Spring 2023 Poetry Aly Allen Jaw Sharp [ˈmaskyələn] Robin Arble Roots Christopher Bakka Anamnesis The Messenger Velleity Spencer K.M. Brown Apples First Snow Danny Cassidy Dandelion Grant Chemidlin The News that Fell like Heavy Rain Rose DeMaris Bluing A Tooth of Mary Magdalene Sean Enfield Ain’t No Which is Why I’m Telling You About It … Read more
Fall 2022 Poetry Sarah Bokich Beginnings Blackbird Michael Emery Budd Hymn John Davis In Chills My Child Chokes On Her Cough Amy L. Fair Peach Tree Georgina Marie Guardado Say, Truth Underwater, I Breathe PMF Johnson Catechism Concrete Peycho Kanev Uncertainty Janet R. Kirchheimer Landscapes with Lamb and Wolf Talk in Cabs on the Way … Read more
Spring 2022 Poetry Amanda Auchter Moonflower Moth in the Manger Ansie Baird Here You are Now Joan E. Bauer For Mario Giacomelli Kieran Binney Amphibian Inheritances Joanne M. Clarkson The Abandoned Well Joan Colby Our Horoscope on the Day you Died The Start of Our Story Kathryn de Leon My Father’s Bass Deborah Doolittle A … Read more
Fall 2021 Poetry Eneida Alcade SQ 24, Singapore to JFK Bonnie Billet A Giant Frog Squats Over the Lily Pad of Brooklyn Dear Husband These are Nights I Imagine Grant Clauser Plans We Made Emily Dexter A Horizon E. Laura Golberg Labels Ellen Goldsmith Waiting Casey Killingsworth 3:38 a.m. Robert Kramer An Old Insect Photograph … Read more
Spring 2021 Poetry Gale Acuff I Want to Go to Hell When I Die Nobody Dies They Say at Sunday School Beth Boylan Grant Road Sins Vacation R. Bratten Weiss Georgic The Horses Know Sandy Coomer The Kitchen Sink Specificities David Breeden Cheap Socks April Christiansen Eucalyptus Inevitably Joshua Kulseth Library John Leonard Nodus Tollens … Read more
Fall 2020 Poetry C.L. Bledsoe Having A Baby to Save A Marriage A Sigh Made of Misspent Choices Ronda Broatch Days I Look for Solutions in Clouds Dear Sister, Since the Fire I Confess I’m Still Afraid of Windows Caroline Cottom 8 Bells Lorraine Jeffery Ocean Sepia Justin Lacour Pleasant Street Tom Tuttle from Tacoma … Read more
Spring 2020 Poetry Kimberly Becker Bed of Transformation Beer Room Bed Beside the Bed The Flying Bed Snow Bed Kate Castellana Imagism To My Future Selves, From My Future Selves Vasquez Rocks Photoshoot With My Ex Teresa Gillespie Escape Hatch Geraldine at Age Ninety-Six What I Always Say Wish You Were Here Juliette Givhan Spring … Read more
Fall 2019 Poetry Laura Bonazzoli Collage With Lies Dream of You in Which I Am on a Train Susana Case The-Dead-And-Gone-Thing Douglas Cole An Inside Job East Sounder William Derge Cormorant’s Ring* Dead Honker On The Rail Helen Doremus Change of Address An Interior Monologue Pen Pal Playing Nice Alice Fogel if or how stranded … Read more
Spring 2019 Poetry Lauren Camp Talking to Himself Waiting for the Bus 1,731 Miles from Home Lauren Claus Hiding Eren Harris Bright Lights, Big Shitty Flowers from My Mother Iain Macdonald Universal Blues James Moran Long Distance October Side Effects Carla Panciera On Days Like This When We Come Without Our Daughters and Still Leave … Read more
Fall 2018 Poetry Maryam Barrie Pulling Him to Me Jeff Ewing Erato, Lorelei, & Co. Magellan Sailed on a Saturday Morning Manda Frederick Michigan, July Susan Johnson Headlights On For Safety Ready or Not Tangled Night Cameron Morse Sand Vaccines Ann Pibel Oscuridad Stigmata Donna Pucciani Folding Reverie J. Tarwood Great Pan is Dead … Read more
Spring 2018 Poetry Aileen Bassis Man’s Body Questions for America Toni LaRee Bennett Men’s Faces, Twisted by Orgasm Candace Black Comanche County, Oklahoma In the Death Dream The Truth Joan Colby Twisted Gut KG Newman More Good News Our Children’s Viewing Room Matthew Schmeer What You’ve Heard is True Sharon Scholl Pianist Theresa Malthus Welford … Read more
Winter 2017 Poetry Brian Beatty Bread of Life Happiness is Where You Find It Long Distance Weather Man Amy Bilodeau Date Night Forecast To Make Dark Stamens Dance Michael Brownstein After the Moon Fills Itself with Milk Brown Shoes Friday Morning Stephen Cavitt Curing Pneumonia Where Oxygen Comes to Rest Jonathan Cooper Ravine Derek Thomas … Read more
