genesis: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called genesis.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

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Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• AnGel by Naseeb, Laila (2019) - genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 9 AnGel Gel Pen on Paper 8x11” Laila Naseeb Best of Art Keywords: art
• Modern Art by Miller, Keeley (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 39 Photograph Modern Art Keeley Miller Best of Art; Cover Keywords: art
• The Day of the Dreader by Boehmer, Serena (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf The Day of the Dreader Serena Boehmer Acrylic Paints - 43 - Best of Art Keywords: art
• Liquids by Levart, Ben (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Liquids Ben Levart Photography Cover Art Keywords: art
• Liquids 2 by Levart, Ben (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Liquids Ben Levart Photography Cover Art Keywords: art
• Be Born, Transform by Kravig, Courtney (2019) - Be Born, Transform Courtney Kravig Lithograph - 56 - Best of Art Keywords: art
• Letter from the Editors by Alcala, Joseph; Kalt, Jordan; Soderling, Trenna (2020) - Several pieces included in this issue such as The Return, A Hunger Artist, Under My Wing, and “Calavera...Calavera…” see artists pulling inspiration from well-known pieces of art to provide unique contexts for their own realities. Fostering artistic community is a role genesis has filled for nearly fifty years, sharing student work and hosting events that bring artists, readers, and editors together in their love of art. Keywords: art
• Drifting Jellies by Fisher, Megan (2021) - - 13 - Drifting Jellies Megan Fisher Digital Art Keywords: art
• Exposure (Best of Art) by Spangler, Oliver (2021) - - 29 - Exposure Oliver Spangler Photography Best Of Art Keywords: art
• Warm Inside (best of) by Starks, Natalie (2023) - Warm Inside Natalie Starks Oil on canvas; 35 x 35 - 37 - - Best of Art - Keywords: art
• The Master in Pieces by Carlson, Kyrsten (2023) - Inside, Mr. Oliver Hamilton stood to the side. Mr. Oliver Hamilton, not one for drinking and less for socializing, wan- dered ahead into the reconstructed gallery that was, at that moment, for his eyes only. Keywords: art; hamilton; man; night; oliver
• Intimates (best of, cover) by Franke, Abby (2024) - 46 Stained Glass, Steel Rod Abby Franke Intimates - Best of Art - Keywords: art
• Identity Crisis by Kluger, Alexandra (2024) - I am not the composition of art— encased and displayed, framed in golden petals that are only seen in my strands of blonde. Nor am I the purity of stainless snow baptist robes be to Law, rather by the Crimson Blood that cleaned me clear. Keywords: art
• The Danse Macabre (best of) by Chaifetz, Isaac (2025) - 74 Digital Isaac Chaifetz The Danse Macabre - Best of Art - Keywords: art

• String Games by Bennett, Emily (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 76 genesis spring 2017 String Games Keywords: spring
• The Sickness by Bennett, Emily (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 71 The Sickness Now that I am eight, I know a lot more about the world, •Best of Non-Fiction 72 genesis spring 2017 The Sickness genesis spring 2017 73 74 genesis spring 2017 Not long after that Mother told me I better be good The Sickness genesis spring 2017 75 Keywords: spring
• Stuffed by Frisby, Emma (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 70 genesis spring 2017 Keywords: spring
• Trying My Best by Bennett, Emily (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 60 genesis spring 2017 Steel Keywords: spring
• What Comes Together Also Separates by Hyde, JP (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 56 genesis spring 2017 What Comes Together Also Separates JP Hyde • genesis spring 2017 57 him but turn away unfazed unlike the day they, young and full of 58 genesis spring 2017 What Comes Together Also Separates genesis spring 2017 59 JP Hyde Keywords: spring
• Consummation, Destruction, Desolation by Bielicki, Kevin (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 50 genesis spring 2017 Consummation, Destruction, Desolation Keywords: spring
• It's Lit by Fan, Lifan (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 47 It’s Lit Lifan Fan Keywords: spring
• Solitude by Holmes, Brooke (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 44 genesis spring 2017 Solitude Keywords: spring
• 7095 by Rowley, Piper (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 41 7095 track, • 42 genesis spring 2017 The faith that failed him, The kitchen where he told me I am the evidence why are you crying, 7095 genesis spring 2017 43 I lay my head down and think of unknowing neighborhood, Piper Rowley Keywords: spring
• The Mirror Sister by Ketchem, Madeline (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 38 genesis spring 2017 The Mirror Sister “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt Hamilton, Wicked, The Book of Mormon the media our nation in unison poor bone structure sunken eye sockets small lips short eyelashes unpronounced eyebrows • genesis spring 2017 39 One day Keywords: spring
• Neptunian Tides by Petrunich, Sydney (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 21 Sydney Petrunich Neptunian Tides Keywords: spring
• Lamassu by Stille, Joelle (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 18 genesis spring 2017 Lamassu Joelle Stille • Keywords: spring
• Porcupine by Canada, Taylor (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 6 genesis spring 2017 Porcupine Keywords: spring
• Loc'd by Smith-Howard, Victoria (2019) - genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 14 genesis spring 2017 Loc’d Queen • Keywords: spring

• You're Going to be a Ballerina by Baker, Krista (2019) - You’re Going to be a Ballerina Krista Baker Her body was cold, bitter like the winter wind, or the bile she could always taste. She looked into the mirror every day waiting for a swan to stare back. Keywords: mother
• Trailer Trash: Track One by Kriese, Kaylee (2021) - Gravel roads writhing with scraped knees & spinning bicycle tires. Fearless mud pie makers, with perpetually dirty fingernails. Keywords: mother
• R̵o̵a̵d̵k̵i̵l̵l̵ Mother's Day by Douglas, Macy (2021) - Mother's Day I cannot stop it It will happen again Tomorrow, and the next day­ Countless times, on countless roads Sitting there listening to their devastation I have never been smaller. Then I hear it: A small chitter Pop, pop, A greeting Another voice, more hesitant Calls out in the same way A third, Shriller and demanding Macy Douglas Then a silence stretches There is no reply. Keywords: cat; mother
• Sanctuary by Stone, Mario (2021) - - 50 - You are warmer than a fat loaf of bread fresh out the oven, a hugging sun with softest palms. Mario Stone Sanctuary Keywords: mother
• Marty by Spratt, Julia (2021) - The Focus Last month I married a man who drives a 2013 Ford Focus. I imagine my tiny Chevy Spark, baby blue and smelling like thunderstorms. Keywords: marty; mother
• Moon Mother by Scott, Kat (2023) - Lifting to pour sticky jam in divots, tart and overwhelming. With a face, so faithfully dusted concealing acne craters, the voice of mother through still air reminds you to floss. Keywords: mother
• Identity by Gaines, Nya A. (2024) - Yuka had more of a baby face, and her hair was cut into a bob. Yuka exclaimed. Keywords: alex; day; haruki; japanese; mother; yuka
• Spring by Merida, Haley (2024) - When I crawled into my mother’s bed after school that day, my mother brushed my hair from my face as I told her all about how Callie and I played at recess. It said Callie. Keywords: callie; father; mother
• The Process of Healing by Seigel, Sarah (2024) - Sarah Seigel The Process of Healing She tells herself that this life is so sweet, feeling the faint way her heart beats, pretending that she does not lie down in defeat, her mother asks her when she will eat. Keywords: mother
• WANTED ADS by Neier, Xavier (2025) - Xavier Neier WANTED ADS 41 Additional requirements include: • Texting and Calling 24/7 (Prepare for 2:00AM Panic Attacks) • Spiraling Conversations on Zillow Apartments • Exploration for the Best Indianapolis Restaurants for Dates ($20 per Meal Limit) • Building Pillow Forts with Emotional Security Blankets • Broken Cars that I Can Fix (Wheels Only) Modest physical contact (handholding, resting on each other, prolonged eye-con- tact) is considered long-term commitment. 4040 WANTED: Biological Mother (Full-time position only)* Single, mid-twenties man seeks biological mother. Keywords: mother; therapy
• 7 Stages by Jones, Caedence (2025) - 7272 I. Breathe your first breath—inhale life; Open your eyes to a big, bright world, II. Claim your first step with a steady stomp, & another & another & another. Keywords: mother
• Sammy by Terhorst, Elizabeth (2025) - For years, in the middle of summer when the nauseous heat clung to the undersides of our bones, our mother’s brother would come to visit. As children, he promised her and I that as long as we stood with God in our hearts and him in our hands, we’d never fall. Keywords: child; mother

• She by Rowley, Piper (2019) - We looked at each other for a long time, eyes, and then she nodded, ever so slightly. Sometimes she steals my boxers, rolls the waist- She Piper Rowley genesis spring 2016 25 ly breathless. Keywords: bed; eyes
• Spelunking (best of) by Hall, Ashton (2021) - I’ll be waiting for you.” - 14 - Spelunking A few muscle fibers in Nomi’s shoulders relaxed. Just Nomi, curled in on herself, as small as she’d looked freshman year. Keywords: cave; eyes; head; nomi; tears
• The Conductor's Funeral by Heavilin, Aiden (2023) - But if you haven’t achieved it, Mr. Conductor, Mr. Old Man with Silver Spectacles, then you won’t achieve it, will you, taking your position as the leader of the multifarious rituals and stomping his foot in anger at the dozens of mistakes he perceives yet lacks the energy to criticize. Perhaps, he imagines in his deepest despair, he will never achieve the perfect performance, but there will at least be a perfect mea- sure, a sudden alignment of hearts, the entire orchestra looking up in astonishment and realizing that they are no longer reading music, they are merely playing what is right, and that what is right happens to conform perfectly with the master score. Keywords: conductor; eyes; man; marla; music; world
• coruscations by Cassetty, Christopher (2023) - He’s crawling through my mouth (Again) he’s fingering my eyes, I’ve let him come alive (AGAIN his howl no surprise ‘fore twilight throes, the victim moans unto My jungle groans her wet oasis, her featherdove hair, Her skin the moon so fair So rare so soft her lips We’re crawling through the bliss Her mourning seeks red tongues Her eyes so wet to lies— We come for sin Death welcoming The pleasure Your demise 20 coruscations Christopher Cassetty dreamt i one july of—coruscations who, when asked, would dance upon the walls and glimmer in the blood that dripped from the ceilings. dreamt i one late june of the rancid entrails of the driver of a car—spilt—across stained asphalt and wondered, “what is this to do with me?” dreamt i last night of my dreams, a coruscation, a nightmare, an overdose and an accident, and wondered if there was anything at all to be learnt from a dream. Keywords: eyes
• Munkhi by Stone, Mario (2023) - He’s crawling through my mouth (Again) he’s fingering my eyes, I’ve let him come alive (AGAIN his howl no surprise ‘fore twilight throes, the victim moans unto My jungle groans her wet oasis, her featherdove hair, Her skin the moon so fair So rare so soft her lips We’re crawling through the bliss Her mourning seeks red tongues Her eyes so wet to lies— We come for sin Death welcoming The pleasure Your demise 21 Munkhi Mario Stone Sometimes I feed him daily though I try to not at all, and despite the bite, his empty eyes, I heed his monkey call. Keywords: eyes
• From Ray, with Love by Terry, Roger (2023) - I found my way to a section of smaller books, all carefully placed in zip lock bags like fine finger-sandwiches. From Ray, with Love Roger Terry To be rocketed from this world to a place so fantastic, yet so familiar that it steals your breath away, that is what it feels like to read Ray Bradbury. Keywords: book; eyes; left; life; love; ray; time; world
• The Eyes by Wilhelm, Raeya (2024) - 100 16” x 24” Acrylic Painting Raeya Wilhelm The Eyes Keywords: eyes
• I go there by Bozinovski, Victoria (2025) - Smells of bleached tropical shores, Lapping blue foam over briny grains, Beading sweat that tastes like the sea, I go there. 9 When day favors gloom Both in the pallid tufts of condensed cloud Keywords: eyes
• Dinner at Fabbro’s by Garris, Hayden (2025) - Hank nodded without making eye contact. Hank always stood outside, begging for money with a Best Dad Ever coffee mug. Keywords: day; eyes; fabbro; hank; street; taylor
• Full Moons Are Perfect for a Werewolf to Come Out (As Transgender) (best of) by Miller, Levi (2025) - “This is amazing, Violet,” I said to Donnie’s mom. Donnie cleared his throat, eyes wide enough that I could see little red blood vessels. Keywords: alexa; donnie; eyes; face; grandmother; hand; parker; violet

• Hello? God, It's Me, Mercedez by Schaefer, Mercedez (2019) - genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 13 When my dog is sick, I regret not being clos- er to Jesus. The way I see it, there’s starvation, homelessness, disease, terrorism, and genocide all over the world, so you have to be pretty damned tight with Jesus if you want help when your dog - teen-year-old kid who walked the halls with me every day went to bed and never woke up. Keywords: girl; god; jesus; love
• A Case Study on Love by Carson, Ian (2021) - Further research suggests that our similarities bring us together, and yet every difference I find piques my curiosity and invites me in for further examination. The present study seeks to examine the hypothesis that we are made for each other; a lack of prior research on this topic indicates replication will be required. Keywords: love
• Prayer of the Unrequited Lover by McCollum, Corlan (2023) - I know that we go together, and the world may pull us apart or say otherwise, but Lord, there is nothing more pure or divine than love, and I love you, and the best laid plans of men could not keep this love down. God help our souls. Keywords: love
• Fool for Love by Dobson, Elise (2024) - 43 48” x 36” Acrylic Paint on Canvas Elise Dobson Fool for Love Keywords: love
• Dear Lance by Hoppel, Maggie (2024) - Maggie Hoppel Dear Lance 48 Dear Lance “You need to untie Stephen, and…” Lance trails off. Dear Lance, I’ll say. Keywords: galton; lance; love
• Generations by Kile, Kim (2025) - The hallucinations start before your words are gone, stinging accusations of affairs and lies, paranoid visions of being followed by secret agents, hate-filled rants you scream but don’t recall, your love-filled marriage a distant memory while Alzheimer’s sprouts, blocking love. Golf shirts line the same wall, a pastel rainbow of tags hanging from unworn sleeves, saved for a someday that never comes, the golf courses never played again, as the roots of the disease take hold. Keywords: love
• An Alleged Asexual’s 20-Step Routine (best of) by Allee, Evan (2025) - Imagine Fantasy Partner. Fantasy Partner needs no introduction. Keywords: fantasy; love; partner; shame
• Second Place by Garris, Hayden (2025) - A wall between us, where fissures hide behind lines of neat prose, typed above idyllic photos of you in some faraway fairyland, where money, your currency for love, buys you the life you always dreamed of. Is love, like money, a kind of greed? Keywords: love
• love languages by Allee, Evan (2025) - i. gifting a carcass; a hound’s loudest love language shamed, diminutive ii. whining for hours, your dead silence. Evan Allee love languages Keywords: love

• Whale Watching by Fan, Lifan (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf 46 genesis fall 2016 Oil on Canvas Whale Watching Lifan Fan Keywords: genesisfall2016.pdf
• Mermaid by Wright, Samantha (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 37 Acrylic Mermaid Samantha Wright Keywords: genesisfall2016.pdf
• Eye by Wright, Samantha (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf 28 genesis fall 2016 Acrylic Samantha WrightEye Keywords: genesisfall2016.pdf
• CHAINS by Englert, Kyle Matthew (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf 24 genesis fall 2016 CHAINS Photograph Kyle Matthew Englert Keywords: genesisfall2016.pdf
• Bloom by Miller, Keeley (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf 22 genesis fall 2016 In Bloom Keeley Miller Photograph Keywords: genesisfall2016.pdf
• Flower Preservation in Victorian England by Duff, Courtney (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 23 Flower Preservation in Victorian England Best of Poetry Keywords: genesisfall2016.pdf
• Pizza by Lowry, Brook (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf 20 genesis fall 2016 Pizza Brook Lowry Oil on Canvas Keywords: genesisfall2016.pdf
• Golden Deer Still Life by Fan, Lifan (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 7 Oil on Canvas Golden Deer Still Life Lifan Fan Keywords: genesisfall2016.pdf
• Adam and Eve by Englert, Kyle Matthew (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf 10 genesis fall 2016 Photograph Adam and Eve Kyle Matthew Englert Keywords: genesisfall2016.pdf

• A Poem for the Next Generation of Women by Bruszewski, Caitlyn (2019) - hit, cheat, rape, or demean me because men do not want us to know that they are weak. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf A Poem for the Next Generation of Women Caitlyn Bruszewski I walk the streets at night hoping, wishing, praying That my clothing does not hug my body too tight. Keywords: man
• Shackled by Saylor, Allison (2019) - “Town Tiger,” I corrected. With wide eyes, I watched as the Town Tiger backed away from me. Keywords: man; tiger; town
• The Unkindness of the Raven by Dile, Evan (2021) - 22 The Unkindness of the Raven Evan Dile Nevar Windsor approached the coffee shop, stopping just in front of the glass doors. Nevar waved over to him and made eye contact. Keywords: coffee; man; nevar; traeh
• Damn Junkies by Gross, Nicholas (2023) - Mark referred to the begin- ning of rehearsal as “Johnny Time,” because it was whatever time that Johnny decided that he would come to rehearsal. “I’ll see you tomorrow for rehearsal at Johnny O’ Clock. Keywords: damn; johnny; man; mark; people; time
• Taste a Little Waste with You by Grimes, Ben (2023) - She was followed by two lines of six; those behind her wore robes of black or earthy red, humming with their heads hung low as their guide took them to the empty place where only the meat was. No bones protruded from the meat; it was all flesh and blood and pus. Keywords: man; meat
• Totem for the Working Man by Smith, Robert (2025) - 110 Robert Smith 40” x 60” Oil on Canvas Totem for the Working Man Keywords: man
• The Intricacies and Eccentricities of Loving a Necromancer by Allee, Evan (2025) - Graveyards have provided ample stock, and bone carving has become a hobby out of necessity. He dejectedly, not for his own sake, but mine, resigned himself to the wil- derness for hours at a time, foraging for mushrooms and miscellaneous bones, transplanting what he had found miles out into my own yard. Keywords: head; man; person; shadows; town

• The Day After He Dumped You by Christoff, Claire (2019) - The day after he dumped you, let’s-just-take-a-break–style you saw a dead bird on the sidewalk and took a picture of it and sent it to him and he didn’t reply but what did you expect like the dead robin you saw outside the library before it really got cold, sort of an avian miscarriage or maybe abortion, sinewy and sad and kind of like chewed gum, bird bacon and the snow that fell on your head under the singing orange streetlamp, rivulets of broken yolk through your hair. Except it wasn’t snow, it dried hard and purple and you used an entire bottle of Pantene to make you feel civilized again. Keywords: day
• Its Mother (best of) by Tuzzio, Laura (2021) - Vorpal sword gripped by weak fleshy hand. Echoing nightmarish wales. Keywords: day
• trauma. (Best of Creative Nonfiction) by White, Michaela (2021) - I wanted to stop sleeping with my bedroom door locked, to stop locking my car over and over and over while I was getting gas or walking into the store, into school. Michaela White trauma. Keywords: day
• Rainy Day by Franke, Abby (2024) - 157 12.5” x 6” Silk Screen Print Abby Franke Rainy Day Keywords: day
• Fragmentation by Cassetty, Christopher (2024) - Then I dropped into the bed and saw the light around me grow dim, and instantly from day, it was—to night and the sheets were warm, and the water just right, and I closed my eyes; I hoped then, if I didn’t open them again, I wouldn’t see her leave. I felt her words cover my head and neck, bathing me, cleansing me, running cool from the tap until the water heater croaks to life and you hear whining in the pipes like the ringing of your ears, and of course, I didn’t hear what she said. Keywords: day
• From Seeing Lisa Dying by Allee, Evan (2025) - Lisa found a pot shaped like a snail and thought of me. Lisa called me tonight. Keywords: day; laugh; lisa; woman

