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We’re excited to announce that our 2024 issue (vol 63!) has been released!

Get your personal copy here:  https://epay.tcu.edu/press_descant

The rates are $12 US and $15 international.

2022 Prize Winners have been posted on our “Awards” page, and the Table of Contents is available below!

 

2024 TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Poem by Becky Kennedy

    • Heron

Poem by Leen Raats

    • #Prague

Fiction by James Ulmer

    • Twilight at Pea Ridge

Poems by Erica Lee Braverman

    • Robert Bales’ Third Deployment
    • Aubade

Poems by Pamela Alexander

    • Night Light
    • Date to be Determined

Fiction by Nico Bailey

    • Excessive and Spurious Emotion

Poem by Kurt Olsson

    • Accidents of Time and Space

Poem by Elizabeth Rees

    • Word Eaters

Poem by Heidi Zeigler

    • penny oranges

Fiction by Karen Wunsch

    • Big Girls Like Swings, Too

Poem by Kathryn Jordan

    • Watching from the Plane

Poems by Laurinda Lind

    • Cold Comfort
    • Last Trick

Poems by Ellen McGrath Smith

    • Shaken 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
    • Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #282

Fiction by Caleb Coy

    • I Love You, Prancer Donner Blitzen

Featured Artist, Simeen Farhat

    • Biography
    • Artist’s Statement

Poems by Matthew Moniz

    • (0, 0, 0)
    • that little old moon
    • Tippet Only Tulle
    • Soliloquy on My Father’s Death

Fiction by Dan Pinkerton

    • Being Charitable

Fiction by Richard Paik

    • Traditions

Poem by Emily Tucker

    • apocalypse

Poems by Molly Lanzarotta

    • The Cathedral Is Burning
    • Every Black Hole Is Unhappy in Its Own Way
    • Now Is Not the Time to Talk About Guns

Fiction by Rosalia Scalia

    • The Miraculous Leaves of Meat-Eating Plants

Poems by Sarah McCartt-Jackson

    • Labor
    • Otherly

Poems by Sarah Sarai

    • The Dubious Green of the Hudson
    • We Who Are Common and Morally Iffy

Special Section — The Time Capsule

 

Essay by Mara A. Cohen

    • My Family Portrait Had a Hole a Baby Wouldn’t Fill

Fiction by Jean-Marc Duplantier

    • Raton Pass