New World Writing Quarterly

  • Submissions
  • Back Issues
  • Archive 2010-Present
  • Archive 1995–2010
  • About
published in06/11/2021

4 Back Blows

Share this:

  • Share
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Pinterest
wrote byEditors
category in. . .

Post navigation

Lucinda Kempe ~ Imperative You Should Know
Cal Freeman ~ Poems

Recent Articles

  • NWWQ — OCTOBER 2024
  • George Singleton. ~ Gerald’s Last Girlfriend
  • Steve Deutsch ~ Poker
  • Michael Salcman ~ Poems
  • Ora Alcorn ~ Poem Without Anesthesia
  • Andrew McLellan ~ Poems
  • Gary Fincke ~ The Wrath of God
  • Martha Highers ~ Two Poems
  • Bryan D. Price ~ Five fragments from Dystopian Summer
  • Michael Lauchlan ~ Five Poems
  • Pavle Radonić ~ Solo
  • David Gilbert ~ The Singed Hair of the Commentariat 
  • Lynn Mundell ~ Beautiful Things
  • Michael Credico ~ Bulk
  • Soramimi Hanarejima ~ The Validation of Social Bathing
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Two Stories
  • Francine Witte ~ Niblets
  • SE Wilson ~ Hot Air
  • Steve Gergley ~ Two Stories
  • NWWQ ~ JULY 2024
  • Gerald Majer ~ Vibranial Talons
  • Peter Krumbach ~ Ten Shorts
  • Claire W. Zhang ~ On Next Train to Sinuiju I Dreamed of You
  • Jessica Lackaff ~ Camp B70, New Brunswick—1945
  • Laurence Klavan ~ The Food Court
  • Nora Wagner ~ A Sky Full of Clouds
  • Aaron Rabinowitz ~ Five Pieces
  • Katiy Heath ~ Cinema Kids
  • Alice Lowe ~ Arcadia
  • Iris Milton ~ Cartotecnica e varie
  • Leo Vartorella ~ Five Stories
  • Steve Gergley ~ Three Stories
  • Julie Benesh ~ Four Poems
  • Meg Pokrass ~ Two Stories
  • Andrew Plattner ~ Sweet Potato
  • Genevieve Abravanel ~ a city block
  • Pavle Radonić ~ On the Street (Linda)
  • John Holman ~ The King’s Pigs
  • Julian George ~ Girl smoking out the window
  • NEW WORLD WRITING QUARTERLY ~ APRIL 2024
  • Terese Svoboda ~ Accordion
  • Jessy Easton ~ We Didn’t Always Live in the Mojave
  • Joshua Hebburn ~ A Mental Exercise
  • Addison Zeller ~ Garden of the Gods
  • Mark Budman ~ In Memoriam
  • Edward Miller ~ Throwback 70s
  • Robert Scotellaro ~ Carnivorous Roads
  • Ruth A. Rouff ~ Eleanore Dumont (aka Madame Moustache)
  • Bethany Pope ~ Three Poems
  • Francine Witte ~ Plate Spinner
  • Pamela Painter ~ When Flashers Meet
  • Angela Townsend ~The Veteran
  • Sean Lovelace ~ Birds of the Americas: The American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
  • Julie Benesh ~ Trois Rochambeaux
  • Julie Fisher ~ Hogweed and Other Poems
  • Wendy Elizabeth Wallace ~ Round Trip
  • Andrew Siegrist ~ Tracks
  • Mary Grimm ~ When He Died
  • Bryan D. Price ~ The Conquest of New Spain
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Three Pieces
  • Steve Gergley ~ Two Stories
  • NEW WORLD WRITING QUARTERLY ~ JANUARY 2024
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Two Short Stories
  • Mikki Aronoff ~ The Sniffer of Spices
  • Yuna Kang ~Seventh Story
  • Carol Alexander ~ Poems
  • Kathryn Silver-Hajo ~ Blue Silk
  • Kevin Spaide ~ Ezra
  • Julie Benesh ~ Unsuitable Things 2024 (after Sei Shonagon)
  • Peter Ramos ~ No One Here Gets Out Alive
  • Julian George ~ The Servant
  • Elizabeth Kerlikowske ~ Six Wild Man Poems
  • Susan E Lloy ~ Time Out 
  • Oli Peters ~ Pony Girl
  • Matthew Roberson ~ Kept
  • Mary Ann McGuigan ~ The Party Favor
  • Dave Newman ~ The Last Thing That Happened Before I Became a Med Tech
  • Parker Tettleton ~ Five By
  • Kelle Groom ~Hurricane World
  • Mona Kirschner ~ I Clean the House
  • Sean Ennis ~ Five Notes
  • NEW WORLD WRITING QUARTERLY ~ OCTOBER 2023
  • Ann Pedone ~ From: The Monogamist
  • Julie Benesh ~ Zuihitsu
  • Francine Witte ~ You Will Come Back to Me
  • Sandra Kolankiewicz ~ Five Poems
  • Roy Gu ~ Three Poems
  • Julian George ~ Secretariat Rides into History, Belmont Park, 9 June, 1973
  • Mel Bosworth ~ Calling Hours
  • Elodie A. Roy ~ Petra’s Date
  • Pavle Radonic — The Malay Archipelago in Short
  • John Grey ~ Four Poems
  • Anna Mantzaris ~ The Detective
  • Julie Benesh ~ Say
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Three Shorts
  • Jianqing Zheng ~ Five Poems
  • Andy Plattner ~ Two Stories
  • Steve Gergley ~ Mannequin
  • Laurie Blauner ~ Five Poems
  • William Doreski ~ Three Poems
  • Wilson Koewing ~ In A Flash
  • Wally Swist ~ Six Poems
  • Nicola de Vera ~ Outlaw
  • NWWQ ~ JULY 2023
  • Jeff Chon ~ Recess
  • Gordon Kippola ~ Five Poems
  • John Holman ~ Flocked
  • Wally Swist ~ Blue Evening & Five Other Poems
