The Creative Writing Faculty  
at Goucher College: 

MADISON BELL (Fiction) 
ELIZABETH SPIRES (Poetry) 
 



  

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CYPRESSES, BATHING 
by Christine Stewart 

 On my way, I come upon them-- 
A gathering of old women  
Soaking their cracked, graying skin, 
Their thick bodies sprawling voluptuously: 
Knees bent,  
Curving out of the water,  
Heads thrown back in a tangle of vines and leaves. 
I pause a moment, 
Waiting to hear their voices echoing with years, 
Telling me what I need to know, 
But the sun has made them sleepy and secretive; 
I hear only their whispered laughter. 
They do not trust me; 
I am not yet ready to listen. 

CWP Selections: 

A Note in a Bottle 
Dawid Crouch 

 Necessary Madness (Chapter 3) 
Jenn Crowell 

 Thirty-Two Flavors 
Eve Ellis 

 Black Light 
Shiela Green 

 Ophelius and Hamlette 
Francesca Jandasek 

 Pavel the Centipede 
Francesca Jandasek 

 Dog Lover 
Bethalee Jones 

 Match 
Jeremy Louis Clark Jones 

 Perpetual Check 
Samara Kanegis 

 The Difference Between Us 
Jeannette Lareau 

 Pins and Needles 
Jeanette Lareau 

 A Million Moss-Green Shards 
Jonathan Lasser 

 Her Way 
Amanda Marshall 

 Finding Trevor 
Jessica Monhollen 

 Uproot 
Sarah Pinsker 

 Asterisms 
Heidi Vornbrook Roosa 

 Killing the Good Girl 
Christine Stewart 

 Steel Moon 
Christine Warner 

 I Don't Even Care If I'm Dirty Any More 
Leslie Ann Wernsdorfer 

 Third Story 
Sara Yamaka 

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