The Chumpion Of Lost Causes

July 2011 | back-issues, poetry | 0 comments

Sharmila is so naïve She can’t pick between prudence and courage She flogs dead horses She allows herself to be found traipsing through the tulips She’s a slow unlearner She loves her unteacher She wants 364 unbirthdays What she resists persists She depotentiates herself, silly goose, Until her soul screams,”STOP” -Sonali Gurpur …

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Issue 106, Apr 2023

Burrdowning Press

56 pages, perfect bound

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Featuring: Issue 106, published April 2023, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Elizabeth Curley, Johanna DeMay, Alan Elyshevitz, J.V. Foerster, Lena N. Gemmer, Kimberly Goode, Ken Haas, John Robert Harvey, Gloria Heffernan, Ken Hines, Richard Holinger, Kate Hopper, Jennifer Randall Hotz, Michael Hower, DB Jonas, Eun Seo Kim, Cyn Kitchen, Mary Dean Lee, Paul Macomber, Victoria Melekian, Jahin Claire Oh, Hari B Parisi, Min Sung Park, Julia Poole, Paul Rabinowitz, Caroline Reddy, Lisa Rigge, Jim Ross, Yujin Suh, Ron Theel, Cristina Trapani-Scott, and Joan M. White.