Open Space Archive

2023

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News | 2024 James Hearst Poetry Prize
Winners of the 2024 James Hearst Poetry Prize

News | 2023 Pushcart Nominations
Announcing Our 2023 Pushcart Nominations

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Fiction | James Morena
Lola's Wig

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Poetry | Rachel Castro
Doing No Harm

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Nonfiction | Heather Nguyen
Blue Razz Berry

Ficus Tree

Poetry | Lisa Lewis
The Curse

Header Graphic: Red moon reflecting on water | Image Credit: Marius Niveri via Unsplash

Fiction | John Brantingham
Anabelle and the Toad, 1944

Header Graphic: An interior room with furniture turned on its side, a strong house | Image Credit: Getty Images via Unsplash+

Nonfiction | Lindsay Starck
What are the Renters Doing Now?

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Fiction | Patrick Murphy
That Kind of Blue

News | Fall 2023 Workshop
Cedar Valley Youth Poet Laureate | Fall 2023 Workshop

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Poetry | Susannah Lee
Night Swim, Tempelfjorden, Svalbard

Wooden Q in box of wooden letters

Nonfiction | Glenn Shaheen
Qu'noS

Header Graphic: Inked drawing of four people stumbling | Image Credit: one hundred visions of war book cover

Review | Ann Spiers
A Review of “One Hundred Visions of War” by Julien Vocance

Header Graphic: lily pads and flower on a pond | Image Credit: Lee Soo Hyun

Fiction | Katherine Easer
The Pond

Two angel statues facing one another.

Poetry | Betsy Johnson
live the questions

Blurry image of gondolas docked on a body of water in Italy in the evening | Image Credit: Geoffroy Hauwen via Unsplash

Nonfiction | Diane Comer
My Favorite Boot

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Fiction | Vincent Casaregola
Therapy Suite: A Narrative Suite in Three Movements

Header Graphic: '80s video game explosion | Image Credit: Cover of "Melt with Me"

Review | William Householder
A Review of “Melt with Me” by Paul Crenshaw

Nonfiction | Elizabeth Gentry
My Microbiome Accompanies Me to Three Rivers Market

Header Graphic: elderly couple looking over the water| Image credit: Pexels

Poetry | Carol V. Davis
Thinking of Water

Header Graphic: picture of the night sky showing the Milky Way and a shooting star | Image Credit: Federico Beccari

Fiction | J. Harley McIlrath
Constellations

Woman sitting on land | Andrew Neel

Poetry | Mary Morris
A Sister Loses a Trail in Fog

Header Graphic: Aged Greek Pottery with warriors and a giant horse | Image Credit: Dos Madres Press

Review | Anthony Seidman
Review of “To Sleep in the Horse’s Belly” by George Kalamaras

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Poetry | Gary Dop
On Dys•coffering Dyslexia at 44

Painting of a women's faces

Poetry | George Kalamaras
The Five Faces of Death

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Poetry | Andrew Najberg
Scrying

Miriam Alarcón Avila in luchador mask

Interview | Mallory Schmitz and Karina Ortiz
Becoming Visible

Header Graphic: Midwest Prairie Grass during a Sunset | Image Credit: Dave via Unsplash

Interview | Judith Harris
A Conversation with Ted Kooser: In Dialogue with Judith Harris

Fire

Poetry | Anne Myles
A Review of Fire Index by Bethany Breitland

Header Graphic: Night-Shining-White, ink on scroll by Han Gan | Image Credit: The MET

Poetry | Jonathan Stull
Night-Shining-White

Header Graphic: Simple rowboat appears to fly in an evening sky | Image Credit: Zoltan Tasi via Unsplash

Poetry | Julia Thacker
Black Hole

Anna Ancher painting, Interior

Poetry | Paul Mariani
Somewhere Once

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Poetry | Ariel Francisco
Watching Robbie Knievel Jump the Grand Canyon, 1999

Header Graphic: Fox hunting at night | Image Credit: Zdeněk Macháček via Unsplash

Poetry | Nathan Erwin
Trick

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Review | Andrea Rexilius
Hemming in Flight: Review of Nawal Nader-French's a record of how the mother’s textile becomes sound

Header Graphic: Small lake surrounded by pine trees | Image Credit: Marcus Ganahl via Unsplash

Review | Cindy Veach
A Review of Anne Myles’s Late Epistle

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Poetry | Sarah Carson
One Day I’ll Tell My Daughter Our Origin Story

