Front Label for Reparations Wine

Fresh-Cut Lit & More

ISSUE NO. 31

FALL 2020

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COLLABORATIONS

Reparations Wine Label Front and Back of Bottle image

Reparations Wine Label
An Oenophilogial Collaboration
Text and concept by *J’nai Gaither
Art by *Phoebe Funderburg-Moore

Richard Casimir conducting the Sagrado Corazon Youth Orchestra for a benefit concert in the Parliament of Navarra, located in the city of Pamplona. That concert entitled ¨Music against Inequality¨ was organized by Oxfam Intermon, to raise public awareness in combatting poverty around the world.

The Esperanza Project
A Musical Collaboration
Musical Composition and by Richard Casimir
Video Editing by Michael Casimir
“Antumbra” (poem) by **Herman Beavers

Terra in Flux
An Ekphrastic Collaboration
Poetry by Mark Danowsky
Photographs by John Singletary

greyscale image of a little girl twirling in a garden

CREATIVE NONFICTION

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Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.

cutting board, spices, and a cleaver

To Make and Eat Time
by Gregory Emilio

A street scene from Miami-Dade Florida. traffic cones, graffiti

Eleven Micro-Memoirs from the Pandemic
by Freesia McKee*

greyscale image of a little girl twirling in a garden

The Years Go By in Single File
by Roberta Beary

small boy peeking through a window to the outdoors

FICTION

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Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue.

woman wearing headscarf in an airport line

Violation
by Seyda Akyuz-Mannion*

hallway inside a penitentiary

Pets for Penitents
by Christopher David Rosales

a street scene in Paris

Gare Du Nord, 1988
by Kim Magowan

Image of a computer keyboard in an office at night

Night Class
by Jared Lemus*

a bicycle lying in the roadway at night in the rain

Smoky
by Ben Austin*

small boy peeking through a window to the outdoors

Foxley Redux
by Benjamin Soileau

a casino at night with the word "flamingo" in neon lights

Dirty Thirty
by Shanna Merceron

View from the deck of an ocean liner at sunset

Some Other Continent
by Melissa Benton Barker

withered grey dandelion

FLASH

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Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue.

three red pears on a blurred green background

Triptych
by Steve Chang

withered grey dandelion

Five Ways the World Ends
by K.S. Lokensgard

an old chair on a rotting porch

Welcome Center (Some Notes for Our Visitors)
by Susan Frith

A dark room with a bright window

Interval
by Sue Mell

A pair of sneakers with a mysterious shadow, in the rain

POETRY

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Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue.

A sunflower at dusk in front of blue morning glory vines

Evan Anders, speaking of sunflowers

A forest in foggy light

*Chi Siegel, my lover starts seeing

red liquid with bubbles, close up

Brian Ellis, The Price of Hands

A pair of sneakers with a mysterious shadow, in the rain

**Nicole Greaves, Eidolon

A hand holding a coin

*Rosemary Kitchen, Field Notes for the Magician: Sleight of Hand

VISUAL NARRATIVE

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Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published visual narratives gathered from each quarterly issue.

A Sack of Potatoes, The Tired Farmer, & The Mighty World
by Steph Jones*

Cover illustration by Phoebe Funderburg-Moore

*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist

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