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Volume 40, Issue 1

Volume 40, Issue 1
Nonfiction
Poetry
  • BEAT
    Dario Cvencek
Fiction

editorial staff

readers

  • “Faces of Memory,” a silkscreen painting by Leo Adames

Featured Nonfiction

  • Some Warnings for My Daughters on (Interlingual) Marriage

    Francesca Leader


    My darling daughters, if you should marry—as I did—someone who speaks another language, it will be, in the beginning, an adventure. Like bushwhacking through virgin forests, but in a safe way, because the person holding your hand has assured you there are no poisonous snakes here, no man-eating crocodiles, no active volcanos. This person—whose sensual, mysterious verbiage rustles like birds against your ears—will introduce you to their relatives. And their relatives will love you, at first, because they don’t understand a word you’re saying.

    READ MORE>

Featured Poem

  • While You Are in Greece, Your Mother Calls You to Inform You She Bought a New Lampshade

    Nicole Yurcaba


    for the lamp on the table beside your father’s favorite recliner 
    & you realize: only a few years ago you would have replied  
    Mamo, it’s stupid you called. Stop wasting my time. 
    I’m busy & she would have said Okay. Bye bye! or hung up 
    the phone without even saying Do pobacennja & now a green gecko 
    appears on the balcony where you’re sitting. You ask your mother 
    Mamo, what color is the lampshade & she announces Light blue. 
    Remember—my living room is blue & yes, you remember it’s blue: 
    sky-above-Kyiv-in-July blue & how well you know her living room 
    & Kyiv’s sky & now you’re mother’s saying Nika, your father visited 
    again today & you’re watching the gecko scurry at your feet & you 
    pose Oh, really? How? & the gecko is staring at you & when your mother 
    says The flameless candle, it lit itself you’re thinking about how, as a child, 
    you found your mother ridiculous 
                                             simple 
                                             overbearing 
    & now the gecko’s winking at you 
                                             turning toward the sea 
                                             scampering down the balcony wall 
    & you say                        Interesting. It seems these days 
                                             he’s everywhere  
                                                                            all at once. 

    READ MORE>

Featured Fiction

  • Down the Hall and to the Left

    Jacob Vaus


    I can let the ring go. Would like to.

    I like it when doctors are fast. You want to talk about your hair, but they say no. They have other matters to get to. I like it when they come in fast, like they’re out of breath. It makes you feel like a marble between gears. The madness is around you, but not within. You cannot get cancer, dear. Don’t even dream of it.

    No. The ring will not come off.

    Dr. Brandt says, “How long has it been on?”

    That’s the funny thing. It’s only been two years, and I haven’t gained any weight. I imagine a tree growing around a ribbon. Can we change so fast?

    READ MORE>

Featured Artist

  • Leo Adames

    With a background in Art Education, APSU graduate and Clarksville artist Leo Adames has continued to explore painting, printing, and, more recently, silkscreen mono prints. It is the experimental nature of this process that is the feature of his most recent art show. The actual process is a combination of painting and printing.  The results leave a painterly effect on the paper or canvas with a touch of unexpected “visual flavor. “I paint with music in the background. Sometimes music influences the painting process, the brushstrokes, the colors, the theme. One dominant element in many of my works is the horizon line. Maybe it’s psychological, and maybe it’s emotional, or simply attitudinal. I feel the horizon line is a representation of what is now, and what is to be; maybe a symbol of optimism , from dark to light, or something to look forward to.

    Leo Adames is also a songwriter, known locally for his original lyrical compositions and singing style. “Painting and songwriting have been a dominant part of my creative expression”.

    “Faces of Memory,” a silkscreen painting by Leo Adames

news & events


Zone 3 Visiting Writers Series: Toni Jensen


Zone 3 Visiting Writers Series: Jenny Molberg


Zone 3 Visiting Writers Series: Rebecca Makkai


An Evening with MacArthur Genius Kiese Laymon

contests

Zone 3 Press sponsors two book competitions: the Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry and the Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Winners receive $1,000, publication of their book, and an invitation to give a joint reading at Austin Peay State University with the contest judge. These competitions are currently on hiatus.

Zone 3 Press publications are made available from the Zone 3 Store and your favorite booksellers!

