Spring(s) & Other Resistance Products
Issue No. 17
A quarterly magazine of original works
by artists & writers
Art!
America Unspoken
Paintings by Tina Blondell
Poetry!
Michele Leavitt, Wood Lot in April
Preston Eagan, essay on taking too much Advil PM
Marcia Roberts, Pipe Lilies Pop Up After Rain & Hannah Finds a Lime in Our Yard
Jeanne Murray Walker, Letter to a Poet
Flower Conroy, How is a Tree Like a Snake Like a Heart & Have you ever awoken in a dew-soaked field
Elizabeth Morton, On Hold:
*Madeleine Wattenbarger, Future Ecologies
Tyler Gillespie, Florida Man
*Jeevika Verma, dark, darker
Katy Kim, August VIII
Emily Paige Wilson, Cartography
Peter Grandbois, Unfinished
*Kristen Brida, Describe to me your initial reaction when you got here
C. Wade Bentley, Tiger-Boy
Brenda Butka, April. Taylor Hollow
*Sean Flood, Hydroquinone
Short Stories!
J.T. Townley, A Whole New Ballgame
Sarah Sarai, With “Y” as an Absence of Pain
Taylor Kobran, A Difficult Woman
*Rachel Oestreich, Housekeeping in Seven Cigarettes
Emanuel Melo, The First Communion
Brandon Timm, For The Life of You
Louis Wenzlow, Lithuanian School Commencement Address
*Kyle Kouri, Fuck Donald Trump
Flash!
Danielle Dreger, Self-Check
*Nadia Laher, Snake
*Youssef Helmi, More
Donald Ryan, Escambia
Marc Harshman, Jail Break & She Didn’t Think of Herself as Religious
*Christine Hennessey, Anatomy Lesson
Nina Sabolik, The Man Who Swallowed the Moon
*Elizabeth Schmidt, True Salt
*Ajay Patri, Salvage
Creative Nonfiction!
Nancy Hightower, The Songs of My Youth
*Sydney Tammarine, Barycenter
*Shannon Cothran, Brothers, Boys, and What I Can Do
Sandra Shaw Homer, Alarm
Features
Ask June
Cleaver’s in-house advice columnist
Book Reviews
Publications by small and indie presses
Craft Essays
Writer-to-writer
Interviews
With writers, editors, and more
Life As Activism
Poetry and Prose on Social Justice
Radio Plays
Original plays performed by professional actors
On The Edge
Podcasts of original poetry & prose
Travel Essays
On the road with Cleaver
Editors’ Blog
What makes us thwack!
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***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist
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Cover image: “Urban American Gothic.” by Tina Blondell