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Two Haiku from Journey to the Clear Light
By Robert Paul Blumenstein
LitMag’s Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction
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Subscriber News: September 2019
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Spotify “Poetry: In Their Own Voices” Playlist
Notable female poets read their own work on the music streaming service
Moves in Contemporary Poetry
Craft essay in the journal HTMLgiant catalogues some popular techniques in 21st-century poetry
Furious Flower Poetry Center
The first academic center for Black poetry in America
Dark Art Movement
Online archive of classic and contemporary macabre visual art
Homology Lit
Online journal for underrepresented art and literature
Queen Mob’s Tea House
Online journal publishes innovative literature, satire, music journalism, queer translations and more
Embassy of the Free Mind: Online Catalogue
Free online archive from the world’s largest occult library
Book Brush
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The 1619 Project at the New York Times
Feature series from NYT Magazine surveys the 400-year legacy of African-American slavery
Jody Mason Wins the 18th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
The winners of the 18th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers
Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2019
Award-winning poetry, fiction, and nonfiction curated by Jendi Reiter
Microcosm Publishing
Small press for self-help nonfiction books and zines with a leftist bent
A Story Most Queer
Weekly podcast of fiction and creative nonfiction with queer characters and authors
Walking into Lightning by Ellen LaFleche
With profound sensuality and intense imagery, these poems speak of the physicality of love and loss, and the whole territory of grieving: its violence and its ordinariness, the interplay of memory, desire, and sorrow.
The Masters Review Summer Short Story Award for New Writers
The 2024 Summer Short Story Award judged by Colin Barrett is open for submissions! The winning story will be awarded $3,000 and publication online.
Subscriber News: August 2019
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
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Children’s Diversity and Justice Library
Volunteer-run library in Tennessee has searchable online catalog of diverse books for youth
Online Etymology Dictionary
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Historical Restaurant Menus at the NYPL
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Objective Correlative
By David Holper
Key Book Publishing Paths
Publishing expert Jane Friedman explains different tracks to book publication in this annually updated chart
reflections on a car radio set to scan
the silence becomes unbearable. scan i will admit that i am tragically far behind in terms of the top 40 songs. after a while they blend together, my interest abandons ship. scan twangy guitar, throaty voice, country music draws a frustrated groan from the backseat. this song has the smell…
State of the Uterine
wearing yoga pants was not a most excellent decision going to a vinyasa class likely could have waited assuming the release of endorphins might have healing properties I went definitely colder rounding on to seventh from twentieth my ears typically get so cold that they start ringing after I find…
Making an Auto Insurance Claim
Listen to the author read this poem [my side view mirror] [got whacked] [by an unknown] [driver] [so I called] [an 800 number] [to make] [a claim] [and I was put] [on hold] [listening to a song] [with a strange] [xylophone] [solo] [and they broke in] [every three minutes] [to…
Sestina: Bruh!
You can correct the course anytime you want, bruh All you gotta do is think it, bruh And then, it'll, like happen, bruh Seriously, bruh You can totally get twisted in your head bruh But there is a way out. I mean it, bruh. All the things we choose to…
Kathy Keating
Kathy is an Avid Adventurer and recovering Mushroom Squisher, who takes her inspiration from the Workplace as well as the Wilderness. Current works include a Graphic Science Fiction novel, The Stellar Companion, which she hopes to complete during her 2019 southbound thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. When she isn't working…
The Rhyme of the Ancient Barbie In Five Parts
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Contingency Plans
I So, you find yourself at an altitude of 2,500 feet, and your parachute has failed to open. Not your day, is it? Here are some things you might want to do: II Deploy your reserve parachute. Seems obvious, doesn't it? You'd be surprised. If your reserve parachute fails to…
Where Pixies Relax
In thickets so thick That the crickets get cricks In their necks when they flex Is where Pixies relax. So complex and compact Are the sticks they're betwixt, Even ticks say a trek Through such tracts is a tax. Friction nicks insect knickers And hacks up their slacks. Prickly parts…
We’re Sorry
