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CASE STUDY 1: MOO
It was unfortunate that they didn’t make new science anymore. I could only imagine how thrilling it must have been to discover heliocentrism, or DNA, or orgasms. Galileo, I realized, died so that one day Moo could fart on the great man’s picture in my textbook…

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The Robert Watson Literary Prize Poem LOVE AND BEAUTY

Anne Shafmaster

My mother loved my breasts, comparing them
to those of Aphrodite
in the painting The Birth of Venus.
She loved them so much we traveled
to the Uffizi…

The Amon Liner Poetry Prize Poem THE BRIDGE IN SUMMER

Eliana Franklin

I come to watch the warpaint shiners swim—
minnows with red-tinged fins tunnel
through a biting current. Downstream, children
swing off a rope, trusting the river
to break their fall. It’s hard to have so much faith—

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