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The Haunting

Jim Everhard   I am the vault behind the fireplace that hasn’t been opened in years, where the family curse sleeps in stifled air, wrinkled by cobwebs. I am the warm, staggered breath that breaks loose from nowhere, opens the squeaking door, and blows every fuse in the house, leaving you petrified in the dark.…

Whitey’s Holy Causes

Jim Everhard   here you go boy nice clean gun go shoot yourself a gook for uncle sam just remember cause we’re snuffing gooks today don’t mean we can’t snuff us a nigger tomorrow no tap dancing on duty you hear   Jim Everhard is the author of a book of poems, Cute (1982). He…

Ophelia A Work in Progress

Jim Everhard       Who talks of victory? To endure is all.       – Rainer Maria Rilke Together we visited the lakes in Massachusetts and an old man stopped us at one particularly beautiful one and told us three people in the last year had taken their life there. We were amazed, the surface looked so serene,…

Renegades (for Evelyn Thorne)

Jim Everhard   In the darkness the moon opens and there is nothing but light in the twists of its mind, the unthought of dreams of dead men bending back toward the earth, reaching the eyes of renegade children out late and hungry and cold, hiding low in the fields and woods, listening to the…

for Ron Acker

Jim Everhard   “The mad clowns have finally put their false faces to rest.” – Ron Acker Calliope horses have broken their legs, and the circle is broken, And the music stops, as the children, holding back their tears, are leading them away to be shot. And beautiful women are weeping on the outskirts of…

2017 Nonfiction Contest

Judge: Elena Passarello OPENS: January 10th! DEADLINE: March 19th! PRIZE: $400 and publication in phoebe 46.2 (online issue) ENTRY FEE: $9 SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words. Elena Passarello is the author of two essay collections, Let Me Clear My Throat and the forthcoming Animals Strike Curious Poses, both published by Sarabande Books. Her essays on performance, pop…

2017 Fiction Contest

Judge: Patricia Park OPENS: January 10th! DEADLINE: March 19th! PRIZE: $400 and publication in phoebe 46.2 (online issue) ENTRY FEE: $9 SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words. Patricia Park is the author of the debut novel Re Jane (Viking, May 2015), a modern-day interpretation of Jane Eyre. She has written for The New York Times Book Review,…

2017 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest

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Judge: Monica Youn OPENS: January 10th! DEADLINE: March 19th! PRIZE: $400 and publication in phoebe 46.2 (online issue) ENTRY FEE: $9 SUBMISSION SIZE: 3 to 5 poems per submission, totaling no more than 10 pages. Monica Youn is the author of Blackacre (Graywolf Press 2016), Ignatz (Four Way Books 2010), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Barter (Graywolf…

Percival On The North Jersey Shore

John Burnett Payne   At the grand hotel the children are incredibly few and always lost playing hide-and-seek with nurses and grandparents bored enough to watch a kitchen man paring carrots sensibly wary of the ritual of watching parents eating, parents drinking, quarrelling, parents depositing them with grandparents. Seldom for them is the feeling of…

6 Kickass Stories to Kick Off Your ‘Read More’ New Year’s Resolution

6 Kickass Stories to Kick Off Your ‘Read More’ New Year’s Resolution by Lina Patton   I get it. It’s hard to find time to read. Even as someone who has dedicated their life to books— the reading of them, teaching of them, attempts at writing them—it’s difficult, because nowadays, there are so many other…