Fresh-Cut Lit & More

Issue No. 38 SUMMER 2022

FEATURING


*Rebecca Ackermann, Birthing Lessons
Nathan Willis, The Soft Animals
Mariana Sabino, The Undercurrent
*Lara Markstein, No Name Island
*Maggie Mumford, Intuition
Gemini Wahhaj, Urgent

*Mitchell Untch, Twin I, Twin II
**Sadie Shorr-Parks, Winter on Earth, Modern Ledas
*Mateo Perez Lara, Memory Remains as Skeleton
*Mimi Yang, A Letter from my Father to Me
Alex Wells Shapiro, a rust chewed pipe
***Matt Thomas, Pop Song

Meg Pokrass, If You Want to Be Loved, Love
Timothy Boudreau, Life Is Too Sweet for This Level of Idgaf
*Rosemary Jones,
Shadow Water Nonfiction
*Tess Kelly,
Playhouse Nonfiction
*Jamie Nielsen, Confessions of a Careless Cabbage Person
*Will Musgrove, The Drive Home
R. C. Barajas, Dr. William’s Family Fix-U Shop Nonfiction
Francine Witte, Drunkdaddy
Damian Dressick, Decadence ’94 (Southern) Nonfiction

*Deb Fenwick, Riding West Toward the Woods
*Luisa Luo, Six Rants from a Nasty Yellow Girl
Peter DeMarco, War Games

War and Peace 2.0
A Visual Memoir by **Emily Steinberg

To What Survived
Sculpture by Mario Loprete

Cover Design by Karen Rile


*Cleaver Emerging Artist

**Artist of Philadelphia

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

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OUR CUTLERY DRAWER

In addition to the quarterly literary magazine, Cleaver publishes daily features:

Ask June
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Book Reviews
Publications by small and indie presses

Writer-to-Writer
Essays on craft & the writing life

Interviews
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Comix
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Workshops
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