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Spy Reprints “An Expression of Grief” by Abigail Johnson

September 29, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Author’s Note: “An Experience of Grief” is an effort to put down into words the wordless horror that is grief. The concept and the structure of the poem are inspired by a grounding technique that is popular as a coping mechanism for various mental health issues. This technique aims to ground one in space and time by using the senses to observe and reconnect to the physical world. By interrogating the feeling of grief in this manner and attaching physical sensations to it, it is my hope that the inexpressible has become slightly more expressible... [Continue Story]

Spy Reprints “Walt Whitman at the Playground” by Adam Tamashasky

September 28, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Author’s Note: I’ve long loved Walt Whitman’s work for many reasons, and this piece—“Walt Whitman at the Playground”—echoes one of them: his enthusiastic joy at everyday moments, a joy that often strikes me as augmented by an ever-present thought for mortality. I wrote the poem at the playground in question, watching my daughters at play and the people around me, grateful that we were all alive together at this one moment... [Continue Story]

Spy Reprints “Magnetic Doorstop” by Catherine Carter

September 28, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Author’s Note: The unseen forces that surround us and shape our lives are so fascinating—and I mean the literal ones, like magnetism or gravity, not just the metaphysical ones, though I also have doubts about how different those really are. If the spiritual and metaphysical are anywhere, then they’re here, they’re now, they’re ordinary and constant. They’re in humankind and they’re also in the magnetic doorstop... [Continue Story]

Spy Reprints “Querencia” by Sarah Barnett

September 28, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Editor’s Note: “Querencia,” from the Delmarva Review’s 14th annual edition, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in nonfiction.

Author’s Note: When I first began writing memoir, I wrote a lot ... [Continue Story]

Spy Reprints “Away We Go” by Jessica Gregg

September 27, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Author's Note: "Sometimes poets have epiphanies—sometimes we simply turn on the radio. I was listening to NPR when I heard the delightful tidbit that inspired this poem. I took words cut from magazines ... [Continue Story]

Spy Reprints “Something, Somehow, Somewhere” by Alexa Weik von Mossner

September 27, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Author’s Note: “Something, Somehow, Somewhere” tells the story of a young Brooklyn farmer who travels across the country to meet her estranged father and his seemingly perfect family while a hurricane ... [Continue Story]

Spy Reprints “Pelicans” by Shirley Hilton

September 27, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Author’s Note: “Sometimes when I sit quietly and pay attention, the story tells itself. Watching the pelicans, I began to contemplate the way life balances itself out: sometimes together, sometimes ... [Continue Story]

Spy Reprints “Old Woman Walking” by Katherine J. Williams

September 3, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Author’s Note: “Keenly aware of the transient beauty along the dirt roads in County Claire, Ireland, I began this poem as a way to notice, savor, and hold these precious images close. But I ask: Am I ... [Continue Story]

Spy Reprints “Desideratum: Something Desired as Essential” by Caroline Bock

September 3, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Author’s Note: “In his late thirties, my youngest brother, a big guy who owned a bar in a southern college town, decided to study nursing. Eventually, he became a nurse practitioner in Cleveland, Ohio. He loved the work, especially with veterans and seniors. We were both crazy-busy with our careers and families and only checked in with one another for a birthday, on the fly between bringing our kids from one event to another, and then, the pandemic hit. He was, and is, on the medical front lines. Our phone calls changed from quick and superficial to something else. These calls made me think about what was essential in life. Sometimes little brothers are useful.” ... [Continue Story]

Spy Reprints “Devotion, A Ghost Story” by Laura J. Oliver

September 1, 2022 By The Editorial Team

Author’s Note: “We can’t see dark energy or dark matter. We can’t see infrared, or ultraviolet light, yet we investigated and discovered they are real. What else exists beyond the limitations of our 5 ... [Continue Story]

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