  • Julie Benesh ~ Neologistics
  • Margo Rife ~ The Other Killer
  • Pam Avoledo ~ The Missing Violins
  • Jim Ross ~ The Monastery
  • Pavle Radonic ~ These I Commend To Thee
  • Tom Williams ~ Third Verse, Different from the First
  • Kathleen Hellen ~ 3 Poems
  • Phebe Jewell ~ By Any Other Name
  • Daniel David Froid ~ Vermin
  • David P. Kozinski ~ Four Poems
  • Tiffany Troy ~ Poems
  • James Kangas ~ 3 Pieces
  • Michael Mark ~ Poems
  • Vincent Barry ~ That “Nimrod”
  • Myna Chang ~ Daily Special
  • Kim Magowan ~ The Physics of Motion
  • Kurt Olsson ~ Five Poems
  • Steve Chang ~The Plague Book of Prayers
  • Josh Russell ~ Four Essays
  • Craig Kirchner ~ Four Poems
  • NWWQ ~ APRIL 2023
  • M. Bela Sas ~ The Verb of Living Things
  • Kip Knott ~ Family Reunion
  • Kathleen Flenniken ~ Five Poems
  • James Kangas ~ Four Stories
  • Anna Mantzaris ~ Application To Be the Brightest Star In the Universe
  • Rick Rohdenburg ~ Six Poems
  • Ann Weil ~ Five Poems
  • David Gilbert ~ The Rapture on Five Dollars a Day
  • Kathleen McGookey ~ In My Hometown Library
  • Marc Tweed ~ When Someone You Love Leaves Very Early in the Morning
  • Jeffrey Thompson ~ Five Poems
  • Bryan D. Price ~ The History of Sound
  • Michael Lauchlan ~ A Story’s Truth
  • Roberta Allen ~ What is (not) made up
  • Young Rader ~ Those Uncertain Days
  • Peter Leight — Poems
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Two Stories
  • Tiffany Troy ~ A Conversation with Xu Xi
  • Nadia Kalman ~ The Optical Illusions Eye Shop
  • Gerri Brightwell ~ A Vaster World
  • Andrew Cusick ~ Star Wars and Subway Surfers
  • Michael Howard ~ Paint a Pretty Picture
  • Julie Benesh ~ How to be it
  • Myles Zavelo ~ Broken, Clown, Smell
  • Richie Zaborowske ~ In the Offing
  • Julian George ~ Everyone Loves Heroin
  • Rachel Becker ~ Four Poems
  • Steve Gergley ~ House Sitting
  • Greg Sanders ~ Le Flâneur
  • NWWQ ~ JANUARY 2023
  • Kathleen Ma ~ Four Poems
  • J. G. Steen ~ Triptych
  • Candace Hartsuyker ~ 3 Linked Flashes
  • Michelle Reale ~ Two Pieces
  • Gary Fincke ~ Tractors
  • J. Alan Nelson ~ Hat on a peg
  • Sophie Panzer ~ Estate Planning
  • Dan Shiffman ~ Marginal Comments from My English Teacher During Covid
  • R. B. Miner ~ Soldiers Don’t Need Therapy
  • Amy Stuber ~ The Garden of Eden
  • Bart Edelman ~ Five Poems
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Crisis Central
  • Allan Peterson ~ Five Poems
  • Lydia Gwyn ~ Two Flashes
  • Susan Nordmark ~ Four Short Pieces
  • Eleanor Levine ~ Not Like Your Foot Is Amputated
  • Nicolette Daskalakis ~ there is a house on fire (and other poems)
  • Louise Phillips ~ Museo
  • Steve Gergley ~ Three Flash Fictions
  • Gerard Sarnat ~ Over My Stoned Cold
  • Kyle Seibel ~ Cullen
  • Robert L. Penick ~ Three Poems
  • Marisa Cadena ~ My Guardian Angel
  • Robert Shapard ~ Best Boy
  • Curtis Smith ~ This Heart
  • Kelle Groom ~ Micro-Stories
  • Three Pieces — Glen Pourciau
  • NWWQ — October 2022
  • Claire Hopple ~ Keep it Together
  • Ryan Griffith ~ 24 Hour Elevator
  • Carrie Bartsch ~ Bird Dog
  • Wilson Koewing ~ Seven Shorts
  • Joshua Hebburn ~ Bob
  • Kenton K. Yee ~ Six Poems
  • Maya McOmie ~ Four Poems
  • Julie Esther Fisher ~ Gargoyle
  • Stephen Barile ~Three Poems
  • Jack Buck ~ Temporary self-directed activities
  • Mike Andrelczyk ~ The Laundry Room
  • Brian Builta ~ Five Poems
  • Michael Grant Smith ~ Space Junk
  • Julian George ~ This is a pipe
  • Al Ortolani ~ Four Poems
  • Andrew Plattner ~ Schuylkill
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Two Short Pieces
  • NWWQ ~ JULY 2022
  • Abby Frucht ~ Take Six
  • David Moolten ~ Five Poems
  • Sean S. Bentley ~ Three Poems
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Four Short Pieces
  • J. W. Goll ~ Three Pieces
  • Keith J. Powell ~ Head Over Heels
  • Michael Rogner ~ Three Poems
  • Steve Gergley ~ One Man Band
  • Bruce McDougall ~ The Master Painter
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Wife No. 2
  • Donald A. Ranard ~ Two Flash Fictions
  • Julie Benesh ~ As Told To
  • Josh Russell ~ Two Essays from Commonplaces
  • Jianqing Zheng ~ Five Poems
  • Marilyn Abildskov ~ Bodies in Transit
  • Wilson Koewing ~ Six Shorts
  • Julian George ~ Three Poems
  • Sean Ennis ~ A Feature or a Bug
  • Joyce Schmid ~ Poems
  • Kevin Grauke ~ Five Poems
  • Beth Hahn ~ Already Later
  • Karen Regen-Tuero ~On the Corner of August and 19th
  • Elizabeth Collison ~ Lydia’s Address Book