• The Bee Whisperer by Johnson, Victoria (2019) - I’d seen Danny pet bees a dozen times Victoria Johnson genesis fall 2016 45 The Bee Whisperer by then, but this time, when he ran toward the bee, he must’ve frightened it. I one of Danny coloring. Keywords: aunt; bee; danny; know; mom
• Insomniatic by Coffman-Mackey, Elizabeth (2020) - They say some teenagers from Ishpeming - 29 - Elizabeth Coffman-Mackey went in there last year, and one of them went missing the next week.” “I didn’t hear that,” Meagan said. “The kids at youth group say it’s haunted, and no one’s been in there for years. Keywords: dad; house; insomniatic; mom; year; zach
• 雪花 的 故事 - SNOW FLOWER’S STORY by Coy, Chloe (2022) - As people of color, Asians can relate to how other non-White people experience White, American hegemony. Gulliver does this with the Yahoos, and Asian Americans have (and still do) perpetuate social injustice with anti-Black racism. Keywords: bella; chinese; family; mom; veronica; white
• Mom's Wearing Pants! by Hawkins, Caroline (2022) - Mom's Wearing Pants Caroline Hawkins Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 23 Keywords: mom
• Being Black by Butler, Tyler (2024) - I was being exposed to not just music, but black music. If I had time I would hang out with them and we’d have fun for hours on end. Keywords: mom; music; pete; time
• Rebuilding Home by Rump, Alicia (2024) - A wooden plaque hangs in the hallway that reads ‘best dad’ with all of our names carved out below it. Maddie mumbles. Keywords: dad; home; house; maddie; mom; screen
• How Still We See by Kile, Kim (2024) - Together, Kate, Tully, John, and Dr. Hanson brought baby Teddy into the world and into Tully’s waiting arms. Tell Ollie I’m on my way, and I can’t wait for him to show me his picture.” KATE Keywords: baby; kate; mom; ollie; teddy; tully; turtle
• Fighting Your Memory by Weaver, Gabriella (2025) - Though I think that type of big sister would have remembered more than I do. I wasn’t very old when Mom sat me down and told me that I would soon be a big sister. Keywords: mom; sister

• Our Time by Léon, Tanner (2019) - So it’s no wonder we chant in the streets for more fun and less work. Raised on meat and Republican bias but still cast our first votes for Bernie: hope never died, it was born into us. Keywords: time; world
• DOES GRIEVING EVER END OR DO ITS INSTANCES JUST GROW FURTHER AND FURTHER APART by Chopra, Natasha (2019) - i did not realize that choosing this dupatta led to such a strict cleaning regiment, did not realize i had to ration out my laundry, dirty it only so much before it started fading, slipping through my royal blue nails, the weight of commitment rests heavily on my lungs; i wonder if dadi ever cringed when i called her sarees dupattas or the other way around, but the more i think about her, the more she fractures, the more she fades, i didn’t realize i had to ration out my grief, didn’t realize i had such a strict schedule to mourn her, i wonder if she’s even there at all or if she washed out over time, becoming only a ghost i wish i could be haunted by. - 62 - DOES GRIEVING EVER END OR DO ITS INSTANCES JUST GROW FURTHER AND FURTHER APART Natasha Chopra the indigo dye of my new dupatta rubs off on my fingertips, turning the white strips of my nails a faded royal blue; i wonder if dadi ever wore this color, wonder if her hands ever looked like mine, wonder if she knew the last time we spoke would be the last time we spoke; i remember in college, i learned that every time you think of a memory, you only think of the last time you remembered it, you remember only its ghost. Keywords: time
• genesis-23156 by None (None) - It was all in an effort to ensure we’d be providing them with a normal, healthy baby for a well-paying set of adoptive parents. I just needed more time. Keywords: baby; home; parents; time
• Better Fences (best of) by Hand, Siren (2023) - Even thinking about it now, I only really saw Miss Valentine frown a handful of times: one when she told me not to worry about what happened to Bitty, that she would be okay, and another was this very time when Zion asked for food. After my mother drove to work, her vacant space left a perfect half- court for Zion and me to play basketball in, until she got home in time to start dinner. Keywords: bitty; miss; time; valentine; zion
• A Fine Line by Rump, Alicia (2025) - What did they think of Ryan wrestling with his dad to keep him from the wheel, now that his siblings were scared and obedient in the backseat? But so was Alex’s comment that Ryan should fuck off back to Bloomington, that once their mom arrived their family didn’t need him. Keywords: alex; dad; max; ryan; time

• Alternate World by Knierman, Rachel (2019) - Alternate World Rachel Knierman Acrylic on Canvas - 24 - Keywords: world
• Hers by Schaible, Bryttney (2021) - Dreams will deflate with the grace of popped party balloons, and possibilities will meet their limits. Tea parties will be cancelled, and all the cakes from here on out will be diet. Keywords: world
• In a World of My Own by Marie, Shae (2022) - 41 In a World of My Own Shae Marie Mixed media, 22 x 30 Keywords: world
• Doomsday by Allee, Evan (2025) - Beaches we once loved will no longer exist for tiny feet to skip through; I will not watch children who are not our own crash through foamy waves and dig for seashells while I dig a grave. 154154 As the Sun falls behind the yew tree Keywords: sun; world
• Grieving in Advance by Vega, Ashley (2025) - Eventually, they caught on, but there were definitely kids who thought I was lying or joking around about that for a while. Up to this point, his health had been fine, but this was when alarming things started to happen. Keywords: dad; world

• Prayers of a Sears Carpet Technician by Hoyt, Gabrielle (2021) - They manifest in the shapes of treaded dirt and the deep sticky red of spilt cabernet. In my line of duty I have seen the final resting place of mistaken steps and faltered grips. Keywords: dad
• A Bone to Pick by Ventura, Tara (2023) - Nico stood with plug in hand, ready to yank, the meat grinder rumbled on. “You don’t bet with money when you work at a deli and nobody shoots a gun in New York without somebody else around to hear it,” Nico told me when he noticed me peeking. Keywords: dad; hand; nico
• Before We Forget by McVeigh, Kayla (2024) - It wasn’t that Peter and Norman fought, but from the time he moved out for college and went into medicine, he and his dad had grown apart. Norman would ask Peter to decipher his notes, but Peter noticed they had become less legible. Keywords: dad; norman; peter; thought; work
• Call Us When You Need Us by Pickett, Sam (2025) - I look at myself and dad reflected in a big wall-mounted Sony tv from the mid 2000s as Miss Betty says, “Hold on, hold on, John,” and Mr. John grunts and breathes. Miss Betty asks Mr. John. Keywords: dad; john

• Metaphor by Marquam, Nathan (2019) - when people ask if I’m ok, I tell them that shit happens. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Metaphor Kate Marquam the fall is not a metaphor for my father. Keywords: father
• (W)hole in My Head by Marquam, Nathan (2020) - After months of trying to control Phineas’s erratic behavior, Dr. Harlow places a gun to Phineas’s head in a moment of desperation. It cuts to Phineas and Dr. Harlow standing outside, and Phineas explaining to Dr. Harlow how to hold the gun, how to shoot straight. Keywords: accident; father; head; people; phineas
• There's a Reason We Eat Latkes (Best of) by Weiss, Madison (2021) - “Papa, tell me what happened to your mother and father.” I dismissed the feeling for many years. Keywords: family; father
• Genetics by Kile, Kim (2025) - A mother and daughter, tethered like hot air balloons by the strongest of cords, soon to be connected by only the genes we share. Will my hazel eyes win out over your father’s brilliant blue? You rest, head down, tiny feet pressed in my ribs, the roo to my kanga, stealing my breath before you even arrive. Keywords: father
• In the Shadow of Magdalene by Dobson, Elise (2025) - Choral hymns stink of Catholic wraith, breath that reeks of poor self restraint. The Virgin Mary carries latex love, a sanitized and sultry slut. Keywords: father
• (I) Wanted (My D)ad by Blackburn, Tegan (2025) - Take care not to mistake memories with replacement father for former father. WANTED: Replacement Father (full-time)* Autistic, genderqueer twenty-something seeks replacement father for the hol- lowed out, still-warm crater the original left behind. Keywords: father; job

• Frostbite by Carrico, Zach (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Frostbite Zach Carrico Photography Keywords: photography
• Reflection by Bruszewski, Caitlyn (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Caitlyn Bruszewski Photography Keywords: photography
• Octo by Higgs, Harrison (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Octo Harrison Higgs Photography Keywords: photography
• The Trumpeter by Stringer, Lynzi (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf The Trumpeter Lynzi Stringer Photography Keywords: photography
• Rose Colored Laughter by Howson, Emily (2021) - - 49 - Rose Colored Laughter Emily Howson Photography Keywords: photography
• Isolationism by Holmes, Brooke (2021) - - 54 - Isolationism Brooke Holmes Photography Keywords: photography
• the secret garden by Holmes, Brooke (2021) - - 41 - the secret garden Brooke Holmes Photography Keywords: photography

• Ode to washing my hands by Carnes, M. E. (2019) - genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Ode to washing my hands M.E. Carnes Grabbing ahold of the metal knob I pull it towards me, unleashing a torrent of water— and thud against the skin of my arms as if the water can sense inside of me. I watch as the steam rises, and like a burner on an old stove my hands turn an angry red; the water searing through my skin the pain ignited in my hands a distraction from the bruise that hugs my left eye, I take hold of the bar of soap twisting it between my hands I rub my hands against each other, coating them in the silky white silt— scrubbing every inch of skin that stretches as if I could wash away the purple bracelets his hands left on me. Keywords: hands
• Visiting Hours by Soderling, Trenna (2019) - I glanced over the pages, scanning for places to put my shaky initials. Not like what you see in those prison TV shows, the ones nonviolent criminals clumped together to wait out their sentences. in, wanting to hide more of my feet, but I found the chair wouldn’t move, stuck in place not only by bolts but by years of rust cementing it everyone around me, unsure of what to do now that I was stripped of my possessions. Keywords: face; hands; way
• Cicada Summer by Walter, Ayla (2020) - A friend once told me I could probably eat poison ivy without issue. - 64 - Cicada Summers Ayla Walter One of my superpowers is that I am completely unafraid of bees; buzzing right up to my neck cause I’m wearing a flower print shirt or dripping some half-melted strawberry slushy all over my hands. Keywords: hands
• wandering eyes by Hanquier, Zoe (2021) - so we chose arcing paths around the parking lot until we get to her car and we finally hold hands. Keywords: hands
• Cold Hands by Bryson-Price, Hannah (2021) - The ring and middle finger folded down to the palm. I was fixed on fluttering fingers. Keywords: hands
• DJ Khalid could never by Barakat, Ruthie (2024) - you open your mouth and i make that airplane sound, lovingly churned cream and sugar destined for your tongue we lay back, stomachs full, mouths sticky, sweet tooth still not satiated Ruthie Barakat DJ Khalid i want it sweet, so cold i can feel the nerves in my teeth, screaming through enamel you bite down, i tell you to go slowly – you’ll give yourself a bellyache. Keywords: hands

• As Robins Do by Couch, Shannon (2020) - A home at the foot of mountain majesty, and now I'm lost in a hue that holds me tighter than the tug of Jupiter. As Robins Do Shannon Couch I found you, in the violet heart of summer, rust and scoria. Keywords: home
• Sacrament by Farr, Mason (2021) - Sinewy hairs coated your face, since you stopped shaving, Hiding the popped vessels, and lagan eyes trapped in the sunken vessel of you surrounding a mouth with lips wetted by the nectar of the gods. The frail and gruff sacrificial Billy goat, Dying, so the rest of us can live. Keywords: home
• This Is Home by Larson, Corrin (2024) - 142 Film Photography Corrin Larson This Is Home Keywords: home
• Apology for a Dissociative State of Mind by Surdzial, Eliza (2024) - You’re a robot wearing human skin, clouded eyes and automated dances. The End’s guttural scream fallen silent on silly straw ears. Keywords: home

• Address Unknown by Tuzzio, Laura (2022) - Address Unknown Laura Tuzzio Della Dear, He says your name. You were there, Della Dear, waiting for him. Keywords: work
• Letter from the Editors by Kucaj, Shannon; Simmons, Monica (2023) - Shannon Kucaj & Monica Simmons Managing Editors We would like to thank our editors for their thoughtful contributions and hard work. Keywords: work
• Letter from the Editors by Kucaj, Shannon; Simmons, Monica (2023) - We would like to give special thanks to the Ray Bradbury Center team for collaborating with us on this project. This collection of work reflects this idea. Keywords: work
• Zapatos Nuevos by Gaines, Nya A. (2023) - “You can’t dance with feet like these,” Abuelita said. Irene asked. Keywords: abuelita; dance; foot; irene; mamá; work
• How to Sell Your Body (and Survive It) (best of) by Surdzial, Eliza (2024) - Repeat to yourself that virginity and body count are just concepts meant to belittle women’s sexuality. By the end of your first year, have regulars. Keywords: body; work

• Escaping St. Peters, Indiana by Back, Rachel (2022) - St. Peters had become my prison, Blue Creek my cell block, and if I remained I would serve a life sentence buried between the two trees, the lovers reaching but never catching the other. Escaping St. Peters, Indiana Rachel Back I buried myself in the cold asphalt street. Keywords: life
• Sandstone (best of) by McVeigh, Kayla (2023) - A being called to life through moving bodies of water. Plush and rose-kissed, cushioned from cruel pressures placed on matured bodies. Keywords: life
• Making Arrangements by McVeigh, Kayla (2023) - - 24 - Making Arrangements Kayla McVeigh You can take my body and have it bound in strips of linen You can dye the strips with turmeric or beet juice Do this so it will be vibrant and uplifting Allow the color to invite you to sit with me To whisper what you can barely speak and then I’d like to take rest in the earth To retire my bones in soil To be composted down You know for me there would be no greater ceremony Do this to help return what I have borrowed in this life Allow me to spark life like whale fall Know better than to think these wishes speak against my contentment with life You know my joy in all phases You know my being present is what moves me to make these arrangements To be here, but taking note of each rotation around the sun See every stage as intentional Shouldn’t this include our most transparent surprise The flesh of my body and feelings of my experiences are temporary But my continuation will be endless Keywords: life
• Accentity (Accent Identity) by Awosika, Daniel (2024) - Be it escaping from traditional customs that endanger the lives of your family or winning the visa lottery, a golden-ticket opportunity to rewrite the sins of the past and start life anew. We shop at the only few African markets around, dress up in our traditional clothing every Sunday for an inarguably African church service, pray for change in our dishonest Nigerian government, and hope our families in the motherland stay safe from random acts of violence. Keywords: accent; life
• If...then by Kile, Kim (2024) - I’m looking forward to spending days in the sunroom with you, so if you read this someday, think of me while you watch our Indiana sky turn every shade of pink, orange, and red in the mornings and the evenings. Make spinach dip and have friends over for Butler basketball games, watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” every Christmas Eve, and think of me when you see a mourning dove out the window or pick up a penny from the sidewalk. Keywords: life

• A Summer's Night on Skid Row by Cole, Corey (2019) - promise good times desperately strutting like feral cats on the prowl. by the orange glare of street lamps. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf A Summer's Night on Skid Row Corey Cole outside the service station at 10th and Rural like moths to a gaslight. Keywords: night
• Dove by Stone, Mario (2019) - - 23 - Dove Mario Stone Seeking solace in the thrill of shadowed skin, I culled warmth from eager necks, the ruder prey. But your lips, your song, with soft arrest you held me close. Keywords: night
• Lukewarm (Best of Fiction) by Stephens, Megan (2021) - You’re trying to break away from the sugar and creamer and only drink black coffee — it’s the only way to keep yourself from feeling numb. The kitchen cabinet is filled with a variety of coffee mugs; you take one that has Mount Rushmore printed in gold and, in vibrant colors, says The Black Hills of South Dakota. Keywords: coffee; hand; night
• God Gave Me a Lighter (Best of) by Léon, Tanner (2021) - Punk night at Melody Inn. They crossed my throat into my chest like holy water on a parched man’s lips. Keywords: night

• The Face of Love by Kinder, Bailey (2021) - - 29 - The Face of Love Bailey Kinder Prismacolor pencils, 16 x 20 Keywords: face
• How to be a Mexican American in Indiana by Neier, Xavier (2024) - Go ahead, take more classes, do more tutoring sessions, connect to other Hispanic clubs; do these things, even when you don’t fit in; you may never become fully Mexican, but you are still Mexican, and hey, being bilingual is a worthy skill. Get exposed as a fraud; take Spanish classes throughout high school; then take more classes at college; great, now you can read at a second-grade level; join the school’s Latino club, you’ll fit right in, right? Keywords: face
• The Sleepwriter by Allee, Evan (2025) - Imagination is a blessing and a curse, if Ellis believed in blessings. She argued that they counted anyway, and she and Ellis needed all the luck they could get. Keywords: ellis; face; gabriel; look; mccavy; typewriter

• You ARE the Blueprint by Hearn, Sidnea (2023) - The way her satin lips are soft to the touch, softer than brown skin that has been dipped in cocoa and shea butter, softer than the cotton ball clouds that form in blue skies. Strong Black Woman, your heart of gleaming gold, Why dim your shimmer, why bleach your skin, or change the way you look? Keywords: way
• Homecoming by Weber, Kate (2024) - They stand for a few more minutes, parking lot slush seeping into her tennis shoes. “Ben!” Keywords: ben; kit; lot; way
• Lady in Thread by Russell, Ava (2024) - Linda’s dress greeted me from the corner of my sewing room, and every discouraging, intrusive thought that had managed to regenerate during work that day melted away once again. “Well, what is it?” “Linda. Keywords: dress; floor; goodwill; hell; linda; mean; way; woman
• Floodland by Saorrono, Elena (2025) - This is the way it was Night reflecting up from the shimmering asphalt Firing glints of embers back into crystal clear windows In the passenger’s eyes, all was calm Driving through the terror was a different story “No harm will come your way” No harm does not make the driver any calmer White knuckles gripping the wheel, Steering the two into the dreary, drenched oblivion With no qualms other than why “Any time, just raise your arms above the flood” Keywords: way

• Girl Made from Paper by Wolfe, Molly (2019) - Girl Made from Paper Molly Wolfe Hand Cut Paper - 9 - Keywords: paper
• The Return by Lansdell, Sara (2020) - - 18 - The Return Sara Lansdell Graphite on paper Keywords: paper
• Under My Wing by Webb, Gillian (2020) - - 37 - Under My Wing Gillian Webb Colored pencil on toned grey paper, 7 x 7 Keywords: paper
• Laid to Rest in Lilacs by Dryer, Julia (2023) - Laid to Rest in Lilacs Julia Dryer Colored pencil on black paper, 11x14 - 73 - Keywords: paper
• The Orchard Floor by Coello, Louisa (2023) - 33 The Orchard Floor Louisa Coello Gouache and white ink on paper; 3”x5” Keywords: paper

• Tankas for Runaways by Northcutt, Moriah (2019) - Paper cup in hand. - 54 - Tankas for Runaways Moriah Northcutt When is it my turn to be able to say mom or dad? Keywords: hand

