The Sparrow Waltz – Barren Magazine

Issue No.9

The Sparrow Waltz

2019 BARREN POETRY CONTEST WINNERS

1st Place

Barren

[Brittany Atkinson]

2nd Place

To My Eldest at the Age of Burning

[Benjamin Cutler]

3rd Place

Order, Family, Genus, Species

[Kim Harvey]

2019 BARREN POETRY CONTEST SHORTLIST

An Elegy for Opportunity

[Courtney Tala]

Hazel, 16, Eats Blackberry Pie

[Sara Cassidy]

New Engine Desperado

[Helen Rear]

Space Travel & Animals: Super Bowl III, Jets vs. Colts, Sunday, January 12, 1969

[H. E. Fisher]

at a bougie restaurant in manhattan with five of your best friends

[Courtney Tala]

ISSUE NO.9 EDITORS' PICKS

Licentious

Licentious

Sara Moore Wagner

Someone to Stay

Someone to Stay

Autopsy of a Bird's Nest

Autopsy of a Bird’s Nest

The Weight of Oars

The Weight of Oars

Ann Kathryn Kelly

Pepper

Pepper

Sheldon Lee Compton

A Tug or Two

A Tug or Two

Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

FICTION

Petals of the Yellow Dahlia

Petals of the Yellow Dahlia

Norman Belanger

What Happens on Sundays

What Happens on Sundays

Pepper

Pepper

Sheldon Lee Compton

MUH

MUH

Grocery Shopping

Grocery Shopping

Whitney Curry Wimbish

Application for a Restraining Order

Application for a Restraining Order

FLASH FICTION

When I Was House-Like, Inside

When I Was House-Like, Inside

Roppotucha Greenberg

Someone to Stay

Someone to Stay

The Lighthouse in the Lake

The Lighthouse in the Lake

A Tug or Two

A Tug or Two

Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

Dragonkin

Dragonkin

Star-Crossed

Jennifer Dickinson

CREATIVE NONFICTION

The Weight of Oars

The Weight of Oars

Ann Kathryn Kelly

To Be Held

To Be Held

(re)Naming

(re)Naming

Anna Vangala Jones

Sphecius Speciosus

Sphecius Speciosus

Robbie Maakestad

Socks in a Tree

Socks in a Tree

Band Practice

Band Practice

GRAFFITI TOWN

A Photo Essay by Andrew Hall

PHOTOGRAPHY

Cover photograph by Tara Shepersky.

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