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  • Greed Greed Greed

    by Chloe Cook, Poetry 2023

    In Covington, I smell the honeysuckle smeared across the hills: impenetrable yellow mocking the warblers as they guzzle mealworms…

    March 30, 2023
  • Still Life With Dog In The Yard

    by Joe Dahut, Poetry 2023

    The throat chaps from an easterly pumping harder now. A march of ants parade around the kettle in one straight line…

    March 30, 2023
  • Feeding Nagasaki

    by Chloe Cook, Poetry 2023

    A garland of tako tentacles dangles under the canopy of Natsuo’s yatai…

    March 30, 2023
  • Praying to Unreliable Gods

    by Joe Dahut, Poetry 2023

    Turn the door knob as if picking ripe figs. Spin the wrist and pull your harvest…

    March 30, 2023
  • A Visitation

    by Tatiana Dubin, Fiction 2023

    Remember that she’s the most elemental of women—made from the oldest & purest of things—and has spent most of her life trapped beneath layers of sand, with no way to externalize her angst or express her suffocation.

    March 29, 2023
  • Walter Benjamin’s Flight through the Pyrenees Up to the Bluffs of Pure Language

    by Kaylen Baker, Fiction 2023

    In a drawer at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, Klee’s angel holds his clustered smile in place. His eyes slide sideways, though there’s nothing to see in the dark. 

    March 29, 2023
  • Rite of Passage: Camus and the Turtle

    by Doug Bootes, Fiction 2023

    The Navy pilot’s manual did not provide a strategy for this. It happened quickly. Despite that, it unfolds slowly in your mind as you lie paralyzed on your back in some sort of oily gray phlegm-sludge.

    March 29, 2023
  • 93 Nola

    by Pamela Perlman, CNF 2023

    The curtain is thin in New Orleans. The beyond closer, the dead nearer. You hear it in the wailing music, you see it in the grey mists off the river, you feel it in cold air radiating off sunbaked bricks.

    March 28, 2023
  • Purgatory

    by Brendan Davern, CNF 2023

    A haunted Keno screen still flashes inside the bar. Some allege that the landlord’s wife goes in there to play and drink wine, as was her habit when the bar was open.

    March 28, 2023

New Limestone Review

New Limestone Review, formerly Limestone, is the literary journal of the University of Kentucky’s MFA in Creative Writing program.

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