Z. T. Corley is a Tennessee-based poet who recently graduated from Austin Peay State University with her B.A. in English. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Roanoke Review, Red Mud Review, Revolute, Outskirts, January House Literary Journal, and Hum. She is currently working on a poetry collection while serving as a reader for […]
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5×5 board hand-drawn at the dinner tableOn the back of a restaurant postcardThe free space is the war in UkraineEnding in the wrong direction.The remaining 24 squares we divide into 3 categories:Communal, national, global. Communal is the most chipper:Sadie gets great sex, but also a UTIHospital clogs get big in BrooklynA mutual friend goes baldHopefully […]
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Polly Atkin’s The Company of Owls explores the hauntingly beautiful and brutally honest lives of the wild owls living in England as well as Polly’s personal experience with Ehlers Danlos syndrome. Using her memories to build a bridge between nature and wellness, Polly shows us how living amongst the owls has helped shape her life […]
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Wingless Dreamer is currently accepting submissions of up to 40 lines of poetry and prose of up to 500 words. Deadline: 8/23 Silly Goose Press is currently accepting submissions of up to 10 pieces of art, up to 5 poems, and up to 3000 words of prose for Issue 8. Simultaneous submissions okay, but work […]
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Last week I drove past a century-old church that I knew from experience was made of sticks and stones and words that hurt me, and I saw a sign advertising a Holy Spirit Garage Sale—which made me wonder what gently used things God would be looking to get rid of to make a little cash. […]
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Ananiah Jacob is a poet and artist from India whose work explores the emotional realities of young womanhood and the ways art helps make sense of living within it. Instagram: @niaxbones
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Priyanuj Mazumdar is a writer, editor, and educator from northeast India whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, Los Angeles Review, Allium, NonBinary Review, Harbor Review, BULL, and elsewhere. He has received support from the Minnesota Humanities Center, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment. He was shortlisted […]
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I don’t want to kill myselfI just want to move to New YorkThe evening skyline where I currently liveresembles a serrated stake knifefar too muchAnd it tempts meI take it upon myselfand walk back homewith the bosom of a Luzonbleeding-heart doveall casual-like too,arms a-swinging, whistlingthe radiodown the hillThe melody distracts mefrom the thought thatit’d be […]
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In “Valiant,” inside “Driving Emergencies,” a car is stopped. The scene takes eleven words: “Roared orders, lights / pulled up beside us. / Our chances look terrible.” The poem does not slow down to explain why the chances look terrible. It accelerates — “after the first / warning shot telling me / it wasn’t about […]
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VAGABOND CITY 