For horseshoes press 1, for hand grenades press 2 Please spell the name of the person whose name you are spelling Please hang your clothes on the line We're sorry, the number you have dialed is your own number We're sorry, we can’t come to the phone any more. If…
My Tenure (Clock Signal: The Aftermath)
It is my 10-year anniversary today, They remind me. I am being Rewarded for my Tenure. I am discreetly removed from the production floor. I am taken for the mandatory photo, for my certificate. We pose in front of The Corporate Video of The Gleefully Dancing Suits. We don't wear…
Winter 2019: The De-Evolution of the Snow Day
Snow Day #1 Friday, December 14 Alarm clocks are silenced. School closings scroll across the television like answered prayers. Aromas: fresh coffee, hot chocolate, homemade soup. Snuggling on the couch, followed by several good runs on the toboggan down the hills at Old Man Fisher's Farm. Cozy children in matching…
Visiting Empire Haven
A naturist resort in Moravia*, New York We're going to make the nudist scene; we'll cast off our garments and stroll on the green. Genitals bared, we will lie in the sun and stroke through the water with every-stripped-one, near a town, named for Europe's, from whose shtetl came a…
Lewis Carroll’s Song at Newark Airport
Despite the wealth of words I spent, There's little to relate. I saw a Delta flight agent A-sitting by the gate. “I raced to make it here by noon!” I cried. “My flight's delayed?” But the agent laughed just like a loon And made me quite dismayed. “Your flight has…
This Film Has Been Edited for Content
On basic cable, the killer skulks in his shadowy clothes and oversized hat into the desolate building, up the dark steps as nondiegetic cellos play, and just before he blows out his victim's brains— spaghetti sauce slung across a pale wall— he whispers, “I've had it with your plucking spit!”…
At a Meeting of the Queer Women Filmmaker’s Association
At a meeting of the Queer Women Filmmaker's Association (hosted bi-annually) I propose a new project: a lesbian Twilight remake, Working title: Twidykes, colon, Gold Star. The crowd boos. First objection, from my ex, She says that I am not qualified to head this passion project because I have “neither…
Failure to Triangulate
I don't know who Jason is, but I know he recently suffered a serious injury or illness. I know this because I was assigned his old phone number. As soon as the number transfers to me I receive heartfelt texts from strangers asking someone named Jason how he is feeling,…
Sarah Totton
Sarah Totton is thrilled to receive her second honorable mention in the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. She is a regular contributor to McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Points in Case. Her humor has also appeared in Slackjaw, Little Old Lady Comedy, and The Belladonna. She has twice received a dishonorable…
Eylie Sasajima
Eylie Sasajima is a recent high school graduate who lives in the rural town of Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Poetry and fiction are her main creative outlets. She is a former poetry contributor to her school's newspaper, The Rocket Star. Her writing process is influenced by world history, media, social justice…
Linda Muhlhausen
Linda Johnston Muhlhausen believes in the humanist potential of language in general, and poetry in particular. She takes inspiration from observation of the world around her, other poems and poets, the synergy derived from a cat attached to her lap and a poster attached to the wall. The poster of…
Melissa Morano
After graduating from the University of Vermont and majoring in Political Science and Religion, Melissa Morano lived in New York, working in finance and not getting nearly enough sleep. Her growing disinterest and discomfort with the current political climate in the United States have led her to undertake a self-imposed…
Shawn Klimek
Shawn M. Klimek is the middle child of seven creative siblings, a globetrotting, US military spouse, internationally best-selling short-story writer and butler to a Maltese. His poetry can be read in the digital magazines NewMyths, Dastaan World, Pendora, and Inner Circle Writers, and in the print anthologies Cadence, Windows, Cocky…
Lee Kisling
Lee Kisling is a 2014 graduate of Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In December 2013, his poetry chapbook The Lemon Bars of Parnassus was published by Parallel Press in Madison, Wisconsin. His work has been published by Stoneboat, Sixfold, Oberon, Bryant Literary Review, Off the Coast, and many others.
Jackie Hostetler
Jackie Hostetler is a mother, a teacher and a writer. When not mothering or teaching, she spends her time writing, usually about mothering and teaching. Language has always been her passion, particularly the process of how humans acquire language. Most of her professional career has been centered around encouraging language;…
David Galef
David Galef has published over a dozen books, including the novel How to Cope with Suburban Stress (one of Kirkus's Best 30 Books of 2006); the short-story collection My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Books' Short Story Collection Award); two children's books, The Little Red Bicycle (Random House) and Tracks…