  • Alan Rossi ~ Our Last Year
  • Open for submissions July 1, 2022
  • NWW Quarterly
  • Elina Katrin ~ Spring Grace
  • Anna Mantzaris ~ Night of the Living
  • Sandra Kolankiewicz ~ Three Poems
  • Richard Weems ~ First Day Back
  • Carolyn R. Russell ~ Alphabet City
  • Cheryl Snell ~ Tracking Time
  • E.N. Walztoni ~ Heart of Ohio
  • Sarah Freligh ~ A Brief Natural History of ‘Law and Order’
  • Beaver West ~ Slime Time
  • Francine Witte ~ Just Another Road Trip Story
  • George Singleton ~ I Cannot Escape Diogenes
  • James Kangas ~ Five Poems
  • Meg Pokrass ~ Three Flash Fictions
  • Steve Gergley ~ Golden Eyes
  • Kim Magowan ~ Subject: Regrets
  • Oxide
  • Howie Good ~ Foreboding Music
  • Ali Zarbali ~ Sundays with George
  • Peter Leight ~ Three Poems
  • Daniel J. O’Malley ~ Stones
  • Juliette Enne ~ This Most Daily and Basic of Rituals
  • Steve Gergley ~ New House
  • Roger Camp ~ Three Poems
  • Wilson Koewing ~ Marrow
  • Bruce Robinson ~ Six Poems
  • Erik Kennedy ~ Two Poems
  • Cow Bell
  • Jason Sebastian Russo ~ Gym, Tan, Laundry
  • Ken Massicotte ~ Five Poems
  • Jennifer Shneiderman ~ Trouble
  • Kayla Jean ~ Appliances
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Two Pieces
  • Kathleen McGookey ~ Workshop
  • Alle C. Hall ~ American Mary
  • Charlotte Hamrick ~ Tell Me Why It Was Bad to Execute Myself
  • Ann Pedone ~ In Bed With Susan Sontag
  • David Dodd Lee ~ Fledglings
  • Michael Don ~ Your People
  • Wilson Koewing ~ Big Me
  • Michelle McMillan-Holifield ~ Game of Sharks
  • Steve Gergley ~ Tsunami
  • Automan
  • W.C.Hussey ~ The Mountains
  • Mark Russell ~ Five Prose Poems
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Land of Brothers
  • Erin Murphy ~ Four Poems
  • Marcus Slease ~ Five Prose Poems
  • Sheila Black ~ Four Poems
  • Julie Benesh ~ Two Poems
  • Mose Am Bique
  • Mark Fleckenstein ~ Five Poems
  • Linda McCauley Freeman ~ Three Poems for the New World
  • Douglas Colston ~ Five Pieces
  • Morgan Harlow ~ Poems
  • Charles Rafferty ~ Five Poems
  • Laurie Marshall ~ In Lieu of Flowers
  • Kevin Spaide ~ Disrepair
  • James Penha ~ Five Poems
  • Lorette C. Luzajic ~ A Crown for Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Gary Fincke ~ The Theories for Ball Lightning
  • Ann Hillesland ~ Bears
  • Yasmina Din Madden ~ Night
  • Curtis Smith ~ This Rising
  • Dale Cottingham ~ Meditation in an Office Tower
  • William Doreski ~ Five Poems
  • Mary Grimm ~ 17 Things That Were in the Front Room of the Old House, Some of Which No Longer Exist, and Some Which Remain in Changed Circumstances
  • Sara Dobbie ~ The Art of Learning to Dance
  • Mikki Aronoff ~ Three Micros
  • 15306
  • Lucinda Kempe ~ Two Micro Poems
  • Dmitry Blizniuk ~ Three Poems
  • Uchimura Kaho (内村佳保) ~ Autumn
  • Robert Fromberg ~ In Which I Admire and Gently Probe Mr. Richard Deming’s First Novelization of The Mod Squad
  • Nathanael O’Reilly ~ Five Poems
  • Andrea Lynn Koohi ~ Going Down
  • Steve Passey ~ Three Pieces
  • Francine Witte ~ Spaghettiville
  • Michael Malan ~ Four Microfictions
  • Steve Gergley ~ Two Micro Fictions
  • Anthony Gomez III ~ Greta Garbo Gives Birth to Cats
  • 15051
  • Sarah Freligh ~ Skinny Dip
  • Chelsea Voulgares ~ Lost & Found
  • Sandra Kolankiewicz ~ Three Poems
  • Please Note
  • Philip James Shaw ~ prepositions for elijah
  • M. Athar Tahir ~ A Wrestler’s Quartet
  • Myna Chang ~ Like a Starward Rocket
  • Lisa Berglund ~ Two Cape Cod Poems
  • Kathryn Silver-Hajo ~ Saturdays At The Souk
  • Stuart Ross ~ The Zionists
  • Eliot Li ~ Dignity
  • Pavle Radonic ~ One Piece Dragon
  • Nathaniel Duggan ~ Red Ocean
  • Tim Micek ~ Dream
  • Nicholas Clemente ~ The Way to Philadelphia
  • Nate Lippens ~ The Universe Says No
  • David Salner ~ Four Poems
  • Eldis Sula ~ The Offer Letter
  • Steve Gergley ~ In the Garden of Earthly Delights
  • Kevin Grauke ~ Yellow House Jazz
  • Mileva Anastasiadou ~ Fake Plastic Everything
  • Ruth A. Rouff ~ Anne Boleyn Speaks
  • Sandra Arnold ~ I’ll Get Back to You
  • George Singleton ~ Bobbleheads
  • Mik Grantham ~ At the End of the World
  • Rekha Valliappan ~ Elephant Sutra
  • Oh, Alvar
  • Wait, did I eat my homework?
  • Meg Pokrass ~ Sandtrap
  • John Salter ~ The American’s Tale
  • Dale Cottingham ~ Three Poems
  • Jianqing Zheng ~ 5 Poems
  • Jacqueline Doyle ~ The Blue-Haired Woman on the Polish Freighter
  • Joshua Hebburn ~ The Pervert
  • Mandy
  • Roy Bentley ~ 3 Poems
  • Gary Fincke ~ My Father Says, “How’s that Sound?”
