Issue 123 – VAGABOND CITY

Creative Nonfiction, Everything, Issue 123, Prose

Of the Brave by Eric P. Miller

Read Shakespeare, Joyce. Look at Homer, Tolkien. The list goes on. Men love singing together, especially before and after battle. Especially in times of victory. Try C.S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett. Madeline L’Engle, too, if you don’t believe me. Why does every college have a “fight” song? When I strapped on my helmet, I wanted in […]

Everything, Issue 123, Poetry

Broken by Peter Leight

I’m not touching anythingI’m not breakingit’s no trouble at allI believe my fingers are thickeningat the tips like buds breakingopen I don’t even knowif it’s enough if it’s brokenor if it’s broken enoughwhen I touch somethingI’m not waiting for it to breakor disregarding it when it’s brokenhonestly I don’t even knowwhat it means to be […]

Art, Everything, Issue 123

VANTAGE POINT by Vantage

Vantage is a street artist, abandoned history enthusiast, photographer, and hybrid media creator.

Everything, Issue 123, Poetry

Library Management by Melissa Eleftherion

GOOD THING THERE’S A BURNOUT WEBINARA patron came in with a macheteGOOD THING I HAVE VOCATIONAL AWEMy new boss wants to rearrange everyone’s workstationsGOOD THING THERE’S A BURNOUT WEBINARSomeone dropped a pound of weed in the book-dropGOOD THING I HAVE VOCATIONAL AWEThere’s a class of 30 children shrieking in the libraryGOOD THING THERE’S A BURNOUT […]

Everything, Issue 123, Poetry

America Does a Little Trick by Samantha Ratcliffe

It was an all hour war until it wasn’t. JD Vance’s face caved in on itself.People were walking on his nose.Straddling his lips like a slide,making cracks about his listless impotence.Someone sat on his earlobe like a couchthen read him critical race theoryand tickled him until he cried.The rest was crude and we moved awayfrom […]

Everything, Issue 123, Opportunities for Artists & Writers

Opportunities for Artists and Writers | September 2026

Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Art & Literature is currently accepting original CNF and fiction submissions of up to 3500 words. Simultaneous submissions okay. Deadline: 9/30 Quibble Lit is currently accepting 3-5 ekphrastic poems, up to 3 poems, up to 2 prose pieces, and up to 3 pieces of visual art. Simultaneous submissions okay. Deadline: […]

Everything, Issue 123, Issue 98, Now Read This

Now Read This: September 2026

Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators The Box in Which We Live by Samuel Rafael Barber Encompassing a wide range of formal approaches and genres, Samuel Rafael Barber captures the disparate manifestations of power and powerlessness in this era of global neoliberalism. The stories in The Box in Which We Live investigate the […]

Everything, interview, Issue 123

An Interview with Melania Luisa Marte

In this interview we hear from Melania Luisa Marte, a Dominican-American writer, poet, and musician born in the Bronx and based in South East Texas. From authoring the soulful poetry collection, Plantains and Our Becoming, to creating haunting new worlds with a Black Nuyorican character in the forthcoming YA fiction anthology, Can’t You See It’s […]