Returning home from evening mass
in the big car,
they were like canal boats then
sliding through the loose gravel, in the back seat
she pushed my cuticles up
with a silver file not unpainfully
Babyn, Manoli, Solomon | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from Show and Tell, a collaborative chapbook by André Babyn, Sasha Manoli, and Misha Solomon, a collective finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
Zak Jones | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from Tinderbox by Zak Jones, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
Medrie Purdham | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from The Solve by Medrie Purdham, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
Maya Clubine | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from Life Cycle of a Mayfly by Maya Clubine, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
Karan Kapoor | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from a short history of longing by Karan Kapoor, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
Alicia Byrne Keane | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from Basement Bedroom by Alicia Byrne Keane, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
From the Archive | Fanny Howe
It’s the summer solstice
The day the darkening begins
If I keep walking west I can precede this time again
In a year. Not much stamina
Foot-shoes sore
Stephen Kent Roney | A Review of War Canticles
War Canticles George Elliott Clarke Vallum Chapbook Series, 2022 35 pp I was married to a ghost on a mountain in northwest Seoul back in 1994. A trivial enough anecdote; I mention it to suggest that I might know a shaman when I see one. George Elliott Clarke is a shaman. […]