{"id":5625,"date":"2025-12-01T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=5625"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:27:28","slug":"fall-2025-digital-lit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/fall-2025-digital-lit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2025 Digital Lit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fall 2025 Digital Lit<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“Before \/ After”<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n

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F I C T I O N<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GONE TO BABYLAND<\/strong> Bethany Bruno<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The sea does not stop. It keeps roaring, relentless, guilty and loud, drowning out every human sound.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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NEWTON’S ORBIT<\/strong> Tarik James Ghiradella<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Instead, she said: \u201cIt\u2019s drifting, isn\u2019t it? You can see it but you can\u2019t stop it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He froze. He hadn\u2019t told her. She couldn\u2019t know.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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THE COMPANY<\/strong> Tayler Elise<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Company at its core is an adult daycare; we talk members through their bad days, we clean up their messes, we build charcuterie boards for snack time.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SOMEWHERE, FILED AWAY<\/strong> Catherine Shukle<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Her body offered up because she thought it was all she had to give him. And then, just like that, it was gone.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

P O E T R Y<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIG BANG<\/strong> Lynn Thayer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s your voice and it\u2019s not. Your body and not.
Between flesh and mind, love and friendship”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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DISPLACED MONARCHS<\/strong> Brigittine French<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“we, farmers\u2019 daughters who became their mothers,
with certitude that books
                                                dates
                                                and equality”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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PASSING<\/strong> Sara Cline<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“an hour to kill, an hour to spare
I have mercy on my hours”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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THREE WORDS<\/strong> Ghazal Azad Jahan<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“what do waves whisper? \/ to be loved \/ enough \/ that i could scatter”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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FULL MOON OVER I-40<\/strong> Ty Zhang<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You glimpsed the truth,
you think,
at least part of it,
sitting at work today\u2013
through a window and a door<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>

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PACKARD<\/strong> Selen Frantz<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We stumble over the barrier and into a world only remembered by forbidden feet and the nozzle
of a spray can. Our words fill the air around us, bouncing off the flat walls and down<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>

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THE ARITHMETIC OF AFTER<\/strong> Meg Taylor<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A stubbed toe can split a day,
so can a birth,
so can silence finally broken.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>

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IN JAPANESE MEMORIAM<\/strong> Wakako Ueshima<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“One of three hundred sixty-five,
immortalized
            reduced
now the lonely One”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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BARREN<\/strong> Jennifer Keith<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“no clay feet: airborne in a dust devil
no place for light
or holding water,<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>

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POST RETIREMENT SYNDROME<\/strong> Daniel Edward Moore<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Who would have thought these days would find me,
hypersensitive, easy to caress, like a toothbrush<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>

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GHAZAL FOR NEW YORK CITY<\/strong> Erika Gill<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“in Central Park I melt, slowly by stages, into a frozen strawberry lemonade
outside of Strawberry fields a sudden void scoops my soul into concavity<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>

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HOWLIN’ WOLF<\/strong> Jianqing Zheng<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Howlin\u2019 Wolf\u2019s
wang dang doodle
boomeranging<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

in a somersault
all street long<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>

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SECOND SHIFT<\/strong> Sarah Ellis<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Here, the parking lot is flooding. Seeping
into the soles of my boots.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>

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C R E A T I V E<\/strong>
N O N – F I C T I O N<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DO GET OLD<\/strong> Angela Townsend<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Even if they could arrest time like the superheroes on their underpants, your bleak benediction would help no one.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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LOVE PEOPLE, COOK THEM TASTY FOOD<\/strong> Misty Archambault<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Inviting me into your home and allowing me to see an empty refrigerator is a personal insult, the passive aggressive equivalent of spitting in my face.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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CONCENTRIC CIRCLES: A TAROT READING<\/strong> Christie Ellen<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mother\u2019s smile contrasts with something in her eyes. Is she nervous? Tired? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I glance at the clock. Dismissal isn\u2019t for another 15 minutes and I normally take the bus home. Why is my mother here? <\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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TUSCON, ARIZONA<\/strong> Emma Jones<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We talked about it like the promised land. Cinderblock, sand.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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INTENDS TO COMPLY<\/strong> Georgene Smith Goodin<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“I was supposed to bring their father but, instead, I brought fried chicken.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cover art:<\/strong> “Rupture” by RUNA<\/p>

Fall 2025 Welter <\/strong>Masthead<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry Reading Team<\/strong>
Zahra Gordon (Editor)
Alex Cosentino-Tich
Trinity Gray
Alicia Potee
Johnny Sweeney<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction Reading Team<\/strong>
Cleve Corner (Editor)
Kara Kauffmann
Wardha Moriam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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CNF Reading Team<\/strong>
Nat Kaplan (Editor)
Melissa Foley-King
Tracie Pullen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Art Team<\/strong>
Wardha Moriam (Art Director)
Alex Cosentino-Tich
Alicia Potee
Jayden Rhodes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PR Team
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Alicia Potee<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Managing Editor: <\/strong>Tim Huber<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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