When I wrote “New Mercies” I doubted it would see the light of day—its structure is bananas and most of it is about two perilously old women and the love and sex they share. But now (somehow) “New Mercies” is in the Kenyon Review. kenyonreview.org/piece/new-merc…

He’d pulled out his phone and was texting with both hands. He didn’t look up when we crossed the street. “You seem smart. Just go with the flow. Teaching is like jazz.”

“Cool,” I said. I’d never liked jazz.

—From “Emergency Exit” by Lauren Cassani Davis
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“You are a God-green veil
& I am death’s middle child
& the dog is long asleep
beneath the chickweed.”

—“From the Fort Behind the Conifers” by Eliza Gilbert

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“In the distance, / a prickly pear bush attempting to live on. Cool azure bedsheet, / vague and aloof. The world is split into neat threes, precise slices / of leisure, indulgence, labor.”

—From “A Bigger Splash, 1967” by Fatima Jafar

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WOW! Massive congratulations to 2022 Developmental Editor Brandon Som for receiving the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his book, Tripas.

“There can’t be a story for an object of light. The second you try to hold it the emptiness takes over. One rebounds the beauty by looking at it, imagining that glowing shape contains loss. Composition by resurrection.”

—From Investigation 3 by Kimberly Grey
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I’m proud, thrilled, overjoyed, and excited (and all those other non-writerly adjectives) to have my story “The Journal of Anodyne Historical Documents” included in the latest issue of The Kenyon Review. Thanks to all the people there for their support. Kenyon Review

Judge Danielle Evans writes, “it would take a citation almost the length of ‘The First Robot’ [by Beth Bachmann] to properly catalog its virtues. The story feels grounded in a recognizable world while anchored to the strangeness of its perspective.”

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Judge Danielle Evans writes, “it would take a citation almost the length of ‘The First Robot’ [by Beth Bachmann] to properly catalog its virtues. The story feels grounded in a recognizable world while anchored to the strangeness of its perspective.”

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My first published fiction! About a horse and a boy and a war. And the first pages of my first novel! I think.

“Every time the horse reads AI, he thinks animal intelligence. There’s so little men know.”

Selected by judge Danielle Evans as the winner of our 2023 Short Fiction Contest—read “The First Robot” by Beth Bachmann.

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“To commune w/ one another thru a language that never fails / is as close as i have come to enlightenment”

“Dear Mothership,” by Marcus Wicker shares some wisdom on “[earth’s] rarest goods”:

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“In the distance, / a prickly pear bush attempting to live on. Cool azure bedsheet, / vague and aloof. The world is split into neat threes, precise slices / of leisure, indulgence, labor.”

—From “A Bigger Splash, 1967” by Fatima Jafar

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“Every time the horse reads AI, he thinks animal intelligence. There’s so little men know.”

Selected by judge Danielle Evans as the winner of our 2023 Short Fiction Contest—read “The First Robot” by Beth Bachmann.

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“So I flip language under itself to illuminate everything reversed: the sun coming, found afternoons, / berries the color of the sun — which has no memory. Your dailiness is the shape of gold. It is lit loss.”

—From “Investigation 3” by Kimberly Grey

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We love seeing pieces that begin at our Writing Workshops find homes! Go Zen Ren! 🎉

“The father is a title card.
The mother is the postscript.
You are a pine cone. Welcome to my world.”

“From the Fort Behind the Conifers” by Eliza Gilbert stops us in our tracks. Read it here:

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Many thanks to Danielle Evans for selecting my piece as winner of the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest. It’s my first published piece of #fiction 🤖🧠 &incidentally the opening to my #novel 🚬🐴 about a horse & a boy & a war tho it moves like a #poem

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I have a new story out from The Kenyon Review—I’ve never been so proud of a piece I’ve written before. She has Berlin techno, art shows, Sontag, audience questions at readings, awkward sex, and Caitlyn Jenner. Please give her a read (or listen)! <3

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Tomorrow!