The Core Review Issue 2 Spring 2025
The Core Review Issue 2, Spring 2025, is the second issue of Fork Apple Press' biannual literary journal.
Contents
Poetry
Dry Spell
Cari Moll
Crying About Old Women at the Macy’s Jewelry Counter (Again)
Em Judkins
Virgin Mojito
Marion Cline
Off Menu
Rivka Clifton
The First Time I Gave Birth
Elizabeth Rae Bullmer
Pimping for Flowers
Bradley Samore
Self Portrait as Silkworm
Kimberly Gibson-Tran
a doctor conducts an interrogation with my spinal column
Liam Strong
What the Desert Gave Me
Hallie Havican
Ode to the Collapsed Barn Off the Interstate
Mary Simmons
High Bridge Park
Janelle Cordero
Lord of the Fishes
Annelise Royles
Taipei, July 2022–Georgia, 2024
Hana Bredstein
Afternoon in the Archives
Melissa Ridley Elmes
For a Ghost
Briana Grace Hammerstrom
This is a Poem, Not Trash
Shandi Siler
Dinner Party: She Comes to the Door
Maddie Barone
Prose
Taste of Burning Sugar
Jiho Lee
Gluten Breath
Maggie Slater
Married White Male
Emilio Cabral
Signing the Guest Book
Glenn Reed
If You Weren’t You
Tom Roth
A Perfect, Pale Darkness
Joe Baumann
Starlight
Lia Sina
Bok-bok Brother
Grant Frazier
Visual Narrative
Dough-Over
Helena Pantsis
Postmodern Transportation
My Lips Are Up Here
Kale Hensley
Technicolor
Brain
Heart
Colette Love Hilliard
