We’re excited to announce that our 2020 issue (vol 59!) has been released!
Get your personal copy here: https://epay.tcu.edu/press_descant
2020 Prize Winners have been posted on our “Awards” page, and the Table of Contents is available below!
2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction by Mehdi M. Kashani
Homemade………………………………………………………………………………….. 8
Poem by John Hyland
Too Much……………………………………………………………………………………….16
Poem by Charles Harper Webb
Remedies……………………………………………………………………………………….17
Poems by Elton Glaser
Cut and Paste………………………………………………………………………………….18
Five Loose Haiku …………………………………………………………………………….19
Hazards and Grace………………………………………………………………………….20
In the Nave of the New World………………………………………………………….21
Pixelated………………………………………………………………………………………….22
Fiction by Debbie Bateman
Intimacy………………………………………………………………………………………….. 23
Poem by Carla Panciera
Some Consideration of Pigeons, the Afterlife……………………………………..28
Poem by Tom Hansen
Apples and Oranges………………………………………………………………………….29
Poem by Paul Genega Moordener
Kill……………………………………………………………………………………………………..31
Fiction by Patricia Horvath
Griswold……………………………………………………………………………………………32
Poems by Jenn Blair
The War Ended …………………………………………………………………………………38
My Love ……………………………………………………………………………………………39
The Ballad of Jesse Garon………………………………………………………………….40
Fiction by R.M. Kinder
The Dancer’s Son………………………………………………………………………………43
Featured Artist, Ruby Berry
Biography & Artist’s Statement …………………………………………………………52
Portfolio …………………………………………………………………………………………..53
Poems by F. Daniel Rzicznek
All Business………………………………………………………………………………………60
Contraband Hands……………………………………………………………………………61
Habit Former…………………………………………………………………………………….62
Gastropub Cadaver……………………………………………………………………………63
Fiction by Heath Dollar
Down From the Mountain…………………………………………………………………64
Poem by Ann Lauinger
The Parlor Wit……………………………………………………………………………….. 68
Poem by Benjamin Brezner
On Lineage …………………………………………………………………………………….69
Poem by Sarah Summerson
taxidermied black bear …………………………………………………………………….70
Poem by Laura Sweeney
I’m Not Normally A Sign Girl, But I Was Told Pussy Riot Would Be Here (II)…………..71
Fiction by Portia Tewogbade
Legal …………………………………………………………………………………………………72
Poem by Ben Lewellyn-Taylor
How It Is Now…………………………………………………………………………………….78
Poem by Dana Salvador
Sunday Morning in June………………………………………………………………………79
Poems by Adam Clay Finger
on the Heart……………………………………………………………………………………….80
No One With Luck ………………………………………………………………………………81
Off Like a Cloud ………………………………………………………………………………… 82
Fiction by John Loonam
The Unexamined Life………………………………………………………………………….83
Poems by Dobby Gibson
Sun Salutation ……………………………………………………………………………………90
Hold Everything ………………………………………………………………………………….91
May Day………………………………………………………………………………………………92
New Year’s Eve …………………………………………………………………………………….93
Fiction by Brandi Reissenweber
Basic Needs ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 94
Poem by Jo Angela Edwins
Magdalene…………………………………………………………………………………….100
Poem by Diane K. Martin
Word in Edgewise ………………………………………………………………………….101
Poem by Marilyn Kallet
Entreaty………………………………………………………………………………………..102
Poems by Claire Wahmanholm
Meltwater [Ice / stretches between]……………………………………………….103
Meltwater [We / land]…………………………………………………………………….108
Meltwater [O / world] …………………………………………………………………….112
Contributor Notes ……………………………………………………………………………116
2020 Award Winners—Selected by Guest Judge Heather Harpham……. 120