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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Tampa Review.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-US45/46 (2013) through current issueLatest Articles: Tampa ReviewTWOProject MUSE®Tampa Review2326-41010896-064XLatest articles in Tampa Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®A Portfolio of Poems from Zoodikers: A Bestiary, and: Bigfoot, and: Probably Bears, and: Velvet, and: Zymurgy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975957
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Winner of the 2023 Richard Mathews Prize for Poetry, Zoodikers: A Bestiary was published by the University of Tampa Press in September 2025 with glowing advance reviews. Pulitzer Prize winner, Diane Seuss, praises "Conroy constructs meaning with the authoritative and associative mind of the gods who erected the universe and stuck name tags on its flora and fauna." Catherine Barnett writes, "I marvel at the leaps and swerves that animate each of the prose poems in Zoodikers: A Bestiary, and feel as if, in Conroy's hands, the English language has quadrupled in size." Tracey Knapp says, "Flower Conroy's explosive new collection of prose poems is tender, animalistic, and a feminist phenomenon. Lush with language
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/605/image/coversmallA Portfolio of Poems from Zoodikers: A Bestiary, and: Bigfoot, and: Probably Bears, and: Velvet, and: Zymurgy2025-12-06text/htmlen-USA Portfolio of Poems from Zoodikers: A Bestiary, and: Bigfoot, and: Probably Bears, and: Velvet, and: Zymurgy2025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®113922026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06Somatic: A Translation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975958
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Sometimes Anna O., the Viennese young woman now known as the first hysteric, couldn't speak. Sometimes she spoke only English, or else French or Italian. Sometimes her sentences, as her doctor Josef Breuer reported, combined "four or five languages." She could switch between these languages with "extraordinary fluency," at one point providing "an extempore English translation" when asked to read aloud from a book in French or Italian. These and other symptoms developed when her father was dying. Eventually, they grew so severe that she couldn't attend to him.In a poem I never finished called "Replica," I described simultaneous translation as a kind of magic trick requiring not only fluency in two languages but an
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975961
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After The Rail Pile (1945) by Carolyn
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975962
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Two kids wandered off the animal exhibit trail right by where I was cleaning our Great Horned Owl's cage and started stick fighting. At first it didn't catch my attention, but then, through the mesh wire of Lil' Hootie's cage, I noticed one of the swords was long and white and ended with a thick, stubborn knob, and that's when I dropped my mop and started shouting.At first, everyone hoped the femur belonged to one of our animals, but then the scientists confirmed what everyone feared. The bones were human.Whose bones wasn't even a question because the Abenaki tribe had been saying for years that the Nature Center where I worked had been built on their ancestors' remains. Up until that summer, the courts had denied
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975964
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When her grandson set the slick gray beast on her rolltop desk, Theresa was certain she would never turn it on, let alone use it. She nodded while he set up Windows and Chrome, training her gaze on the water biscuits slowly soaking up the puddle of Earl Grey atop the multihued mosaic dessert plate, a wedding gift from the garish Ortegas. Anything was better than becoming trapped in that swoon of blue. Theresa knew how easy it was to slide down the forked tongue of the devil. She had to be vigilant.But after her grandson clicked on a social media page she might like—Eastern Shore Undercover: an up-to-the-minute website of local news pulled directly from the police scanner—she suddenly began paying attention. Each
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975967
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Among the right-stuffy Apollo astronauts, Alan Bean was always a bit different. When Bean was training at the US Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, he was taking evening art classes at a nearby liberal arts college. Painting might be more relaxing than flying jet fighters, but it held its own discipline and challenges, its own curving trajectories and narrow runways. Other test pilots spent their evenings drinking and driving too fast and macho bragging and joking. After Bean was selected in the third group of astronauts in 1963, he spent weekends taking art classes at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Bean's different persona probably didn't help his astronaut career: he waited for years to be
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975968
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after Dorsey Craft "You Meet a Girl"The first girl you meet tells you that boys are jokes that girls make. She takes you to a girl who cuts boys with knives so they can fit inside preconceived notions. She has an unsteady hand. You meet a girl who buys you balls once a year. Your balls sit serene in a row. You call it the Museum of Ancestral Dreams, or you would if you properly understood it. You meet a girl who says you read too much. You meet a girl with a double-barreled surname who rides a horse. She got her names from the people her parents got their gold tea service from. She will name names, but only if you insist. She says she likes you, but prefers the horses. After all, she can always buy another you. You
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975969
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after "Heston, we have a problem … the top chef cooks for Tim
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975971
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Rebecca sat at the kitchen table with her coffee and stared at the three dots hovering in the text thread. She could feel the dopamine bursting in her brain—like the first sip of a cold strawberry soda when she was a kid. It had been only a few minutes since the last hit, but she couldn't look away. Just last night she'd figured out how to route the chat to her work phone—harmless, she figured, at such a wired company. Her wife, Celeste, though, was a bloodhound for that sort of thing. But Rebecca reasoned, she wasn't doing anything that would warrant such snooping. Was it really cheating if the person on the other end of the thread wasn't even a person? Not the flesh and blood kind, anyway."Have you read the new
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975973