• Back on the Horse by Marley, Ethan (2019) - John jabbed his fork full of spiraled spaghetti at Eric. Eric stared into his cup, watching the last sip of almond-colored Folgers sway from side to side as he rolled the cup in his hand, thinking about his “single life” that he had built for himself, that John was trying so desperately to get him away from. Keywords: eric; john; woman
• The Worship of Woman by Dobson, Elise (2024) - I am from the font of sickly sweet honey and rose petal thorns, for I am baptized in the generational rage of Eve. I am from the wooden pews in the Catholic Church where the scripture is shov- eled down the raw throats of non-believers like the Eucharist, and no amount of church wine could wash the taste out of my mouth. Keywords: woman

• Pineapple Chunks by Miller, Levi (2025) - Patrick shrugs and says, “I thought you’d be too tired for a strip club.” The only thing that stopped Link from slamming the door on Patrick’s sad face was the energy it would take. Keywords: car; dog; head; joey; link; patrick

• A Far-off Country by Akre, Gabriel (2020) - - 24 - A Far-off Country Gabriel Akre Oil on canvas, 48 x 42 Keywords: oil
• How Beautiful it is that We Exist by Akre, Gabriel (2020) - - 62 - How Beautiful it is that We Exist Gabriel Akre Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 Keywords: oil
• Abstract I (Best of, Cover) by Ho, Mailinh (2021) - Abstract I Mailinh Ho Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20'' 10 Keywords: oil
• The Hồ Down by Ho, Mailinh (2022) - 40 “The Hồ Down” Mailinh Ho Oil on canvas, 50 x 70 Keywords: oil

• Nomenclature by Bryson-Price, Hannah (2021) - I stand on returning flashes of light to storm clouds leaving remnants of energy in my skin called stretch marks. Funny how ears mistake my footsteps for the earth trembling beneath me; for thunder shattering the sky after lightning electrocutes the ground Keywords: body
• Fatalist Ramblings by Price, Caitlin (2022) - Now is different than the solitude like mid-days at dive bars. Polyvinyl chloride mimicked curves I’d see in long car ride, car seat daydreams. Keywords: body; lips
• I Miss the Homs Shopping Malls by Adie, Selma (2024) - 74 The first time I learned what death was I saw body bags lined up roughly in the hallway of a mall There was nowhere else to put them Soon enough, the bags ran out, and then it was just bodies Bloodied and bruised and charred in weird ways There wasn’t enough press to cover every death So survivors wandered down the line, looking for someone they recognized A mother, a son, a brother For some, their face would turn suddenly And they’d throw themselves on a body, sobbing Others just looked solemn and sat by their friends’ remains A week later, I went to an American funeral for the first time I was eight and just starting to understand what it meant to die I was scared because I didn’t want to see a family friend’s dad Splayed and bloodied on the floor of our local shopping mall And I wondered where I’d go when I died With my people, blue and swollen, on a bloody linoleum floor Or in an empty room, in an elaborate casket, alone Selma Adie I Miss the Homs Shopping Malls Keywords: body

• The Modern Woman by Bertram, Ashley Noelle (2025) - It wouldn’t be until I was nearly 30 years old that I learned that plenty of other millennial women had felt the same way, or that my grandma, in all her anger, felt it too. Gloria shares a bold monologue about the societal expectations against women, including this line: “You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line.” Keywords: family; gloria; grandma; women
• Family by Cremeans, Emma (2025) - 158 Digital Painting Emma Cremeans Family Keywords: family

• Red Room: The Transformation by Vogeler, Megan (2023) - Red Room: The Transformation Megan Vogeler Oil paint on masonite, 24x36 - 32 - Keywords: room
• Ode to Healer, Indianapolis by Justice, Sage (2023) - We are performance artists, in our element with Dana Skully and Moon Goons. We piss in bathrooms with “whatever” door signs, kiss under crocheted blankets, smudge our eyelids with black grease. Keywords: room
• Modern Medicine by McVeigh, Kayla (2023) - Likewise, the staff seems to have been upgraded to young doctors and nurses with plastic skin. Old frumpy furniture with thread- bare cushions has been replaced with sleek modern benches that are resistant to wearing down. Keywords: room
• Punk Was Dead by Miller, Levi (2025) - BLAKE’S ROOM IN HER APARTMENT — AFTER MIDNIGHT BLAKE DEAN (23 years old, cynical journalist bent on finding truth over sen- sation, and facts over superstition) wakes up in her bed, a sleeping bag on an air mattress. ASTER BLAKE (CONT’D) Keywords: aster; blake; cont’d; int; melissa; room; shawn; tin

• Romance with Ray by Bollinger, Christopher James (2023) - Romance with Ray Christopher James Bollinger She stands there glowing under the Southern California sun. Drive out that morning to UCLA and see Ray Bradbury speak. Keywords: ray; tears
• To Ray by Phillips, Corrine (2023) - And what sweetness it is to swallow such things, to taste the bitter wisp of dandelion, or arid Valley of the Kings, to dream yourself smiling on a cold October night when the air smells of cinnamon as you fly on your kite. I’ve known you in high attics where meadows did green, where spiders weave pearly webs, and Dust Witches glean— cataloging her souls like books on a shelf, imbibing their spirits to poison herself. Keywords: ray
• Interview with Jason Aukerman (Ray Bradbury Center Director) by Kucaj, Shannon; Simmons, Monica; Aukerman, Jason (2023) - Dr. Jon Eller, the world’s foremost scholar on Ray Bradbury, articulated four thematic principles and causes inextricably linked to Bradbury’s legacy: 1) intellectual and creative freedom: this includes matters pertaining to free speech, freedom of the imagination, and the freedom of human beings to pursue the things they love. On August 2 Bob Remington, “Ray Bradbury,” Edmonton Journal; Eller, Bradbury Beyond Apollo, pp. Keywords: bradbury; center; fiction; influence; ray; space; stories; writing

• Far Below by Harrison, Kali (2019) - Awaken, fumbling puddles of warm, Egyptian cotton. Far below, the corner of 28th and Jackson bustles. Keywords: bed
• Throw Away Your Prozac (Best of) by Hunsinger, Zoey (2021) - Throw Away Your Prozac Zoey Hunsinger Stay in bed. She also won’t like that you stay in bed all day with your curtains shut. Keywords: bed; friend

• Funky Bones by Lieshout, Atelier Van; Johnson, Victoria (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf 38 genesis fall 2016 Thinking of Funky Bones by Atelier Van Lieshout Funky Bones At first it’s a mess of white blocks lying on an open, green lawn with people walking and jumping from block to block. The girl jumps from bone to bone with her father holding her hand. Keywords: bone
• Grendel by Stone, Mario (2021) - I wrap my neck, my wrists pretty gifts to coax a pulse, a throb, an ache, anything to quell the shouting walls. Every shout snaps at me wolf on bone all fang no tongue no warm relief before the bite. Keywords: bone
• Autopsy by Marquam, Nathan (2023) - Found tire swings and skipping stones. 16 Autopsy Nathan Marquam I’ve searched for something good in you, like apple carved down to the bone. Keywords: bone

• Dirt Town by Anweiler, Truitt (2023) - This, this mound of dirt, was our new world. They could have dug up a new mansion to live in, and we still would have been more enthralled by the mound of dirt they left in our yard. Keywords: dirt; town; yard

• Punk Rock Sestina by Warner, Joseph (2019) - - 42 - Punk Rock Sestina Joseph Warner A group of people come close enough to fall off the stage they’re paid to play on. A mass of people sprinting towards one another at full speed falling down, picking themselves up and heading right back into it. Keywords: people

• Superstar by Christoff, Claire (2019) - Karen Carpenter was born on March 2, 1950. Todd Haynes directed, wrote, and co-produced Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story in 1987, while he was still a film student at Bard. Keywords: baby; karen; superstar

• Like Clay and Shale by Leonard, Rachel (2019) - Morning was rich with the scent of Parliaments and the gasps of matches scraping brick. Like Clay and Shale Rachel Leonard Keywords: clay
• Vulnerable by Williams, Paul (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Vulnerable (from the Society Collection) Paul Williams Raku-Fired Clay Keywords: clay
• Questions for the Sculptor by Justice, Sage (2023) - Skeletons cutting out Valentines with safety scissors Who are the ghosts A: City rats scouring empty nests in human skulls retching bile and tar Threadbare hands caked with clay Keywords: clay

• Standardized by Cole, Corey (2019) - What is education? a. of countless forgotten volumes, but the vulnerable gray of 56 million youth given few alternatives. b. Operation of gridded assembly line classrooms completing black and white and earn graduation pink slips. Keywords: heart
• to have and to hold by Fee, Bee (2024) - 139 Slice through the skin like a sharpened knife against paper Clutch the dampened couch cushions as pain grits teeth Suck air through a clenched jaw The pain sears and sizzles at the edge of my vision Fragmented glimpses of you Blink Tears drip from eyes I search for your eyes You have none Stab at the body blindly as if you are simply a piece of flesh An empty vessel tossed aside for the buzzards and vultures alike Search for Humanity In this moment of despair, I plead for mercy Call their name Please Do not answer Claw with nails, tear through tissue and muscle right down to the bone Crack ribs Pluck out their still-beating heart with talons A claw machine, your hand dangles and sways Mocking What you came for has been found – my heart was only ever yours: to have and to hold. Keywords: heart
• Hopeless Songs to the Solar System by Chastain, Jaylee (2025) - Saturn No intention of big rings, I suppose I knew from the start. Not even Olympus Mons can compare To cratered communication days you deal. Keywords: heart; start

• Flower by Stump, Connor (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Flower Connor Stump Digital Painting Keywords: painting
• The ParPara by Lansdell, Sara (2021) - - The ParPara Sara Lansdell Photoshop Painting - 30 Keywords: painting
• Technomancer's Hideaway by Lansdell, Sara (2021) - - 38 - Technomancer's Hideaway Sara Lansdell Photoshop Painting Keywords: painting

• Vintage Ink by Petrunich, Sydney (2019) - genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Vintage Ink Sydney Petrunich Alcohol Ink Keywords: ink
• Power by Orr, Alixandra (2021) - - 25 - Power Alixandra Orr Ink Keywords: ink
• Texture and Density by Sinchai, Annie (2021) - - 32 - Texture and Density Annie Sinchai Ink Keywords: ink

• I Prayed to Santa Fe (best of) by Rose, Julia (2023) - My parents are flawed as parents, as people, and I resented them for justified reasons, but in my high school years, I was pigheaded when it came to any type of forgiveness. “And do you know the story of Juan Diego?” Keywords: chapel; church; lady; loretto; parents; staircase
• My Parents' Crazy Hoarder Basement by Watkins, Tamara (2023) - My Parents' Crazy Hoarder Basement Tamara Watkins Sharpie and white gel pen on paper, 22x30 - 50 - Keywords: parents

• Block C by Millier, Camille (2023) - Calling to report an accident involving prisoner 339 and Officer Brett St. John, guard in charge of Block C. Full report with details will be filed and sent to the office as soon as possible. And then Okay, see ya later, Officer St. John, as Brett opened the steel door to Block C and tagged out the night-shift guard. Keywords: brett; jamie; john; officer; prisoner

• Street Night by Hegge, Claire (2019) - Street Night Claire Hegge Long Exposure Photography - 52 - Keywords: street
• Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, "L'estate" by Quezada, Alexa (2021) - Like drums, dogs bark in syncopated rounds; each echo sends their notes a bit offbeat. Cicadas drone viola harmonies; they offer constant counterpoints in flight. Keywords: street

• She Sees All by Ruby, Chanya (2019) - She Sees All Chanya Ruby Soft Pastels and Watercolor - 39 - Keywords: watercolor
• Consecrated Restraint by Lemke, Emily (2020) - - 22 - Consecrated Restraint Emily Lemke Colored pencil, watercolor paint, watercolor pencil, gold leaf, 12 x 20 Keywords: watercolor
• Apology: masculinity: Best of by Marquam, Nathan (2020) - - 23 - Consecrated Restraint Emily Lemke Colored pencil, watercolor paint, watercolor pencil, gold leaf, 12 x 20 it hits my giggle with a shovel & churns the sound into mud & gravel. it cracks my tear ducts like beer bottles, lets them drip onto the floor. Keywords: watercolor

• Gardeners (best of) by Patrick, Lio (2023) - Bucky and Alma, Jodie, Muriel, his ma and pa, and Christopher—they all gave up on the creaky, broken house, and found better places to die. He knows it by the aches in his limbs and the thrumming of thunder in time with his heartbeat. Keywords: house

• Con Cá by Ho, Mailinh (2021) - - 18 - Con Cá Mailinh Ho Oil on Canvas Keywords: canvas
• The Impressionist by Hunsinger, Zoey (2021) - His spectacles faltered as he studied the water and ignored the rusted hills of cavalry New Mexico. There wasn’t enough paint on his palette, so he marbled a pigment of his imagination. Keywords: canvas
• Your Mom's Hair Didn't Look Like That by Hawkins, Caroline (2022) - Your Mom's Hair Didn't Look Like That Caroline Hawkins Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 42 Keywords: canvas

• Keeper by Fukushima, Brittany (2021) - - 43 - Keeper Brittany Fukushima Photoplate Lithography Keywords: lithography
• Pruning by Fukushima, Brittany (2021) - - 17 - Pruning Brittany Fukushima Photoplate Lithography Keywords: lithography
• |WATER| by Spangler, Oliver (2021) - - 37 - |WATER| Oliver Spangler Lithography Keywords: lithography

• Hummingbird Eulogy by Hunsinger, Zoey (2021) - 9 Hummingbird Eulogy Zoey Hunsinger A flower-kisser collapsed on the ground. But I watched him every day from the cheap-seats of university grass. Keywords: wings
• How to Dragon, for any curious fire-breathing, winged serpents out there by Sickmeier, Christian (2024) - Not because you enjoy it, of course, it’s just how dragons get off the ground. Dragons are always north of people. Keywords: wings
• My Father Grew Wings by Platt, Trent (2024) - When you sway on swings with mulch chips in your nails, you two are there. Trent Platt My Father Grew Wings Keywords: wings

• Croissants by Stone, Mario (2023) - 50 Croissants Mario Stone I close my eyes and lick your sweetness from my lips, thinking of your powdered skin beneath my fingertips. And so instead I write these words for you to always know… I savored every second twice to never let you go. Keywords: lips
• I fucked to love, but never made it by Stone, Mario (2023) - To carry on Is vanity— such endeavors in the name of love Are feats of self-deception, A felony of lips Giving way to squandered breath, pleasure past— A thorn to pierce the supple mass And burn the skin I hold close. 51 I fucked to love, but never made it Mario Stone Her crying pulse heralds the chaotic Bellows of deeper thrash. Keywords: lips

• A Lady in Layers by Marie, Shae (2022) - 28 A Lady in Layers Shae Marie Oil on linen, 16 x 20 Keywords: lady
• Act Like a Lady by Miller, Ginger (2025) - 67 28” x 19” Hardground Etching with Aquatint Ginger Miller Act Like a Lady Keywords: lady

• My Partner Shaves My Head in the Bathtub by Justice, Sage (2023) - My Partner Shaves My Head in the Bathtub Sage Justice and the porcelain soothes my restive fingers; wandering flurries of hair drift around me like dove feathers. He steadies himself on me, hand on my shoulder, blows hair from the clipper blade. Keywords: hair
• Two Boars (best of) by McVeigh, Kayla (2024) - I keep reworking the same sections of long dark hair. Throwing softened strands of long dark hair behind my shoulders, I can now place such an everyday thing back on the shelf. Keywords: bristles; hair
• Sister Golden Hair by Howe, Elise (2025) - x 14” Oil Paint Elise Howe Sister Golden Hair 137 14” Keywords: hair

• The Silent Beast (1) by Holmes, Lexia (2024) - 57 Digital Photography Lexia Holmes The Silent Beast Keywords: beast
• The Silent Beast (2) by Holmes, Lexia (2024) - 76 Digital Photography Lexia Holmes The Silent Beast Keywords: beast
• The Silent Beast (3) by Holmes, Lexia (2024) - 97 Digital Photography Lexia Holmes The Silent Beast Keywords: beast

• Dragonfruit by Fan, Lifan (2019) - genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 23 Dragonfruit Colored Pencil on Paper 22x42” Lifan Fan Keywords: fan
• The Fan by Hostettler, Emily (2024) - It didn’t help on humid nights. It smelled as if someone mistook a can of deet for a can of room freshener. Keywords: fan

• Blue by Perry, David (2019) - It began with a plastic smile, and all we remembered was the television, digital rain, in dead brainless black and white, acid rain, not yet drained from us, and a color we’d never seen before. I remember thinking that he might die like this, with tinsel streamers of steaming red screaming from every pore, and a blinding white light beaming from his eyes. Keywords: blue
• When Death Danced with the Ocean Blue by Hendricks, Elijah (2019) - As Death danced with the Ocean Blue Your lips meet mine in crashing waves which echo cries throughout the cave that I have lived in all this time Where I had hid till you were mine And then the spots of light appear My vision breaks and balance veers You’ve turned to mist and slowly faded Your lingering kiss has left me jaded I stumble then along the line For sleep has wronged me to feel right I was the boy who fooled his pain with visions of the falsely gained The Prince of Ghosts, I am the same - 41 - When Death Danced with the Ocean Blue Elijah Hendricks I search for solace, all alighted So consumed and unrequited For the sea to turn tides in my arms, erode my heart I meant no harm The wounds have opened up again Your salty skin poured over them While I tremble as I pine for you Keywords: blue

• Not Your Kind of Faggot (best of) by Blackburn, Tegan (2024) - That word spat at short haired girls, girls in flannels, girls with set jaws and chiseled faces, whether they have held another girl in their eyes or not. Not me, the Barbie Princess on Halloween with her purple tulle dress and long golden hair. Keywords: faggot; girl; word

• Devils in the Livery of Heaven by Shannon, Kaiti (2023) - As slaves in America, Harriett Jacobs and Frederick Douglass both experienced and understood how religion was used—specifically in the South. In their memoirs, they examine the hypocrisy of religion being used to moralize treatment and excuse atrocities done towards slaves. Keywords: douglass; god; religion; slaves

• Where Was Jesus? (best of) by Harrell, Danielle (2023) - Where Was Jesus? Danielle Harrell Marker and colored pencil; 22”x30” Modernized illustration from the original Chi Rho page from the Book of Kells. 47 Keywords: jesus

• Bail Bonds by Blacklock, Kelsey (2019) - genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 17 Bail Bonds Oil on Paper 6x12” Kelsey Blacklock Keywords: blacklock
• Open/Closed by Blacklock, Kelsey (2019) - genesisSpring2016.pdf 12 genesis spring 2016 Open/Closed Oil on Canvas 22x30” Kelsey Blacklock Keywords: blacklock

• Miles Per Minute by Barakat, Ruthie (2024) - She should have said everything wasn’t okay, that Aunt Emmy could save her – had to save her – that Sheriff Bill should take her away from Daddy. Aunt Emmy had asked, eyeballing Daddy from across the room. Keywords: aunt; daddy; emmy

• First Sleepover by Johnson, Victoria (2019) - First Sleepover A Night with Van Gogh and Picasso Victoria Johnson She pointed at one of a woman with yellow lips who seemed to be in all places at once, and she laughed. Keywords: sky
• pondering a black girl’s* suicide by Dixon, Saloni (2024) - Beneath the sky a garden blue stalks my name I forget this kind of fire strikes black bodies into shit Oh friends wild until we are free set us afire again. 25 don’t tell nobody she’s dancing on beer cans and shingles and bones don’t tell a soul have we gone crazy? Keywords: sky

