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Issue No. 44 • WINTER 2023
Introducing
SPECIAL FEATURE
Story Seek
Five Philadelphia Writers
We’re thrilled to present five new virtual-reality journeys combining color, sound, and site-specific poetry, memoir, and fiction. Story Seek is a multimedia love letter to Philadelphia’s streets, neighborhoods, and secret, favorite places. Works by top local authors trace paths through five Philadelphia neighborhoods. Story Seek’s unique desktop app is part immersive theater, part video game, and part neighborhood poetry slam, offering users a new template for interactive, place-based digital art that celebrates contemporary urban life. Story Seek is a collaboration between Cleaver and the Drexel Entrepreneurial Game Studio, funded in part by the William Penn Foundation and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.
Experience five video journeys now—and join our mailing list for first access to the interactive game, coming soon from Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio and Cleaver.
Winter Quarterly Litmag
*** Monique Danielle, The Love
Marie Manilla, Retrospective
* Hannah Smart, The Detriment of Doubt
* Joshua Ambre, Freedom Trail
Richie Zaborowske, Stay on the Line
* J. Bradley Minnick, A Man’s Reach Should Exceed His Grasp
David Waters, Song of the Redwoods
Todd Robinson, Everywhere the World is Green and Dying
Michelle Bitting, Manger, Emptied
* Gideon Huan-Lang, Transness as Perpetual Paperboy
* Matt Thomas, Anniversary Poem II
Erin Mizrahi, I missed another deadline but it’s okay it’s really okay
* Ginger Ayla, Drink, Anyway, The Light
Meg Pokrass, Mom and the Otters
Patricia Flaherty Pagan, Tidings of Comfort and Joy
* Kelli Short Borges, Two Micros
Jeff Friedman, Four Microfictions
Sue Mell, Transported (Nonfiction)
Beth Broome, Recipe for Viable Zygotes (Nonfiction)
Matthew Guenette, Three Flash Pieces (Nonfiction)
* Jennifer Jussel, This One Small Thing Will Fix Your Sex Life
*** Robbin Farr, To the Man Who Listens for Echoes
Cover Design by Karen Rile
Story Seek Cover by Jackson Tatge
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***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist