Cleaver Magazine Issue 52 Winter 2025-2026 showcases the Visual Poetics Contest Winners: First Place “Box of Air” by Katrina Roberts; Second Place “MASH (a Cento Game for Poetry Lovers)” by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose; and Third Place “Untitled Mural, Acrylic on Four Vertical Metal Panels, 6’ x 8’, c. 1979” by Cindy Hill.
The issue also includes poetry by Robyn Schelenz, Simon Parker, David John Rosenheim, Ivy Hoffman, Jim Stewart; fiction by KSM, N.D. Brown, Andrew V. Lorenzen, Marc Kaufman, Terri Lewis; micro fiction and nonfiction by Barbara Westwood Diehl, Louella Lester, Emily Rinkema, Aurora Bonner, Preeti Talwai, Sydney Lea, Bobby Crace, Kevin Spaide, Beth Gilstrap, Claudia Monpere; nonfiction by Vivienne Germain, Sara Quinn Rivara, and the visual narrative “Connecticus Diggs, Cultural Detective Episode 4: Letters” by Clifford Thompson.
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