Issue 80 – VAGABOND CITY

in which I forgive brooklyn for taking my lover away by Brianna Cunliffe

Brianna Cunliffe is an environmental justice activist and storyteller. As a queer woman who grew up on a disintegrating Carolina coastline, her work explores fiercely loving the fragile places we call home. Her poems and short stories have been published in Reckoning Magazine, Bell Press, Lucent Dreaming, Storm Cellar, Claw and Blossom, Blind Corner, and […]

Everything, Issue 80, Poetry

Mastication on the Mind by Rooya Rahin

Trichophagia / but they never called it that / just a bad habit / just a phase / just / she’s a kid / but in flashbulb, hindsight imagination I think / someone probably should have cared / a little more / that I was eating my own hair / gnawing on the ends like […]

Everything, Issue 80, Poetry

an elegy for opportunity by Louie Leyson

On February 13th, 2019, the rover named “Opportunity” went offline after fifteen years of exploring Mars. In goodbye, a final transmission was sent: Billie Holiday’s 1944 recording of “I’ll Be Seeing You.” In the aftermath of a dust stormyour grey body stilled with all the grace of a dogthat dozes inside only the red ghosts […]

Everything, Issue 80, Poetry

I’m Afraid Of What She’ll See In Me by k.p.fen

after Sreshtha Sen in another life, my hand grips my belly, my other hand an extension of my cell phone, lights flashing in my pupils. nine months will be preserved in my phone’s gallery, waiting to be posted in a carousel. five years pass by and i smile at my daughter circling on a metal horse, bobbing to calliope songs, my camera too […]

Art, Everything, Issue 80

“Pillar of Perspective” by Paris Jessie

Paris Jessie (they/she) is a black, budding creator and wanderer. Much of their work is rooted in the peculiar. You may find more at iamparisjessie.com.

Creative Nonfiction, Everything, Issue 80, Prose, vagabond city

(Up)Rising by Denise R. Ervin

In the city that birthed rebellion in the decade before my mother birthed me, I have built a home out of ruins. This city that burned itself and then rose from its own ashes has been my guide, showing me the way through the flame ignited by my own personal book of matches. This city, […]

Everything, Fiction, Issue 80, Prose, vagabond city

creation story by Sage Kubis

Creation story #1: God makes a woman out of honey, dripping-sweet, wet and sticking and oozing grace, his hands warming it as he shapes and then she is there, the sun behind her making her glow, molten. She is sweet, she melts by noon. God leaves her in the garden and upon returning she is […]

Everything, Issue 80, Now Read This

Now Read This: February 2023

Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators the luxury by Darren C. Demaree “In the luxury, Darren C. Demaree constructs a response to the catastrophic death of the natural world that enacts rage, love, and grief all at once. Filled with endless lyricism and an unpunctuated momentum, Demaree’s poems cascade and overflow. As […]

Everything, Issue 80, Opportunities for Artists & Writers

Opportunities for Artists and Writers | February 2023

Canthius is open for unpublished prose and poetry submissions from writers of marginalized gender identities, including trans, Two Spirit, non-binary, agender, cis women, genderqueer, GNC, and intersex writers. Deadline: March 15th. Chronicle Books is currently accepting applications for one-year paid editorial fellowships in the Art Publishing Group, the Entertainment Publishing Group, and the Children’s Publishing […]