“And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!”
- Robert Browning
- Robert Browning
CELEBRATING 5 YEARS AS A LITERARY JOURNAL & TEN YEARS AS A SMALL PRESS
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APRIL
NONFICTION & PROSE POETRY
HARVEST
SUSAN FRIBERG
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Winter's coming in her uneasy voice and I haven't settled a thing of the season. I haven't made any notations of passage like Dora out in the yard, stooped in her satin slip and hairnet with tears speaking to nobody passing by as she spends another day watching the last few leaves drop from the young ash almost shed.
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CARNIVALESQUE
KATHERINE GAFFNEY
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Some nights in sleep, I tangle myself half in and half out of clothes. Wake to the strain of not knowing why. Better to leave myself cold and naked than clothed and wondering.
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KATHERINE GAFFNEY
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Some nights in sleep, I tangle myself half in and half out of clothes. Wake to the strain of not knowing why. Better to leave myself cold and naked than clothed and wondering.
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QAZVIN 1978
ASHLEY HAJIMIRSADEGHI
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Baba breathes the curling smoke of his cigar in and out and leans back in the ceramic chairs provided by the café. He must think he is a dragon. Perhaps he believes it, hollowly puffing out another melancholic cloud, and someday someone will come and slay the beast.
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ASHLEY HAJIMIRSADEGHI
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Baba breathes the curling smoke of his cigar in and out and leans back in the ceramic chairs provided by the café. He must think he is a dragon. Perhaps he believes it, hollowly puffing out another melancholic cloud, and someday someone will come and slay the beast.
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HAIBUN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
AMANDA MOORE
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Though she knows better the girl still says nightmere a relic of early language when she also said fleamingos and girled cheese. Nightmere as if to belittle: merely at night, merely a vision and not some charging mare galloping through dreams to tear and divot the fragile terrain of sleep.
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AMANDA MOORE
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Though she knows better the girl still says nightmere a relic of early language when she also said fleamingos and girled cheese. Nightmere as if to belittle: merely at night, merely a vision and not some charging mare galloping through dreams to tear and divot the fragile terrain of sleep.
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THE SYLPH OF THY 305
NEKTARIA PETROU
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Of course I don’t expect to ever see you again. You’ve disappeared, as elementals do. Even so, I find myself smiling because I’m sitting one row from where I first heard your voice. English-accented and yet not English. Polite. A caress even at the first word. I heard it behind me, offering aid, as I tried to fit my roller bag in the overhead locker.
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NEKTARIA PETROU
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Of course I don’t expect to ever see you again. You’ve disappeared, as elementals do. Even so, I find myself smiling because I’m sitting one row from where I first heard your voice. English-accented and yet not English. Polite. A caress even at the first word. I heard it behind me, offering aid, as I tried to fit my roller bag in the overhead locker.
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APRIL
FICTION
LOVE IS A WARM GUN
MILEVA ANASTASIADOU
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His name was Joey and he was my joy for a while, until he wasn’t. We had fun, the way young lovers do, when the world unfolds in all its terrifying, yet mesmerizing glory. He had been my weapon against reality, my revenge against sorrow, until he started talking about love. He was my joy and now he’s but a song by Concrete Blonde I listen to on the repeat, among other songs that remind me of him. For songs can be a substitute, a soothing one nonetheless. I kind of feel lucky to have met the original rhythm. Lucky to have a heartbeat to miss.
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APRIL HIGHLIGHTED CONTRIBUTORS:
Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist. Her work can be found in many journals, such as the Molotov Cocktail, Jellyfish Review, Gone Lawn, and others.
Susan Friberg lives and writes in the Denver area. She's a member of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop where she has just completed a manuscript of poems. She attended the University of Iowa, and the University of Colorado where she studied photography and graduated with a degree in English. Recently, she served for 2 years with AmeriCorps, working as a health coach and community health worker at a family medicine clinic in Denver. She recently was selected for the Francine Ringold award for new writers in poetry (Nimrod International Journal).
Katherine Gaffney is currently in the final year of her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has previously appeared and is upcoming in Lullwater Review, the Madison Review Online, Kettle Blue Review, Meridian, the Tampa Review, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry and elsewhere.
Ashley Hajimirsadeghi is a freshman at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has previously won 22 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for poetry, including a Gold National Medal, Silver National Medal, and was selected as one of six students to receive the prestigious Civic Expression Award.
Amanda Moore's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA, Cream City Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Best New Poets, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and she is the recipient of writing awards from The Writing Salon, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. A high school English teacher, Amanda lives by the beach with her husband and daughter in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. More about her work is available at http://amandapmoore.com.
Nektaria Petrou’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Al-Monitor, Panoply, Sixfold, The Shanghai Literary Review, and more. She received honorable mentions in Ruminate's 2015 Short Fiction Contest and Glimmertrain’s Spring 2017 New Writer Contest. One of her short stories will be included in the New Rivers Press/University of Minnesota American Short Fiction Anthology, to be published in 2019. She recently completed a novel about the Greeks of Istanbul, where she lives and works.
Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist. Her work can be found in many journals, such as the Molotov Cocktail, Jellyfish Review, Gone Lawn, and others.
Susan Friberg lives and writes in the Denver area. She's a member of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop where she has just completed a manuscript of poems. She attended the University of Iowa, and the University of Colorado where she studied photography and graduated with a degree in English. Recently, she served for 2 years with AmeriCorps, working as a health coach and community health worker at a family medicine clinic in Denver. She recently was selected for the Francine Ringold award for new writers in poetry (Nimrod International Journal).
Katherine Gaffney is currently in the final year of her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has previously appeared and is upcoming in Lullwater Review, the Madison Review Online, Kettle Blue Review, Meridian, the Tampa Review, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry and elsewhere.
Ashley Hajimirsadeghi is a freshman at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has previously won 22 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for poetry, including a Gold National Medal, Silver National Medal, and was selected as one of six students to receive the prestigious Civic Expression Award.
Amanda Moore's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA, Cream City Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Best New Poets, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and she is the recipient of writing awards from The Writing Salon, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. A high school English teacher, Amanda lives by the beach with her husband and daughter in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. More about her work is available at http://amandapmoore.com.
Nektaria Petrou’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Al-Monitor, Panoply, Sixfold, The Shanghai Literary Review, and more. She received honorable mentions in Ruminate's 2015 Short Fiction Contest and Glimmertrain’s Spring 2017 New Writer Contest. One of her short stories will be included in the New Rivers Press/University of Minnesota American Short Fiction Anthology, to be published in 2019. She recently completed a novel about the Greeks of Istanbul, where she lives and works.