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Volume 40, Issue 1

Volume 40, Issue 1

  • “Faces of Memory,” a silkscreen painting by Leo Adames

Nonfiction
Poetry
  • BEAT
    Dario Cvencek
Fiction

editorial staff

readers

Featured Nonfiction

  • Some Warnings for My Daughters on (Interlingual) Marriage

    Francesca Leader


    My darling daughters, if you should marry—as I did—someone who speaks another language, it will be, in the beginning, an adventure. Like bushwhacking through virgin forests, but in a safe way, because the person holding your hand has assured you there are no poisonous snakes here, no man-eating crocodiles, no active volcanos. This person—whose sensual, mysterious verbiage rustles like birds against your ears—will introduce you to their relatives. And their relatives will love you, at first, because they don’t understand a word you’re saying.

    READ MORE>

Featured Poem

  • While You Are in Greece, Your Mother Calls You to Inform You She Bought a New Lampshade

    Nicole Yurcaba


    for the lamp on the table beside your father’s favorite recliner 
    & you realize: only a few years ago you would have replied  
    Mamo, it’s stupid you called. Stop wasting my time. 
    I’m busy & she would have said Okay. Bye bye! or hung up 
    the phone without even saying Do pobacennja & now a green gecko 
    appears on the balcony where you’re sitting. You ask your mother 
    Mamo, what color is the lampshade & she announces Light blue. 
    Remember—my living room is blue & yes, you remember it’s blue: 
    sky-above-Kyiv-in-July blue & how well you know her living room 
    & Kyiv’s sky & now you’re mother’s saying Nika, your father visited 
    again today & you’re watching the gecko scurry at your feet & you 
    pose Oh, really? How? & the gecko is staring at you & when your mother 
    says The flameless candle, it lit itself you’re thinking about how, as a child, 
    you found your mother ridiculous 
                                             simple 
                                             overbearing 
    & now the gecko’s winking at you 
                                             turning toward the sea 
                                             scampering down the balcony wall 
    & you say                        Interesting. It seems these days 
                                             he’s everywhere  
                                                                            all at once. 

    READ MORE>

Featured Fiction

  • Down the Hall and to the Left

    Jacob Vaus


    I can let the ring go. Would like to.

    I like it when doctors are fast. You want to talk about your hair, but they say no. They have other matters to get to. I like it when they come in fast, like they’re out of breath. It makes you feel like a marble between gears. The madness is around you, but not within. You cannot get cancer, dear. Don’t even dream of it.

    No. The ring will not come off.

    Dr. Brandt says, “How long has it been on?”

    That’s the funny thing. It’s only been two years, and I haven’t gained any weight. I imagine a tree growing around a ribbon. Can we change so fast?

    READ MORE>

Featured Artist

  • Leo Adames

    With a background in Art Education, APSU graduate and Clarksville artist Leo Adames has continued to explore painting, printing, and, more recently, silkscreen mono prints. It is the experimental nature of this process that is the feature of his most recent art show. The actual process is a combination of painting and printing.  The results leave a painterly effect on the paper or canvas with a touch of unexpected “visual flavor. “I paint with music in the background. Sometimes music influences the painting process, the brushstrokes, the colors, the theme. One dominant element in many of my works is the horizon line. Maybe it’s psychological, and maybe it’s emotional, or simply attitudinal. I feel the horizon line is a representation of what is now, and what is to be; maybe a symbol of optimism , from dark to light, or something to look forward to.

    Leo Adames is also a songwriter, known locally for his original lyrical compositions and singing style. “Painting and songwriting have been a dominant part of my creative expression”.

    “Faces of Memory,” a silkscreen painting by Leo Adames

news & events


Zone 3 Visiting Writers Series: Toni Jensen


Zone 3 Visiting Writers Series: Jenny Molberg


Zone 3 Visiting Writers Series: Rebecca Makkai


An Evening with MacArthur Genius Kiese Laymon

contests

Zone 3 Press sponsors two book competitions: The Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry and The Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Winners receive $1,000 and publication of their book, as well as an invitation to give a joint reading at APSU with the contest judge.

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Zone 3 Press publications are made available from the Zone 3 Store, small press distribution, and from Amazon.com.

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