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In this issue, Vanessa Nirode deciphers alteration notes left for the behind-the-scenes tailors for television shows in “Dart Waist for Another Damn Prostitute.” Benjamin Woodard gives an account of Barry, who acts impulsively while out for an evening stroll in “Reckless Abandon.” And in “Saving Sgt. Billings,” Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour writes about what happens when you try to love someone who thinks he doesn’t deserve to be loved.

The images in this issue are film stills taken from the short film “I Like Tomorrow” a sci-fi musical about a lonely lady astronaut, by Jennifer Reeder and Nancy Andrews.

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In this issue, John Davis, Jr. shares four poems beginning with a praise to the coast in “Inland: A Breakup Letter.” Matt Cashion relishes in the complexities of human nature that emerge when a mysterious light source appears in the sky in “See You Soon?” And Meredith McCarroll extols the virtues of packing lightly while always having precisely what you need in “Bags.”

The images in this issue come from a series of lectures delivered in the 1860s at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia by Lewis W. Leeds.

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In this issue, Jesse Graves delves into family history and place in three poems that begin with “An Exile.” Ace Boggess tells the story of the long, winding road the carries eight men to a West Virginia penitentiary in “Welcome to Rock Haul.” And Amy Wright remembers the summer after her brother died from cancer, in “Life After Death,” an excerpt from her Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round.

The images in this issue come from Dr. Alesha Sivartha’s The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man.

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This issue of Cutleaf features excerpts from Vanishing Point, Dirk Marple’s hybrid memoir on handwritten postcards with original images.The text and images were part of ninety-two numbered postcards mailed over time to Marple’s thesis advisor, Jenny Boully. All of the postcards arrived, though not in the order they were sent.

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In this issue, William Glidden writes about the nontransferable properties of immortality in “A Day at Fenway.”
Luci Arbus-Scandiffio recalls the complexities of attending school in four poems ranging from the realistic to the surreal, beginning with “Milburn Middle.” And George Singleton employs his trademark sharp wit to tell the story of a man who wedges himself between his “unfettered sister and her tow-headed son” in “You’re Supposed To Be Where You Are.”

The images in this issue are captured from “How The Eyes Function” (1941), an educational film by K.K. Bosse released as part of the Knowledge Builders Film Series.

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In this issue, Matt Muilenberg investigates why a small town newspaper editor would pass on national news in “In Local News.” Kevin Fitton reveals how differently the world can look from the vantage point of “A Magical Adventures™ Hot Air Balloon Ride.” And former Kentucky Poet Laureate George Ella Lyon revisits and updates her own poem in “Where I’m From 2018.”

The images in this issue are from the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Santiago, Chile. The museum houses artifacts from ancient Central and South America.

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In celebration of Short Story Month, this all-fiction issue features stories from three wonderful writers.
Douglas Bauer brings together two baseball legends with vastly different temperaments in “Into The Grand American Day.” Chris McGinley explores the brute force of a special kind of boar hog that can’t be de-tusked in “The Boar Hog.” And Darci Schummer shows the unraveling of a college professor prone to destructive behavior in “Keystone Species.”

The images in this issue are photographs from 1940 taken during a square dance in McIntosh County in Oklahoma by photographers working for the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA).

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In this issue, Barrett Warner explores memorable plans for eternity in “Pianos and Stuff.” Russell Green questions the deft deployment of the dreaded adverb and why some writers argue that we should eliminate their use altogether in “Notoriously Abused.” And Clara Strong reveals how to cut the sheep—and perhaps the self—out of the sheep’s wool in “Shearing Season” and other poems.

The illustrations in this issue are from the 1906 French edition of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds by Brazilian artist Henrique Alvim Corrêa.

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In this issue, Chiwan Choi tells us “the spirit in me, holy or not / tells me it’s time to punish myself / but i choose this instead — poetry” in a set of four poems titled “my name is wolf (but at what cost).” R. B. Simon explores the reason the snake sheds its skin and why the crab forsakes its shell in “Molt” and other poems. And Sylvia Woods breaks it down for all of us in four poems including “To Those Who Missed the Meeting” from her debut collection, What We Take With Us, published by EastOver Press.

The images in this issue depict the planet Saturn, its moons, and its inner rings as captured by the Cassini spacecraft in 2013.

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In this issue, Jeremy B. Jones explores ideas of masculinity in a cruel, good world in “Letters to My Sons.” Jennifer Stewart Miller looks at some of the possible places where minor beauty goes in four poems beginning with “Stone Curls.” And Erica T. Wurth depicts the damage inflicted by obsessive love in “Let Kari Float Down.”

The images in this issue come from the pages of “The South Pole: an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910.

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In this issue, Henry Giardina uses film as a catalyst to understand what it means to love a volatile person in “The Love We Deserve.” Margaret Yapp expands our vocabulary in “My Love Language is Midwestern” and other poems. And New York Times bestselling author Jasmin Darznik travels with Dorothea Lange, one of America’s most celebrated photographers, to San Francisco in 1918 in the first chapter from Darznik’s forthcoming novel The Bohemians.
The images in this issue depict the first nuclear blast broadcast live on television on March 17, 1953.

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In this issue, Maurice Manning seeks to satisfy “an awful, suffering thirst” in “Blind Tiger” and other poems. Sage Behr disputes the existence of a wound in “Colorado Springs.” And we revisit Wesley Brown’s timeless character Melvin Ellington, fresh on parole in “Tragic Magic.” Brown’s novel is being reissued in April 2021 by McSweeney’s “Of the Diaspora” series, which features “previously published works in Black literature.”

The images in this issue feature 18th century engravings published by Louis Renard and based on drawings from life by Samuel Fallours.

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