Now Read This: January 2026

Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators

Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

“Cancer Courts My Mother” gives voice to the creativity borne out of the experience of late-stage cancer from the perspective of a caregiver and a daughter.

Written with candor, warmth, and grace, these poems explore universal themes of sorrow, resiliency, relationships, anger, hope, and love.

This Award Winning Collection is for anyone who’s ever wondered how to go forward in the face of suffering, but doesn’t expect an easy answer.

Death ends a life – but cannot end a relationship.

Notes on how a wolf resuscitates by Paris Jessie

Jessie’s poetry moves through the world with hunger and tooth, examines how the breeze moves through the body, conforms to it, how memory imprints, how to call fire, how to howl, to rip through life and devour each moment.

Toothache in the Bone by Colleen S. Harris

Toothache in the Bone is a chapbook collection of poems coalescing around themes of the everyday practice of transcending the broken bodies we are born into.


Do you have a lit journal issue, chapbook, book, or other work that’s about to be published? Email us at vagabondcityliterary@gmail.com to be added to our Books Available to Review list and/or featured on an upcoming Now Read This list.

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Vagabond City Literary Journal

Founded in 2013, we are a literary journal dedicated to publishing outsider literature. We publish art, prose, reviews, and interviews from marginalized creators.