Issue 22.1

Harpur Palate Issue 22.1, Summer 2023

About our cover image:

“3150FFCB” by Cyrus Carlson

Bio: Cyrus Carlson is an abstract artist from St Paul, MN.

ISSUE MASTHEAD

FICTION

Mongrels
Anisha Bhaduri

10 Musings: Eleanor
Chelsea Catherine

The Weight Pulling Everything Down
Tommy Dean

Night of the Cuban Dead
Michael Garcia Bertrand

Red Ocean
Alia Halstead

Fantasies of Ice-Fishing
J. T. Townley

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Ashes to Ashes
Donovan McAbee

Winner of the 2022 Harpur Palate Creative Nonfiction Award

The Accident
Clara Bosek-Schroeder

Hot Vax Summer
Michael Colbert

The Redwood Curtain
Eli Coyle

My Face-Eating Octopus
Rachel Furey

There Will Be No More Tears
Steve Mitchell

Three Flash Essays
Peter E. Murphy

Keeping Each Other in Check
Violet Piper

Savior Complex
Lauren Rhoades

POETRY

Kids Cut Right Through the Nonsense;
Robert Carney
Winner of the 2022 Milton Kessler Memorial Prize in Poetry

Divers
Samuel Amadon

Erotomania
Sascha Cohen

on estrangement
grace (ge) gilbert

4 Uses of a 4 qt. Pyrex
Marina Greenfeld

terra—
Hailey Gross

past down
BEE LB

Trick
Leigh Lucas

X CALLS ME BOY
John Muellner

Mustergrabanlage
Greg Nicholl

Taxidermy
Kayleigh Norgord

February 25, 2021
Michael Quattrone

what summer we held in our hands
Jessica Anne Robinson

FUN WHILE IT LAST—
Sara Sturek

the pediatric psychiatrist gives me a cautionary tale
Maria Zoccola