Contrary Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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A literary journal of poetry, fiction, and lyrical commentary, founded at the University of Chicago in 2003.

Outside from the Inside
Anne Whitehouse
And our Best of the Net nominations for #Poetry: "April in Middle Age" by @webbish6 "Exactly 299,792,458 Meters Per Second," by @caroleebennett "Why Do Giraffes Climb Trees?" by @JulKDas "Ad Astra Per Aspera" by Bette Husted "Outside From The Inside" by Anne Whitehouse
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Long Day: Poems
Peter Sears
Former Oregon Poet Laureate Peter Sears has passed away. We'll be sharing some of his poems this week. https://t.co/gAFLkrxYZl
Paperback, 2019
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Brown Girl Chromatography
Anuradha Bhowmik
Happy #NationalPoetryMonth ! Peruse our pages for fantastic poems from @kelly_kiehl Anuradha Bhowmik, @lucy_logsdon , and @AlisonStine https://t.co/QTZ8fXgbpA
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Coming Home
Megan Kelly
Our Pushcart nominations! "Coming Home" Suvi Mahonen "Lighthouse Journal from Litløy Fyr" Laurence O'Dwyer "The Unbearable Here" by Kami Westhoff & Kelly Magee "Subjects for the Smoking Room" Megan Wildhood "Ad Astra Per Aspera" Bette Husted "It Takes All Kinds" Josh Lefkowitz
Paperback, 2022
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Unbearable Heart
Kimiko Hahn
CONGRATULATIONS to our Best of the Net Anthology nominees. #Fiction: "The Unbearable Here" by Kami Westhoff and Kelly Magee @kmagee29 , https://t.co/gJzVNdh93f and "Breathe, Hold," by Alessandra Sarchi and translated by Tim Cummins https://t.co/yOYGk4sgSB
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P.D. Skaar's Montana Bird Distribution: 2003
Susan Lenard
It’s a very Contrary New Year thanks to our Winter 2003 issue, featuring gorgeous fiction by Sandra Carlson Khalil, John Abbott @jpabbottauthor Anna Ufaeva, Edward Mc Whinney, and lyrical commentary by Lesley M. O’Connell @LesleyMOConnell https://t.co/ol8OyAbusL
Hardcover, 2022
$30.95$15.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book