Epiphany Lit is currently open for art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions for their Fall/Winter 2023 issue. For poetry submissions, submit up to five poems in 12-point font. For prose submissions, submit one piece at a time, double-spaced, in 12-point font. For all submissions: only previously unpublished work considered, all work considered for online publication, […]
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Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators Sex With My Family by Jessica Anne Musings on infertility, cows, longing & freedom by an anemic woman in the winter of her 41st year. Glass Essays by J. A. Bernstein Glass Essays juxtapose the miracles of parenting and birth with the mysteries of death and […]
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I wish I could quote for you the entirety of Julie Weiss’s chapbook The Jolt: Twenty-One Love Poems in Homage to Adrienne Rich (Bottlecap Press, 2023). Listen: “I want to remember you like this, / flushed in nothing but color: fuchsia, violet” (from XVII). Listen: …On your lipsI taste the zesty beginnings of a couplet […]
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i am an aries so the tips of my fingers ache raw from biting my nails down to the quick with a pisces moon so i take four to six aleve a day for headaches and cramps and everything i own is blood-stained with an aquarius rising so the lines in my irises are an owl’s broken legs so i pop […]
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January, I spill my heart out to you.the last time I met you I was rotting in my bed,melting into my own skull. only flower-flavoredice cream and mother sweetness brought meback to the land of the living. do you remember?I try so hard to forget. to move on. I’m afraidI’ve never moved past a single […]
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although the morning glory flashes its pink striationsalthough the sweetness of spiced cream in the morning cupalthough the lone gull creaking in the copsealthough garden lanterns spin like paper satellitesalthough you laugh when you drop lettuce in your lapalthough one crow alights on the jetty and then anotheralthough your palm presses carrots into velvet muzzlealthough […]
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Overstayed my welcome again buzzedanother light body half empty convincedmyself it is brimmed half full enough for another round to oscillate back and forth play words on loop.If you want me, I’ll be at the bar. Contort myself into an itch you will scratchwhen the needle nestles into the vinyl grooves of a smooth bar classic warning me […]
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From Jacelyn: Peach Hell (4 pieces) is a little series I drew during the height of COVID-19, having graduated from university feeling isolated and confused. The soap I used obsessively throughout that period was peach scented, and I’ve come to associate it with the hellish feelings from that time. Peach Hell Jacelyn recently started her […]
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I’ve been estranged from my parents for five years, and this is not the first time I have been estranged from them. In movies it is often a single event, a concrete conflict, addiction, or an unfortunate event that leads to estrangement. In my case, and I suspect in many cases, the problem is not […]
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In a modern-day miracle, one of my friends fell out of a tree and missed the ground, swooping up into the sky like a kite cut free of its strings. One of my friends tweeted oh my god oomf fell out of a tree but before she hit send, she got distracted by a TikTok […]
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VAGABOND CITY 