• Waitressing and Us by Johnson, Victoria (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf 14 genesis fall 2016 Waitressing and Us Victoria Johnson I met Donald toward the end of the night. Many people were new and most “You know, Donald, maybe it would’ve worked in another life.” Keywords: donald; victoria; year

• reflection. by White, Michaela (2019) - I wish I was not in love with color. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Michaela White I’m just sitting. Keywords: color
• if lovin screw is wrong, I don't wanna be right by Knapp, Will (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf if lovin screw is wrong, I don't wanna be right Will Knapp Ink with Digital Color Keywords: color

• The Infant Factory by Panfil, Matt (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf The Infant Factory Cut-Paper Collage Keywords: collage
• Dissociation (cover) by Harrell, Danielle (2023) - 7 Dissociation Danielle Harrell Acrylic paint, watercolor, colored pencil, marker, collage; 17”x30” Keywords: collage

• How to Walk to the Library by White, Anna (2019) - Best of Fiction Fall 2017 final digital.pdf How to Walk to the Library Anna White one is looking. Keywords: digital.pdf
• Dwarf Planet by Harkins, Ronan (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Dwarf Planet Ronan Harkins You only saw me as a vagabond among the stars I made like Icarus toward any sign of hope I’d drown with you in Neptune’s waters We’ll swing amongst the debris of asteroids and tilt their orbit We can honeymoon on Venus They are the only two planets in your solar system without a moon I long for the day that you’ll reach out with burning hands To have never touched the ones you love Keywords: digital.pdf

• Soft Boy by Harkins, Ronan (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Soft Boy Ronan Harkins You pray at night to gods thought long dead One day, they will answer but you don’t know when In the morning, In the afternoon, they teach you grace on your feet You wish to walk the earth with no fear and the gods behind you You are a rabid wolf trapped in the body of a child This skin is too tight This skin is an unrelenting snake with endless coils of muscle No, I will be a man worth fearing You are as a rose, they say Yes, but that does not make me weak I am not what you make me Only I know me Only the gods can make me Keywords: gods
• Gods of the Light by Tomeldan, Katrina (2021) - Gods of the Light Katrina Tomeldan Digital, 14 x 24 51 Keywords: gods

• Beauty by Coffman-Mackey, Elizabeth (2019) - “I try harder than you,” she says in more words, words that sound like biting classroom insults, words like “lose weight” and “don’t be a slob.” Her waist is trim and her eyes are “You’re perfect,” I say, in more words, words that come out bitter and accusing. Keywords: story; words
• Ode to my Pilot G-2 07 pen by Wilson, Ashley (2024) - Your flowing ink a river, bringing life to the words that sprout into sycamore groves. Ashley Wilson Ode to my Pilot G-2 07 pen Keywords: words

• To my sister, the artist by Marquam, Nathan (2019) - I beg you, little sister, stay soft. clearance-bin fabric, leftover scraps of family cut at odd angles around a missing father, your own body. Keywords: sister

• Holy Grounds by Ryder, Dustin (2019) - I’m corrupting Holy grounds, spilling sins like wine. There’s a smashing of lips, copper and tiger lilies mixing. Keywords: skin
• Birth Giver by Rowley, Piper (2019) - Best of Poetry Piper Rowley carried by pink soles, cracked and calloused. hard drinking, childhood trauma, adult mistakes gray. Keywords: skin

• The Song of a Sparrow Trapped in a Supermarket by Smith, Rachel (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf 6 genesis fall 2016 Amidst the melody of beeping registers and the harmony of whirring carts, I stand at a table of graphic tees in the men’s department, folding a shirt depicting a cat on the moon, dressed as an astronaut, stop to look at Ball State hoodies. The boy, bored with clothes not meant for him, zips between the racks, unaware of smears of bird droppings left on the metal frames like notes on sheet music, to the song of supply and demand. Keywords: boy
• A Stalker’s Mercy by Gonzalez, Anthony (2023) - Kalista slowly made her way down the narrow road, rifle at the low ready, watching for any sign of life. Cautiously, she began to make her way up the steps, eyes and rifle barrel never leaving the entryway. Keywords: boy; kalista; remy; rifle

• The Death of Great Aunt June by White, Anna (2019) - genesis 2018 final digital.pdf The Death of Great Aunt June Anna White Mark sat with his hands hanging between his knees, his back slumped. Mark shifted his weight. Keywords: mark

• Stand Like the Bull by Léon, Tanner (2019) - exhumed into the lap pool, you could see the apparition Tanner Léon of energy streaked through like squirts of Mio in your bottle, dragon claw marks left behind. at his royal departure from the water, his kingdom, as though Neptune rose again. His hair is all tucked up into a swim cap, a ball of fury and warping potential energy. Keywords: team
• Sweaty Hands and Red Balls (best of) by Jennings, Kyle (2023) - Within seconds, balls were flying, and team members were dropping but at a slower rate than the other team. Callouts on what other players should do were floating around us. Keywords: ball; selvey; team

• The Way the Money Goes by Wulf, Sarah (2023) - What does yours say?” “You will soon discover easy ways to make money,” he sighed. 35 The Way the Money Goes Sarah Wulf Ian’s basement had smelled like weed and alcohol since we were about six, but Ian had only ever drank or smoked at swim team parties. Keywords: creek; eric; ian; money

• Untitled by Stump, Connor (2019) - Untitled Connor Stump Charcoal and Ink on Raw Canvas - 29 - Keywords: connor
• Never Travelled (back cover art) by Stump, Connor (2021) - - 36 - Never Travelled Connor Stump Digitally colored graphite, 14.5 x 20 Keywords: connor

• Submerged by Ruby, Chanya (2019) - Submerged Chanya Ruby Soft Pastel - 63 - Keywords: ruby
• 13 (best of) by Ruby, Chanya (2021) - - 46 - 13 Chanya Ruby Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 Keywords: ruby

• Shredded by Chitwood, Megan (2019) - Shredded Megan Chitwood Charcoal and Ink - 19 - Keywords: megan
• Alive by Vogeler, Megan (2023) - Alive Megan Vogeler Oil paint and sawdust on stretched canvas, 18x24 - 12 - Keywords: megan

• float by Sheikh, Alina (2019) - - 35 - float Alina Sheikh Clip Studio, Paint, Adobe Photoshop - 35 - Keywords: photoshop
• Fantast-ish by Lansdell, Sara (2020) - - 42 - Fantast-ish Sara Lansdell Photoshop Keywords: photoshop

• delicate by Carrico, Zach (2019) - delicate Zach Carrico Photography - 70 - Keywords: zach

• Rough Edge by Adam, Olivia (2020) - - 17 - Rough Edge Olivia Adam Photography, 2.5. x 19 Keywords: edge
• Vagary by Welter, Lauren (2020) - - 47 - Vagary Lauren Welter From her desk close to the window, Emili could see the edge of the world. She had been teaching geography for twenty minutes now, but Emili’s mind had drifted. Keywords: edge; emili; planet; stars

• A Hunger Artist by Walter, Ayla (2020) - - 19 - A Hunger Artist Ayla Walter Charcoal pencil on paper, 11 x 18 Keywords: hunger
• Evening Hunger by Spurling, Alex T. (2023) - In my purview, a livestock trailer ocular slits for ventilation, a dozen waving snouts, sun rays on bead-like eyes the stench of the farm it permeates grass fed, free-roam makes no difference Billboards, pictorial images, of perspiring patties and salivating mouths unshakable adverts Hindus venerate the cow, the Jains as well a divine symbol dung, urine, and milk, ghee and curd, an all-purpose remedy panchagavya the heifer is generous Discomfort, and the eyes of privilege break contact, for their own sake meditation is disbanded by impatient horns and coarse expletives And, sympathetic hands, raise a perspiring patty to my salivating mouth, and nothing is sacred 8 Evening Hunger Alex T. Spurling In traffic, thrown into the thralls of hunger. Keywords: hunger

• Poppies by Cassetty, Christopher (2023) - I watch these stars stir amidst the bleakness of dried tears, and virgin stars join, occasionally, as old ones are blown away like dust when they grow too old to keep themselves whole, and when will I join their fate? The curtains sough through open windows, and feels my grieving face the virility of Spring—and I see through watery eyes my nepenthe drowned, and only then do I realize that it is possible to love something too—too much. Keywords: stars

• A Boy by Koch, Briesa (2020) - That Charlotte seduced Bastian and was living off what he could provide for her. None of us ever really saw them save for when Bastian left for work or we brought our kids over to their house for Charlotte to babysit. Keywords: bastian; charlotte; daughter; neighborhood; niros
• Fanwa Road by Fecteau, Emma Yuan (2023) - “Zhou Zeng Ya.” Li turned around. Zhou Li’s mother had cleared a table in the kitchen. Keywords: daughter; officer

• Grandma and Grandpa by Hawkins, Caroline (2021) - - 30 - Grandma and Grandpa Caroline Hawkins Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 Keywords: grandma

• Philanthropy by McVeigh, Kayla (2023) - It’s a drop of blood as a tax for exploiting human life. On all fours, humbled and crying as true light floods your retinas and burns your eyes. Keywords: cave

• Skater Kids by Moore, Haley (2021) - - 22 - Skater Kids Haley Moore Digital illustration, 10 x 24 Keywords: kids
• One Room by Tuzzio, Laura (2022) - Kids are hard. One holds out, the second one, she remembers. Keywords: kids

• Support Group Share, September 2020 by Elaine, Georgey (2021) - Forever scraping my fingertips over shiny bits of gemstone and silver; jewelry, jewels, and pants. In my dreams my younger siblings help me pack scraps of paper into plastic shopping bags. Keywords: dreams
• Sweet Dreams by Nobbe, Carmen (2023) - Sweet Dreams Carmen Nobbe Ebony pencil and white gel pen; 8 x 10 - 35 - Keywords: dreams

• Self Portrait with Shirt by Stump, Connor (2021) - - 46 - Self Portrait with Shirt Connor Stump Soft Pastel Keywords: pastel
• Anointed by Byrd, Daylen (2025) - 124 Daylen Byrd 7” x 5” Chalk Pastel Anointed Keywords: pastel

• Elegy for Mama by Christoff, Claire (2021) - Her last night on Earth was spent at a party thrown by Mick Jagger, just before her heart surrendered in a bed familiar with death. - 11 - The Times reported that “Miss Elliot” choked to death on a sandwich. Keywords: flowers
• Dripping Flowers by Wells, MyKenzi (2024) - 16 Digital Photography MyKenzi Wells Dripping Flowers Keywords: flowers

• The Fog Rolls In by Warner, Joseph (2021) - I could hear the mice scurry by as I played land locked marco polo with fog bound friends. These days I’ve left suburbs far behind opting for alleys over cul-de-sacs and ditching the ball caps for a nine to five. Keywords: fog
• Fog Like a Veil by Scott, Katherine (2022) - One hand clenches the wheel, the other a procession of coffee cups and sleet presses kisses to her windscreen. While the driver's baby blues contract and contort, attempting to wheedle road dashes through a film of lace cascading over night. Keywords: fog

• On the Full Moon, of the 12th Moon by Ruby, Chanya (2021) - On the Full Moon, of the 12th Moon Chanya Ruby Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 29 Keywords: moon
• A Midnight Heartbreak by Cassetty, Christopher (2023) - When only grown to don my fur, enthrall’d by all the Moon’s allure, with teeth agleam from moonlit dreams—the ichor crying from my teeth— as well, the knell before the sheep, my droning groan for more to eat, beware the air so moon-kiss’d cold, … as werewolf dare I favour wolf. To cry, and die, am I so tempt’, as dreams appease the Night’s contempt, and wherefore werewolves turn to howl, whereby the nightly Moon befouls the midnight grid of blazing stars, our twain, ill-fated, broken hearts, as werewolves share parts man and wolf, and rarely dares feel woe the wolf. Keywords: moon

• A River in Panama by Ho, Mailinh (2021) - A River in Panama Mailinh Ho Oil on Canvas, 15.25 x 21'' 43 Keywords: river
• Sunset on the White River by Ho, Mailinh (2021) - A River in Panama Mailinh Ho Oil on Canvas, 15.25 x 21'' 43 Keywords: river

• Gladiator by Trimpe, Rebecca (2021) - Says he should wait ‘til high school. Defense coach first year: Can’t you hang some more meat on that boy? Keywords: kid
• Marlboro Reds by McNeil, Thomas (2025) - No more for me the ashy asses, confetti sprinkles of white and gray onto the floor of my green Corolla littered with empty Red Bull cans. Wondering what to do on rainy days, when I run away and hide. Keywords: kid

• Chicken Paprikash by Weiss, Madison (2021) - 38 Chicken Paprikash Madison Weiss This is my people’s last rite of passage. They didn’t die in German camps for me to not master this recipe. Keywords: chicken
• Ode to Gray Men by Spurling, Alex (2023) - Ode to Gray Men Alex Spurling I’m no spring chicken inside I feel rowdy young and tempestuous I am tawdry and bold never mild smoking in corners flying by the seams violating étiquettes The Trumpeting Troubadour! a hot iron skillet, a grease fire hoppin’ out of the pan The residue of boyhood– powder kegs with short fuses Mighty Roar! mighty squeak! No longer, nimble in the feet No longer, sound in the mind I’m still a grease fire and I’m no spring chicken. - 68 - Keywords: chicken

• Let Me Be by Elaine, Georgey (2021) - And I do not want to The hint of her veil was enough Smiling next to my father in an old photograph I used to look upon with wonder A dress worn to shackle herself to my father No, let me be your favorite shirt Wrinkled red, with the faded letters Your most worn bra Let me be wrinkled and stained Sent through countless wash cycles Let me be able to come back Let me be soft The fleece blanket draped over you I want to be a poem Something startling An image seared into minds, a pain in your chest Short, with meaning Let me be chai tea Deeply steeped, spiced with cardamom Felt in the throat Whipped cream on your lips A piece of home hot in your hands Let me be as I wish I could; something small but loved Elaine I don’t want to be white shoes Clean sneakers the high school boys are afraid to walk in I don’t want to be a decorative plate Locked behind glass where no one will ever scrape their fork over me Or chip me trying to put me in the cabinet Most of all, I would loathe to be a wedding dress Lacy white gauze worn once and hardly touched Special for a single day Before forgotten I’ve never seen my mother’s wedding dress Keywords: dress

• Owl by Walter, Ayla (2022) - 15 Owl Ayla Walter Watercolor painting, 22 x 30 Keywords: ayla
• Wild Geese by Walter, Ayla (2022) - 44 Wild Geese Ayla Walter Watercolor painting, 30 x 22 Keywords: ayla

• You Greet Opulence at His Throne by Bottoms, Serenna (2022) - 17 You Greet Opulence at His Throne Serenna Bottoms Procreate, 2550 ppi x 3300 ppi Keywords: ppi
• Cricket by Bottoms, Serenna (2022) - 35 Cricket Serenna Bottoms Procreate, 2550 ppi x 3049 ppi Keywords: ppi

• Untitled by Schwartz, Emma (2022) - Untitled Emma Schwartz Nupastel and Charcoal, 18 x 24 21 Keywords: emma
• Gossip by Cremeans, Emma (2025) - 195 Digital Painting Emma Cremeans Gossip Keywords: emma

• The Amber Planet by Lansdell, Sara (2022) - 25 The Amber Planet Sara Lansdell Digital, 3000 x 1500px Keywords: 1500px
• Spidersilk Overgrowth by Lansdell, Sara (2022) - 46 Spidersilk Overgrowth Sara Lansdell Digital, 3000 x 1500px Keywords: 1500px

• She Set Herself Aflame by Back, Rachel (2022) - Put it in her soul where she tended the flame with careful hands, feeding it kindling until it burst from her like hairspray meeting the wicked warmth. Consumed in hot golden flames, were the pillars of hate you poured the foundation for. Keywords: hell

• Letter from the Editors by Freestone, Abigail; Hanquier, Zoe; Hawkins, Kelsey (2023) - We hope it reflects the experiences of current IUPUI students while acknowledging the history and legacy of past genesis issues. IUPUI students have been contributing to and creating our magazine since 1972. Keywords: editors
• History of genesis by Freestone, Abigail; Hanquier, Zoe; Hawkins, Kelsey (2023) - genesis - 6 - hiStory of When we became editors, we entered the den of genesis – a small, windowless room on the 3rd floor of Cavanaugh Hall, with boxes of old issues stacked precariously along the walls. Early issues held book reviews and philosophical essays alongside memoirs and several of the genres we still publish today. Keywords: editors; genesis

• Walking Down an Evening Beach (best of) by Casey, David (2023) - [4] Sitting far above the shoreline now, I grab a fistful of sand and let it trickle upon my feet. There are more stars in the universe Than grains of sand on every beach in the world. Keywords: sand; water
• An Appalachian Morning by Stewart, Jacob (2023) - An Appalachian Morning Jacob Stewart A fragrant fog, a mountain mist Closely clings to springtime air Upon the scene, great evergreens Densely hug the landscape there Down the path, a bubbling brook Is hidden, save to those who seek It sings a psalm with current calm Praising, without words, so sweet And in the drear, a distant sound Grazing steer call, long and plain While deer scurry, without hurry Past the patter of the rain Peace protrudes the place not touched Long by the infirm hand of man Where one can see God’s majesty Smoky peak to creek bed sand - 66 - Keywords: sand

• Hurricane St. Agatha through the Eyes of a Coastal Florida Timeshare Purchased through a Costco Membership circa 2017 by Surdzial, Eliza (2024) - Deteriorated paint and damaged wallpaper drooping half-way down the wall, scattered lilies blooming, breathing in the water. Eliza Surdzial Hurricane St. Agatha through the Eyes of a Coastal Florida Timeshare Purchased through a Costco Membership circa 2017 19 The home’s skin shed like a snake’s with every scratch and blue bruise carried away. Keywords: water

• Wavering Dark Thought by Pickering, Lauren (2023) - Wavering Dark Thought Lauren Pickering Digital Photoshop brushes, 11x14 300 DPI - 37 - Keywords: dpi
• A Dream of Frog and Toad by Pickering, Lauren (2023) - A Dream of Frog and Toad Lauren Pickering Fabric, polyester fill, embroidery thread, buttons, plastic greenery, copper wire, cardboard, and LED lights, 25x51 300 DPI - 75 - Keywords: dpi

• Pattern I (Recolored) by Battin, Kyle (2023) - Pattern I (Recolored) Kyle Battin Acrylic ink, 3-color screenprint on 100lb paper, 9x9 image on 12x12paper - 39 - Keywords: pattern
• Pattern V by Battin, Kyle (2023) - Pattern V Kyle Battin Digital, 7200x10800 pixels - 51 - Keywords: pattern

• The Abandoned, the Alone, and the Left Behind (best of) by Casey, David (2023) - There, the four-lane road sprouts a fifth off to the right, so that cars can slow down before turning into the entrance. More often, though, and ever since I can remember, I’ve been most intrigued by cars left abandoned on the side of the road. Keywords: car; cars; left; road

• Last Memories of You by Fisher, Megan (2023) - Last Memories of You Megan Fisher Digital - 57 - Keywords: memories
• Hoarder of Memories by Edwards, Ayva (2024) - Along with those are various Christmas cards from work, a few mini Thinking of You cards mailed to me by my grandma in South Carolina, Valentine’s Day cards, a ginkgo leaf (my favorite tree), a few fortunes from Panda Express, and the top of a donut box from when my current best friend, Karina, revealed to me that she was pregnant; Do-nut be mad, You’ll be a great auntie! They primarily consist of birth- day, graduation, and Christmas cards. Keywords: cards; memories; ring; table; years

