Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 37
SPRING 2022
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FICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
*Colette Parris, Extra Credit
*Charlotte Moretti, Running Alone at Night
*Eric Rasmussen, Meaningful Departures
*AJ Strosahl, N ̓x̌ax̌aitkʷ, 1984
Michelle Ross, The Contents of My Exes’ Refrigerators
Ann Stoney, The Other Side
POETRY
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue.
Breakfast Soliloquy
by William Erickson
Even the Dogs
by Ronda Broatch
Don’t Kick the Dog
by Philip Schaefer
Leave No Trace
by Robin Neidorf
A Poem Wherein I Try, and Fail, to Identify My Tuesday Gender
by Quinn Rennerfeldt
FLASH
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue.
Ablation (Nonfiction)
by Lisa Lebduska
We Were Not So Big (Nonfiction)
by Windy Lynn Harris
Even in the Dark
by Cristina Trapani-Scott*
Skate Haven
by Amy R. Martin*
When You’re the Contortionist
by Candace Hartsuyker
Walking on the Furniture
by Jessica Klimesh*
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
Ode on Braises (and Odes)
by Gregory Emilio
Timoun, or, Little World
by Richard Casimir
Brood X
by Gwen Mullins
VISUAL NARRATIVE
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published visual narratives gathered from each quarterly issue.
Despina
by Jennifer Hayden
ART
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published art gathered from each quarterly issue.
Layering Light
Paintings by Bette Ridgeway
Cover Design by Karen Rile
*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist