Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
Poetry: “Dyspepsia” by Akhila Pingali
Akhila Pingali takes the idea that the body retains a one’s history a step further with the idea of “gastrointestinal memory” in her poem “Dyspepsia.” Simultaneously, she speaks directly to the body’s discomfort and animates it in the form of…
November 2026 Deadlines: 10 Contests and Magazines with Deadlines This Month
With plenty of opportunities to submit your work this month, some of which feature interdisciplinary practice or guided support for your writing efforts, it’s prime time to share your work with the world. Don’t forget that acceptances and rejections are…
With plenty of opportunities to submit your work this month, some of which feature interdisciplinary practice or guided support for your writing efforts, it’s prime time to share your work with the world. Don’t forget that acceptances and rejections are…
Poetry: “Abecedarian with Barack Obama” by Camilo Loaiza Bonilla
For the children of immigrants to America, seeing their parents become citizens can open an envelope full of mixed feelings. The speaker of Camilo Loaiza Bonilla’s poem, in “Loose & flawed Spanglish,” relays congratulations from Barack Obama to his mother…
For the children of immigrants to America, seeing their parents become citizens can open an envelope full of mixed feelings. The speaker of Camilo Loaiza Bonilla’s poem, in “Loose & flawed Spanglish,” relays congratulations from Barack Obama to his mother…
Poetry: “Bloat” by Ava Chen
In a poem comprised of couplets interrupted by one tercet, Ava Chen plumbs the depths of a desire which has inflated beyond the bounds of its relationship of origin. Chen captures this inflation through both the poem’s imagery—”a mouth with…breath…
In a poem comprised of couplets interrupted by one tercet, Ava Chen plumbs the depths of a desire which has inflated beyond the bounds of its relationship of origin. Chen captures this inflation through both the poem’s imagery—”a mouth with…breath…
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