149 Review Issue 1 – Summer 2025

Winner of the 149 Review 2025 Summer Nonfiction Craft Prize

Jayden Vera

The House Listens

Sarah Barber

Because I cannot believe in an afterlife

Leprosarium, Louisiana, Louise Bourgeois, 1947

Winner of the 149 Review 2025 Summer Poetry Craft Prize

Shauri Cherie

Thoughts on Stargazing While Viewing Starry Night Over the Rhône

America I’ve shattered

Ander Monson

Fire is a Renewable Resource

Bob Hicok

None of the above

This is this

Failures in literary studies

Richard Holinger

Good Graces

James Croal Jackson

Burial Mound

Davey Long

in every love poem i write myself, you are the antagonist

S. Janaki

What I Meant to Say the First Time

R. Gerry Fabian

The Gabriel Garcia Marquez Matchmaker Effect

Robert Beveridge

Breaking the Third Wall

Jeff Dean

Joshua Betts

Inner Architecture by Zahra Zoghi

Wanderer by Vincenzo Cohen

Death and Rebirth by Gaia Bruno

Fog on the Road by Christopher Woods

Olden by Susan Barry-Schulz