poems by alum Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (poetry, ’05) excerpted from her upcoming book The Greenhouse appear at The Collagist:
(When the giant sacrifices himself for the boy)
(and on the screen
the men marching toward him all the pieces
falling from his metal body
steaming in the snow)
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Two poems by alum Kathy Alma Peterson (poetry, ’07) appear at IthacaLit:
Sleight with Homage to Linen
Without ransack a theft can go undetected
for months even years may pass before
trained eyes miss the heirloom watch hands
(arms, really) frozen at the moment it was lifted
(taken from the bureau where it was to be for life)
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A story by alum Erin Stalcup (fiction, ’04) appears at Monkeybicycle:
Possibly many of you have done the thing this person is charged with. If we, the court, knew it, you would be on trial. We’re seeking to see today if you can be an impartial judge of this person who is accused of not loving her neighbors as she loved herself.
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A piece by alum Gabriel Blackwell (fiction, ’09) appears at The Fanzine:
Tom Helmore, the English actor who plays Gavin Elster in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, had been in two previous Hitchcock movies, 1927′s The Ring and 1936′s Secret Agent. He appears in the credits for neither one.
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Four poems by alum Nathan McClain (poetry, ’13) appear at Connotation Press:
They’ll say: we’ll find a place for him.
They’ll say: someone will come.
But you already know what will be done:
someone will come and apply light
pressure to the dog’s foreleg; a fine needle
will pass into his vein—this process
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A new piece by alum Jennifer Givhan (poetry, ’15) appears at The Adroit Journal. You can listen to a reading or read it yourself online…
A poem by alum Christine Fadden (fiction, ’09) appears at Shadowgraph:
Muscle bound by fog of night, ink I taste and bathe in,
imprint your irises on my bones. Etch across my throat
your love line.
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A poem by alum Daye Phillippo (poetry, ’14) appears at Shenandoah:
That morning, eleven wild turkeys,
roaming over the yard and garden
in unison the way my imagination roams,
pecking up the unlikely. The unlikely blue
of the bird’s heads and necks long enough to be
a prank played which might have been why
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