THE PHOENIX
ISSUE 61
SPRING 2020 CURRENT ISSUE

The Great Eclipse of 2017
Untitled*
Marble Colorado Mine
Fertility
Universal Symphony
The Long Road
Soul on Fire
Velvet Night
Contact 3
Funnel Chest
Of Boys, Of Men
O,Father
Twilight
Waltzing by the Window
Stories My Grandmother Never Told Me Until I Asked
Fireflies
Light
Epistolary Lamentations
An All American Ghost Story
Before the Sun Rises
Blue Puzzle Piece
Surfing After the Storm
Miss Eyre
I Learned to Love You in Degrees
Plea to My Daughter
Neapolitan Ice Cream
Stay
Sadie
Walls
Grandpa
#MeToo
Subconscious
Glowing Not the Colors Black and Blue
How Exhausting it is to be Unhappy
Lipstick
Mr.Red Wine
Breaths
Accept to Understand
Walking Flowers
hese Breasts
Numb
Between Happiness and Sadness
A Ribbon
Music of the Dead
Harpers Ferry Memories
he Clever Jack Pine
Bilingual
Dirt
Today's Memory
Without the Letter S
The Meander Down the River
Apology Pantoum
I Want a Poem
I Like My Bagel Toasted
In Defense of the Visceral
October 4th, 2017
How to Accept the Storm
I'm Living in a Country
Immigrant Dreams Come True
Pieces
Stop Me
My Mother's Hands
Derelict Car in the Rain
The Waiting Room
Yellow Laburnums
Drip
Union
For the Child I Never Met
14 Things My Parents Left Me
Observation #6264
Thick Madame
Bodies
Jessica
Shallow Grave
Chrysalis
In Defense of My Decision Not to Attend Baby Showers
Summer's Edge
Boulder, Colorado
The Painted Bird Flies
Lights Out San Francisco
Dollhouse
Weak
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Art and Photography
Andy Cotton
Thomas Gillaspy
Juanita Kruse
Fabrice Poussin
Regina Simmons
Samantha Smith
Edward Supranowicz
Emma Tysinger
2018/2019 PICMA Winner
First Place: Amber Magnuson
Second Place: Jeffery Zou
Third Place: Norieoghene Agbuke
Honorable Mentions
Haemaru Chunh
Bianca Sass
Creative Non-Fiction
Bianca Sass
Tracy Youngblom
Fiction
Denise Boster
Kaya Dierks
Susan Forbs
Julia Leopard
W.T. Patterson
Maura Stanton
Poetry
Hajer Almosleh
Sam Baden
Les Bernstein
Michael Brasier
Jacob Butlett
Richard Cecil
Taylor Cole
Nicole Cote
Steve Cushman
Hannah Dean
Steve Denehan
Megan Eason
Cailen Fusetti
Annette Gagliardi
Jules Gates
Dah Helmer
Morgan Ingram
David James
Anika Jensen
Jacqueline Jules
Vivian Kay
Paul Lojeski
D.S. Maolalai
Janet McCann
Ashley Memory
Daniel Moore
K'Lenn Moore
Sidney Muntean
Emma Nantz
Joshua Orol
Sabrina Parker
George Parker
Lisa Poff
Vijay Shankar
Alexis Speak
David Spencer
Mark Spitzer
Cynthia Steele
Will Stenberg
Cindy Stevens
Kelly Talbot
Taunja Thomson
Amanda Tumminaro
Emma Tysinger
Julie Weiss
Etcetera
Morgan Ingram
*This piece was also the cover art for Issue 60