Afternoon Visitor Afternoon Visitor was founded in the spring of 2020 in Iowa City. We are an online quarterly publication of poetry, hybrid text, visual poetry, and visual art. We’re particularly interested in giving ...

Afternoon Visitor 12 is live!!

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cover: from ‘The Periphery Is Ill with Boundary’ by Eliza Guerra

42.2 Maggie Nipps CostumeA tablecloth is a costume for a table. A tablecloth is a costume for a person. A wrapper is a costume for a rock if you’re playing a trick. A snowball is a costume for a smaller snowball. The h...

Delve into the insightful poem “Costume” by Maggie Nipps, where she explores the question: what, if anything, is really itself? With punchy, colorful prose Nipps paints a picture of grief and how it can change perception. #poetry #southeastreview

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Our 2025 Writing Contest is now open! Send us your prose and poetry ✨ Winners in each genre will receive $1000. Winners and runners up will be published online and in Issue 66.

Submissions are subject to a $20 fee. Send your words in now! 🎉

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IN THE MORNING, BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS The sky is open all the way. Workers upright on the line like spokes. I know there is a river somewhere, lit, fragrant, golden mist, all that, whose irrepressible birds can’t believe their luck this morning and every morning. I let them riot in my mind a few minutes more before the news comes.

Molly Brodak

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Maggie Nipps The Glacier Issue Three Winter 2024 Orionids Another August came and passed and I had nothing to show for it. I filled out none of the requisite paperwork. The light began to shift, my window cling…

perfect tiny horse poem from @magglerock.bsky.social 🐎 🐎 theglacierjournal.com/issue-three/...

Mary Bailey’s Christmas Week To-Do List December 24 Deck the halls, etc. Prep full turkey dinner Make sure Janie nails down “Hark!” TINSEL See if George remembers to pick up the Mer...

"I know how to single-handedly renovate a dilapidated Victorian in wartime with a baby on my hip. Clearly, I’m not fixing that broken banister knob on purpose."

Poetry is a beautiful white dog that throws up all over the house.

—Frank Stanford

Lloyd Wallace on What Keeps Us: Poems to Read in Community The sub-title of this installment of What Sparks Poetry is “Poems to Read in Community.” The Poetry Daily team convened this semester, inspired by C.D. Wright’s “What Keeps,” to select a group of twen...

Today’s Feature:

In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Building Community, Lloyd Wallace (@jockeycornsilk.bsky.social) introduces this year’s “What Keeps Us” feature.

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Cover image for issue 11, fall 2024, of Afternoon Visitor. Image is a black and white triptych composed of collages by the artist Katie Wolf.

Afternoon Visitor Issue 11 promotional image. Includes list of contributors to the issue. Contributor list: Carrie Olivia Adams, Jen Frantz, Katie Wolf, Brad Vogler, Evan Nicholls, Eric Tyler Benick, Sara Slingerland Sheiner, Adie Steckel, and Carl Napolitano.

We're back on this blue site to stay + new issue of Afternoon Visitor arrived earlier this fall!

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Today is the last day to submit your wonderful poetry, prose and art!! ✨

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