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National Anthology of the Best Undergraduate Writing

Fiction, Volume XI

In Memory of Atlas Moon

Marisa Barnard

Fiction, Volume XI

Swimming Lessons

Claire Doll

Poetry, Volume XI

Oceanic Oracle

Summer Hagan

Poetry, Volume XI

American

Juan Ortega

Poetry, Volume XI

Orare por ti (I will pray for you)

Juan Ortega

Poetry, Volume XI

Staring at My Bookshelf

Angela Vodola

Fiction, Volume XI

Red Snow

Hobson Wadsworth

  • Poetry, Volume X

    Lily

    Pink Creek, Louise Rossiter The wind      that daywas an irate infantan infant beset with colic tempestuous and tyrannical raging and wailing displeasure grasping and pulling and pushingup, then…

    0 August 24, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    U.S. Route 95

    Rust Rorschach, Timothy Embertson   if i put my foot to the floor or take the turn just rightthe horizon will swallow this ought-to-be-ghost town. watch: i slip out through…

    0 August 24, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Watch Dog

    War is Over, Ernest Volynec Today’s spent echoing the beagleas I keep watch from the window,assessing each speck of land of thisplace called home or territory ormemory, each plot of maple,…

    0 August 24, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    en plein air

    Rome is the City of Echoes, Gabe Montesanti You hated the flowers. I tried to hate them too. Can you see decay entering the frameof our picturesque domestic landscape? I am…

    0 August 24, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    Welcome to Milnesand

    Skin Mask Replica, Hunter Louis “Mill in sand.” Windmills pump water out of the sand to irrigate peanuts. At the junction of NM 206, NM 258 and NM 262. Halfway between…

    0 August 24, 2023
  • Books, Fiction, Volume X

    The Shield Maidens of Hafrsfjord

    Opulent, Taharah Islam Part Four (continued from The Shield Maidens of Hafrsfjord, Part Three) Two days have passed since the chaos of the poisoned chests. The chests of silver and gold have…

    0 August 24, 2023
  • Nonfiction, Volume X

    Unpacking

    The Funnies, Justine Newman My family moved this week. This morning, my mom told me she was going to come “check my room” at some point, which means to evaluate whether…

    0 August 24, 2023
  • Drama, Volume X

    Wedding Blues

    Heat Wave, Rachel Ikins Characters: Alex: 29 years old, male, Leni’s twin brother—the stable, mildly sarcastic half of the twin equation Leni: 29 years old, female, a bit of a drama…

    0 August 24, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    The Art Journal I Kept Back When I Loved Jesus

    A Very Long Party In Green, Li Anne Liew  Lives in a clear plastic bin below my childhood bed, neighbors with decades-old stuffed teddies and virgin candles gifted to me for…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    Stokvis

    Eclipsed, Scott Gathright Early that day, clouds had rolled overhead and started to shower The Bulwark and the surrounding sea in a bout of rain. Kubo had watched the South African…

    1 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    117 Million

    Monochrome, Emma Lassiter Anyways, I’ve been thinking about going for a swim. I have been researching lakes and bodies of water. I am uncompromising and precise in my analysis of them…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Nonfiction, Volume X

    Quarantime

    How to Survive a Pandemic, Ashley Webster A guided house tour: spring break, March 13-21, 2020, Prospect Heights, IL. FRENCH WINDOWS In the mornings I sit in an armchair in…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    The Heart Braid

    A Slow Decay, Ashley Webster My substitute mom massaged her threading hands As substitute dad typed religiously on his Blackberry She claimed I was finally ready for my soccer game and…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    The Austrian Alps

    Whispers, Emily Bryn Author’s note: In CMSCI  449: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, students were assigned to write a natural language processing program that would generate commencement speeches. The result was authentic…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    SBF, or Why I am No Longer Discussing Sex With Straight People

    2, Julia Broeker my ex-best friend told me her boyfriend ate her pussy, but it’s okay;, she’s still a virgin.  but oh i forgot, i guess that’s all sex is…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    The chair

    Untamed, Natalie Meador My flesh, a fixture In your sanctuary  Positioned strategically  For optimal usage; Your pleasure at its expense. Dents and scratches repeatedly Concealed by pungent lacquers; The handyman covers…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    THE SHIELD MAIDENS OF HAFRSFJORD

    Winter Afternoon, Evan McGrew Part Three (continued from The Shield Maidens of Hafrsfjord, Part Two) TW/SA, mentions of suicide Astrid has not stopped thinking about what Eira fears. Whenever Eira has a…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Wall Street et. al.

    The Complexity of Detail, Olivia Offutt Oh America, you bad bitch  I picked the cotton that made you rich -Kendrick Lamar, “For Free? (Interlude)” i. new York was once new…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    just not you

    Livelihood, Liza Ashley I didn’t see anything at first  but I felt every bump  and crack of the dirt road, the sudden jolt and sharp turn of the wheel  as…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Patchwork

                                                               …

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    Edgar Edgarson

    Fever Dream, Emily Bryn Edgar Edgarson wore a Victorian overcoat to school, and when I mentioned this to him, he did not hear me. We walked along the hallway together, his…

    3 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Witness

    Lady on the Platform, Adam Foster I can’t watch  without a bile of blood and bones inch up a throat choking on the knee of circumstance. The black of my closed…

    0 February 4, 2023
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