By Sarah Beasley Monzón and Jen Blesso | “She said the surrealists painted in a time when the world was trying to decide whether to believe an enormous lie….”
By Christina Wiseman and Nicole Morse | “The artificial glow of the screen lights up her face while her lunch break ticks by…”
By Valerie G. Zartarian and Lauren Liecau | “Lying in a meadow/Bewitched by the stars/I wonder at the galaxies/Beyond this world of ours.”
By Shannon Bushee and Judith Rosenbaum | “She didn’t need to be rescued from her own tower.”
By Nicole Morse and Bradley Wall | “tender tongues of flame search for artful promise…”
By Lily Barrett and Chiara Pieri | “The place is full of monsters… a well-groomed man encourages a younger, scared-looking woman as a blue flame shoots up from her palm.”
By Tuggelin Yourgrau and David Winkler | “He was not a playful father, often spending six or seven days a week on his research…”
By Deidre Beck and Anne Macdonald | “Like winged angels they form a circle, heads in, bodies out, a side-by-side dance…”
By Jennifer Blesso and Christina Wiseman | “We come inside from the cold, ladle hot soup into bowls, cradle them in our thawing pink hands…”
By Alissa Onigman and Elizabeth Christopher | “August flames have their own rhythm… like a temple spearing the night sky—
seeking winter’s constellations.”