  • Brad Richard ~ Five Poems
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Code Red
  • Kim Magowan ~ The Windiest Neighborhood in San Francisco
  • Cole Phillips ~ Quiet
  • Persuasion
  • Julie Benesh ~ Lite Sitters
  • Yuan Changming ~ Five Poems
  • Susan Grimm ~ Three Poems
  • John Brantingham ~ This Moment between Moments
  • Radhika Kapoor ~ Fleeting
  • The Rabbit
  • Michael Hammerle ~ Six Poems
  • Alice Lowe ~ Armchair Spy
  • Erin Redfern ~ Three Poems
  • Samuel M. Moss ~ Coming, Going
  • Chloe Poizat
  • Greg Sanders ~ A Blintz on Ross 128b
  • Steve Passey ~ Three Prose Poems
  • Collusion
  • Ian C Smith ~ Four Poems
  • Evan James Sheldon ~ Between Old Friends
  • Margo Rife ~ To Name and be Named 
  • Caroljean Gavin ~ The Meat Market
  • High Voltage
  • Mary Grimm ~ Her Sketchbook, Found Among Her Things
  • Maria Robinson ~ The Requirement 
  • Mike Itaya ~ Rasthole Flats
  • Laurie Blauner ~ Four Pieces
  • Daniel Adler ~ The Lion Tamer
  • Michelle Reale ~ Three Prose Poems
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Three Short Pieces
  • Cal Freeman ~ Poems
  • 4 Back Blows
  • Lucinda Kempe ~ Imperative You Should Know
  • Cheilitis by Frito
  • DH Singh ~ Crown Royal, 1972
  • Susan Hettinger ~ Quiet Room
  • Scott Garson ~ Five Fictions
  • Francine Witte ~ Blink
  • Paul Rabinowitz ~ Global Warming
  • 14159
  • Darlin’ Neal ~ The Swirling
  • Steve Gergley ~ Notes from the War
  • Steve Lambert ~ Steve McQueen
  • Gregory T. Burgess ~ A Gallery of Influences
  • Matthew McGuirk ~ Old Lester
  • E. Nolan ~ Fake Baby
  • Rich Ives ~ The Insect Group
  • Tommy Dean ~ A Weight of Risks
  • Meg Pokrass ~ Along Comes Mary
  • Darlin’ Neal ~ The Other Side of Starlight
  • Gary Percesepe ~ The Climactic Interview
  • Please Attend
  • Tom Williams ~ A Writer’s Vision
  • Dental Memories
  • Kirie Pedersen ~ Alice Miller & the Dead Ex
  • M.C. Schmidt ~ A Famous Woman
  • Catherine Fletcher ~ Four Poems
  • Dan Crawley ~ Uncle Sam
  • Robert Herbst ~ Do I Have to Spell it out for You?
  • Robert Scotellaro ~ Three Entries from a Somnambulist’s Dictionary
  • Shome Dasgupta ~ A Kolkata Dream
  • Casey Killingsworth ~ Five Poems
  • Kip Knott ~ Three Poems
  • R. Sebastian Bennett ~ I Bought a Book
  • Aaron Angello ~ Four Poems
  • Christopher Allen ~ Missing Person
  • Thomas Belton ~ Bus Ryde To Skool
  • Richard Leise ~ Jennifer
  • D. E. Hardy ~ Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
  • Jack Barker-Clark ~ Wilter on the Rise
  • Joe Kapitan ~ Four Occasions
  • Anna Mantzaris ~ The Arrival
  • Marc Tweed ~ Avunculus
  • Soft White Underbelly ~ Ruby
  • Old Celebrities You Didn’t Realize Are Still Alive Today
  • Peter Krumbach ~ Five Pieces
  • Amanda McIlveen ~ Poems
  • Julia Tausch ~ Kinsley and Charlie
  • Frankie McMillan ~ Three Prose Poems
  • Crow Jonah Norlander ~ Hairstyle Eras
  • Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman ~ Three Short Pieces
  • Steve Lambert ~ A Minor Character
  • S. S. Mandani ~ This Is a Stickup Story
  • Kip Knott ~ Outswimming Monsters
  • Timothy Boudreau ~ We Dream, We See Dragonflies
  • Pat Foran ~ Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Nora McGann ~ My Own Grandmother’s Funeral
  • Nancy Byrne Iannucci ~ Cavorarell
  • Diane Webster ~ Four Poems
  • Kathryn Kulpa ~ Fire Season
  • Niamh McNally ~ A Devastating Scene
  • Yuki Fuwa ~ So Eagerly Awaiting
  • Benjamin Sloan ~ Sardine
  • Julie Benesh ~ Three Dates with Harry Chapin: Story Songs
  • Dawn Corrigan ~ Buttons
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Pour
  • Sandra Kolankiewicz ~ Why Don’t You Try
  • Kathleen Hellen ~ Two poems
  • Kathleen Rooney ~ Poems
  • Lynn Bey ~ Face Forward
  • Max Roland Ekstrom ~ Five Poems
  • Simon A. Smith ~The Cigarettes of my Youth
  • Meg Pokrass ~ The Plank
  • Meg Tuite ~ Why the Peach Tree Before Dad?
  • Chella Courington ~ Plastic Hearts
  • Mercury-Marvin Sunderland ~ Spilled Bathtub Water Could Never Be Sold
  • George Rawlins ~ Five Poems
  • Karen Schubert ~ Five Poems
  • Fusako Ohki ~ Neighs and Cries
  • Charlotte Hamrick ~ Zipped
  • New Year
  • Francine Witte ~ Leftover Boys
  • Gail Louise Siegel ~ Mouth
  • Mary Lynn Reed ~ Sway
  • Alexandra Grabbe ~ Buried Treasure
  • Doug Ross ~ Proud Flesh
  • Valerie Fox ~ An episode between houses and jobs
  • Meredith Wadley ~ Mr. Allen’s Long Visit
  • Gary Fincke ~ During the Epidemic
  • Brett Biebel ~ Lighthouse Inn #6
  • Pavle Radonic ~ ‘Tis the Season
  • Kim Chinquee ~ Wildcat
  • Sofiul Azam ~ Poems
  • David Byron Queen ~ Mercy
  • Schuyler Dickson ~ Regis, Can You Hear Me When I Call?
  • Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar ~ Saffron
  • Dan Crawley ~ Stray
  • Toshiya Kamei ~ Skyward
  • Karen Schauber ~ On the Outskirts
  • Bryan D. Price ~ Crania Americana
  • Kathryn Mayer ~ Vestigial Twin
  • Jim Ross ~ Four Dreams
  • Michelle Ross ~ Mirrors
  • Under the Cherry Blossom Tree ~ Yukari Kousaka
  • Raphael Kosek ~ Three Poems
  • Henry Alan Paper ~ Friday
  • Eric Roy ~ Four Poems
  • Chila Woychik ~ Waterfields
  • Tahia Abdel Nasser ~ The Tea Picker
  • Kevin Grauke ~ Five Poems
  • Jeff Friedman ~ Five Prose Poems
  • John Grey ~ Two Poems
  • Christopher Merkner ~ White People Swimming
  • Jihoon Park ~ The Zookeeper’s Guide to Animals
  • Cezarija Abartis ~ The Next Day
  • Nate Lippens ~ Pompeii
  • 545
  • Pavle Radonic  ~ The Hearth
  • Michael Borth ~ The Tsar Bomba
  • Andy Plattner ~ At the Democrat Museum in Madisonville, Kentucky
  • Callan Preece ~ The Virtue of Plastics
  • Mercury-Marvin Sunderland ~ One Albino Bug Crawling On A Piece Of Moss
  • Kim Chinquee ~ Catnip
  • Jane Armstrong ~ Notes from Annabelle Next Door (age four)
  • Kevin Tosca ~ Mature Concern
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Jakarta 1440H
  • Tao Lin ~ Meditation
  • Harris Lahti ~ Exquisite Corpse
  • Corey Miller ~ zoo woman real bad
  • Todd Clay Stuart ~ Accessories
  • Solomon Ọládipúpọ̀ ~ Two poems
  • Fortunato Salazar ~ 504 Charlie 2020
  • Tatiana Retivov ~ Two Poems
  • Ross McMeekin ~ The Face of God
  • Wendy BooydeGraaff ~ Horizon
  • Simon Perchik ~ Five Poems
  • Zac Smith ~ Healthy, Fit, and Fulfilled
  • Gary Percesepe ~ More Sentences We Couldn’t Get Enough Of
  • Pat Foran ~ When You Entertain Notions of Freedom and the Sea Settles in for the Night and You Think She Might See You Out There, in the Distance
  • Mercury-Marvin Sunderland ~ Perfume
  • Dawn Raffel
  • Rev. Traci Blackmon
  • Peter Leight ~ Poems
  • Bud Smith ~ Rewild
  • Myna Chang ~ The Potential of Radio and Rain
  • Kim Chinquee ~ Lucky
  • Detective Cooney
  • Neal Suit ~ Up
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Letter from the East
  • Poseur
  • Erica Jenks Henry ~ In Bed Today
  • Alamgir Hashmi ~ Virus Regulation
  • Gary Percesepe ~ Trump’s WrestleMania
  • Marc Frazier ~ Three Poems
  • Carl Boon ~ Four Poems
  • Positions
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Prayer, Rage, Meditation
  • Lindsey Danis ~ Wait Before Sending
  • Michael Grant Smith ~ Scraps
  • Alan Rossi ~ Nathaniel
  • Kate Finlinson ~ Exaltation
  • Meg Pokrass & Aimee Parkison ~ New Frontier
  • Wilson Koewing ~ Cocktail Onion
  • Anon ~ Poetry
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Billboards Up To the Sky
  • Motorboat
  • Mary Grimm ~ Rules for Resurrection 
  • Jerry Dennis ~ from Skills a Man Could Learn (Found Poems)
  • Mary Miller ~ Full
  • Matt Schroeder ~ Five Poems
  • Sean Ennis ~ Two Short Stories
  • Bob Bartholomew ~ Coffee
  • Mikaela Grantham ~ Breakfast
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Merciless
  • Judy Brackett ~ Poems
  • Alex Aldred ~ Two Poems
  • Kirila Cvetkovska ~ Falling Teeth
  • Jenny Fried ~ Grandmother in Blue
  • Visitor
  • Diane Webster ~ Two Poems
  • George Singleton ~ Protecting Witnesses and Witnessing Protection
  • Dog Cavanaugh ~ Riding in Happiness
  • Nikki Ervice ~ Smoke Break
  • Bennie Rosa ~ Micro Boy Never Loved Christina
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Threesome
  • Keezi Walks ~ Walking in Varanasi
  • Flash Flood ~ Kimberly Nicole
  • Ruby Sales ~ From my front porch 8/12/20
  • Dorsía Smith Silva ~ Four Poems
  • Marisa P. Clark ~ Four Poems
  • Shelli Cornelison ~ Not the Theme Song I Would’ve Chosen
  • James McKee ~ Four Poems
  • Thomas Barnes ~ Gravity Well
  • Julia Forrest ~ 14 Photographs
  • Tommy Dean ~ Uncertain
  • J. Weintraub ~ Driving Mom and Dad Home from the Wedding
  • Pia Ehrhardt & Nina Temple ~ Four Excerpts from Now We Are Sixty
  • Gary Percesepe ~ 6 Prose Poems
  • Stephanie Powell ~ Poems
  • W.T. Pfefferle ~ Hard Looks
  • Victoria Lancelotta ~ Misssive
  • Dan Crawley ~ Baked Potato
  • Donovan Hufnagle ~ 5 Poems
  • Paul Van Sickle ~ The Overton window
  • Philip Kienholz — Five Poems
  • Adam Day ~ Five Poems
  • Charlie J. Stephens ~ The Owl People
  • Elisabeth Murawski ~ Five Poems
  • Lois Marie Harrod ~ Three Poems
  • Sarah Mellinger ~ Elentiya
  • Gerald Kells ~ Three Poems
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Smooching Like There Was No Tomorrow
  • Ruby Sales ~ From My Front Porch 7/25/20
  • Jim Mentink ~ The Ballad
  • Patricia Q. Bidar ~ The End in the Beginning
  • George Choundas ~ In the Covidium
  • Jana Harris ~ Poems
  • Richard Jones ~ Two Poems
  • Israel A. Bonilla ~ Basement Blues
  • Susanna Lang — Three Poems
  • Ann Folwell Stanford ~ Jubilate
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Strange Fruit (Singapore)
  • Darina Sikmashvili ~ She Would Have Given Me Light
  • Gregory T. Burgess ~ Anxiety Man (excerpt)
  • Music ~ BluHous Workspace
  • Yvonne ~ Brooklyn and Me, 1966–1995
  • Audrey Ferber ~ SCAR
  • In memory of (better late dept.)
