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Below, a shirtless boy wades into the river. His mother, on a boulder, reaches out. A swallow darts by. Concrete shifts. 

Lift

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Nonfiction

frida got mad at a dove today, had to dig a hole about it
in the shade of a gambel oak my mom believes is an elm.

look it’s a mango

Kristin Lueke
Poetry

Straightening to inspect her find, she’d unfurl a trail of lake in her palm, like a fan. Bony-kneed Mom: a water bird, gentle and flightless.

The Wing

Melissa Ostrom
Fiction

Fiction

Foreman

Andrew Skola

The Buzzing Means That Mom’s Back

Leah Francesca Christianson

The Wing

Melissa Ostrom

Cousins

Lanbo Yang

Nonfiction

Fagends at the Whitney

Dana Wall

Lift

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

A Spectrum is a Ray of Light

Simon A. Smith

The Shed

Rachel Parker

Poetry

Becoming

Jennifer Martelli

Days Before the Birth of Drumming

Tommy Archuleta

Making a Life

Meghan Sterling

Caleb
Study in the Death Ambition with Apple Tree

Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer

Winter Visitors

Mai-Linh Hong

look it’s a mango

Kristin Lueke

Gibbon’s Decline and Fall

Carolyn Oliver

Wherefore
Aubade

Constance Hansen

Train Passing by Hospital in Hackensack, NJ

Dawn Watson

Stalin’s Chicken

Mikaela Stirner

The Maine Review’s author interview series

Radicle: The Roots of Writers

with Sue William Silverman

Discover the breakthrough moments of Sue William Silverman, author of Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader, published by the University of Nebraska Press. Silverman recently sat down with Jocelyn Winn, MeR’s Nonfiction Editor, to discuss illuminating life experiences through metaphor, searching for inner truths, and embracing our former selves. 

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