Header Graphic: River and mountains | Image Credit: Jack Anstey via Unsplash

Review | Judith Harris
A Review on Elegy and Kelly Rowe’s Rise above the River

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Poetry | Patrick Kindig
This is Jesus Country

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Poetry | Grace Q. Song
Estrangement

Header Graphic: Sunlight peaking out of the clouds from the view of a drone | Image Credit: Tom Barrett via Unsplash

Poetry | Kathleen McGookey
Bearing It

Paw Sox Polar Bear Mascot

Poetry | Martín Espada
Love Song of the Polar Bear Mascot at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Header Graphic: Horseman riding in the background of a Montana setting | Image Credit: Agto Nugroho via Unsplash

Craft, Nonfiction | Emily Robinson & Heather Jerónimo
The Mechanics of Translation: An Examination of Grammar, Rhythm, and Culture in Federico García Lorca’s “Canción de jinete”

Header Graphic: Sun rise over a prairie | Image Credit: Demian Tejeda-Benitez via Unsplash

News | Winners of the 2023 Terry Tempest Williams Prize in Creative Nonfiction
Winners of the 2023 Terry Tempest Williams Prize in Creative Nonfiction

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Craft, Nonfiction | Emily Robinson & Heather Jerónimo
The Craft of Translation: The Artistic and Ethical Puzzle of Federico García Lorca’s “Canción de jinete”

Header Graphic: A pair of black glasses resting right side up atop an open book | Image Credit: Jackson Films via Unsplash

Interview | Leslie Lindsay
Interviewing Priscilla Gilman, Author of "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir"

Header Graphic | Cropped Cover Art of David Salner's Summer Words | Image Credit: Broadstone Books

Review | William Heath
Poetry of Working People: A Review of David Salner's Summer Words

Header Graphic: Posterized Image of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins | Image Credit: AbeBooks

Review, Craft | Grant Tracey
Crafting the Art of Time in Walter Mosley’s A Red Death

Header Graphic: A single footprint in the sand about to be washed away by the tide | Image Credit: Elias Domsch via Unsplash

Poetry | Gabrielle Grace Hogan
Charleston Poem

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Review | Hester L. Furey
The Archive’s Boundary Keeps Moving to Include Us: A Review of Elizabeth Hoover’s "the archive is all in present tense"

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Nonfiction | David LeGault
The Game: The Essay

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Fiction | Joseph Helmreich
The Capsule

Header Graphic: Polaroids surrounding a mug of coffee | Image Credit: Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Poetry | Lance Larsen
Understudy

Header Graphic: Grayscale hand catching rain | Image Credit: Geetanjal Khanna via Unsplash

Poetry | Mary Morris
In the Sky of the Mesa

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Fiction | Lee Ware
One of The Boys

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Nonfiction, Craft | Denise Duhamel
Boy George Palinode

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Poetry | Denise Duhamel
On Being Born the Same Exact Day of the Same Exact Year as Boy George

Header Graphic: "Depth" is a photograph of a woman standing in water at night with two branches of a felled tree extending toward the woman like arms of a great leviathan| Image Credit: Cara Spurlock from Flickr

Fiction | Saskia Nislow
Leviathan

Header Graphic: Dark forest at night in the winter with stripped trees | Image Credit: Unsplash

Poetry | Todd Davis
Two Poems

Header Graphic: Grayscale close up on a jazz guitar player | Image Credit: Caio Silva via Unsplash

Fiction | Richard Squires
The Farewell Foxtrot

Header Graphic: Cows roaming in a pasture during a sunrise | Image Credit: Stijn te strake via Unsplash

Nonfiction | Jonathan Griffith
Vegetarian

Header Graphic: Red Admiral Butterfly on yellow flowers | Image Credit: Unsplash

Nonfiction | Tetyana Strelchenko
Butterflies

Header Graphic: Rotting Apples | Image Credit: Unsplash

Fiction | Randolph Uniack
Lonnie Rotting

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Poetry | Alice White
My Face Is Nowhere

Header Graphic: Hand reaching out of waves | Unsplash: Mishal Ibrahim

Poetry | Arnisha D. Royston
Golden Shovel #1

Header Graphic: Man shoveling dirt into a hole | Unsplash: Daniel Lincoln

Poetry | Sarah Brockhaus
Composted

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Poetry | Colin Bailes
Averno

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News | 2023 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize
Winners of the 2023 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize

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News | 2023 James Hearst Poetry Prize
Winners of the 2023 James Hearst Poetry Prize