THE VIRGINIA NORMAL

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POETRY

HOLLY DAY

Memoir of Another World

Nocturnal Song

Echoes of the Dog

“I have eaten one of every type of bird in this forest,” said the ornithologist

LEE CLARK ZUMPE

Through the Window at 2 A.M.

REBECCA GIVENS ROLLAND

Hunger as the Ordinary Art

Song of the Citizen from a Prior Century

JACOB APPEL

The Lorikeet

SHARON KENNEDY-NOLLE

Slipshod

Susquehanna

“Better take whatever you want now, honey

MADELYN CAMRUD

Cousin Ingrid

DS MAOLALAI

My Brother Visits

The Aquarium

DARREN C. DEMAREE

Clawing at the Grounded Moon #79

Clawing at the Grounded Moon #80

ALISON HICKS

Sunflower

Mountain Ash

CAROLYN WILSEY

Turning 40 in Portsmouth Square

PATRICK KELLY JOYNER

Harvesting. Midday

Useful

VW Bug

Deal

MERRIDAWN DUCKLER

Further Down the Bar

Holy Movies

CATHY ALLMAN

Tourist Notes: When I Watch My Granddaughter, at Home, Connecticut

Outline for Her Novel

ROCHELLE JEWEL SHAPIRO

City Pigeons

CATHERINE STANSFIELD

When Counting Sheep Fails

JULIO MONTEIRO MARTINS

La Ballata Di Cabo Branco

The Ballad of Cabo Branco (translated from the Italian by Donald Stang and Helen Wickes)

Notes

PETER LEIGHT

When They Put Me in Charge

This War

ROBERT BEVERIDGE

Three

EVA-MARIA SHER

Nothing to Crow About

MONTY JONES

Prokofiev

KELLY R. SAMUELS

Mirrors and Archibald George Barnes’s Contemplation

BRENDAN TODT

Short Prose for Two

We Are All Alone

If You Believe It

FICTION

MIKA SEIFERT

The Edge

The Plot

MICHAEL PASLEY

Vanishing

DANIEL KENITZ

The Parent License

ANDREW CONDOURIS

Kind Eyes

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