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Something incredible has happened. I shall try to relate it calmly and according to the sequence of events.1 At first he was entirely hollow, only a name, but his thoughts could swim faster than time could run.2 His head is circled in gold. Snow falls on him. His mouth emits searing wounds.3 He'll go back upstairs, and as he climbs away, his back will be something else. One shoulder blade, a failed wing. The other, a silver shovel.4 The rooms he wants to be in now are narrow and all alike, even if they are worlds apart.5 A falling away, a dislocation was taking place.6 He floats through high dark branches. A corpse tangled in a tree on a
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975974
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excerpt from L'ombre de l'olivier, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrierSun melts on the roofs. Plastic chairs and bouquets of flowers frame the gallery. Fans stand at attention in case electricity comes back on, but no one is waiting for it. It will be a night of scented candles, Chinese fans, hair straightened by the beautician whose generator whines all day. A night of fly-hunting with cardboard boxes covered in glue mixed with honey to attract, then trap insects. A night of "Phew! It's hot!", of fingers unbuttoning collars or fingers that pin ponytails high after a whirlwind dance. A night of salt dripping from powdered foreheads and exposed necks, of sweat seeping from the edges of décolletage. A night of gallons of
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975975
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"There are no themes or subjects in the usual sense, except the very broad one of an individual consciousness confronting or confronted by a world of external
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975977
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If there are fireballs falling from the sky, come find me in the supermarket.Because I go to the grocery store when circumstances are out of my control. When the covid lockdown became real, I bought bags of frozen vegetables—in case we couldn't get fresh. I calmly selected two different kinds of marmalade—so we wouldn't get bored.During one memorably bad college breakup, I walked to Trader Joe's and bought ingredients for an elaborate fruit salad, which I prepared while crying in my dorm's common room, cutting cantaloupe with plastic cutlery. During my grandfather's funeral weekend, my dad and I went to Publix every day. Rather than talk about arrangements, we stood in the cracker aisle debating the merits of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/605/image/coversmallThe Patron Saint of Barbecues and Control Issues2025-12-06text/htmlen-USThe Patron Saint of Barbecues and Control Issues2025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®325542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06Elizabeth waits for her beloved to come from New York and announce himself, and: Elizabeth feels herself the subject of gossip in Mattapoisett
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975978
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(Poet's Note: This poem is from a series incorporating language from letters of the 19th century poet Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, who was raised in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. Much of Stoddard's writing reflects her frustrations with her hometown's restrictive social norms and the circumscription of women's lives. This poem draws from Stoddard's letter to Margaret Sweat, January 13th, 1853, published in The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, ed. Jennifer Putzi, U. Iowa Press, 2012, used with permission of the editor.)(Poet's Note: This poem is from a series incorporating language from letters of the 19th century poet Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, who was raised in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. Much of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/605/image/coversmallElizabeth waits for her beloved to come from New York and announce himself, and: Elizabeth feels herself the subject of gossip in Mattapoisett2025-12-06text/htmlen-USElizabeth waits for her beloved to come from New York and announce himself, and: Elizabeth feels herself the subject of gossip in Mattapoisett2025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®66772026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06Milk Bottle Churches
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975979
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When I close my eyes, I see Joni and me on opposite sides of the river whispering our sins into bottles. I remember the sticky top of Joni's Coke bottle, her sneering lips at the virginal milk bottle I'd swiped from under the sink. On the sepia-tinted west bank of the Exe, Joni looks like she's making out with the glass, and though past-me laughs, she doesn't ever tell Joni that.You didn't joke about things like that with Joni.We spent every day at the river that summer: a season of bees on half-melted ice lollies, of wiping sweat from our lips with the hem of our t-shirts. Joni and her new breasts wanted to be far from Harry and I wanted to be wherever Joni was.My mother, red faced and ripe with Dan in her belly
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/605/image/coversmallMilk Bottle Churches2025-12-06text/htmlen-USMilk Bottle Churches2025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®287012026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06Purple Contamination, and: A Respectable Distance, and: Where Are We Now?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975980
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Purple Contamination, Archival Inkjet Print, 2022A Respectable Distance, Archival Inkjet Print, 2022Where Are We Now?, Transparency Print and Lightbox
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975981
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Before my father died, when I was nine and Florida still smelled like citrus, the orange became Florida's state fruit.The same year, the police found my classmate's mother, Quinn, dead in the orange grove a block from my house. She'd been stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend.Me and my father would cut through the grove to the gas station for a ninety-nine cent can of Arizona Iced Tea and a six pack of Bud Light.Later that year, as though cursed by Quinn's murder, a disease called Huanglongbing (HLB) devastated Florida's citrus trees. It is also called greening disease, because it turns oranges green.In 2003, FL produced 240 million 90lb boxes of oranges.In 2023, just 16 million boxes.Today, Quinn's grove is a
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975982
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Tyler Balkcom (he/him) is an MFA candidate in the University of South Florida's creative writing program. He is a 2025 AWP Intro Journal Project Winner for his short comic, "Greening."Chee Brossy is a poet and fiction writer. His poetry collection, The Strings Are Lightning And Hold You In, was published by Tupelo Press in 2022, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His second collection, Word-Made World, won the Word Works Washington Prize and is forthcoming in 2025. His poetry and fiction have appeared in the Southern Indiana Review, Malahat Review, Narrative Magazine, Colorado Review, PRISM International, and elsewhere. He holds a degree in English from Dartmouth College. He is a member of the Navajo
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