We’re excited to announce that our 2019 issue (vol 58!) has been released!
Get your personal copy here: https://epay.tcu.edu/press_descant
2019 Prize Winners have been posted on our “Awards” page, and the Table of Contents is available below!
2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction by Midge Raymond
[Indistinct Conversation]……………………………………………10
Poems by Marvin Shackleford
Dryad ……………………………………………………………………..…17
Lamia ……………………………………………………………………..…18
Mind Flayer (Illithid)……………………………………………………19
Poem by Krikor Der Hohannesian
Shadows ……………………………………………………………………20
Poems by Richard Merelman
Lament, with Bones……………………………………………………21
Flood Fever…………………………………………………………………23
Poem by Anthony DiPietro
A Garden Missing from It……………………………………………24
Fiction by Jeff Frawley
Good Ground………………………………………………………………25
Poem by Sharon Kennedy-Nolle
Il Salvatore……………………………………………………………………31
Poems by Nathan Stabenfeldt
Song…………………………………………………………………………..…32
Redshift ………………………………………………………………….……34
Of Quite Diverse……………………………………………………………35
This Is a Painting by Robert Rauschenberg if I Say So……36
Life Without You……………………………………………………………37
Poem by William Virgil Davis
The Louveciennes Road…………………………………………………39
Poem by Robert S. King
Why We Buzzards Are Spoiled………………………………….……40
Fiction by Stephanie Reents
Something Like It……………………………………………………..……41
Poems by Holly Karapetkova
White Washing …………………………………………………………..…47
White Manual ……………………………………………………………….48
Poem by Gaylord Brewer
Aubade with Sunshine, Mango, and Hibiscus Following Two Days of Storm……50
Poems by Annie Lampman
Roadtripping…………………………………………………………………51
Transparent………………………………………………………………….52
Poem by Sheila Murphy
Already Now…………………………………………………………………53
Poem by Jill M. Talbot
Clothes in a Washing Machine………………………………………54
Poem by Laurie Reiche
The Nature of Everything………………………………………………56
Poem by Pamela Manasco
Thermodynamics……………………………………………………….…57
Fiction by Mark Brazaitis
The Neighbor’s Daughter………………………………………………58
Featured Artist, Stacy Tompkins
Biography………………………………………………………………………64
Artist’s Statement………………………………………………………..…64
Poem by Diane DeCillis
Doubling the Entendre ………………………………………………..…65
Poems by Kathleen Winter
Bosch’s Last Judgment ………………………………………………….…66
After a Thousand Years: an Illumination ……………………….…67
Sugar Land Graveyard: Fort Bend County, TX…………….…….68
Fiction by Nini Berndt
In the Magritte Museum………………………………………………..…69
Poems by Crystal Yeung
How to Prepare a Drunk Lamb …………………………………………70
My Mother in a Sea Captain Outfit by a Lake with a Girl in a Dress, Taishan, 1984…71
Dogeaters Look Like …………………………………………………………73
Gerritsen Beach ……………………………………………………………….74
Poem by Sri Lal
In Every Vessel…………………………………………………………………75
Fiction by Patty Houston
Corporation Alley………………………………………………………………77
Poem by Ray Ball
Graveyard: Shift…………………………………………………………………82
Poems by Travis Truax
Looking for Appalachia (Again) ………………………………………….83
The Kind of Truth Motels Carry………………………………………….84
Poems by Bradley Peters
Reflection……………………………………………………………………….…85
Family Tree………………………………………………………………….……86
Fiction by Zach Powers
The Golem of South Metro Atlanta……………………………..……87
Poems by Ryan Sharp
Brothering……………………………………………………………………..…91
Brothers Beckett………………………………………………………………92
my imaginary old man builds what………………………………..…93
Salt ……………………………………………………………………………..……94
Fiction by Martha Witt
Dust Bomb……………………………………………………………….………95
Poems by Michael Robins
Lake Superior…………………………………………………………….……102
The Kissing Idiot………………………………………………………………104
On the Wrong Walden Pond……………………………………………105
Poem for James Foley………………………………………………………106
Fiction by Grant Munroe
Edelweiss…………………………………………………………………………107
Poem by Susana Case
Herds…………………………………………………………………………..……114
Poems by C. Fausto Cabrera
Solitaire Confinements………………………………………………………115
Loud as Allowed……………………………………………………………..…117
All I Know About Prison Shanks…………………………………………118
Castles Made of Ash……………………………………………………….…120
When Lazarus Walks………………………………………………………….121
Contributor Notes……………………………………………………………123
AWARD WINNERS—descant2019……………………………..………128