  • Joan Frank ~ I Say It’s Spinach
  • Josh McColough ~The Pandemic Sessions, Vol. II: Safety
  • Mary Grimm ~ You Won’t Remember This
  • Pamela Ryder ~ Elixirs, Medicinals, and Reliable Remedies for the Mother of Billy the Kid 
  • Felicity Fenton ~ Plans
  • Nick Farriella ~ Analogia Entis
  • Jim Ross ~ Escaping into Pilgrimage
  • Daniel Fraser ~ Robert Mitchum
  • JR Walsh ~ Four Pieces
  • Michelle Reale ~ Four Poems
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Skydiving
  • Michael Mungiello ~ Blue
  • Tara Isabel Zambrano ~ Galaxy X
  • Claire Hopple ~ Float
  • Of Interest — Police
  • Pavle Radonic ~ Recusant
  • Akinwale Peace Akindayo — Two Poems
  • C. G. Rusch ~ The Man Who Buried His Dogs in the Front Yard
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Two Shorts
  • Mandira Pattnaik ~ Rubble
  • Kelly Brown Douglas in Sojourners
  • Ruby Sales ~ From My Front Porch
  • Kerri Quinn ~ Two Poems
  • Lucinda Kempe ~ Rupture
  • Eleanor Levine ~ The Creek and the Whirlpool
  • Clifton Chenier from the Les Blank film.
  • Wilson Koewing ~ Beach, Ball
  • To our readers & writers
  • Joan Wilking ~ I Run
  • Dale Stromberg ~ Two Stories
  • Andrew Roe ~ Movie Night
  • Parker Tettleton ~ Five Poems
  • David Gilbert ~ Central Casting
  • Lydia Gwyn ~ The Freezer Has No Ice Cubes
  • Gary Percesepe Writes:
  • Alina Stefanescu ~ Four Poems
  • Jane Armstrong ~ I Implore You
  • Saptarishi Bandopadhyay ~ No people without dogs
  • Eric Bosse ~Ten Trolley Problems for 2020 Cops
  • Cezarija Abartis ~ Lost & Found
  • View from Her Sitting Room
  • Larry French ~ The Only Source of Light
  • Jane Armstrong ~ Provenance
  • Craig Nova ~ Rattlesnake
  • Ann Beattie ~ Writing Visually
  • Mary Grimm ~ Before All This
  • Anon ~ Sometimes
  • Kim Magowan & Michelle Ross ~ Accountability Buddies
  • Dawn Raffel ~ Three Micros
  • Sandra Kolankiewicz ~ What Might Today
  • Mary Crawford ~ Memento Mori
  • Gary Percesepe ~ This Era
  • G. Percesepe ~ Firsts
  • Kim Ross ~ The Business of Crows
  • John Baum ~ Teedub Leaves Home
  • Tommy Dean ~ Temporary Housing
  • Phebe Jewell ~ Dept. of Imagination
  • Sean Lovelace ~ A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley
  • J.D. Hosemann ~ Equipment
  • Karen Craigo ~ Four Poems
  • Gary Percesepe ~ Where We Are Now
  • Joseph Young ~ How to Write Flash Fiction
  • N. Minnick ~ Four Poems
  • Christopher Linforth ~ Belief
  • Gary Percesepe ~ Philosophy
  • Tommy Dean ~ Here
  • Jay Merill ~ A Cousin from Leicester
  • Jules Archer ~ From the Slumbarave Hotel on Broadway
  • Mason Binkley ~ Whoa Golly
  • David Dodd Lee ~ Two Bronze Figures Near the Ocean
  • Peter Jay Shippy ~ Three Prose Poems
  • Gary Percesepe ~ Berrigan
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Gala
  • Lucinda Kempe ~ Queer Birds
  • James Robert Steelrails ~ Reason
  • Kim Magowan & Michelle Ross ~Abuse and Other Words My Mother and I Disagree About
  • Jose Hernandez Diaz ~ Three Flash Fictions
  • Sandra Seaton ~ Home
  • David Galef ~ Three Flash Fictions
  • Thaisa Frank ~ Occupants
  • Gary Percesepe ~ An Interview with Roxana Robinson
  • Andrew Stancek ~ The Sting on the Skin
  • John Mancini ~ Not Expecting a Miracle
  • Thomas Cook ~ Four Micro Essays
  • DS Levy ~ Talisman
  • Joseph Grantham ~ Pharmacy
  • Eric Pankey ~ Two Poems
  • Please Note
  • Pui Ying Wong ~ Three Poems
  • Meg Tuite ~ There’s No Tomorrow the Same As Yesterday
  • Gary Percesepe ~ Another Crisis
  • Katrina Denza ~ In These Dark Woods
  • Heather Sager ~ The Cool and the Lonely
  • Michael Credico ~ Cataclysm
  • Sheldon Lee Compton ~ Almost Alone in Dark Valleys
  • Claire Guyton ~ SAT Question: The Moon
  • Lily Wang ~ Fields
  • Billy Petersen ~ Sparks
  • Laurie Kaiser ~ Tulips
  • Gerald Fleming ~ Five Prose Poems
  • Lucinda Kempe ~ Happy at Last
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Sofa
  • Susan Nordmark ~ Two Flash Fictions
  • Peter Johnson ~ Pretty Girl
  • An Early Manifestation
  • Eric Bosse ~ Statuary
  • Cathryn Hankla ~ Misdirection
  • Justin Herrmann ~ Medical Condition – McMurdo Station, Antarctica
  • Ron Burch ~ The Flies
  • Tim Suermondt ~ Four Poems
  • Gillian Walker ~ Community
  • Andrew Nicholls ~ Our Committee
  • Pam Uschuk ~ Poems
  • Nathan Dragon ~ What to Leave Behind
  • Stephen Delaney ~ How to Tell a Word
  • Andy Plattner ~ Selection
