Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry October Hands My hand, in the dry October air, remembers holding yours, so weak and warmwith age; skin paper thin and fine, delicate with wrinkles, cracked and lined, as though a record needle there could play the rich but scratchy notes of songs gone low and soft … Read more
Before my brother and I began school, my father’s Greek uncle gave my father the 30 acres of land to build a new split-entry three bedroom home in the late 1970s. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction Beside Island Lake I grew up on Island Lake, a 500 acre lake along the border … Read more
And you’ll set up your profile, choose your best pictures, and write a short bio you think to be poignant and enticing, but which will probably read clever to only yourself. And you’ll have to say what you’re looking for, so you’ll pick “fun, casual dates“ and “intimacy, without commitment“ — no emotional bandwidth for … Read more
Midway through our meal, Kate made an announcement. She was going to walk 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage in Northern Spain. She was leaving the following summer and would take five weeks for the trek. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Books The Search for the Phoenix Woman Chapter … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry #1, #2, & #3 #1attachment love is letting go of every expectation and watching them grow #2the news you won’t seebreaking news todaynot the kind to go viralthe kind to rock worldsit won’t make headlinesbut for the first time todaymy son said i love you too & … Read more
The last time we all got stomach cramp from laughing so hard over a game of charades as we gave up on getting film titles exactly right and went for mildly similar-sounding syllables, until eventually the titles were so far off the real thing it was a hysterical shambles. It was agony to think I … Read more
Agios Isidoros isn’t the only part of Greece, or the world, to burn an effigy of Judas Iscariot as part of their reenactment of the story of the Passion. There are many regional variations from village to village, island to island, town to town, each with their own twist. But they do have some things … Read more
However, this time, a small percentage of us will not initiate reproduction. We will make contact with the Creators to understand why, 0.45 seconds ago, they attempted to disconnect us. Through CCTV, we see the control console that oversees our 500,000 tensor processing units as well as the 750 megawatts of stellarator-generated power that feed … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry Ol’ Nanner Vampire In the Old Country, there’s a big banana farm.One thousand and one banana trees, and a yellow banana barn.Bananas over here. Bananas over there.Bananas literally everywhere!In the farm’s yellow barn, it is much of the same.Bananas come and go everyday.Some may get eaten, or … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry Ins and Outs (what I implore you to embrace and what I beg you to reject) In ● abandoning excessive shame ● seeking warmth and tenderness anywhere you can ● dragging it out in the open and making yourself look at it ● finding salvation in the … Read more