• Lavender Boy by Justice, Sage (2023) - Lavender Boy Sage Justice I met a trapeze artist named Eve when the full moon rose deep in the navy sky, orange clouds kissing Lake Michigan. Circles of tamed fire twirled in the air and we danced, feet traipsing one in front of the other until we tumbled to the dark dewy grass. Keywords: lake
• Opossum Lake by David, Cara (2024) - x 14” Digital Illustration Cara David Opossum Lake 9 11” Keywords: lake

• january poem by Ventura, Tara (2023) - january poem Tara Ventura - 78 - in my dreams i rip my heart out myself and offer it to you–still salvageable and everything– i am the sacrifice i never get used to it seeing it lie there screaming in front of you i put it all on the table and watched you walk in reality i do it alone they say it’s a two person job but that’s never stopped me before forget the rope or any of the toys for that matter. i always was an eleven pm decision. not fucked up enough to forget me but not quite sober enough to want me the next morning either rub those circles in my back, connect every sun kissed freckle and mole i don’t want to hide them they’re proof i’ve lived without you i could be the perfect confidant unable to tell another soul Keywords: morning
• Progressions by Lucy, Daniel (2023) - I heard The morning moon without looking, Saw trees seeming flat Against the hillsides, veins In loam, august arteries, under This puckered sun, patches Of capillaries, leaves; Far away childs are making laughter, Spun slowly as though from A laughter gin; I feel The toothless path of morning Without putting out my hand To find its wind; I stand, pan the river with a look As hungry as the eyes of taxidermied Owls; I make home wherever evening settles; I make my way home hopefully. So like the old ones Held in porchswing pendulums Swinging through the precious summer nights, Striking the hours with sighs. Keywords: morning

• Final Affairs from a Patient Suffering a Quarter-Life Crisis by Neier, Xavier (2025) - For the green totes that hold baby clothes, old Mexican blankets, and my birth mother’s po- laroid picture, please keep them safe and tucked away. My parents have plenty of money and my brothers do not need it. Keywords: ashes; money

• The Sun by Breach, Veronica (2023) - - 23 - The Sun Veronica Breach Digital; 8.6 x 4.7 Keywords: sun

• Rainbow Fish by Harrell, Danielle (2023) - Rainbow Fish Danielle Harrell Craft felt, fabric paint, and embroidery; 15.5 x 12.5 - 28 - Keywords: embroidery
• Mend by Montanez, Sarah (2025) - 165 8” x 8” Found Image, Archival Inkjet Print on Habotai Silk, Embroidery Floss, Embroidery Hoop Sarah Montanez Mend Keywords: embroidery

• Defending Death by Overdose by Williams, Savanna (2023) - In a world where the best advice they got about the opioid crisis is statistics Numbers of death per year, 46,802 Numbers of new users per year, up 27% “Oh, but it was his choice,” someone else said Yet with not enough confidence for me to believe it And they let go with a bottle of Xanax at your disposal In a doctor’s office where you’re asked a two-question survey To determine what FDA approved prescription you should get That’s the same organization that claimed OxyContin wasn’t injurious Numbers of death by OxyContin in 2020, 76,000. Keywords: death
• Masque of the Red Death by Bevan, Ellie (2025) - 104 12” x 18” Mixed Media Collage Ellie Bevan Masque of the Red Death Keywords: death

• Introduction to the Bradbury-Inspired Anthology by Aukerman, Jason (2023) - Bradbury often cautioned aspiring writers against being too ambitious by writing novels. ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury left many things behind when he passed away in June of 2012—his stories, poems, films, plays, work with Disney, and his relentless advocacy for freedom of imagination, space exploration, libraries, and literacy. Keywords: bradbury; writers

• The Halloween Tree by Kuzniar, Tim W. (2023) - The Halloween Tree Tim W. Kuzniar Digital tryptich Left - 17 x 36 Center - 9 x 24 Right - 36 x 17 - 76 - - 77 - Keywords: center

• Twisted by Taylor, Kira (2024) - 111 7” x 9” Intaglio Hardground Etching Kira Taylor Twisted Keywords: taylor

• Created Equal by Kile, Kim (2025) - Our bodies once revered, once worshipped, gutted like today’s fresh catch on the news, social media, the Congressional floor. Kim Kile Created Equal Keywords: floor

• My Mother’s Dirt Cake by Nettum, Signe (2025) - Mix butter, cream cheese, and sugar in a bowl. • 32 ounces chocolate sandwich cookies with creme filling - Oreos are synonymous with the concept of cookie sandwiches and that is for a valid reason. Keywords: cream
• Cannoli (best of) by Benson, Chase (2025) - Garnished with fruit, it fills the mouth with thick cream. He rims the shell’s interior with a light jam, As cream reaches the cusp, sap seeps out the edge. Keywords: cream

• Along the Perforations by Schleppenbach, Amy (2025) - She confirmed this with the librarian who had honestly wanted to see if I would read it when I finished my Scholastic reading challenge early then had filled in more books on the back of the page, hoping for extra points for our class to win the pizza party. I should have read more books. Keywords: books; typewriter; writing

• Pools 1, 2, 3 by Dodd, Aaron (2019) - genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 5 Pools I Acrylic 24x36” Aaron Dodd genesis spring 2016 33 Pools III Acrylic 24x36” Aaron Dodd 20 genesis spring 2016 Pools II Acrylic 24x36” Aaron Dodd Keywords: aaron

• Neruda's Roselets by Dimitrova, Kalia (2019) - You want me sweet and light I am torta caprese, you go back to in that corner café in Capri where you write me in hot evenings when I wait to be born over and over. genesisSpring2016.pdf 34 genesis spring 2016 In your palms I dissolve, you want me tender, I am seawater disappearing in your warmth. Keywords: neruda

• With Love, Steve by Turmail, Sarah (2019) - I drive in with the consolation prize of McDonald’s won with the change, thinking of stale dollar store air, and stale McChickens, ranch only. I look for some last minute love, printed and sold for a dollar and some change, matching envelope included. Keywords: dollar

• Sprawl by DeHart, Jacob (2019) - genesisSpring2016.pdf 28 genesis spring 2016 Sprawl Mixed Media 11x9” Jacob DeHart Keywords: dehart

• Yeah, No. Nothing Serious by Keller, Kyle (2019) - In a light sleep, she stirs & dreams once more of restless folk-strings on a worn stage, in orange -aura, outdoor summer symphonies, amid the hazy evening hum from hidden swarms of cicadas. Nothing Serious Kyle Keller Keywords: buzz

• The Lesser of Appalachia by Turmail, Sarah (2019) - They hum the Southern battle cry with the cicadas, while closing screen doors keep the rhythm steadied. genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 31 strips of new wheat sway in the sand like planted chorus lines. Keywords: farmers

• Intact by Keller, Kyle (2019) - Another new trot across the meadow as my moon waltzes coyly with clouds, to the music of wind. Intact Kyle Keller Keywords: ticks

• A Butcher and His Family's First Christmas After Losing a Loved One by Turmail, Sarah (2019) - They’re like any knife pulled from the drawer of spare Mason jar lids and stained hot pads. Aunt Jane just looks at me and shakes her head. Keywords: butcher

• That Metaphor Bullshit by McMichael, Carie (2019) - genesisSpring2016.pdf 10 genesis spring 2016 All my classmates write important things to their ex-best friend, Jesus; they all seem deep and important, their nibs all too coagulated with ink to actually say what they’re talking about, so we coat it in waxy ambergris, terribly poignant, hyper-extended metaphor, something like, “I am a square peg in a round hole,” when what you really mean is I LOVE THE SENSATION OF ANAL INTERCOURSE AND AS A MAN, I QUESTION WHAT THAT MEANS FOR MY SEXUALITY, OR DARE I SAY, WHAT WILL MY MOM THINK? Perhaps the solid tangle of copper wire is not spool-able, which is what I scribble casually in some hollow margin when what I really mean is I AM TOO TONGUE-TIED, MY BRAIN IS TOO FRIED to eloquently convey my fractured being. Keywords: metaphor

• Recuerdos by Castoreno, Carolina (2019) - for every nativity play and Dia de Guadalupe. Sorry Wela, the Virgencita doesn’t visit my house much these days. Keywords: recuerdos; wela

• Phil the Plastic Prop Skeleton by Staublin, Kathryn (2019) - MARSHALL What was that for? DELILAH MARSHALL Good morning, Delilah. Keywords: delilah; marshall

• Free Falling by Christoff, Claire (2019) - The night rushed past in a blue haze as In age of less adept drivers and their cars struck Sam as being a sort of creepy memorial to something to stick his head out the window of Dick’s pick up truck like a dog and breathe in just one more taste of that deliciously thick air he had missed so much, but he had a feeling Dick wouldn’t like that. The cook opened the drawer, his stubby tents, Sam turned to Dick accusatorily. Keywords: cook; dick

• Ode to a Mug by Spaulding, Brandon (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 21 Ode to a Mug Brandon Spaulding O, exalted mug! To the multitude you may appear humdrum, even dreary; your smooth porcelain stained like walls of a deserted dollhouse and brunette rings of Saturn circling your cavity into infinity. Keywords: mug

• Cookies to Die For by Staublin, Kathryn (2019) - Cookies to Die For Kathryn Staublin The jar is pumpkin shaped and made of glorious He lives within, wishing to smell the scent of Chocolate Chip Chewy Munchables Crunching with age. Keywords: jar

• The Red Queen by Miller, Keeley (2019) - genesisFall2016.pdf The Red Que n Keeley Miller Photograph 12 genesis fall 2016 Keywords: fall

• Ripple Bench by Johannis, Devin (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Ripple Bench Devin Johannis Soft Maple, Walnut Devin Johannis Keywords: johannis

• Nosferatu by Stone, Mario (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Nosferatu Mario Stone I lurk in the black room with one frail light naked like a moon famished men with cadaver grins and sickle fangs beg at her feet. Their black veins glisten and throb, pulsing through taut skin. Keywords: wrists

• Mahogani. 2017 by Jones, Julian (2019) - 2017 (from The Within Series) Julian Jones Photography Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Mahogani. Keywords: mahogani

• Victoria of the Insects by Panfil, Matt (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Victoria of the Insects Cut-Paper Collage, Alcohol Inks Keywords: inks

• Forever Moments. by Schmitt, Isaac (2019) - Isaac Schmitt Photography 8.25 380 Isaac Schmitt accident pinned Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Forever Moments. Keywords: schmitt

• Greenwood by Marley, Ethan (2019) - genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Greenwood Ethan Marley Greenwood stands in front of its shabby house, bragging about the paint job and smoking with a steaming cup of joe down your shirt. Greenwood laughs at the kids with rings in their noses, hotels a town over in early March. Keywords: greenwood

• Feminine Bodies by Rowley, Piper (2019) - “Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.” these parts. Now, my body does not feel like my own. bodies. Keywords: bodies

• Rita Marley and the Glitter Trail by Jefferson, Brelyn (2019) - the Glitter Trail Brelyn Jefferson I trudged back to my room in lead slippers, noting the glitter trail snaked down the hall. Keywords: trail

• Poppies by Alcala, Joseph (2019) - Thousands of miles away, his mother is making his favorite, hominy soup with potatoes. genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Poppies Joseph Alcala Here lies a ground soaked in blood. Keywords: thousands

• Natural Nerves by Slabach, Katie (2019) - genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Natural Nerves Katie Slabach Ceramics, Leaves, Bark, Stains Keywords: stains

• Molly Made Me Deconstruct My Masculinity by Léon, Tanner (2019) - There’s more power in holding hands Tanner Léon than there is in pulling yourself up. It takes more bravery to love, than to destroy. Keywords: men

• Voiceless Toasts by Baker, Krista (2019) - - 37 - Voiceless Toasts Krista Baker I’ve become an overflowing glass of water My emotions have drowned themselves In an ocean of numbness and so when I hear The vote is 50-48 I don’t feel it It doesn’t register in my body or my mind I simply nod Understanding the lack of understanding That this country seems to have I look at the person beside me The persons beside me I look at my sisters My mother, my friends I look at my future The future I potentially carry And I wonder if they’ll look up at me With big, wondering eyes And question the world the way that I do Keywords: future

• Sit with ME by Williams, Gano (2019) - so I say it again Darkness, comes with Depression I See You look at the seat next to me Choose the one next to me Our eyes meet “Hello” Do I scare you? Keywords: depression

• These Rivers Run by Léon, Tanner (2019) - - 15 - These Rivers Run Tanner Léon I am the veins of this world ‘Y’ and ‘V’ painted across your map my joints are foamy hiccups where the fluid falls in grace hopping the skips and dips of the landscape I am a true border— gravity the only king yanking the reins decreeing me forward to slip through the moonlight sonata of the moon’s fingers— wispy spindles trying to tickle me away from fate’s wading pool. There used to be shrines you don’t hear my pain Keywords: shrines

• Mama Never Cried by Northcutt, Moriah (2019) - Then Mama began to sit around for days on end In her pj's with the messy hair. And Mama never let manners slide. Keywords: mama

• My Name by Walter, Ayla (2019) - Rib cage over treetops, curling lips stretched like electrical wires across mountains over train track seas—I am swimming. Unafraid of softer darknesses speaking in second hand words and dreaming—I am just dreaming. Keywords: dreaming

• Enter Net by Léon, Tanner (2019) - The internet has perused every file of your being “it’s seen those search results” has sent them in pretty prissy letters to multiple organizations so they may bullseye target your back with selected sock ads: the NSA giggles at them over a cup of coffee in the morning. It saunters through the adult section of a back-alley bookstore looking for raunchy images clad in a dark leather jacket— the web it spins is not one of lies, but a very sticky predicament that stencils in the creases of a mother’s disapproving face. Keywords: internet

• crocodile by Kinder, Nick (2019) - - 8 - crocodile Nick Kinder with a cry the world shot itself in the heart and the bullet flew through classrooms and theaters and ghettos and concerts and churches and daughters and sons and uncles and aunties and mothers and fathers and the crocodile choked on his tears and said, “i wish there was something we could do.” Keywords: crocodile

• Adam's Delight by Léon, Tanner (2019) - I scrub you clean before I feast I could churn you into butter bathe your body in caramel— kiss your colors & caress your curves split you open on the table— eager fingers on your Fuji oh great gift your Grannysmith— horndoggin’ for Honeycrisp. Keywords: seed

• An Ode to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Racist by Chopra, Natasha (2019) - Shashi Tharoor You orator, you historian and scholar, you Owner of honorary Air Force wings, you Not surprising chancellor of a PWI, you Nobel prize winner in literature, you Knight of the Garter, sir, you Prime Minister of England, you Prime Minister of Colonization, you Defender of Avoidable Famine, they Called you king of defending Exalted human values, do they See the irony in the white Of the paper they write that on, they Hired Mr. Oldman to play you oh I’m sorry, I think I meant the winners rewrite history, they Created an entire Wikipedia page Just for your lengthy list of honors, but they Didn’t make one for your racism, I Find that interesting that I Didn’t learn about your racism until I Saw the sadness in my father’s eyes, did you Know that he inherited that glossiness, that distance From his parents – his parents that were born under A Union Jack, the amalgamation of imagery Representing other colonizers, Colored white from the skin of the supremacists, Colored blue from the droplets of the Indian Ocean, Colored red from the blood of my family. Keywords: minister

• babe by Thamba, Aish (2019) - - 17 - babe Aish Thamba i called you babe, accidentally, of course... perhaps it was a slip of the tongue just as much as your fingers slip between mine or perhaps your shoulder: a steady warmth against the light of day. Keywords: babe

• Lucy, I'm Home by Turmail, Sarah (2019) - He is Babylon, collapsed after a seven lapped walk, and if I fold enough socks, that I ever loved whiskey breath and bad teeth. genesisSpring2016.pdf 4 genesis spring 2016 Lucy, I’m Home Sarah Turmail Pal, I need to weep. Keywords: pal

• For the Freckle in Her Eye by Leonard, Rachel (2019) - I hadn’t seen your face so soaked since the night that yellow house turned singing that Postal Service song: I am thinking it’s a sign that the freckles (Although we have never kissed except for one Halloween, and what could be real between a mere mermaid and an elf queen?) For the Freckle in Her Eye Rachel Leonard genesis fall 2016 9 wrapped gifts you got that year. genesisFall2016.pdf 8 genesis fall 2016 You said, When I’m dead, do my hair like Madonna. Keywords: eye

• Paper Lanterns by Marquam, Nathan (2019) - the ghosts of the undead write themselves into the strangest Kate Marquam places, and when I say undead Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Paper Lanterns Kate Marquam the ghosts of the undead write themselves into the strangest places. Keywords: undead

• My home is home to many by Stone, Mario (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf My home is home to many Mario Stone written @ Saint Matthew’s House, homeless shelter in Collier County, Florida Here time is sharp, cuts lights out at ten as the lingering chatter dies down like gossip found out. Jealous, the bites on my arms scream to the bites on my calves and the bites on my ankles, tearing skin add to the din, cough itch scratch itch itch cough itch scratch. Keywords: itch

• Bloom by Wilkins, Olivia (2019) - Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Bloom Olivia Wilkins Chalk Pastel Keywords: wilkins

• Gen. by Kinder, Nick (2019) - genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Gen. Nick Kinder We, the generation that sheds others we deem to be “dead weight,” We, the generation We, the generation with chains on our ankles and the world on our backs, as our parents live stream our missteps to their Facebook groups. We, the generation one younger and one with more regrets, and both grinned, and both knew this was a lie. Keywords: generation

• All Peanut Butter by Moore, Taylor (2019) - Miss K brings us out more peanut to braid it back for me. “No, Miss K, my mom will not be happy to pay that money.” All Peanut Butter My response did not seem to be wanted. Keywords: peanut

• Endless by Carnes, M. E. (2019) - Men do hard labor, women always in labor. hands left pruned from soapy water. Keywords: soybeans

• What Could Have Been by Dietz II, Cleveland (2019) - Journal of Molecular Psychiatry U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2016 November, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, vol. 3, no. 13, 2015. Journal of Molecular Psychiatry U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2016 November, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10 Ibid. Keywords: health; medicine; national; u.s

• Sharp Season by Lee, Nancy (2019) - His rough magic curated the work of ample artists through thickets of gallery walls and career pitfalls. genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Sharp Season Nancy Lee He escaped his clan and insisted on a new name. Keywords: season

• Birch Bear by Parker, Emily (2019) - genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Birch Bear Emily Parker Birch Plywood Keywords: birch

• Seven Ways to Come Out by Koenn, Jayce (2019) - Solution #4: Get a cake that comes out for you—with a lot of rainbows— in their favorite flavor. Follow the second part of Solution #1 if this fails. Keywords: solution

• How to Get Rid of a Hickey by Hall, Ashton (2019) - You glance in the side mirror as she drives you to Steak ‘n Shake and see the necklace of hickeys she left behind. She laughs and says, “Only get hickeys below the shirt.” Keywords: hickey; phone; text

• Undertones by Fisher, Megan (2019) - Undertones Megan Fisher Digital Art - 40 - Keywords: undertones

• Yeah, Toast by Hegge, Claire (2019) - Yeah, Toast Claire Hegge Photo Typology - 36 - Keywords: typology

• Watch Yourself Smile by Coy, Chloe (2019) - None Keywords: chloe

• The Truth Behind Trophy Hunting by Barnes, Samantha (2019) - The Truth Behind Trophy Hunting Samantha Barnes Chalk Pastel - 14 - Keywords: truth

