We’re excited to announce that our 2021 issue (vol 60!) has been released!
Get your personal copy here: https://epay.tcu.edu/press_descant
2021 Prize Winners have been posted on our “Awards” page, and the Table of Contents is available below!
2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems by Sean Thomas Dougherty
- Eleven
- Two
- If Edith Piaf Has a Voice Like a Sparrow
- The Stars Are on Lockdown
- My Wife Never Ate Asparagus
Fiction by Lucy Zhang
- The 37% Rule
Poem by Tom Montag
- from “The Woman in an Imaginary Painting”
Poem by Mary Wemple
- Cherry Picking
Poem by Kurt Olsson
- All the Time in the World
Poem by Michael Milburn
- Selfie at Sixty
Poem by Judith Skillman
- Incunabula
Poem by Seth Jani
- Painted Forest
Fiction by Jeffrey Wolf
- Glances
Poem by Tim DeJong
- Now That We Know the World Is Ending
Poems by Todd Davis
- Extinction
- Music for Film Before the Destruction of a Drone
Fiction by Matt Izzi
- North Goes South
Poems by Cindy King
- Upriver (North Fort Myers, Florida)
- Ctrl+Alt+Del
Poem by Erik Kennedy
- The Safety Coffin
Poems by Colin Jeffrey Morris
- The White Reserves
- Audubon at Niagara
Fiction by Harli James
- The Choosing Room
Featured Artist, Cricket Desmarais
- Biography & Artist’s Statement
Poem by Warren Woessner
- Waiting for Water
Poem by Douglas Cole
- Dupont Circle
Poems by J.H. Hall
- Indifferent Time
- Blue John
Poem by Derek Otsuji
- Saint Damien and the Pigeons at the State Capitol on Pinwheels for Prevention Day
Fiction by Joanna Milstein
- Paul
Poems by John Poch
- Meditation at the Bar on Top of Castello Aragonese
- Return to Forio
Poem by Lynne Schmidt
- The Flag
Fiction by Sean Littlefield Chumley
- That Could Be Us Someday
Poems by Dan Veach
- Paddling the Pawcatuck
- School Supplies
- It
Poem by Devon Miller-Duggan
- Stare, Prayer, Glare
Poem by K. A. McGowan
- Woke
Fiction by Vishwas R. Gaitonde
- Vermin
Poem by Priscilla Long
- August Garden
Poem by William Greenway
- One Hundred Years of Beatitude
Poem by Timothy Dodd
- To Van Gogh’s House
Fiction by Jacqueline Guidry
- Acting the Fool
Poem by KB
- A Bad Breakup with Air
Poems by Adam Clay
- Reading Out Loud to Myself
- Sleep Test
- Leftovers
Fiction by Douglas Silver
- Lovers
Contributor Notes
2021 Award Winners — Selected by Guest Judge Toni Jensen