  • Fiona Foster ~ Most Don’t, Then Some Do
  • Chelsea Voulgares ~ Hotbox
  • Jeff Friedman ~ Bombs
  • Peter Leight ~ Four Poems
  • John Mancini ~ No Future in Oysters
  • Parker Tettleton ~ Five Poems
  • Reilly Cundiff ~ Five Poems
  • Gary Percesepe ~ Another Poem That’s Not About You
  • Karen Alpha ~ Kung Fu Love
  • Gary Percesepe ~ The Bench
  • Michelle Ross ~ High Ground
  • Tiff Holland ~ Ending Up in the Ditch
  • Bram Riddlebarger ~ The Fisherman and the Tires
  • Jennifer Wortman ~ The Forest of Foodstuffs
  • Sudha Balagopal ~ Spring Quarter, 1980
  • Janet Clare ~ Flight
  • Jon Kemsley Clark ~ White
  • Sandra Kolankiewicz ~ Four Poems
  • Samuel J. Adams ~ Everybody Did
  • Tamara Burross Grisanti ~ Four New Fictions
  • Foster Trecost ~ Memories
  • Welcome to new Social Media Editor
  • Susan Henderson ~  from The Flicker of Old Dreams
  • Natalie Gerich Brabson ~ Office Visit
  • Shane Kowalski ~ Politeness
  • George Moore ~ Three Prose Poems
  • John F. Buckley ~ Notes at the End of the Thirteenth Baktun
  • Susan Thornton ~ Full Partner
  • Rob Roensch ~ Come to Me and I Will Give You Rest
  • Lucinda Kempe ~ Jeanne d’Arc
  • Karen Craigo ~ Lighter Than Water or Lighter Than Air
  • James Chapin ~ Deafness
  • Michael Hammerle ~ The Horse Did Not Always Go Home
  • Alan Hines ~ Oak Cliff, Summer 1963
  • Nizwa Knox-Jones ~ Or Best Offer
  • Karen Alpha ~ Al‑Q.
  • Clara Spars ~ Domino
  • Simon Perchik ~ Five Poems
  • Jordan Castro ~ Like an Animal Running
  • Tommy Dean ~ Cotton Candy
  • Kim Magowan ~ Daisy Chain
  • Avital Gad-Cykman ~ This is When the Sun Spreads Cherry Bloody Spots
  • Girija Tropp ~ I Have Almost Forgotten the Taste of Fruit Loops
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Three Fictions
  • William R. Soldan ~ Flares
  • Tiff Holland ~ Castling
  • Terrance Wedin ~ Three Short Pieces
  • Max Hipp ~ Tollbooth
  • John Oliver Hodges ~ Cabbage
  • Dan Crawley ~ What Others Do About It
  • Kathy Anderson ~ Airport Wine Bar
  • Christie Wilson ~ Solvay 1927
  • Andy Plattner ~ Library
  • Graeme Carey ~ Expelled from Eaton Park
  • Abigail Greenbaum ~ Beauty Is Pain
  • Mark Budman ~ Super Couple
  • Kim Magowan ~ Wheels Inside Wheels
  • James Hartman ~ Stage Three
  • Maximus Anthony Adarve ~ Déjà Vu
  • Wyatt Bonikowski ~ Teenage Boy in Polaroids
  • Joseph Pfister ~ Happy Hour
  • Kathy Fish ~ The Once Mighty Fergusons
  • Congratulations
  • Greg Bottoms ~ Skittles
  • Michelle Ross ~ Fish Story
  • Mary Lynn Reed ~ How to Let It All Go
  • Christopher James ~ Merapi Volcano
  • Lisa Levchuk ~ No Man’s Land
  • Lydia Copeland Gwyn ~ Four New Stories
  • Elizabeth Schmidt ~ Wrists
  • Parker Tettleton ~ Four Pieces
  • Avital Gad-Cykman ~ Babies
  • Eric Pankey ~ Four Poems
  • Jeff Friedman ~ Three Prose Poems
  • Claire Polders ~ Four Micro Fictions
  • Edward Hardy ~ Apology #9: Not About The Toaster
  • David Gilbert ~ A Life in Photos
  • Craig Fishbane ~ The New Kids
  • Gary Percesepe ~ Transition
  • Lucinda Kempe ~ Platooning
  • Charles Rafferty ~ The Light Made Everything Harder to See
  • Randall Brown & Pamela Painter ~ Two Pieces
  • Joan Wilking ~ Neuropathy Trilogy
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Stretcher
  • Tamara Burross-Grisanti ~ Four Stories
  • Sheldon Lee Compton ~ After Watching Ido Mizrahy’s Film Gored — July 9, 2015
  • Sandra Kolankiewicz ~ Two Poems
  • Gail Louise Siegel ~ As Vulnerable As We Are
  • Hillary Fifield ~ Nice to Meet You
  • David Gilbert ~ Stupa
  • Mary Lannon ~ All the Stray Cats of the World
  • Lydia Copeland Gwyn ~ Four Stories
  • Josh Russell ~ Two Suburban Folktales
  • Sherrie Flick ~ Chest Out
  • T.L. Sherwood ~ Birth Control
  • Pierre L’Grommet ~ Letter to My Doctor
  • Melissa Goode ~ All Roads Lead to the Met
  • Greg Bottoms ~ The Dropout
  • Kevin Matz ~ Mayonnaise
  • Lucinda Kempe ~ Brown Sparrow
  • Avital Gad-Cykman ~ To Catch Her
  • Gary Percesepe ~ Raptors
  • Nelly Zann ~ I Turn My Music Loud
  • Girija Tropp ~ Once I Was Honey
  • Kathy Fish ~ Imagine Your Daughter Is a Cherry Red Convertible
  • Paige Clark ~ Dead Summer
  • Michael Holladay ~ Retroactive
  • Andrew Morgan ~ Services
  • John Holman ~ Vacation
  • Christopher James ~ All I Need Now is One Enormous Bowl to Catch Them Together
  • Mel Bosworth ~ Days Not His
  • Ron Padgett ~ And Truly
  • Michael Putnam ~ Sharing Space
  • Zachary C. Solomon ~ Old Country
