Orpheus - Volume XL - 2023
CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Azam Abbasi
Who Am I?
I Lost Myself
Abdulrahman Alsakran
Missing Home
Ann Antonio
Instead I Said I’m Fine
Soshi Arai
In the Room
Sarah Atkinson
Innocence in Theft
Lily Bussell
Beowulf Boast
C.A.D.H.
The Ocean Under the Moon
Alyssa Cantu
Fever Dream
Dreamcatcher
Answer (black-out poem)
Moriah Conedy
Etymology: On the Aging of Words
Miyu Furuichi
5 Years Old Me
Mallory Gardner
Bakersfield Sounds Like
Ruben Gladin
Coffee and a Talk
Karina Hurtado
Tired
Leah Jaymes
Burdens
Emi Kimata
My Family
Kyo
Simple Truths
Brit Melson
Hands
Standing in the WinCo Checkout Line
Villagers on Horseback
Otoka Miura
Myself Ten Years From Now
Joe Louis Naval Nitro
Fog
Drunken
Sutures
Yuka Narushima
Dear My Best Friend
Sayaka Oki
My friends ’till the end—
Matthew Phengdy
The Day Spring Came
Jasmyn Qiao
My Dream
Melinda Quach
From the One Who Loves Their Other Self
From the One Who Has Become a Living Corpse
Taylor Redstone
To Make a Poet of a Woman
Dead Wood
José Rios
The Mortar Among Us
The Stars Don’t Align For Us
Marin Sato
The Presence That Cheers Me Up
Lydia Shimeall
The Highway
Isis Soto
Laying Down on Saturn
Tyler Tangen
Exhalation
Nights
Reiteration
Tawny Timmons
Metamorphosis
Adriana Toledo
Butterflies
Steve
Identity
Mariam Traore
My Beautiful Mom
Toshiki Tsunoda
To My Future Self
Aloe Vera
Resumé
The Ferryman
Poem For A Lover
Maiju Wada
What I Want To Do Before Dying
Wes Werner
Radio Frequency Interface
Efface
Sana Yamasaki
My Happiness
Misaki Yoshimi
Things I Want To Do Before I Turn 20
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Fatyma Cendejas
Household Machismo
Lischa Mears
Hanging by a Red String
Set Your Heart Ablaze
The Whisper of My Heart
Alyssa Morales
Self-Portrait as a Heartbreak Playlist (An Abecedarian)
Melinda Quach
Marriage is Like a House
SHORT FICTION
Michelle Coral
The Generational Curse
Leah Jaymes
Darling
Ann Marie Lawson
Wilton and Hudson
Mary Killeen Pena
I/us/we
Matthew Phengdy
Armored Suit Guyframe: White Angel ~An Armored Suit Guyframe Side-Story~
Melinda Quach
Through a Child’s Eyes
Tyler Tangen
The Prisoner & Executioner
Wes Werner
They Unnamed Me
Averi Yanney
The Gentlewoman
DRAMA & FILM
Matthew Phengdy
Masked Rider
Jan Mateo Tugab
Shadow
Michael Zegarra
Hotline Miami
ART
Cameron Dominguez
Yvette
Lauren Esqueda
Universal Flower
Untitled
Out of this World
Patty Martinez
Del bario
Fun and games
Ana
Transparency
Victoria Owens
Cupcake
Bear
Esmeralda Rivera
Capri Sun
Faith Tangen
Untitled 1
Untitled 2
Tyler Tangen
Blue Side of Town
Red
Wes Werner
Uriel
Azam Abbasi
Who Am I?
I Lost Myself
Abdulrahman Alsakran
Missing Home
Ann Antonio
Instead I Said I’m Fine
Soshi Arai
In the Room
Sarah Atkinson
Innocence in Theft
Lily Bussell
Beowulf Boast
C.A.D.H.
The Ocean Under the Moon
Alyssa Cantu
Fever Dream
Dreamcatcher
Answer (black-out poem)
Moriah Conedy
Etymology: On the Aging of Words
Miyu Furuichi
5 Years Old Me
Mallory Gardner
Bakersfield Sounds Like
Ruben Gladin
Coffee and a Talk
Karina Hurtado
Tired
Leah Jaymes
Burdens
Emi Kimata
My Family
Kyo
Simple Truths
Brit Melson
Hands
Standing in the WinCo Checkout Line
Villagers on Horseback
Otoka Miura
Myself Ten Years From Now
Joe Louis Naval Nitro
Fog
Drunken
Sutures
Yuka Narushima
Dear My Best Friend
Sayaka Oki
My friends ’till the end—
Matthew Phengdy
The Day Spring Came
Jasmyn Qiao
My Dream
Melinda Quach
From the One Who Loves Their Other Self
From the One Who Has Become a Living Corpse
Taylor Redstone
To Make a Poet of a Woman
Dead Wood
José Rios
The Mortar Among Us
The Stars Don’t Align For Us
Marin Sato
The Presence That Cheers Me Up
Lydia Shimeall
The Highway
Isis Soto
Laying Down on Saturn
Tyler Tangen
Exhalation
Nights
Reiteration
Tawny Timmons
Metamorphosis
Adriana Toledo
Butterflies
Steve
Identity
Mariam Traore
My Beautiful Mom
Toshiki Tsunoda
To My Future Self
Aloe Vera
Resumé
The Ferryman
Poem For A Lover
Maiju Wada
What I Want To Do Before Dying
Wes Werner
Radio Frequency Interface
Efface
Sana Yamasaki
My Happiness
Misaki Yoshimi
Things I Want To Do Before I Turn 20
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Fatyma Cendejas
Household Machismo
Lischa Mears
Hanging by a Red String
Set Your Heart Ablaze
The Whisper of My Heart
Alyssa Morales
Self-Portrait as a Heartbreak Playlist (An Abecedarian)
Melinda Quach
Marriage is Like a House
SHORT FICTION
Michelle Coral
The Generational Curse
Leah Jaymes
Darling
Ann Marie Lawson
Wilton and Hudson
Mary Killeen Pena
I/us/we
Matthew Phengdy
Armored Suit Guyframe: White Angel ~An Armored Suit Guyframe Side-Story~
Melinda Quach
Through a Child’s Eyes
Tyler Tangen
The Prisoner & Executioner
Wes Werner
They Unnamed Me
Averi Yanney
The Gentlewoman
DRAMA & FILM
Matthew Phengdy
Masked Rider
Jan Mateo Tugab
Shadow
Michael Zegarra
Hotline Miami
ART
Cameron Dominguez
Yvette
Lauren Esqueda
Universal Flower
Untitled
Out of this World
Patty Martinez
Del bario
Fun and games
Ana
Transparency
Victoria Owens
Cupcake
Bear
Esmeralda Rivera
Capri Sun
Faith Tangen
Untitled 1
Untitled 2
Tyler Tangen
Blue Side of Town
Red
Wes Werner
Uriel