I have a new essay out in the beautiful journal Phoebe. This piece, “Ordering in Four Movements,” is nonfiction, but neither poetry nor prose–or rather it’s both poetry and prose. You could call it lyrical experimental flash nonfiction. It’s about my father’s death, my oldest cat Mac’s death, and the mama hummingbird raising her babies–all events that occurred in 2015 and that I’ve written about on this blog.
It’s not available online, but if you’re inclined you can purchase a copy of the issue HERE.
A big thanks to Phoebe‘s nonfiction editor, Eric Botts.
I’ll update you on my travels with Mom on Thursday! Make your week the best it can possibly be.
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Issue 45.1, Winter 2015
Winter 2015
Table of Contents
Special Feature: Honoring Alan Cheuse
- Nicole Idar & Elizabeth Gutting, “Alan Stories”
- Michael Cowgill, “Major Key”
- Priyanka A. Champaneri, “Lessons from AC to PC”
- Nicholas Delbanco, “A Chapter in a Long Tale”
- And back from our winter ’88 issue, Alan Cheuse’s “Bio”
Fiction
- Jenny Xie, “The Spa”
- Christian Winn, “The Landline”
Nonfiction
- Jason Arment, “Fear City”
- Luanne Castle, “Ordering in Four Movements”
- Gail Griffin, “Gloria”
Poetry
- Drew Attana, “Parallel Parking”
- Brian Ma, “Mirage Roche”
- Ellen Noonan, “Ditto”, “Certainty”
- Heather Bartlett, “A Mockingbird Sings”
- Katie Willingham, “Let’s Hope Kepler-186f Is Baren”, “Honey Locust”
- Monika Cassel, “Feeding Cake to the Storks”
- Felicia Zamora, “No Fisher”
- Shareen K. Murayama, “Exploded as in Fairy Tale”
- Amy Jo Trier-Walker, “Prowl the Marriage Away”
- Phoebe Reeves, “ˈƐƏˌtaɪt (airtight)”
- Vanesha Pravin, “Dialectic Through a Stained Glass Window”
- Champa Vaid, “Neither Sleep nor Death”, “Tree of Memories”
Editorial Staff
- Fiction Editor: Lina Patton
- Poetry Editor: Qinglan “Q” Wang
- Nonfiction Editor: Eric Botts
- Assistant Fiction Editor: Sarah Bates
- Assistant Poetry Editor: Douglas Luman
- Assitant Nonfiction Editor: Kerry Folan
- Faculty Advisor: Eric Pankey
Readers
Betsy Allen, Sarah Batcheller, Kristen Brida, Edward Capobianco, Andrew Cartwright, Christina Crockett, Sarah Davis, Kyle Freelander, Kelly Hanson, Michael Hantman, Frank Harder, Darcy Gagnon, Ariel Goldenthal, Kelsey Goudie, John Guthrie, Stephanie Klien, Joey Kuhn, Madison Lennon, Isaac Lewandowski, Lisa Macedo, Janice Majewski, Yousra Medhkour, Katie Ray, Katie Richards, Rebekah Satterwhite, Cloud Spurlock, Melanie Tague, Alex Walsh, Madeleine Wattenberg, Sarah Wheeler, Lily Wright
Special Thanks To
Leslie Steiger, David S. Carroll, Kathryn Mangus and the George Mason University Office of Student Media, Eric Pankey and the George Mason University Creative Writing Program.