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Untitled Haiku, Andrew S. Ellis Feb 2019

Untitled Haiku, Andrew S. Ellis

Mad River Review

Andrew S. Ellis is annoying, infuriating, agitating, provoking, engaging, encouraging, and all the things that make a person interesting. His poetry and short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Teen Ink, the Ohio Poetry Association Common Threads, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. He is a graduate of Wright State University, earning a BA in Religion. He lives in Ohio and survives primarily off of peanut M&Ms and mountain Dew.


Two Poems By Bernard Horn, Bernard Horn Feb 2019

Two Poems By Bernard Horn, Bernard Horn

Mad River Review

Bernard Horn’s Our Daily Words, winner of the Old Seventy Creek Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the 2011 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His translations from the Hebrew of Yehuda Amichai’s poetry have appeared in The New Yorker and other magazines. His poems have been featured in the Dime Show Review, the New York Times, Home(less)ness: Geographies of Identity: a zine, and the 2015 anthology, Devouring the Green: Anthology of New Writing. One poem was used to commemorate 9/11 on huffingtonpost.com, and he was a finalist for the 2016 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the …


Cliff Path, Anne Britting Oleson Feb 2019

Cliff Path, Anne Britting Oleson

Mad River Review

Anne Britting Oleson lives and writes from the side of a mountain in Central Maine. She has published three chapbooks (The Church of St. Materiana, The Beauty of It, and Alley of Dreams) and two novels (The Book of the Mandolin Player and Dovecote). Her work has appeared in literary magazines worldwide.


Doing His Time With Fire, John Grey Feb 2019

Doing His Time With Fire, John Grey

Mad River Review

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in the Homestead Review, Poetry East and Columbia Review with work upcoming in Harpur Palate, the Hawaii Review and North Dakota Quarterly.


Two Apples Too Heavy, Colleen S. Harris Feb 2019

Two Apples Too Heavy, Colleen S. Harris

Mad River Review

Colleen S. Harris serves as a librarian on the faculty at California State University Channel Islands, where she also teaches in the Freedom and Justice Studies minor. She is the author of God in My Troat: The Lilith Poems (Bellowing Ark 2009), These Terrible Sacraments (Bellowing Ark, 2010), and The Kentucky Vein (Punkin House, 2011), as well as the chapbooks That Reckless Sound and Some Assembly Required out of Porkbelly Press (2014). She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee for her poetry and fiction, holds the MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and is the co-editor of Women and Poetry: …


Polybius, Katelin Branham Aug 2018

Polybius, Katelin Branham

Best Integrated Writing

This story brought me back to my video-game days—the roll of the joystick in my twelve-year-old palm, the smell of adolescent sweat, and the dizzying belief the game was out to get me. Now I’m wondering if that might have been true. Branham’s story delves deep into its main character’s consciousness to extract complicated questions about competition and friendship, the relationship between humans and technology, and the chilling question of what it means to be alive. Branham trusts her readers to keep up and crack the codes of the story, and what we’re rewarded with is both a wild fantasy …


Nexus, Spring 2018, Wright State University Community Apr 2018

Nexus, Spring 2018, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.


Piney Woods Florida, 1964, David Holloway Sep 2017

Piney Woods Florida, 1964, David Holloway

Mad River Review

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Two Poems By Jennifer Van Alstyne, Jennifer Van Alstyne Sep 2017

Two Poems By Jennifer Van Alstyne, Jennifer Van Alstyne

Mad River Review

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House, Carol Schaechterle Sep 2017

House, Carol Schaechterle

Mad River Review

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Three Poems By Martha Webster, Martha Webster Sep 2017

Three Poems By Martha Webster, Martha Webster

Mad River Review

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Beyond Imagining: The Heart Of The Wild, Ed Davis Sep 2017

Beyond Imagining: The Heart Of The Wild, Ed Davis

Mad River Review

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Cased, Chris Drew Sep 2017

Cased, Chris Drew

Mad River Review

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Smith Coronas In Bangladesh, Robert Bartusch Sep 2017

Smith Coronas In Bangladesh, Robert Bartusch

Mad River Review

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Three Poems By Margie Shaheed, Margie Shaheed Sep 2017

Three Poems By Margie Shaheed, Margie Shaheed

Mad River Review

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Three Poems By Betsy M. Hughes, Betsy M. Hughes Sep 2017

Three Poems By Betsy M. Hughes, Betsy M. Hughes

Mad River Review

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Food For The Journey, Cecile Cary Sep 2017

Food For The Journey, Cecile Cary

Mad River Review

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Three Poems By Myrna Stone, Myrna Stone Sep 2017

Three Poems By Myrna Stone, Myrna Stone

Mad River Review

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On The Fourth Of July It Rained, Mark Jackley Feb 2017

On The Fourth Of July It Rained, Mark Jackley

Mad River Review

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Prose By Tom Holmes, Tom Holmes Feb 2017

Prose By Tom Holmes, Tom Holmes

Mad River Review

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Some Thoughts On God, Sharif Shakhshir Feb 2017

Some Thoughts On God, Sharif Shakhshir

Mad River Review

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Two Poems By Daye Phillippo, Daye Phillippo Feb 2017

Two Poems By Daye Phillippo, Daye Phillippo

Mad River Review

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Five Poems By Myrna Stone, Myrna Stone Feb 2017

Five Poems By Myrna Stone, Myrna Stone

Mad River Review

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Two Poems By Jennifer Hambrick, Jennifer Hambrick Feb 2017

Two Poems By Jennifer Hambrick, Jennifer Hambrick

Mad River Review

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Light Of Humanity, Matthew A. Garrett Feb 2017

Light Of Humanity, Matthew A. Garrett

Mad River Review

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Two Poems By Larry D. Thacker, Larry D. Thacker Feb 2017

Two Poems By Larry D. Thacker, Larry D. Thacker

Mad River Review

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Three Poems By Matthew Chamberlin, Matthew Chamberlain Feb 2017

Three Poems By Matthew Chamberlin, Matthew Chamberlain

Mad River Review

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Three Poems By Susanna Lang, Susanna Lang Feb 2017

Three Poems By Susanna Lang, Susanna Lang

Mad River Review

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Five Poems By Alan Feldman, Alan Feldman Feb 2017

Five Poems By Alan Feldman, Alan Feldman

Mad River Review

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Nexus, Spring 2016, Wright State University Community Apr 2016

Nexus, Spring 2016, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.