A Publication of Rowan University's 
Master in Writing Arts Graduate Program 

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A photographic series, "Tokyo Monsters" 
by French-Swiss artist Laurent Milon
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Fiction from Paul Lisicky

And on the other side of the city, her reader sits with the writer’s pages opened upon his lap. Now he thinks he should have told her the truth: that her stories held him down when he thought he’d rise up off the earth. And when we went back to the book and reread a passage about snow, he felt it as if it were his snow, but better, burning the sleeping parts of him awake. But did he tell her that? No. He knows down deep the costs of wanting, the hothouse word that chills the plant at the root...

FROM "Very Good"  - READ STORY HERE

Poetry from Liz Abrams-Morely

Is it still there, your tree? 
A third grader asks.  After each

retelling some third grader always wants
to know:  Could I go see it, Mrs. A-M?

And because I can’t be sure even
I could see it, have ever seen it,

No, I say.  I say
Someone put up a building.

I say it’s gone now.  And then
we all hang our heads in sorrow.

FROM  "I Tell the Class About My Childhood Memory of Tree" READ POEM HERE