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The Hudson Review is now accepting online submissions for our fiction reading season (9/1 to 11/30). Submit your work here. Visit our submission guidelines page for details.
For a special fiction issue, The Hudson Review is sponsoring a short story competition. First prize is $500, second and third are $250 each. 10,000 words and under. Submissions accepted between 6/1/15 and 9/1/15. No submission fee. Please submit hard copies (with a self-addressed, stamped envelope) to: The Hudson Review 33 W. 67th St. New […]
Late Moon 2 a.m. December, and still no moon rising from the river. My mother home from the beer garden stands before the open closet her hands still burning. She smooths the fur collar, the scarf, opens the gloves crumpled like letters. Nothing is lost she says to the darkness, Nothing. The moon finally […]
Fog has wadded a dirty white Into all outlets from the eye. I stand At an opening over unfenced land On which sheer cloud has settled. To the white obstruction you can see no end Where yesterday a clear way through Drew the gaze that now must keep its distance As both fog and night […]
Monday Dearest, It is snowing, grotesquely snowing upon the small faces of the dead. Those dear loudmouths, gone for over a year, buried side by side like little wrens. But why should I complain? The dead turn over casually, thinking: Good! No visitors today. My window, which is not a grave, is dark with my […]
