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In this issue, Darnell Arnoult unleashes the unstoppable power of grief in five poems beginning with “Pickup.” Evan Brooke examines the world of junior high as it echoes forward in “Like a Dazzle.” And Tara Stillions Whitehead shares a manically paced, surreal-like story about the quirky, toxic, humorous, and sometimes poignant interactions of producers, directors, and actors making movies and television shows in “None of This is Real.”

This issue features stills from F.W. Murnau’s film “Sunrise” (1927).

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In this issue, N. J. Campbell introduces us to a cartographer who roams the Alaskan bush and dodges a few near setbacks in “Alaska, 1951.” Shayla Hawkins relishes in the eroticism of food and other fruits in four poems beginning with “Vanilla.” These poems are excerpted from Hawkins’ full-length collection Exquisite by September, published this week by EastOver Press. And Diane Payne dreams of deaths that never happened in “Encounters.”

This issue features photographs by Cutleaf editor WM Robinson.

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In this issue, Greg Bottoms wonders if the clothes make the boy into the man in “Getting Dressed, 1981.” A medical examiner recalls a series of memories when a former lover shows up dead in Puloma Ghosh’s story “Natalya.” And Luke Wortley explores the painful circularities that exist in the father-son paradigm in a group of surreal prose poems beginning with “Ouroboros.”

This issue features “killed” images from the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the U.S. Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression.

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In this issue, Rebecca Thomas presents a family attempting to address conflicts that linger, pester, and force each character to reexamine expectations in “Root Bound.” E.C. Salibian muses about love of all kinds in her aptly-titled essay, “Childhood Pets: A Treatise on Untimely Death.” And Christine Butterworth-McDermott practices her magic in three poems beginning with “Spell for Attraction, Containing Belladonna.” These poems are excerpted from Butterworth-McDermott’s collection, The Spellbook of Fruit and Flowers, which will be published by Fomite in January 2023.

This issue features photographs by Bryan Buckley, a photographer and metal fabricator in Massachusetts.

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In this all-nonfiction issue of Cutleaf, Daniel R. Ball explores what it means to be a fan, and what happens when you begin to see lyrics as more than they seem, in “Review of a Late-minted Ween Fan.” Emily Mohn-Slate examines the echoes life leaves behind in “Mourning a Student.” And John Saul questions his own answers to a publisher’s list of questions in “Four Tasks (or what I came up with when Covid took over).”

This issue features photographs by WM Robinson and TE Bertrand.

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In this issue, Hussain Ahmed examines the fragments of life that echo through our days, no matter where we are, in his hybrid essay “Half the Sky is Grey with Shame.” Lauren Davis explores love and grief in “Into the Sun.” And Ben Weakly recalls stories from wars, both abroad and at home, in three poems beginning with “The Wooden Elephants of Herat.” These poems are excerpted from Weakly’s collection Heat + Pressure from Middle West Press.

This issue features photographs by Marcus Selmer (1819 – 1900.)

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In this issue, Dustin Hoffman explores what happens next when a snake enters the picture in “Mending Fence.”
John Lane calls on the memory of water in two poems beginning with “Does the Enoree River Remember Hans Einstein.” And Christopher Linforth explores a range of emotional terrain—from the darker, lonelier aspects of the web to popping Flintstone gummies mistaken for CBD—in two dazzling flash pieces including “Comedown.”

This issue features photographs by Bryan Buckley, a photographer and metal fabricator in Massachusetts.

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In this issue, Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar explores the nature of grief and the love wrapped up in cooking in her haunting essay “The Making of Mango Pickle.” Monic Ductan introduces us to a delectable bakery and all the sweet and not-so-sweet things happening between a compelling cast of characters in “Two for a Dollar.” And Moriel Rothman-Zecher moves from a chatroom inside a dream to Drake’s inbox in two poems beginning with “Copyright.”

This issue features high-resolution images that were captured by astronauts during the Apollo missions.

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In this issue, Lori Brack writes through the crowded memories of her family farm and the hard work of being alive in “A Blur in the Field.” Nathan Alling Long explores an old, familiar secret that any good lover knows in “Leave.” And Daniel Romo questions the sequels and plot twists of our lives in two poems beginning with “Faster and Noticeably More Furious.”

This issue features illustrations by French artist, astronomer, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot in 1882.

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In this issue, George Ella Lyon reveals the sacred rules of secrecy in three poems beginning with “Family Scripture.”
William Woolfitt, in three essays beginning with “B is for Boxes,” explores his family history and examines how and if the past and present can be known from the available evidence. And Elise Gregory shares an excerpt from her forthcoming novel, The Clayfields.

This issue features photographs by EastOver Press and Cutleaf editor Walter M. Robinson.

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In this issue, Molly Gaudry explores what might have happened, what did happen, and the echoes that bounce back and forth between the two in “Origin Story: An Essay.” Dana Wildsmith converges sacred writings from the book of Romans and the words of Poe in two poems beginning with “Prayer.” And Louise Marburg’s “Dance Rockette” features a squabbling couple enveloped in a bombastic dinner party fueled by weed, booze, and a single lie.

This issue features photographs by EastOver Press and Cutleaf editor Walter M. Robinson.

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In this issue, Shawna Kay Rodenberg shares the prologue from her memoir, Kin, out now from Bloomsbury. Marjorie Tesser explores aging, getting famous, and how friendships may or may not endure major life changes in “Miles and Myles.” And Beth Weinstock reflects on loss and the fragments we save when the righteous die in two poems beginning with “On Troy Hill above Pittsburgh.”

This issue features photographs by Theresa Babb (1868–1948.)

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