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The Take: Liz Marlow

Ever wonder how journal editors make decisions about work to feature? The Take gives you a glimpse behind the scenes at Mud Season Review. Here, we feature one single poem or flash fiction piece that caught the attention of the editorial team, apart from the signature poetry portfolio or fiction piece in our bi-monthly issues. […]

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The Take: Jennifer Brown

Ever wonder how journal editors make decisions about work to feature? The Take gives you a glimpse behind the scenes at Mud Season Review. Here, we feature one single poem or flash fiction piece that caught the attention of the editorial team, apart from the signature poetry portfolio or fiction piece in our bi-monthly issues. […]

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The Take: Carley Besl

Carley Besl For Now On the sun, I weigh 27 times my earth-weight.27 is older than I am now, olderthan your mother when you were born.And though my womb has only yielded red,didn’t you bring me here to nurse you through grief?Two weeks from now is a year since her death.Didn’t you take me, even […]

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The Take: Anastasia Stelse

Anastasia Stelse The Tree of Many Fruits With the proper technique plumsmay be grafted with apricots, peaches,nectarines—any stone-heavyfruit. The ripening flesh of forty varieties scents delirium. Stepone: Find a stock tree that weatherswell. Step two: Wound it. Step three:Tape new buds in the cut— it will strengthen. This is perfectlynatural. See Egyptians, hieroglyphics, subsettrees. We’re […]

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The Take: Joshua Adams

Ever wonder how journal editors make decisions about work to feature? The Take gives you a glimpse behind the scenes at Mud Season Review. Here, we feature one single poem or flash fiction piece that caught the attention of the editorial team, apart from the signature poetry portfolio or fiction piece in our bi-monthly issues. […]

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On humanity and imagining what is possible

“My poems want a better place, a better country, better lives.”