• Transcendental by Englert, Kyle (2019) - Transcendental Kyle Englert Photography - 69 - Keywords: transcendental

• Second Semester College Student by Reed, Cameron (2019) - Second Semester College Student Cameron Reed Ink Wash - 43 - Keywords: semester

• Smiley Face by Nower, Shelby (2019) - Smiley Face Shelby Nower Acrylic on Canvas - 44 - Keywords: smiley

• pansies by Carrico, Zach (2019) - pansies Zach Carrico Photography - 6 - Keywords: pansies

• Light Bulb Moment by Hegge, Claire (2019) - Light Bulb Moment Claire Hegge Photography - 58 - Keywords: bulb

• Nightlight by Kenney, Chelsea (2019) - Nightlight Chelsea Kenney Oil on Canvas - 16 - Keywords: nightlight

• Mansion LaLaurie by Reed, Cameron (2019) - Mansion LaLaurie Cameron Reed Ink and Watercolor - 13 - Keywords: mansion

• Discovery Magenta by Wolfe, Molly (2019) - Discovery Magenta Molly Wolfe Acrylic on Illustration Board - 27 - Keywords: discovery

• Celia Psychedelia by Nower, Shelby (2019) - Celia Psychedelia Shelby Nower Mural - 55 - Keywords: celia

• Catalyst by Pearson, Lacy (2019) - Catalyst Lacy Pearson Ink on Clayboard - 64 - Keywords: catalyst

• balance. by White, Michaela (2020) - Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap. Paint. Keywords: tap

• To Love Oneself. To Cope. by Bryson-Price, Hannah (2020) - I’ve just taken a shower— power-washed my pores, silkened my skin with sugar scrub— I’m clean. Instead, it pulls my pupils to thighs that touch, a stomach that hangs, paper hair, and a troll nose. Keywords: self

• The Final Blow by Lemke, Emily (2020) - - 38 - The Final Blow Emily Lemke India Ink, Adobe Photoshop, 11 x 14 Keywords: blow

• Swinging, Leaping, Landing by Lansdell, Sara (2020) - - 39 - Swinging, Leaping, Landing Sara Lansdell Charcoal pencil, 14 x 17 Keywords: swinging

• The Quantum Mechanist by Walter, Alya (2020) - The quantum mechanist swans into campus bar ten minutes till last call, and orders straight tequila from a Klein bottle. The quantum mechanist sails on un-lauded coattails, and never forgets a figure. Keywords: mechanist; quantum

• Slow as snails by Weeks, Anna (2020) - - 46 - Slow as snails Anna Weeks Digital (Procreate), 8.5 x 11 Keywords: procreate

• A Forest God by Wilhelm, Meghan (2020) - - 55 - A Forest God Meghan Wilhelm Woodcut print, 24 x 18 Keywords: forest

• Calavera... Calavera... by Marquam, Nathan (2020) - Bite it, swallow it and survive, Come out the far black tunnel of el Día de Muerte, And be glad, ah so glad you are… alive!” - Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree i. I’ll ride the wind like a bicycle over rocks, through ravines until I find you. iii. Shimmering, like swimming up from the bottom of someplace dark, I see you. Keywords: calavera

• Girdled Roots by Nye, Sara (2020) - - 60 - Girdled Roots Sara Nye Prismacolor colored pencil, 14 x 17 Keywords: roots

• Solace by Mendoza, Abigail (2020) - - 63 - Solace Abigail Mendoza Oil on canvas, 24 by 36 Keywords: solace

• Bloom by McIntire, Trent (2020) - - 61 - Bloom Trent McIntire Leaves and petals bloom, hidden in the crack of a burning desert, outstretched on the peak of a broken mountain, digging between boulders and a ravine wall, choking on a 5th story balcony, where no other seed would dare fall, but where the soil is rich and black, and invites intrusions, where worms burrow, bees float beside birds who sing and saturate the air with life, the beauty of a single blossom drowns in a sea of its kin. Keywords: bloom

• The 4th Precept by Ruby, Chanya (2021) - - 47 - The 4th Precept Chanya Ruby Oil on canvas, 45 x 60 Keywords: precept

• Afternoon in the Greenhouse by Harden, Amelia (2021) - - 34 - Afternoon in the Greenhouse Amelia Harden Watercolor painting, 9 x 14 Keywords: afternoon

• Fingertoes! by Greenberg, Chloe (2021) - Chloe Greenberg Digital collage & acrylic paint, 6.5 x 6.5 - 23 - Fingertoes! Keywords: fingertoes

• ipanema rain by Campbell, Nadia (2021) - - 19 - ipanema rain Nadia Campbell Digital collage & illustration, 22 x 22.693 Keywords: ipanema

• Party is Over by Jacob, Savannah (2021) - - 7 - Party is Over Savannah Jacob Acrylic on illustration board, 15 x 22 Keywords: party

• ROCK CONCERT by Chadburn, David (2021) - - 35 - ROCK CONCERT David Chadburn Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 Keywords: rock

• Self Portrain by Greenberg, Chloe (2021) - - 18 -- 18 - Self Portrait Chloe Greenberg Digital collage & acrylic, 10 x 5 Keywords: -18

• Sorrow the Face of God (front cover art) by Stump, Connor (2021) - - 27 - Sorrow the Face of God Connor Stump Digitally colored graphite, 18.3 x 28.8 Keywords: sorrow

• The Undine by Breach, Veronica (2021) - - 17 - The Undine Veronica Breach Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 Keywords: undine

• La Rosa by Childs, Julieanna (2021) - He was honored to support Adriana marrying her high-school sweetheart, just like he and Sofia had been. He thinks back to those years of hard work, building the family’s construction business from nothing. Keywords: adriana; sofia

• Huntingburg: Summer, 2007 by Hopf, Abigail (2021) - Those late August afternoons that slipped by like syrup —skin still sun-kissed, kids still laughing in their bus rows because school hadn’t yet sunk into their bones. We’d sit and watch as he tamed the flames, fire tongues lapping the air and softening into ghosts of smoke, turning from roaring beast to pup licking marshmallows golden brown. Keywords: ghosts

• Shame and Queer Desire: A Storied Reading Lady Audley's Secret (best of) by Marquam, Nathan (2021) - I want college-age Robert and George - 40 - Shame and Queer Desire: A Storied Reading of Lady Audley's Secret laughing in the autumn leaves, Robert pulling George in by the scarf to kiss him on the lips. And yet, there’s something unusually compelling about Robert and George. Keywords: audley; george; queer; robert

• They're Building a House Next Door by Lauderbach, Ron (2021) - They're Building a House Next Door Ron Lauderbach Clay tiles on weathered rafters weeks after delivery look weary, like the plumber’s countenance as he carries out a shiny sink, the wrong model, and drops it into his truck-bed. Their boss jabs his finger into the chest of some guy who’s holding a big bucket of paint and I think about Jim Rhoads, the meanest foreman I’ve ever known, who years ago had me in tears before draping his arm around my shoulders and saying, Don’t worry kid, this place may get built in spite of us. Keywords: truck

• Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi by Akre, Gabriel (2021) - - 51 - Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi Gabriel Akre Oil on Canvas Keywords: basilica

• Feminine, Like: Bingeworthy, Dreamboard by Pierce, Tiffany (2021) - - 10 - Feminine, Like: Bingeworthy, Dreamboard Tiffany Pierce Archival Inkjet Print Keywords: feminine

• Help by Williams, Paul (2021) - - 26 - Help Paul Williams 3D Drawing Keywords: paul

• John 8:7 by Kimbrough, Libby (2021) - - 14 - John 8:7 Libby Kimbrough Spray Paint and Screen Print Keywords: print

• Midnight Snack by Barnes, Samantha (2021) - - 52 - Midnight Snack Samantha Barnes Chalk Pastel Keywords: midnight

• The Reflection by Stump, Connor (2021) - - 6 - The Reflection Connor Stump Charcoal Keywords: charcoal

• Reflections of a Painter by Caro, Rafael (2021) - - 47 - Reflections of a Painter Rafael Caro Acrylics and Aerosol Paint on Cloth Keywords: cloth

• Suspiria by Baker, Steffany (2021) - - 9 - Suspiria Steffany Baker Oil on Panel(s) Keywords: panel(s

• Latina Uprooted by Pretorius, Olivia (2021) - In red states, speaking Spanish is often met with sideways glances, hushed conversations, and uttering “immigrant” like it’s stained. All I could say to her was te amo abuelita, buenas noches. Keywords: abuelo

• Monsters by Léon, Tanner (2021) - They cannot grasp words— slipping by like ice cubes covered in grease, right through zombie hands with cookie-crumble fingers. I know you’re hiding more than monsters in your closet. Keywords: monsters

• Note to a Dead Girl by Christoff, Claire (2021) - - 27 - Claire Cristoff You planted the tree in my front yard— sugar or paperbark, it doesn’t matter— with gnarled roots and boughs for squirrels and snowfall. I never knew you, but I picture you now, parting the earth with careful fingers, long hair obscuring your face, soft young breasts already gravid with rot. Keywords: snowfall

• Offal Sick by Christoff, Claire (2021) - In another dream, I pinch the breading from a piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken, telling myself I’m being virtuous. I carry a plastic bag of roast beef, pooling in its own fluids, through the grocery aisles of the mind. Keywords: plate

• She Stands Proud with Flowers and Stem Between her Legs by Ellison, Lindsey (2021) - Blade: tiny, thin, sharp like the Elizabeth Taylor portrait she has hanging in her bathroom staring with sapphire eyes and a pink, half-moon smile. - 7 - Lindsey Ellison Tall with dark hair like ants crawling to the motion of static cable- riding the freeway up and down her limbs, she stands one leg over the tub and is an exterminator with razor. Keywords: legs

• Today I Prayed a Prayer of Gratitude by Alberda, Erin (2021) - Thank you, Lord, for city sidewalks, with gum spots and steaming grates. - 24 - Erin Alberda Gulping deeply, wriggling out of my sweater of pride, the one that I have woven each morning, I opened my lips and called each little beauty around me by its name. Keywords: erin

• Walking through Target on a Tuesday Afternoon by Pretorius, Olivia (2021) - - 28 - Olivia Pretorius Walking Through Target on a Tuesday Afternoon Mothers push red plastic carts containing milk, strawberries, and young screaming children in the grocery loop, yet I can’t find the eggs. Did you know grocery stores are designed to be inconvenient? Keywords: eggs

• Abstraction #1 by Ruby, Chanya (2021) - Abstraction #1 Chanya Ruby Oil on Paper, 22 x 30 30 Keywords: abstraction

• Ciao bella by Dennis, Kylie (2021) - Ciao bella Kylie Dennis Photography 16 Keywords: ciao

• Cottage in the Mountains by Wolfe, Molly (2021) - Cottage in the Mountains Molly Wolfe Oil on Paper, 15 x 20 21 Keywords: cottage

• Fruit #4 by Wolfe, Molly (2021) - Fruit #4 Molly Wolfe Oil on Panel, 30 x 22 6 Keywords: fruit

• Herd of Library Camels by Tomeldan, Katrina (2021) - Herd of Library Camels Katrina Tomeldan Acrylic Paint and Colored Pencil, 15 x 12 39 Keywords: herd

• Horton's World by Lee, Nancy (2021) - Horton's World Nancy Lee Vitreous Enamel on Cooper, 6 x 6 ` 33 Keywords: horton

• Sedna by Wolfe, Molly (2021) - Sedna Molly Wolfe Digital Art, 9 x 17 36 Keywords: sedna

• Sisterhood by Lee, Nancy (2021) - Sisterhood Nancy Lee Vitreous Enamel on Copper, 5 x 5 15 Keywords: sisterhood

• pinstripe sheets by Wright, Daisy (2021) - 19 pinstripe sheets Daisy Wright I remember striped sheets. I remember striped sheets. Keywords: sheets

• At the Top of Kingsbury Grade by Weiss, Madison (2021) - 47 At the Top of Kingsbury Grade Madison Weiss The legend goes like this: an anchor dislodged from granite rock turns Arthurian child into mermaid Keywords: anchor

• The Hoosier Dome by Couch, Shannon (2021) - Forever unrepaired, chosen to keep, as the preservation of memory outweighs structural integrity. Bassline pulse-drive and mechanical starry sky – This shroud is a battle cry, power incarnate. Keywords: sidewalk

• Joan of Arc by Farr, Mason (2021) - She calls herself Joan of Arc. She lays with only soldiers, then slays those lonely soldiers. Keywords: joan

• An Ode to Hot Sauce by Léon, Tanner (2021) - Léon Feeble bodies fumble on tasteless foods, causing grumpy moods: lost in the black and white world of culinary catastrophe, they search for any ounce of color... A smoldering whip cracks Louisiana Lightning Strike from the sky, 50 sauntering me into a slow sway, coiled with the snake of spice. Keywords: spice

• One or Another by Walter, Ayla (2022) - A list of things I am angry about still: the unknown multiplex of moments I’ve forgotten, on purpose or otherwise bug-bites and small things fingernails and tangled hair torn smooth my stomach churning sour milk into butter making acid sweet, turning light cream heavy the speechless gravity of it all. Wet voices, speaking of only sweet sharp things of being smothered of being cut and sliced and threaded through a needle’s eye. Keywords: things

• The Bandage Project by Van Renterghem, Olivia M. (2022) - The Bandage Project Olivia M. Van Renterghem Bandages and Acrylic paint on masonite, 12 x 9 20 Keywords: bandage

• Kluay Kluay by Ruby, Chanya (2022) - 24 Kluay Kluay Chanya Ruby Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 Keywords: kluay

• The Home Front by McCollum, Corlan (2022) - Except, perhaps, for faux fur coats, which they had been reunited with, and will be forever because nobody wants pink frills or faux fur. Not all stories are tragic. The chairs and coat split at a garage sale, the coat traveling south to West Baden and the chairs moving to Lebanon. Keywords: coat

• Do you Remember me? by Andrea, Michelle (2022) - Michelle Andrea Mixed media on paper, 19 x 24 31 Keywords: remeber

• Low Rent Ghost Story by Walter, Ayla (2022) - I don’t believe in ghosts, that should be clear, if I did perhaps I would not invite and love Marcelle into my home as much as I do, and I do. So I don’t believe in ghosts but not so much that I’m interested in hearing about how your second cousin or your best friend’s friend had something totally impossible and spooky happen to them and they saw a ghost with their own eyes just so you can try to prove it to me or expect me to try and disprove it 32 back to you– like most people, I’m not that interested in proof. Keywords: ghost

• Holy Hashbrown! by Marie, Shae (2022) - Shae Marie Digital, 3 x 4.2 34 Holy Hashbrown! Keywords: hashbrown

• Eli in the Passenger Seat by Stewart, Ollie (2022) - And in the space you bend, your will to cold air, I see why some people spend their whole lives On these roads that no one ventures anymore A flare of red against the dusk Raised veins; like yours Eli in the Passenger Seat Ollie Stewart Keywords: eli

• Unexpected Beauty by Adam, Olivia (2022) - 37 Unexpected Beauty Olivia Adam Photography, 25 x 19 Keywords: beauty

• Angel Child by Ruby, Chanya (2022) - 39 Angel Child Chanya Ruby Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 Keywords: angel

• View From the Harbor by Lansdell, Sara (2022) - 45 View From the Harbor Sara Lansdell Digital, 2471 x 4278px Keywords: 4278px

• Mask Etiquette by Price, Caitlin (2022) - Mask Etiquette Caitlin Price Pen on paper, 1439 x 1233px Keywords: 1233px

• Cobweb Words by Kucaj, Shannon (2022) - Just a tiny opening for silky strands to crisscross between teeth a home for dewy egg clusters to hatch, craving warm juices to fill their little bellies. Cobweb Words Shannon Kucaj Hairy spider legs tiptoe over goosebumps planting on plump lips tip tapping teeth as she sleeps awaiting her moist mouth’s answer. Keywords: teeth

• Birdwatching (best of) by Hand, Siren (2023) - Also 11:37 (Local time): four adult female finches, seven Adult male sparrows, three adult male starlings (all) dig at the ground (Keypad 8), scramble for the yield of another's destruction. Seed spills from the feeder (Keypad 5 to Keypad 8). Keywords: adult

• The Vine Grower by Coello, Louisa (2023) - The Vine Grower Louisa Coello Graphite and ink on paper, 8”x10” - 10 - Keywords: vine

• Storge (best of) by Coello, Louisa (2023) - Storge Louisa Coello Graphite on paper with digital color, 11”x14” - 11 - Keywords: storge

• Fungal Body by McIntire, Thalia (2023) - Let any eyes that lay upon me be glazed over with gray lichen in punishment for their crime. I could be a home for so much life, the spores in my lungs that wheeze when I speak, the worms boring holes beyond my eye sockets, the rats and rodents carving out a den in my abdomen. Keywords: mold

• Parking Garage Dream by Schwartz, Emma (2023) - Parking Garage Dream Emma Schwartz Oil on canvas, 30x40 - 14 - Keywords: parking

• Herbie Sits in a Field for 10 Years by Runkel, Mason (2023) - Herbie Sits in a Field for 10 Years Mason Runkel Digital Photograph - 15 - Keywords: herbie

• Reality Built by Vogeler, Megan (2023) - Reality Built Megan Vogeler Oil on stretched canvas, 30”x40” - 16 - Keywords: reality

• There Were 87 Work-Related Real Estate Deaths in 2019 by McCollum, Corlan (2023) - The pony follows you out, expecting more treats, but not being too forward about it. Then you go and clean up the blood and hoof prints just in time for the buyers to arrive, and the first thing they do is comment on how they’ll have to get a rug for the living room. Keywords: pony

• Fantasyland (best of) by Fecteau, Emma Yuan (2023) - Jia clung to the photograph and traced the outline of Lianna with her fingers. Fantasyland Emma Yuan Fecteau “Jia raised her metal fans and a windstorm of flames erupted around Lord Ren, engulfing the once proud northern invader. Keywords: jia; lianna; lord; mei; shen

• Evil Among Us by Vogeler, Megan (2023) - Evil Among Us Megan Vogeler Oil paint on stretched canvases, 36”x72” - 26 - Keywords: evil

• Sirens by Coello, Louisa (2023) - Sirens Louisa Coello Graphite on paper, 11”x14” - 27 - Keywords: sirens

• Poppy by Justice, Sage (2023) - A corpse woven in silk waits to be plucked and hand-delivered into the arms of loving Death, mouth slacked, slivered eyes, the sweetness of rot not yet settled in. The Worker of the Woods hammers away in early morning, nails his ghost to every tree. Keywords: helios

• A Different Perspective by Vogeler, Megan (2023) - A Different Perspective Megan Vogeler Oil on wooden panel, 45x35 - 31 - Keywords: perspective

• Recovering Eden by Coello, Louisa (2023) - Recovering Eden Louisa Coello Oil pastel on paper, 18”x24” - 33 - Keywords: eden

• Tarantella by Hand, Siren (2023) - Shove a ten in the tip jar to a turned back, sway to crusted velvet couch that's probably cradled too many lovers— set seasick glasses on the low table. We don't dance, we pulse we free-form flow into hours when only the Divine would be awake, strobing: our shadows play on a gridded confessional wall, stained glass chandeliers paint us holy. Keywords: prayer

• D.C. al Coda by Hand, Siren (2023) - D.C. al Coda The thread from his Flag shrinks from the heat coiling tightly blackening into crumbling rubbing into good-as-new into January 7th, into some refrain of a spotless nation put back as it was supposed to be— no one ever the wiser. This cloth is voice, and presence, and power. Keywords: flag

