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Fall 2013

Published on September 21, 2013

There’s something for everyone in our Fall 2013 issue of Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing. Sit back and enjoy works by William Logan, Katrina Kenison, Ada Limón, Rebecca Rosenblum, Cathleen Calbert, Beth Kephart, Hannah Stephenson, and many other accomplished writers, poets, and artists.

In This Issue

Tealights against brick wall

26 Tea Lights

Nonfiction

Acknowledgments

Compose

Appropriation

Fiction

dia de los muertos

Poetry

Handling the Truth—An Excerpt

Feature

Hot, Hot, Heat

Fiction

I Asked a Color Once What Made It a Color

Fiction

In the Wake

Fiction
Mantilla Close-Up

La Viuda—The Widow

Nonfiction
Bird nests

Little Pink Hatchling

Nonfiction
Abstract chipped red paint

Loneliness

Fiction

Marion Roach Smith Talks Time Management

Feature

Mean Mail

Feature
Abstract woman painting

Red on White

Nonfiction

Regardless of What You Face | 5 Paintings

Artwork

Stolen Family Jewels, and Other Gifts

Nonfiction

The Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Done

Nonfiction

The Vacation Fight

Fiction

They Walk This Way in Paris Too | 5 Photographs

Artwork

Three Poems

Poetry

Three Poems

Poetry

Three Poems

Poetry

Three Poems

Poetry
Blue suitcases stacked

Two Poems: The Locked Closet; The Other Other Country

Poetry

Two Poems: Preoccupation; San Andreas

Poetry

Two Poems by Paul David Adkins

Poetry

Two Poems: Raspberries; The Blue Heron

Poetry

Two Poems: Wolf; Reciprocity

Poetry

Two Poems: Hovering; Stasis

Poetry

Untitled Collages from 1975

Artwork

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Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing is a biannual, online publication that features work by both established and emerging writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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