Refuge
Spring/Summer 2024
Vol 67, No. 2

Editor’s Note: Eilis O’Neal

Fiction

Emily Giangiulio: “Bodies at Rest”

Divya Maniar: “The Ghosts Will Eat Tonight”

Zen Ren: “Content Violation”

Catalina Infante Beovic: “An Island”

G.W. Currier: “Killdeer”

Mackenzie Majewski: “Temperance” 

Sarah Gerkensmeyer: “Forgiveness Farm”

Conor Flannery: “Last Tiger in Sugarland”

Poetry

Kelly Rowe: “Island Quietude”

Johanna Magin: “Thin Places,” “Against Reason,” “Love Poem,” “Fractal”

Bex Hainsworth: “Shoreline Abecedarian”

Jane Dickerson: “Reverie at the Other Como,” “Cloud,” “Inheritance” 

Rana Tahir: “Family Recipes” 

Rachael Inciarte: “hollow,” “soft skills”

Lauren Tess: “Turnout, Highway 200”

JC Talamantez: “Goodbye Texas”

Nancy Eimers: “Spring Moon Over a Valley”

Lynn Shoemaker: “Idomeni”

Jody Winer: “A Human Body” 

Florence Weinberger: “Sweeping into Holiness,” “Guide for One Perplexed by Caveats: a Pamphlet Accessed Accidentally in the Downtime of Covid-19,” “Drought and Felicity”

Hannah Baker Saltmarsh: “Running from the God of Wind, Death, Learning, & Priests Somewhere Near Kentucky Lake” 

Tina Kelley: “Cleaning Out Mom’s Storage Units at Assisted Living”

Hannah Dierdorff: “I Place My Mother in a Scripture,” “Phonics”

Grace Yu: “Korean Teacher”

Kyo Lee: “Parallel,” “fish market wedding”

Erika Brumett: “Refrigerator, Days After a Wake”

Sandra Crouch: “Eating My Feelings”

Aaron Landsman: “Track 1—’Détente,’ Turn of the Century Remix,” “First Lease”

Elizabeth Galoozis: “Shared Territory” 

Jen Blair: “Winterizing the House”

M.K. Foster: “Hungry Ghosts,” “The Great Dying”

Leia K. Bradley: “Yes, We Know Lungs Look Like They Have Trees Inside Them”

Halee Kirkwood: “The Pom-Pom Crab,” “Ecopoetics”

Jessica Chretien: “Interview, Round Two”

Amara Tiebout: “Seven Centimeters Under,” “Ode to Bubby’s Mortality” 

Mary Gilliland: “I Hold My Breath and Breathe” 

Geoffrey Babbitt: “The Long Goodbye” 

James Wyshynski: “Serving the Dead”

Eben Bein: “Locker Door”

Laura Ruby: “You Repeat Yourself,” “Last Supper with Dad”

Chelsea Dingman: “Photograph,” “Anti-Elegy, Dwelling in Areality and Nancy’s Corpus,” “Anamorphosis”

Cory Hutchinson-Reuss: “When My Grandma Was a Girl the US” 

Tiffany Mi: “Counterintelligence” 

Zen Ren: “Ampersand”

Nyree Abrahamian: “Aftermath”

Connie Braun: “Geography Is in Your Bones”

Rooja Mohassessy: “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi,” “Poem Where I Come to on Nowruz Isolating”

Eleanor Goodman: “Respite,” “Lesson of Glass,” “Drive”

Elinor Ann Walker: “Refuge Sounds,” “Imagine a Wing”

Maria Provenzano: “In This House We’ve Built Together,” “Pluto”

Gail Wronsky: “Elegy for All of Us”

Phillip Watts Brown: “Retreat,” “In My Dream We Were In Eden”

Caitlyn Alario: “Sapphics VI”

Mary Francesca Fontana: “Divorce”

Jonathan Anderson: “You Wonder, Do You Not?”

Jake Phillips: “Friend; or another morning after binging Kids Baking Championship”

Carly Wheelehan Gelsinger: “Mistletoe,” “Joy”

Caits Meissner: “Rewilding / I’m Feeling Myself Again”

Angela Kirby: “Woods”