Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 25
SPRING 2019
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ART
Seeing Leaves of Glass
Glass Art and Homage to Walt Whitman
by Paul J. Stankard
POETRY
Glenn Ingersoll, Instead
*mud howard, heat wave
*Catherine Chen, The Ordinary is Worth Investigation
*Will Stanier, The Garden and Poem (in Traffic)
***Brigit Andersson, Zoë
*Dan Kraines, Lines on the Way to a March
Phoebe Reeves, Chapter One: Methods of the Innocent
**Barbara Daniels Tall and The Week in Words
Lauren Bender, Corporate Cliff
*Roy White, The Damage is the Truth
Joan Larkin, Fresco
Allison Hummel, Gamelan
Simon Perchik, [You no longer bathe] and [These stones too steep]
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Charlotte Gullick, This is Enough
*Joshua Rysanek, The Waiting Room
***Rae Pagliarulo, Me and Mrs. Bee
*Carroll Sandel, Statement of Account
Andrea Jarrell, Rabbit, Rabbit
VISUAL NARRATIVE
**Emily Steinberg, A National Emergency
FLASH
*Erica Plouffe Lazure, Because I Love Her
*Sue Mell, All The Chinese Food in the World
Mercedes Lawry, Sock Drawer and Dog Sense
Tommy Dean, Victory Lap
*Will Schick, What Will Grow You Up Real Fast, He Said
Yasmina Din Madden, Neutrality
*Michelle Geoga, Fence
Jason Irwin, Shiftless
*Sydney Smith, The Housekeeper
Jacqueline Doyle, Dark Hallway
Raima Larter, Amanda is Moving…
SHORT STORIES
*Marie Baléo, Dispatches from Dead City
Stefani Nellen, Just You Wait
Josh Denslow, Punch
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Cover illustration: Walt Whitman’s Garden Bouquet, 4″ (2018) by Paul J. Stankard
*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist