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Cartoon Caption Contest – Grump the Conqueror $500

Cartoon Caption Contest - Grump the Conqueror $500. In honor of our second year under Grump the Conqueror, Eckleburg is running a caption contest featuring you know who and his newest favorite conquest. We thought about going with an Epstein theme, but the cartoon just got way too creepy.

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Couples

"These portraits have a secondary meaning: when the male is spliced together with the female—a representation bi-sexual being is created. The composite Couples image represents the male and female qualities in all of us."

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Bobby Neel Adams
Bobby Neel Adams was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina and presently resides in Arizona on the Mexico Border. Adams has exhibited worldwide and his photographs are in the permanent collections of: International Center for Photography, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Station Museum, diRosa Foundation, and the Norton Family Foundation to name a few. Adams has received grants and awards from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, LEF Foundation, MacDowell Art Colony and the Hermitage. His book Broken Wings was published by the Greenville Museum in 1997. Adams is currently working on a series of Memento Mori photographs of insects, birds, and mammals. He is the Eckleburg No. 22 featured artist. Read more at bobbyneeladams.com.
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“The Moment It Locks To” and other Poems

The moment it locks to. the wind turns its circles: a rotating tangle – a passage as pasta through grey pewter forks. people walk grafton st, swinging fat shopping bags like men at the back doors of butchers and pieces of meat. everything locks to the moment it locks to. sinks like a well digging …

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D.S. Maolalai
DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as "a cosmopolitan poet" and another as "prolific, bordering on incontinent". His work has been nominated thirteen times for BOTN, ten for the Pushcart and once for the Forward Prize, and released in three collections; "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016), "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019) and “Noble Rot” (Turas Press, 2022)
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Experience Ekpyrotic

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2 Poems

On Watching a YouTube Video of a Couple Cutting into Cake The ease with which the steel shovel cuts into the neutral exterior, it might make sense to separate things into neat, consumable slices, to make each piece the same size and shape. And celebrate such order. Not everything, though, is either blue or pink. …

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Jonathan Fletcher
Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. His work has been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines, and he has won or placed in various literary contests. A Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction nominee, he won Northwestern University Press’s Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize contest in 2023, for which his debut chapbook, This is My Body, was published in 2025. Currently, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio, Texas.