Passages North No. 43

COVER ART BY CAMILA GARCIA RAY VENTRE MEMORIAL NONFICTION PRIZE Stephanie Minyoung Lee: Floating Bridge Daniel Garcia: Promise Me You Won’t Tell Jenifer Sang Eun Park: You Eat Around The Fly ELINOR BENEDICT POETRY PRIZE Yong-Yu Huang: Aviary A. Prevett: Triptych with Oleo-Saccharum and Abandoned Old Navy Dress SHORT-SHORTS Gerardo Sámano Córdova: Forgotten / City / Church . Jieyan Wang: chang’e Tiffany Hsieh: Sleep Stuffed Noa Covo: In Which I Sell My Fingerprints Crystal K: Until After Matthew Mastricova: I See the Future at My Wedding to the Tomato from VeggieTales / A Few Layers of Skin / Gilgogjgy Kelly Gray: The History of Glaciers Star Su: Original Taste / 原味 Yunya Yang: The Doctor Says Roots Are Growing Around Her Heart Carson Faust: swallow the cherry-pit Scott Garson: Act Two / Trip / Market Katerina Ivanov Prado: Hot Dentist Kyle Flak: Cliff City / RC Cola / Hello I am the Sun Malinda McCollum: The Goldfish Lucy Zhang: Why I’m dry tonight and every night Alyson Mosquera Dutemple: Alice Experiences Some Difficulties Reacclimating to Life After Her Adventures Holly M. Wendt: August / Spinster FICTION Max Delsohn: Moon Over Denny-Blaine Emily Yang: in the mood for love Joe Baumann: Close the Door on this Laughing Heart Nathan Willis: Gemini Dayneé Alejandra Rosales: Fredo’s Ashes Kira K. Homsher: Offerings Julie Cadman-Kim: The Change POETRY Akhim Yuseff Cabey: Don’t Call Me ‘Brother’ Albert Abonado: About The Horses / The God I Know Eats With Its Hands Isabella Piedad Escamilla: Sloan / Maggie, Lost in the Andromeda Galaxy Moni Brar: Interweave Evy Shen: Definitions of Light / Phantom Sonja Vitow: Seltzer Bottles Jane Morton: Snake Lore Anthony Thomas Lombardi: Nature Saba Keramati: After 9/11 We Wonder if We Should Ever Celebrate Maria Isabelle Carlos: From the Inventory of Images I Cannot Unsee Jose Hernandez Diaz: “Gangster’s Paradise” Mid 90’s / The Rooster Man Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick: There Are Leaves That Have Loved Me Michael Lauchlan: Cold Midnight Wesley Sexton: La Traviata on YouTube Again Kelly Weber: North of Hell Kolbe Riney: gooseflesh Anna Šverclová: Lake Ocean // Phenomenon Andy Butter: Lip-Read Love Poem for Brother E. Hughes: from The Accounts of Mammy / Pleasant NONFICTION/HYBRID W. Todd Kaneko: The Night of the Skywalkers Rolando-André Lopez: you know it, or ya tú sa’e: una poéticaautobioficticia, noun manifiesto, (les qre, x100pre) Marcus Clayton: Napoleon Solo Kimberly Quiogue Andrews: Vita Speculativa / Boreas and Auster Michelle Donahue: A Catbird Chases the Wind Liz Iversen: Things We Keep Hidden Youngseo Lee: Islanders Mathew Hawkins: Home Home Steven Pfau: Rebus Kelsey Ward: Insomnium Julien Strong: The October Two of My Friends Planned Double Mastectomies