Fresh-Cut Lit & More ISSUE NO. 42 SUMMER 2023 Want weekly writing tips, author interviews, and book reviews, plus 4 quarterly issues sent directly to your inbox? Subscribe to Cleaver! It’s free. POETRY LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue. It never seemed wrong to love you, it’s just that we were herons by Lynn Finger juniper poplarby Grayson Thompson* Among the Wreckageby Laura Ruby Containment Failureby Ky Lohrenz* Colloquy of Young Mothers on Venango Streetby Leonard Kress** FICTION LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue. Somatics by Gillian Perry* The Bankrupt Circusby J. Bradley Minnick* Sunk By Minesby Tom Sokolowski* Distracted by Pat Jameson* Five Seconds by Matthew Burrell* Hell’s Mountainby Brendan Stephens* The Activist in the Nursing Home by Pat Ryan* Your Best Impression of an Earnest Manby Lauren Baker* FLASH LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue. Lift by Mikki Aronoff* Our Hands Too Smallby Jody M Keene Re-Mark the Body, But Know It Is Little More Than Kindling by Jennifer Popa* An Unnamed Essay in Which the World Ends, but I’m Told Everything Is Okay (Nonfiction) by Samantha Padgett* The Ride (Nonfiction) by Sarah Myers* CREATIVE NONFICTION LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue. Dunes Dayby Andrew Michael Johnson Two Essaysby Jon Chopan Contraindicatedby Carolyn Alessio* When You Call His Mother from the Psych Unit by Rebecca Grossman-Kahn* VISUAL NARRATIVE LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published visual narratives gathered from each quarterly issue. Glass Houseby Emily Steinberg Cover Design by Karen Rile*Cleaver Emerging Artist**Artist of Philadelphia***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist