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Eckleburg No. 22Eckleburg celebrates 15 years of publishing this year! Eckleburg is a literary and arts journal publishing original works from both emerging and awarded writers, poets, artists and musicians including Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, Moira Egan and David Wagoner. Eckleburg No. 22 curates a beautiful selection of traditional and genre-bending creative nonfiction by Jessica Lanay, Michael Martone, poetry by Kathleen Hellen, art by Bobby Neel Adams, fiction featuring Kim Chinquee, Sara Lippmann and our Gertrude ... |

Four Walls: Bastian Cities or Trace Italienne

I Am Not Antigone: Notes on Losing My Brother

The Last Survivor Dance

Rebecca from the Bible Visits Anne Sexton One Less Welcome Morning

Look Backwards

Anodyne by Khadijah Queen

Ghost Dogs by Andre Dubus III
![[My father built homes for settlers in the West Bank]](https://www.eckleburg.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Emma-Goldman-Sherman-Accented-Edges-300x300.png)
[My father built homes for settlers in the West Bank]

We Deserve the Gods We Ask For by Seth Brady Tucker

Nervosities by John Madera

We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik

Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir by Deborah A. Lott

Alba and Other Songs: Poems and Poemas by Fred Arroyo

Better to Cry Now: Shaping the Flow of a Gay Black Man by Geoffrey Newman

White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton

The Tutor by Marilee Albert

My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu

Arroyo by Chip Jacobs

Eckleburg’s 15th Anniversary at AWP 2025 in Los Angeles

The Burial of Abraham

Mylia

on the nature of exception

Eckleburg at AWP 2025, Los Angeles

Lily Iona MacKenzie
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[I was born in Philadelphia’s Temple]

Rocks, Fox and Wendell Berry

What’s Your Emergency?

“They Kept Putting a ‘D’ in Front of Her Name” by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

“Tragicomedy for the Fallen: Part I” by Kurt Baumeister
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FEATURED RECOMMENDATIONAnodyne by Khadijah QueenVery excited that Khadijah Queen will be a 2025 Visiting Writer at Longleaf Writers Conference this year. I am reading her poetry collection, Anodyne (Tin House Books, 2020). “In the event of an apocalypse, be ready to die,” the opening poem in the collection, proves prescient for today’s reader: “But do also remember, gardens, |
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