in my mother’s house, i dream about a war i never knew
mother says that i am the mountain. in chinese, there is no past or future. what you are, you are forever. shān is mountain, like the yellow river, and the bones of girls wrapped in red in the bellies of fishes. mountain, like the green bark…
ISSUE 2 IS HERE 🤎🤎☕☕
flowlitmag.com/issue-2/
Feat. cozy sips from Sarah Watkins, Ben Nardolilli, Kurtis Ebeling, Tricia Gates Brown, Duan Daemon, Erin Jamieson, Lydia Rae Bush, Cindy Rinne, Steve Lambert, John Grey, Yashar Seyedbagheri, Shraya Singh, Clare O'Brien, and Liz deBeer.
#litmag #writing
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Our writing event around the Avenues and Pearson Park next month is based at ArtLink. Have a look at all the fantastic community projects that they run. Search for the PLS on Eventbrite for details of the workshop on 11th October- a few places still available.
www.artlinkhull.co.uk
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Will have one in issue six of NPR, which will feature an interview with Alan Moore. (Yes, that Alan Moore: writer of Watchmen, The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta, etc.) Pretty cool…
Currently reading…
I like this.
Got a couple in here…
This, kids, is a postcard. @skyislandjournal.bsky.social is a class act. Issue 32 coming up. Thanks, guys.
Delighted for contributor M. Anne Avera, who has a debut collection, Complete and Total Honesty, out now from Neon Origami! Order here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH7J6NV4
Fanny Howe(R.I.P., poet) looking into the distance. Her weathered face is facing the light. A light gray scarf to match the smooth salt & pepper bangs.
One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. --Fanny Howe
Pilgrimage to Cottingham, Yorkshire today to pay homage to this cheeky fellow.
Cover image for Flow Magazine: Issue 1. The image features a collage of classic artwork featuring beverages, including people drinking, pouring, and holding various glasses and pitchers.
🤎 Flow Magazine Issue 1 out now! 🤎
flowlitmag.com/issue-1/
Here, I present an issue made up of work that speaks to the gentle intimacy of beverage, and to the things that keep us human. I hope it feels like a warm cup from my hands to yours.
To the love of drink.
“I was very impatient to grow up, and I wanted to leave Needles. I knew I had to, because I was going to become a weirdo.” —Alice Notley.
One of the best weirdos…
Our special All-Poetry annual issue is live, and many of the pieces come with recorded audio from their authors. You can hear them all in one playlist here on SoundCloud. Enjoy!
soundcloud.com/westchesterr...
#audio #poetry
Reading Homer in Santorini
There's a little good in the worst of us, a little bad in the best, I hear an old man say, his coffee steaming as he lifts the cup to his lips in the small harbor cafe. The man looks ancient, but is too cheerful to be a philosopher. His friends laugh. They're eating eggs…
Thanks, Prairie Home!
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