Spring 2017 Creative NonfictionMadagascar by James CagneyCan I Keep You? by Melissa GrunowAh-DAH! A Literary Education by J. A. HijiyaBloody Mary by C. Cimmone FictionHot Dad by David E.J. Berger PoetrySelfie with a U-Haul by Lisa SummeComing Out by Lisa SummeTheoretical You by Lisa SummeScottsdale, Arizona is a metaphor for death and apathy mixed with memory … Read more
Two Hawks Quarterly Editors, Spring 2017 Pictured (left to right) From left to right Deborah Lott, Amy Ballard, Sandra Villafan, Zoe Marzo, Nick Wenzel, and Casey Ash Two Hawks Quarterly Editors, Fall 2016 Pictured (left to right) From left to right Mario Gutierrez, Samantha Parker, Ashley Okonma, Will Stegemann, Deborah Lott, Nick Wenzel, Zoe Marzo, Amy Ballard, … Read more
You come to me in a dream, with a U-Haul , and so does that waiter from the gyro place on McMillan, but in the dream the guy is your brother and translator, and the only way I can talk to you is to talk to him first, tell him everything I want to say … Read more
I drive an hour to your apartment, having only met you twice, wondering what a girl like you, 25, a Master’s degree, wants to do with me. I’m 20, been out of my parents’ house a month, out of the closet a week, and I go to college but don’t know why. I shook your … Read more
Back before you existed to me, before I kissed you up against a wall in winter, and our knees touched for the first time, before we took off our socks— most intimate of intimate— you existed to me in theory, in childhood games where I was the prince and you needed rescue, in my journals—drawings … Read more
I never felt as lonely as the night I was standing in the Paramount lobby an hour before Morrissey. I wasn’t the only black person in the theater but I was certainly the only person to come alone. As even Morrissey himself later told us mid-set, “You came all this way, in the rain, just … Read more
the femmes are getting violent (or maybe they always have been) when you realize that you’ve fallen asleep at the wheel and awoken in a warzone flanked by three Silverados and a beige-gray, post-monsoon, steel-blue bumper, which reminds you of the blue of a police car’s strobe or the eyes of a model on the cover … Read more
(a Kerouac-ian remix) We climbed to the top of a mountain. I carried a lantern and a jazz singer as a guide. I felt the calamity of dust, heard the atomic pulse of the womb. You had that lousy feeling of not being high so we poisoned the pear tree and watched it die like … Read more
An owl in the shape of Ben Franklin. A red-tailed fox with its head in the snow. We careen into the median as though it’s an attack against disruptions, the hoarse croak and shrill whistle of a continental drift, the lemming pierced with a talon, struck in the fatty tissues of a globally ironic … Read more
The man on the beach is another of us creatures of sleep Fed on sleep made of sleep humming half-hostile lullabies on the shores of sleep Traveling only from one night’s sleep to the next forever burying himself in sleep Perhaps intermittently enthralled by the release and realization of some dream of wakefulness But when … Read more
Like a waitress the angel waits until your mouth is full to ask what you think of the Glory Colin Dodds grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education in New York City. He is the author of several novels, including Watershed and The Last Bad Job, which the late Norman Mailer touted as … Read more
“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche He had been speaking for ten minutes about a girl named Maureen, whom he also referred to as Mo, also referred to as “my girlfriend.” She was a residence life director in Indiana, he said, and he continued on … Read more
The Devil licks its fingers clean from the breaking of hearts. Fingers wiped on the walls of a karaoke bar. The bar top is wet, but not from what you think. She looked me up and down. Her hair was black like a nest of shadows, all tangled together. She picked up my beer by … Read more