• Nina by Hand, Siren (2023) - Inside on Aphrodite’s couch, though we purr like lions, stroking each other’s cheek and melt, all curly hair and dimples, floral dresses with deep pockets. Growl at passing men on sidewalks off our oppressive leashes, uncaged unwilling to paint ourselves pure and be blank canvases in a jeweler's display. Keywords: grasp

• Untitled (Tampon) by Schwartz, Emma (2023) - Untitled (Tampon) Emma Schwartz Oil on canvas, 45x55 - 46 - Keywords: tampon

• NYC Subway by Schwartz, Emma (2023) - NYC Subway Emma Schwartz Collage, 22x30 - 47 - Keywords: nyc

• Note from the Advisor by Layden, Sarah (2023) - Worth it, say the student editors of genesis, who have kept this award-winning magazine in print for fifty uninterrupted years. We share our lives through the art we create, and the work in genesis tells a story about IUPUI. Keywords: magazine

• Kumain (best of) by Dimaranan, Frances (2023) - - 11 - Kumain Gouache and acrylic, 18x24 Frances Dimaranan Keywords: dimaranan

• A Story About Pensions by McCollum, Corlan (2023) - Upper upper management wrote very neatly in a file about upper management that they had demonstrated very diligent fiscal responsibility and sufficiently handled the accountants, and recommended them for promotion. Upper upper management noticed the firing of a quarter million accoun- tants. Keywords: accountants

• Safety Brief by Hand, Siren (2023) - I saw it in American History X and didn’t know that cruelty could happen in real life until the news showed it. Make sure protestors with wheelchairs and walkers are not being harassed or targeted; The march pace reaches fever pitch and the bullhorn, chanting pulls away from 2.5 miles an hour. Keywords: march

• Bladed Mirror by Shannon, Kaiti (2023) - Bladed Mirror Kaiti Shannon Photography, 4x6 - 19 - Keywords: mirror

• Midwestern Gothic Road Trip by Justice, Sage (2023) - It’s antler shedding season– ribbons of red flesh hang from a buck’s head as it darts from fields to quaking aspens whose eyes haunt the cloven imprints left in the earth. Midwestern Gothic Road Trip Sage Justice Frost clings to the corn fields that line roads with no painted lines, no names, just numbers like prisoner 9860 trudging through solemn dirt. Keywords: fields

• Waffle House Wednesday by Dimaranan, Frances (2023) - Waffle House Wednesday Frances Dimaranan Digital - 21 - Keywords: waffle

• Shepard's Causeway by Watkins, Tamara (2023) - Shepard's Causeway Tamara Watkins Sharpie, black and white gel pen, acrylic, and watercolor, 12x16 - 22 - Keywords: shepard

• Stargazing by Copenhaver, Teresa (2023) - Stargazing Teresa Copenhaver Ink drawing on multimedia paper, 12x9 - 23 - Keywords: teresa

• Black Indeed by Hearn, Sidnea (2023) - Gold chains glitter around the necks of Black Kings and Queens. Black Kings and Queens. Keywords: queens

• Growth by Fisher, Megan (2023) - Growth Megan Fisher Digital Art, 2x8 - 38 - Keywords: growth

• I'm an Octo + I Love My Cats by Pickering, Lauren (2023) - I'm an Octo + I Love My Cats Lauren Pickering Micron and ink pen, digital Photoshop brushes, 13.69x10.5 400 DPI - 49 - Keywords: octo

• Dirtied by DeFelice, Kitley (2023) - Dirtied Kitley DeFelice Digital photography, 3398x2448 pixels - 52 - Keywords: kitley

• Acceptance by Vogeler, Megan (2023) - Acceptance Megan Vogeler Oil on canvas, 30x50 - 67 - Keywords: acceptance

• Rooster by Cunningham, Rachael (2023) - Rooster Rachael Cunningham Oil paint and sand, 20x16 - 69 - Keywords: rooster

• Queen of Hearts by Breach, Veronica (2023) - Queen of Hearts Veronica Breach Digital, 4400x5600 pixels - 70 - Keywords: queen

• Blue Dragon by Copenhaver, Teresa (2023) - Blue Dragon Teresa Copenhaver Silkscreen monotype print, 11x9 - 71 - Keywords: dragon

• An Unexpected Guest by Dryer, Julia (2023) - An Unexpected Guest Julia Dryer Acrylic and colored pencil, 11x20 - 72 - Keywords: guest

• The plaster tub by Scott, Kat (2023) - Her smiles opened doors, her words slicked chintzy palms while I became a receptacle for long nights gone awry. She wanted me to embrace them: the ones who shriek and yowl from their trucks like they’re in heat, latching bitter eyes as they caress your ass. Keywords: plaster

• Lollipop, Lollipop, Oh Lolli-Lolli-Lolli by Schwartz, Emma (2023) - Lollipop, Lollipop, Oh Lolli-Lolli-Lolli Emma Schwartz Oil on canvas, 22x32 - 79 - Keywords: lolli

• White English: A Satire by Taylor, Juan (2023) - As the nation grew, White English began to diversify, but these variations are minor in comparison to the major differences between White English and Regular English. It would take a novel to discuss these distinctions sufficiently, but I will point out a few of the differences between White English and Regular English. Keywords: english; white

• Untitled by Keller, Pamela Sue (2023) - Untitled Pamela Sue Keller, 1979 - 87 - Keywords: pamela

• Green Eggs and Spam by Yalimaiwai, Davinia (2023) - All we know is that it is salty, and meaty, and that it tastes good with just about anything: Spam musubi (Japanese sushi made with Spam), Spam saimin (hot soup with noodles and a slab of Spam), Spam fried rice (self-explanatory), Spam and eggs for breakfast (now on our McDonald’s Dollar Menu), Spam and cheese sandwich for lunch, and Spam and shoyu rice (white rice covered in soy sauce) for dinner. And there is always enough Spam to feed everybody thrice over. Keywords: hawaii; islands; keola; spam

• Whale Watching by Fan, Lifan (2023) - Whale Watching Lifan Fan, 2016 Oil on canvas - 92 - Keywords: whale

• Steam Street by Balding, Kimberly (2023) - Steam Street Kimberly Balding, 2006 Photography - 101 - Keywords: steam

• Nobleman from Sculptor Portfolio by Eskridge, Casey (2023) - Nobleman from Sculptor Portfolio Casey Eskridge, 1996 High clay, 21 high - 102 - Keywords: nobleman

• Marshal Walz from Sculptor Portfolio by Eskridge, Casey (2023) - Marshal Walz from Sculptor Portfolio Casey Eskridge, 1996 High clay, 12 high - 103 - Keywords: marshal

• Burning Butterflies by Johnson, David Brent (2023) - I told this to you on our first date, in the dim place we called Coffeehouse Hell, with windmill fans and huge potted plants that hung just a few feet above our table. Through your window I watch a flock of black birds in the grey sky, swirl- ing like ashes in the wind. Keywords: green; like

• A Final Argument over God, Alternatively Titled “Menopause,” Alternatively Alternatively Titled “For Nathan” by Ventura, Tara (2023) - A Final Argument over God, Alternatively Titled “Meno- pause,” Alternatively Alternatively Titled “For Nathan” Tara Ventura - 81 - The New York Times said that South Korea said that North Korea has fired two more missiles and I think for the second -but definitely not last- time today about how it’ll all be over soon and The New York Times won’t report on climate change or missiles anymore because no one will be left waiting to read it. much as I hate to admit it- at the thought of an earth without polar bears and bamboo and my junky car and especially me and you -but only together- in it. Keywords: times

• A COVID Supermarket in Indiana by Marquam, Nathan (2023) - Tonight, I’ll watch you spin, Allen Ginsberg, and try to untangle my mind. Ginsberg, I dated the grocery boy. Keywords: ginsberg

• Rest and Fire, Black Child by Ivey, Mariah (2023) - 15 Rest and Fire, Black Child Mariah Ivey may you dance as if the fire is beneath you chassé your fears into plied position scorching pavements with radical affirmation promising to always be kind to yourself may you burn down broken systems tethered to Black tears Emmett Tills and ticking timebombs, only to ring-shout your way into safe spaces of emotional release may you awaken without apology on your tongue but joy beneath your wings laughing as if healing and resistance share one body may you remember your body—not as America’s sacrificial lamb but as a harmonious vessel of ancestral hymns singing songs of sweetness and soul liberation will come from a Black thing may your palms, as they are, blessed with golden warmth and grandmama’s prayers, hold vinyl record memories worth replaying on Sundays may your days feel a lot warmer there not as an escape of your reality but an extension of the reimagined ease belongs to you ease has always belonged to you rest and fire. rest and fire, Black child. Keywords: fire

• Unnamed Poem 6 by Cassetty, Christopher (2023) - I lay atop my bed with clouds for eyes; these wretched liquid tears beseem me well, for nightly days and daily nights have come to be ubiquitous so with these storms. The moon aflame the night wants too to die, a flutter ‘twixt the clouds o’ dreary hell; she weeps, and tears besmirch the whilom ‘drum arras o’ sky; her flames ignite the swarm of thoughts–of thoughts of which there was a dearth– to die, to take the hand o’ moon and then— ignite, the round o’ chamber, make my end, to call my days forgone, by means of scend, and was it well, decided I, the perfect Night to … [sic, page torn] Keywords: end

• there’s something they’re not telling me by Hay, Nicole (2023) - 19 there’s something they’re not telling me Nicole Hay Digital art; 6”x8” Keywords: 6”x8

• Raven Mocker by Wilhelm, Raeya (2023) - 23 Raven Mocker Raeya Wilhelm Acrylic paint; 12”x16” Keywords: raven

• All I See is Red by Corso, Anna (2023) - 29 All I See is Red Anna Corso Oil paint, acrylic, and joint compound on wood; 22.5”x2.5”x24” Keywords: 22.5”x2.5”x24

• Bar in Mexico by Kridle, Caroline (2023) - 31 Bar in Mexico Caroline Kridle Oil painting; 24”x30” Keywords: bar

• Technology by David, Cara (2023) - 34 Technology Cara David Alcohol marker drawing; 11”x17” Keywords: technology

• Surrogate father sestina (best of) by Marquam, Nathan (2023) - I watched as they grew bored of my damage, but they were alive, a line between me and the absence of me, chain wallet fathers, bar stool fathers, fathers I killed while they were still alive. He tasted of salt, morning breath, the absence of death, of fathers, the word no. Keywords: fathers

• Combat Sport by McCollum, Corlan (2023) - Shoulder width apart, find your balance, bend your knees, hear fence! Arm up, blade straight out, foot forward, classic, obvious prise de fer, so they stop advancing and cut across your vest. Keywords: fence

• Point Five by Corso, Anna (2023) - 43 Point Five Anna Corso Ink on paper; 18”x24” Keywords: point

• Screen Door Blues by Coovert, Jessamine (2023) - Clothing clings to me, a second skin. Thick air fills my lungs to the brim and swamps all thoughts. Keywords: door

• On Plato and Humanity by Foster, Payton (2023) - Blurring occurs beneath layers of linen And under the dense cover that is night That makes us indistinguishable. I long to stay with you forever this way, Us two melding and becoming seamlessly one. Keywords: foster

• The Tilth of Me by Scott, Kat (2023) - It seems to bend louder underfoot now, a groaning that I’ve pulled back its covers, exposed each blade to cooler air than it took to bed. That it revels in its nudity regardless of light or air or fashion. Keywords: grass

• Liminal (cover) by Battin, Kyle (2023) - - 7 - Liminal Kyle Battin Digital; 2700 x 3600 pixels Keywords: pixels

• Desecrating the Giants’ Corpse (best of) by Grimes, Ben (2023) - A fourth of the land that would be dubbed “Indiana” was bogs, fens, marshes, wet prairies—swamp. Yet 13,000 acres of swamp had remained unsullied in Indiana. Keywords: porter; swamp

• Autumn Adventures 2021 by Napers, Alexandra (2023) - - 10 - Autumn Adventures 2021 Alexandra Napers Natural paint on canvas; 38 x 18 Keywords: autumn

• Self-portrait in a thunderstorm by Wilson, Ashley (2023) - I watch in wonder as lightning strikes, A mere mile from where I stand, Ensconced by the thin glass of my balcony - 11 - Self-portrait in a thunderstorm Ashley Wilson Keywords: rain

• the patience of grief by Patrick, Lio (2023) - With deep embarrassment, I recalled the pair of funeral home workers staring at me as I had a panic attack on the bench next to the front door. - 13 - the patience of grief Lio Patrick When I was fourteen, my uncle Bear was killed by his friend, a man I never met, in a drug dispute. Keywords: funeral

• The Confessional by Harrell, Danielle (2023) - Paper crinkles hastily as I open my scrawled list. - 15 - The Confessional Danielle Harrell My heart beat pulses through my twitching fingers, the folded paper gaining more creases in my sweaty hands. Keywords: walls

• Sins of Daughters by Humes, Kira (2023) - - 17 - Sins of Daughters Kira Humes Graphite on an illustration board in a crosshatch style; 15 x 20 Keywords: sins

• The Problem with Funeral Plants by Kile, Kim (2023) - I see it every day—the drooping, withering leaves, the brown, crispy ones peeking from beneath. - 18 - The Problem with Funeral Plants Kim Kile I have a peace lily in my dining room, a reminder that you left too soon and I’m still here trying to keep this damn plant alive. Keywords: plant

• Slipping Away: Frank and Mattie by Bowman, Jane (2023) - “Yes, Frank,” says Mattie. “Frank, that’s the front door,” says Mattie and points to the stairs. Keywords: frank

• What I Used to Love by Kile, Kim (2023) - For Baby Theo, forever our first - 36 - What I Used to Love Kim Kile Were you there, Theo, when I got the call from your mama? Keywords: theo

• Roller Coaster by Rodriguez, Cassandra (2023) - But still I smile and say “I’m fine” For even through the ups and downs I will love you all the same I’m only partly lying When I say I love roller coasters Because I hate this one I hate the chaos and being flung around When I say I love roller coasters Because I love the thrill The breeze in my hair Keywords: roller

• Bread and Butter by Golder, LyNae (2023) - Having napped beforehand, Nia’s wide awake to greet him. She drags her feet because she knows she’ll be up a while; she can’t go back to sleep until Zion walks in the door and she knows he’s safe. Keywords: fireworks

• Jas by Wulf, Sarah (2023) - I want to rip out my hair and scream and kick walls and punch floors until someone tells me what happened to the boy in the video that put the fork into the socket and where Travis is and whether Jas is alive or not. Jas Sarah Wulf I’m pretty sure my friend Jas is dead. Keywords: jas; travis

• Bloody Mary by Starks, Natalie (2023) - Bloody Mary Natalie Starks Oil on canvas; 18 x 24 - 45 - Keywords: mary

• Potato Bug (best of) by McVeigh, Kayla (2023) - He’s standing on my back, climbing his way to the top while I’m laboring away, box after box. There are only clumps of moss and white mushrooms that rise to my swollen ankles. Keywords: anger

• The Lucky Candidate by Golder, LyNae (2023) - - 51 - The Lucky Candidate LyNae Golder Listen, honey, I want you to understand how lucky you are to be here. You’ll draw people in, and when they see you—your eyes and your lips and your body— they’ll want to trust us. Keywords: honey

• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Harrell, Danielle (2023) - - The Hound of the Baskervilles Danielle Harrell Cardboard and acrylic paint; 12 x 16 x 1.75 - 52 Keywords: hound

• When the Train Crashes by Russell, Ava (2023) - You pretend you’re a writer, but you struggled through this simple sentence word by word, letter by letter, struggled to combine your abstract, nonsensical thoughts into something that’s barely legible. After all, if everyone was one-of-a-kind, if you were one-of-a-kind, no one else in the world would be interested in what you have to say; and you have so many things to say, so many important things about the world, and other people, and even yourself. Keywords: writer

• Monster Sale by Orwig, Jordan (2023) - “Mr. Nettle,” Ellen said, “what’s this?” Nettle drew up short. Monster Sale Jordan Orwig Artemis Nettle stood amongst the wisps and willows of the night, turn- ing a small piece of bone-white cardstock over in his fingers. Keywords: cage; children; david; ellen; nettle

• The Scythe by Williamson, Curtis (2023) - The Scythe Curtis Williamson Digital; 9 x 11 - 68 - Keywords: scythe

• For Ray by Hawvermale, Lance (2023) - He said go west young man go west until the sun tires of running and by the way there is a market for solar flares if you can bring one back, a penny a word at least. Cherry bombs and dandelions, a Mason jar of Venusian rain— Eat metaphors he told me. Keywords: bag

• Stuff Your Eyes with Wonder by Phillips, Corrine (2023) - Stuff Your Eyes with Wonder Corrine Phillips When I was a child, I read a book about a pumpkin-covered tree, and I hoped for a magic October night where they might really shine down on me— where I’d search for my pumpkin among all those smiles of flickering souls in the autumn leaves, and I’d live on forever if I could just take it and carry it close to me. But as I’ve grown, I realize a harsh reality: that there is no such thing as this winsome gift of immortality— unless we paint and write our souls on canvas and the page, or capture it with a camera lens and in films that never age. Keywords: pumpkin

• The Clodhoppers of Winter by Keedy, Ron (2023) - On hot summer days past, it sheltered sweaty, cheering baseball fans from the sun. Tennis shoes that are full of summer magic. Keywords: shoes; summer; toes

• Silver Flash Minnows and Pickle Green Frogs by Keedy, Ron (2023) - Silver Flash Minnows and Pickle Green Frogs Ron Keedy Silver flash minnows and pickle green frogs, Brown-eared bunnies inside hollow logs. A fast moving ripple gives bare feet a tickle, A snake crosses path causing neck hair to prickle. Keywords: minnows

• The Banshee by Williamson, Curtis (2023) - The Banshee Curtis Williamson Digital; 9 x 11 - 88 - Keywords: banshee

• Idyllic Pasts Nostalgic Futures by Whatley, Edward (2023) - Idyllic Pasts Nostalgic Futures Edward Whatley Pen and ink with digital coloring in Clip Studio Paint; 13 x 10 - 92 - Keywords: pasts

• The Mystery by Winslow, Jordan (2024) - 28 9” x 12” Acrylic Painting Jordan Winslow The Mystery Keywords: mystery

• Cat in a Tree by David, Cara (2024) - 60 10.5” x 15” Lithograph Cara David Cat in a Tree Keywords: tree

• Unbridled Rage by Franke, Abby (2024) - 92 11” x 17” Digitally Illustrated Posters Unbridled Rage Abby Franke Keywords: franke

• Nostalgia Is a Sweet and Suffocating Aroma by Keehn, Clayton (2024) - 104 11” x 14” Ink on Synthetic Yupo Paper Clayton Keehn Nostalgia Is a Sweet and Suffocating Aroma Keywords: aroma

• HDYKAM? by Keehn, Clayton (2024) - 122 11” x 14” Ink on Synthetic Yupo Paper Clayton Keehn HDYKAM? Keywords: hdykam

• New York Blue Botanical Garden #1 by Kyutoku, Yuko (2024) - 137 23” x 23” Mixed Media on Stonehenge Paper Yuko Kyutoku New York Blue Botanical Garden #1 Keywords: garden

• Fortune of a Hypochondriac by Taylor, Kira (2024) - 153 12” x 16” Lithograph Kira Taylor Fortune of a Hypochondriac Keywords: hypochondriac

