SS. Peter and Paul 2023
Featuring “An 8,000-Mile Grocery Run” by Peter Bast, 2022 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction winner Melissa Boberg, poetry by Kristin Zimet and Katie Hartsock, and artwork by Amanda Quiroz. Print edition.
Feature
An 8,000-Mile Grocery Run
Peter Bast
Poetry
On The Anniversary of My Death (Observed)
E. Edward Horne
How different is the selfie!
Katherine Spadaro
Angels
Kate Wylie
He Doesn’t Show His Face, But I Know What He Looks Like
Kate Wylie
Presence
Bonnie Naradzay
maybe we should go back to assisi
Jayden Jones
Epiphany: Cicada
Kristin Zimet
Ruth
Kristin Zimet
Mary I of England Marries Prince Philip of Spain
James McCormick
Christ Chooses the Rocks He’ll Use to Cross a River
Katie Hartsock
Psyche’s House
Katie Hartsock
Fiction
Terms of Bereavement
Melissa Boberg
Winner, J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction 2022
Waiting on the Queen
Melissa D. Sullivan
Honorable Mention, J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction 2021
Nonfiction
This Highest Voice Must Crown the World of Voices: An Interview with Joshua Hren
Eric Cyr
The Consolation of Comedy: Why We Ought to Laugh at Ignatius J. Reilly
Janille Stephens
Book Reviews
Images of the Christ in Fencing with the King by Diana Abu-Jaber
Review by Amanda Bird
Radically T.S. Eliot: Jed Rasula’s What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
Review by Jesse Russell
Meet Me at the Lighthouse by Dana Gioia
Review by Tamara Nicholl-Smith
Visual Art
Amanda Quiroz
In the Beginning, Original Solitude III
Restless II
Source and Summit I
Source and Summit II
The Sower Potato Mustard Seeds and Crane Fly Legs