  • Girija Tropp ~ 3 Fictions
  • Andrew James Weatherhead ~ Shipping and Handling
  • Glen Pourciau ~ Table
  • Stefanie Freele ~ Well-Dressed Executives
  • Maddie Clevenstine ~ There Was Something Growing
  • David Ryan ~ Barcarole
  • Susan Henderson ~ Fish with Bent Fins
  • Jessica Alexander ~ The Bear at the Door
  • Kerri Quinn ~ Rico
  • Merran Jones ~ Curls
  • Lydia Copeland Gwyn ~ Half Moon
  • Aaron Brand ~ Three Poems
  • Gail Louise Siegel ~ Betrayed
  • Tiff Holland ~ Candy Striper
  • Pamela Painter ~ Off Stage
  • Fae Dremock ~ The Flyover
  • Ann Colley ~ Seed-Time
  • Jeff Ewing ~ The Ramp
  • Mary Akers ~ Saying the Name
  • Emily Pettit ~ Dear Cousin
  • Paul Myette ~ Day Drinking at the Harris Suites
  • Kathleen McGookey ~ Three Short Pieces
  • Samuel Ligon ~ The Little Goat
  • Robert Lopez
  • Floyd Skloot
  • Karen Brennan
  • Lesle Lewis
  • Tamara Burross ~ Migraines for Hegel
  • Mel Bosworth
  • Lydia Copeland Gwyn
  • Elizabeth Hellstern
  • Cari Scribner
  • Duffie Taylor
  • Sandra Kolankiewicz
  • Beth Alvarado
  • Michele Maron
  • Alex McElroy
  • Becky Hagenston
  • P.J. Underwood
  • Lydia Copeland Gwyn
  • Tiff Holland
  • Ed Taylor
  • Kevin McIlvoy
  • Susan Hubbard
  • Robley Wilson
  • Jana Martin
  • Kevin Canty
  • Terese Svoboda
  • Paul Lisicky
  • Terese Svoboda
  • Flannery
  • Paul Lisicky
  • Dave Newman
  • Avital Gad-Cykman
  • Susan Henderson
  • Kathy Fish
  • Pamela Painter
  • Glen Pourciau
  • Clancy Martin
  • New Work for Fall
  • Bobbie Ann Mason & Robert Lopez
  • Fall Issue
  • Pia Z. Ehrhardt
  • Sara C. Thomason
  • About the Fall 2015 Issue
  • John Henry Fleming
  • Doug Lawson
  • Kate Axelrod
  • Claudia Cadavid
  • Stephanie Leary
  • Summer Issue Has Arrived
  • More More More
  • 3 New Pieces for Spring
  • Spring 2015
  • New Winter Pieces
  • Winter 2015
  • Fall Issue
  • Late Summer Reading
  • Chloe Poizat
  • Now Read This
  • New Issue
  • Robert Shapard
  • Winter 2014
  • Fall issue
  • Gary Percesepe ~ Notes From Buffalo, August 9, 2013
  • James Whorton Jr.
  • Jane Armstrong
  • Claudia Smith Chen
  • Elizabeth Wagner
  • Frances Lefkowitz
  • Beth Gylys
  • Sowmya Santanam ~ Coovum River
  • Summer issue
  • Additions to Spring
  • Spring Issue 2013
  • Ann Tashi Slater
  • A Postcard from Chloe Poizat
  • Paul Lisicky
  • Robert Lopez
  • Winter 2013 Issue
  • Our Name Change
  • A Visit from P. Maliszewski
  • Mary Miller
  • Kim Adrian ~ Last Cookies
  • A Note to Contributors
  • Crisis of Registration
  • Fall 2012 Issue
  • Phrotograph
  • Litquake: Masters of Flash
  • Reading Submissions
  • Mississippi Review 30 Year Anthology
  • Meg Pokrass ~ Others Of Similar Dimension
  • Mary Grimm Feature
  • Michael Czyzniejewski
  • Best of Net
  • Sophie Rosenblum
  • Colter Cruthirds ~ You Can Live Forever in a Paradise on Earth
  • Blip invites submissions
  • Elizabeth Wagner
  • Julie Odell
  • Pamela Painter
  • Andrew Roe
  • Michael Dwayne Smith
  • A Note from Diann Blakely
  • Nina Lindsay ~ Poems
  • Michael Knight
  • Brad Watson
  • Shameless Plug
  • Meg Pokrass
  • Blip Magazine ebook
  • Dorianne Laux
  • Accepting submissions for fall
  • James Whorton Jr. Feature
  • Two sites you will want to visit
  • Frances Lefkowitz feature
  • Objection!
  • Damian Dressick
  • Sarah Salway
  • Jeff Landon Feature
  • Tiff Holland
  • Bonnie ZoBell
  • George Singleton Feature
  • Olufemi Terry Feature
  • Call for Submissions
  • Frances Lefkowitz
  • Chloe Poizat Feature
  • An Important Note from Meg Pokrass
  • Kim Herzinger Feature
  • Lori Ostlund Feature
  • Kelly Renick
  • Tablets
  • Matt Salesses
  • One hundred words
  • Julia Johnson
  • Nicholas Cook
  • Len Kuntz
  • Jane Armstrong
  • Margaret Benjamin
  • Inspiring Films
  • Meg Pokrass
  • Eugene Corr
  • Cooper Renner
  • Once was
  • Stolen message
  • Be not ubiquitous.
  • Kara Candito feature
  • 2679
  • On comments & other notes
  • Bestiarum Vocabulum
  • Brad Watson feature
  • 1708
  • New Dorianne Laux poems on our weekly page
  • Delighted, we were
  • 7 Minutes 56
  • An introduction to Bob Hicok
  • Perfect dog lips
  • Musical interlude
  • We been blipped
  • Meg Pokrass named editor at large
  • This wonderful video
  • Tree museum
  • Speaking of Cheryl
  • Submission deadline Sept 15th
New World Writing Quarterly Copyright © 2010 - 2024 All Rights Reserved.

Go Top