Home » Newpages Blog » Magazine Stand :: Cleaver – Issue 53

Magazine Stand :: Cleaver – Issue 53

Cleaver Magazine showcases innovative literary and visual art by both emerging and established creators, publishing poetry, fiction, essays, flash prose, dramatic monologues, and artwork open access online. The Spring 2026 issue opens with the Visual Poetics Contest Finalists as selected by Judge Kazim Ali and features works by Warren C. Longmire, Amy Beth Sisson, Alison Powell, Jack Brummett, Beth Kephart, Kristen Gallagher, Alan Pelaez Lopez, and G. Dylan Sessoms. The issue also includes fiction by EJ Green, David Driscoll, June Martin, Tracy Morin; flash prose by Jamie Holland, Lauren Woods, Ellen Winn, Karen Laws, Jacqueline Doyle, Christopher Passante, Debbie Weaver, Brooke Middlebrook, Laurie Blauner; and creative nonfiction by Amy Beth Sisson. Clifford Thompson’s visual narrative, “CONNECTICUS DIGGS — Cultural Detective Episode 5: The Path” closes out the issue.