• Do you still go down to Cicero Creek? by Hoppel, Maggie (2024) - Do you stuff your pockets with sparkly rocks your mom won’t begrudge past the porch? Do you get leeches and laugh secrets into discarded Diet Coke cans? Keywords: rocks

• Cicadas by Turgeon, Anna (2024) - 10 Background noise takes center stage When it’s least desired. The din of dusk drones on and crescendos with my empathy. Keywords: tonight

• The Dahlia That Withered Away by Kraljic, Tomislav (2024) - 15 the sable ragged curtains hang onto the stained metal grommets obscuring the clear windowpane that breathes life into this somber room. Tomislav Kraljic The Dahlia That Withered Away Keywords: dahlia

• Windsor and Newtown Galeria Acrylic by Terhorst, Elizabeth (2024) - Elizabeth Terhorst Windsor and Newtown Galeria Acrylic 27 Blue Slapped across my back From times I was too young to remember. Keywords: scrub

• Inspiró by Stone, Mario (2024) - Te lo diré… pues te digo que sí, que sí te mentí una y sólo una vez más por el miedo… La verdad es que sí… que sí… que sí fue por ti que me rasgué in two in two arrancando de mi corazón la rosa que entre lágrimas leíste … Y que sí que sí que sí lo pensé… en un futuro los dos, el comenzar de un cuento, el cuento sin fin Mario Stone Inspiró “Me gusta complacerte” – me encantó escucharte cantar, acariciarte y “Por favor” despertarme bajo tus miles de besos sobre mi rostro – Lagrimas compartidas, más que una, que dos… más que tres veces… Calmaste mis penas y me partiste en dos. Keywords: que

• vibrator? hardly know her. by Barakat, Ruthie (2024) - 42 i like raspberries on my fingertips, stained red and sweet my lips tingle from off-brand seltzer shoes shuffle across the floor, wood laminate underneath worn-out reeboks steps leading upstairs fingertips looking for a drawer to pull out too soon to tell it smells like purple and perfume luminescent, flickering like tongues and candlelight on top of it all, three is my lucky number, writing my name on your teeth a cat’s cradle in the bedroom, hot breath on a pillow not everything fast is battery-powered Ruthie Barakat vibrator? hardly know her. Keywords: fingertips

• butterflies by Adie, Selma (2024) - 44 the butterflies in my chest have been dormant and sleeping for ages but when you brushed up against me and knocked on my heart they awoke in a frenzy and threw themselves against my ribcage, fervent, aching to be set free and land gently on your face and adorn your gorgeous eyes and decorate your cheeks like freckles Selma Adie butterflies Keywords: butterflies

• Milk-White Bones by Surdzial, Eliza (2024) - I need me outside in to save your hands the strain from finger food staining to be easier to consume. Perhaps dried-up like the apple chips your mother would buy from Whole Foods for your Little League games. Keywords: bones

• Keeping Our Practices: A Walk Through Crown Hill by McVeigh, Kayla (2024) - Until another match flickers and the next stick burns Nag Champa floating up into the air and over the graves Kayla McVeigh Keeping Our Practices: A Walk Through Crown Hill Pocketing fragments of the infamous Dillinger fame How am I not to pause at the strange exchanges of closed eyes and bowed heads? Keywords: silence

• Lavender by Cassetty, Christopher (2024) - Then these images take shape to me, and I see the birds fly away into seas of oranges and blues, and far away the palette blends into thunderous and dark blacks—and whites, and rains then pour from above me, and I look down to see suddenly sand beneath my legs, slowly turning piebald from the worsening summer rains, and I take the sand within my hands and watch it spill from between my webbed and pure fingers, and the clumps where the rain had touched fall out so—displeasingly— but I gaze back up to find the sun dip beneath tumultuous and restless seas, and I go to take my breath and stand before I’m confronted by death and gasp— I see the bouquet before me wherefrom those lavender petals had fallen to the floor, flowers hanging withered from a vase just filled with freshly reclaimed rainwater. I stare, cross-legged on the floor in front of my bed, at this sky, where light beiges mix so beautifully with the dappled singes of the dried lavender leaves, almost like birds amidst clouds between me and the foreboding and soon night. Keywords: lavender

• The Lynching by Dixon, Saloni (2024) - This is limbo, life after death coming in hungry. Saloni Dixon The Lynching Keywords: birth

• Shackles to Spectacles by Adedipe, Zion O. (2024) - 77 Outcries from the oppressive realms, where shadows weep, A realm where serpents are slain but villains are made, In our dystopian misery, Black warriors arise asserting the essence of our defi- ance, Bound by shackles, bound by chains, bound by faith, imprisoned by the bloody waxen pagans, Bound in blood, the repercussion of an attack. Voices echoing and roaring vengeance, but the bloody waxen pagans believed us to be Black swans, These same Black swans hunted their heads, murdered thousands of their crowned waxen pagans, Turning their houses to coffins and taking their recompenses into ashes, Bound by shackles, bound by chains, bound by faith, imprisoned by the bloody waxen pagans, Terror prowling at their spirits, but their Gods conquered, Keywords: waxen

• Incantation for the end of pain by Wilson, Ashley (2024) - Ashley Wilson Incantation for the end of pain Take this, all sinew and stretch; tie the strands of my muscles to wicked steeds. Keywords: limb

• The Righteous by Wilson, Ashley (2024) - We perched there, perfect rows of deep blue polos and pressed khakis. I would pick the dried dribbles of candle wax from the pew till my fingers turned raw, anything to distract from the drone of a sermon not meant for me. Keywords: shoulders

• Refurbished Doll by Wilhelm, Raeya (2024) - Do we glue the dead leaves to the winter tree and pretend they never died? Raeya Wilhelm Refurbished Doll Most efforts are in vain. Keywords: doll

• Grey Hair by McVeigh, Kayla (2024) - A gentleness that comes from the aging of dark hair to a softened grey. Daily surprises are offered within a lifetime. Keywords: grey

• a zombie by Hunsader, Clayton (2024) - as more became infected, the protected passively grew from natural progression. little larvae are always attracted to them, the stench of decay follows dilapidated bone structures and liquified internal organs. Keywords: zombie

• Mania, and her Beautiful Countenance by Cassetty, Christopher (2024) - 105 You were even more beautiful with those manic eyes, so bright and refulgent, I never dared think a more beautiful grey, and even when you stared at me with such distaste and— hate, I couldn’t help, in frustration, but love you, and I still do, though I haven’t met with your soul in quite some time; it makes me wonder— was it ever just your eyes, or the damaged soul I saw inside, that made me love you more than I ever thought to love myself. Christopher Cassetty Mania, and her Beautiful Countenance Keywords: soul

• Your Dying by Kile, Kim (2024) - 106 The last time I saw you alive, death was creeping up your throat, taking you from the inside out. It didn’t steal you quietly in the night, but suffocated you slowly, taunting you, offering you peace for the briefest of seconds before tightening its grip around your throat, causing you to sit up and cry in pain. Keywords: dying

• Send to Postal Code: 184209 by Kluger, Alexandra (2024) - I am from strange looking letters; mainly symbols because “letters” are unrecognizable. 112 I am from naked birch trees, that blend in with the gray skies seamlessly. Keywords: sip

• Fair Winds and Following Seas by McVeigh, Kayla (2024) - 114 A maritime phrase for wishing farewell and a safe voyage If goodbyes bleed, so be it Let them chum the waters calling wide-mouthed bullhead sharks Circling blackened seas Fins like sails cutting through the push and pull of tides Let them feed Tooth by tooth, scissoring through flesh Let ships be called to the edge of the world Sinking through deeper shades of navy they are returned Within the depths that keep creatures with little use for eyes If goodbyes cry, have them sing out with shorebirds Let them sound over waves crashing along coastal cliffs that hold speckled eggs Glaucous-winged gulls Flapping above choppy waters, flight caught in stirring winds and skies Let us cry Wing by wing, rising above currents Let tides tumble along the stretches of shoreline Crushing dark green glass, smoothing discarded Heineken bottles In waves, all things exist somewhere between flotsam and found And goodbyes are just tradition for all that lives at sea Kayla McVeigh Fair Winds and Following Seas Keywords: goodbyes

• No Dinner by Dixon, Saloni (2024) - clogging up rivers, muffling jambalaya rhythms riding sweet bass strings, and I hear centuries carcasses of the dancing drums. your belly ready to sail icy seas like a torn page from a book. Keywords: eat

• The Cradle by Adie, Selma (2024) - Sometimes I would ask for color In the only way I knew how I would scream, and the world Would only scream back When I grew older, they gave me Two colors, as a reward I got blue, for being good And green, for staying quiet I got hungry, I got tired It gave me colors to shut me up Paints in purple and pink I couldn’t eat the colors Couldn’t sleep on them, either Keywords: colors

• How to Open a Can of Nothing. by Hunsader, Clayton (2024) - Everything exists strictly within observation, but that begs the question What’s observing it? Clayton Hunsader How to Open a Can of Nothing. The only guarantee for life is Death. Keywords: light

• Sign Crushes Motorist by Miller, Jared (2024) - 152 I had a dream about you the night before my birthday we were in my bed our legs were where our heads should’ve been I was on top of you your shirt was off I held you like a vice around your chest so tight I feared cracking your ribs we weren’t having sex that was never the intention we were talking whispering giggling I gave you kisses on your naked shoulder you were not something won or conquered you were camaraderie personified a person who I both saw myself in and admired with my whole being our hearts beat against one another each desperately hoping to break out of their respective cages to become a singular atom at once it was like what being in love is like it felt like being home it was over quick even for a dream, it was a quick and blurry flash still the brief vignette stuck in my head I told you about it the next morning the morning of my birthday I can’t remember what you said Jared Miller Sign Crushes Motorist Keywords: birthday

• Oración by Stone, Mario (2024) - aún quedan conmigo cada recuerdo mil tesoros mil latidos implacables- en mi cofre suma una cosecha de flores, cada flor compartida es tuya – las bañe con gotas de sol el recuerdo de tus ojos tu sonrisa, tu linda amor Mario Stone Oración 154 Por favor, que cada lagrima sea una petición a Tu bendito querer, que cada vez que digo su nombre sea un pedido de mi alma – Flor del cielo, mátame anhelo morir por resucitar recordando el primer beso tan natural de cada amanecer- En convulsiones estoy, las lagrimas quemando, sudando espinas en mis mejillas- sobre mi rostro un asfixio divino. Keywords: cada

• Gives life by McVeigh, Kayla (2024) - He is a blinding flash of light “And if I made you bleed?” he taunts Ribbons of blood coil around him I pull him closer to the surface His light crackles Static sparks sting my hands My hair fades My eyes cloud over My joints and bones resist me The line snaps The fish says: “Would sleep be so bad after a time of unrest?” Kayla McVeigh Gives life 155 Glimmering scales of lapis lazuli Keywords: ice

• Kiln Kind of Love by Kluger, Alexandra (2024) - Alexandra Kluger Kiln Kind of Love 156 Perhaps he saw me as dry clay. Keywords: kiln

• back when the world was within walking distance, by Barakat, Ruthie (2024) - with tiny fists unafraid to meet rusted wire fence. must have gone through thousands of boxes of blueberry toaster strudel. dirt angels formed beside a baseball dugout, splayed arms and legs moved in unison, blue skies above the neighborhood. Keywords: chlorine

• 꿀 생강 (Honey Ginger) by Miller, Ginger (2025) - 8 13” x 16” Intaglio Print with Chine Collé Ginger Miller 꿀 생강 (Honey Ginger) Keywords: ginger

• In the Haze by Darden, Leah (2025) - ” Digital Photography Leah Darden In the Haze 11 24” x 36 Keywords: haze

• Dilapidated Mountaineer’s Cabinet by Snelwar, Valerie (2025) - 16 18” x 24” Ballpoint Pen Valerie Snelwar Dilapidated Mountaineer’s Cabinet Keywords: cabinet

• Pictures of Lily by Smith, Robert (2025) - 34 30” x 40” Mixed Media on Canvas Robert Smith Pictures of Lily Keywords: lily

• Threads of Peace by Guzman, Dayanara (2025) - Biting into caramel drizzled apples, peace rushes to my cheeks. Placing its fingers on ivory keys, peace plays Chopin’s Nocturnes. Keywords: peace

• Art is Having Fun by Cunningham, Monica (2025) - 38 12” x 24” Oil Paint Monica Cunningham Art is Having Fun Keywords: fun

• Body Art by Kile, Kim (2025) - Dots of chicken pox scars mark my cheek and jaw. A canvas of scar tissue, created over time and catching the fade. Keywords: line

• The Human Heart Hasn’t Changed by Tipton, Emile (2025) - 42 22” x 30” Copper Plate Triptychs Etching Printed on Paper Emile Tipton The Human Heart Hasn’t Changed Keywords: tipton

• Teenagers by Terhorst, Elizabeth (2025) - I’m left with bleeding nubs, broken gums and eyebags your favorite color. I think we forgot that teen girls don’t get along especially when you force a wolf into Bo Peep’s clothing. Keywords: teenager

• Marina by Smith, Robert (2025) - 58 16” x 20” Graphite Pencil Robert Smith Marina Keywords: marina

• Pretty Ladies Shouldn’t Cry by Bertram, Ashley Noelle (2025) - I guess I’m not a pretty lady because tears pour heavy in the darkness, where no one can see to say such stupid things to me; where I swear to the gods and the seas that I’m over their shit, but I still love everything they have blessed me with just to spite them. You think such delicate works of art shouldn’t depict the realities of humanity— that all things in this life don’t, in fact, suffer beautifully? Keywords: piece

• In the Gales I See My Fate by Nigh, Mack (2025) - I will not try to predict which ones will be happy to find stability, and which ones will be so used to the wind that, the second they land on safe ground, they will panic and shriek and plead to not be left there. And I love you, earth beneath me, the being I did not know I needed. Keywords: ground; wind

• This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Your Land by Allee, Evan (2025) - Advocate for the muzzled congregates, degenerates, Miscreants; the poor, confused, brainwashed kids. Maybe they Won’t have to, but maybe that’s wishful thinking. Keywords: land

• Southern Sweet by Hembree, Eris (2025) - Ever present on my back Seen as the heat of the Southern God’s gaze My skin burns a sinner’s red A carcinogenic weight of judgment Spreads beneath my peeling shell It’s corruption has long since set in Mold creeps across the pitcher’s surface 125125 A pitcher of black tea Bitter but refreshing Six spoons of sugar Tastes so saccharine I drank so deeply Of that Southern sweet tea Keywords: southern

• What the Bourbon Does to Him by Fee, Dex (2025) - One day, he took a swig every time he passed the bourbon, running laps around the kitchen island for an excuse to circle back. Dex Fee What the Bourbon Does to Him Keywords: bourbon

• Anomaly by Taylor, Kira (2025) - 127 Kira Taylor 12” x 18” Hardground Etching Anomaly Keywords: anomaly

• Marian by Saorrono, Elena (2025) - The day you appear before my clouded gaze Marian, please hear me cry for you Marian, demand the seas to be merciful, Marian Eins, zwei, drei, vier, I count how I call you, Marian The waters jolt and tug this ship I tumble and topple, waiting for you Above the raging seas, you softly drift I am fearful, for my end is not yet due Not without you, Marian, cease these waters Thalassa has gripped me, now oblivion below here My final breath before plunging into the ocean Zieh mich aus dem Meer Du bist mein Schutzengel, so schön Ich liebe dich, Marian Marian, the sea extinguishes my essence, Marian Eins, zwei, drei, vier, I count how I call you, Marian You deny the depths of my soul My altar, my saint, my grace from the waves In the sea of pouring rain Beneath the sheet of clouds I reach for you, pray with no shame Your absence plummets me further down Please sense my desperation, Marian To the heavens, I wish to the stars To the seas, I curse to the waves I crave the day you stand near and not afar Keywords: marian

• Nightly Comparison by Park, Isabella (2025) - Covertly stuck between zipper clasps and tight french braids. 139139 He is lost on lightless new moon nights. Keywords: wish

• Ribcage by Hembree, Eris (2025) - To love is to be consumed To be loved is to consume We are an ouroboros loving flesh consuming loving flesh Breaking free from that cage That sits in our chest Eris Hembree Ribcage 140140 My heart sits in a cage of flesh and bone It sits enshrined in the center of my chest Trapped within is both love and pain equally sown All I am is hidden under my dress To find me is a brutal affair A cruel act of carnage borne of care Keywords: flesh

• Pride and Joy by Smith, Robert (2025) - 141 24” x 24” Oil on Panel Robert Smith Pride and Joy Keywords: joy

• Heart of Ohio by McCollum, Corlan (2025) - Welcome, travelers from distant lands, to the bleeding Heart of Ohio! 147147 Welcome, one and all, to the Heart of Ohio! Keywords: ohio

• Chair 01 by Chimenti, Joe (2025) - 148 149 Traditional Wood Joinery Cherry Wood with Danish Oil Finish Joe Chimenti Chair 01 Keywords: wood

• Fatal Development by Terhorst, Elizabeth (2025) - Candy apple cheeks. Plucked chicken thighs. Keywords: days

• Behind the Gate by Stewart, Anthony (2025) - 182 16” x 20” Graphite Pencil Anthony Stewart Behind the Gate Keywords: gate

• Duality by Garris, Hayden (2025) - One half my agent of despair and my other whose role is repair. 183183 Hayden Garris I am two voices alone in the night, a crescendo of whispers with a double entwined. Keywords: garris

• Muñeca by Guzman, Dayanara (2025) - Pristine princess with a porcelain face dressed head to toe in rose and gold. Dayanara Guzman Muñeca Keywords: place

• Annie by Smith, Robert (2025) - 185 18” x 24” Graphite Pencil Robert Smith Annie Keywords: annie

• The Midnight Flight by Dash, Shyama Prasad (2025) - The way he handed me item after item to pack into the suitcases, how he folded my clothes with the care of someone piecing together something already falling apart, his silence at dinner, the unspoken things weighed heavier than words. Before I left, Baba had been standing by the door, one hand tightly gripping onto the frame as if holding himself up, the other dangling loosely by his side. Keywords: baba; leaving

• DUEL AT DAWN by Kamisetti, Eswar Prabhath (2025) - 188 Photograph Eswar Prabhath Kamisetti DUEL AT DAWN Keywords: dawn

• Gold Cross Chain by Guzman, Dayanara (2025) - Dayanara Guzman Gold Cross Chain Does it remind you of mine after a hit or two? Keywords: mind

• Weightless by Sturgeon, Sophia (2025) - 191 24” x 36” Acrylic on Stretched Canvas Sophia Sturgeon Weightless Keywords: weightless

• The Vapor by Weber, Maura (2025) - We are vapor, gasps of hot air and choked curses. Maura Weber The Vapor Keywords: slip

• Koi by Hollcraft, Sarah (2025) - 201 4” x 9” Digital Photography Sarah Hollcraft Koi Keywords: koi

• Herron Hallway by LaMar, Paige (2025) - 215 18” x 24” Pencil Paige LaMar Herron Hallway Keywords: hallway

• Scum by Garris, Hayden (2025) - It’s fast food. Fast food isn’t for the weak. Keywords: sandwiches; scum

• Man with Turquoise Necklace by Byrd, Daylen (2025) - x 16.5” x 1.5” Mixed Media Daylen Byrd Man with Turquoise Necklace 220 20” Keywords: necklace

• The Computed Image of Us by Park, Isabella (2025) - Have you found a tank to take over–are you shooting big missiles into empty fields of overgrown grass? Do you miss touching soft skin? Keywords: priest

Epilogue

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Created: 2025-12-25