Posts by Jenna Kahn

47.2 – Spring 2018

47.2 – Spring 2018 (Available through Issuu) Cover Art by Matt Gold Fiction The Rubber Tapper’s Knife by Richard Hermes, Fiction Contest Winner Been Fighting Since by K Chess, Fiction Contest Runner-Up Gypsum by Isabelle Gilbert, Fiction Contest Reader’s Choice This Life May Be Monitored for Quality and Training Purposes by Daniel Paul Storm by…
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers

A Review of “Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting” by Jonathan Maule

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting Kevin Powers Little, Brown and Company, April 1, 2014 Reviewed by Jonathan Maule The Weight of What Remains: A Review of Kevin Powers’ Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting Kevin Powers is a poet who knows our country is blackout drunk on “making little pieces of…
Meet Me Here at Dawn: Stephanie Klahr

A Review of “Meet Me Here at Dawn” by Anatoly Molotkov

Meet Me Here at Dawn by Sophie Klahr YesYes Books, December 1, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-936919-42-0 Reviewed by Anatoly Molotkov Sophie Klahr doesn’t offer much biographical information on her website, http://www.sophieklahr.org. It’s as if the poet could be anyone, a non-person, non-entity, a collection of words. Fragmentary constructions are abundant in her starkly stated and marvelously tangible…
Shawn Wen

2018 Creative Nonfiction Contest

Judge: Shawn Wen Deadline: March 18, 2018 Prize: $500 and publication in phoebe 47.2 (online issue) Entry Fee: $9 Submission Size: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words Shawn Wen is a writer, radio producer, and multi-media artist. She is the author of A Twenty Minute Silence Followed By Applause (Sarabande, 2017), and her work…
Karan Mahajan

2018 Fiction Contest

Judge: Karan Mahajan Deadline: March 18, 2018 Prize: $500 and publication in phoebe 47.2 (online issue) Entry Fee: $9 Submission Size: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning, a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Association of Small Bombs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Awards, won…
Dorothea Lasky

2018 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest

Judge: Dorothea Lasky Deadline: March 18, 2018 Prize: $500 and publication in phoebe 47.2 (online issue) Entry Fee: $9 Submission Size: 3 to 5 poems per submission, totaling no more than 10 pages. Dorothea Lasky is the author of five books of poetry, the forthcoming Milk (Wave Books, 2018), as well as ROME (W.W. Norton/Liveright, 2014) and…