Prayers of a Young Immigrant
By Zia Wang
“4:45 am, one more prayer before going back to sleep, thirty-three / amber tasbih beads warm between my fingers”
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Entry / Exit / The Aesthetics of Ins and Outs
Most of us might not have considered entries and exit in a poetic context, but one way or the other, if we’re writing poetry, we’ve used them.
The entry: opening line or sentence of the poem.
The exit: closing line or sentence of the poem.
These two lines might feel simple or obvious, but they hold as much importance in a poem as a door holds in the purpose of a house.
Coyote Poem #2
“balance the worker’s wailing mother / against the motorist’s (coyote // howling in the distance)”
LOVERS ON FIRE IN A BOAT
“the many varieties of violence, platters of soft // and blue violence, vintage violence.”
Mom Wants Things
By Binh Tang
“untamed, and dusk engulfed in their eyes, / like fireworks, like burning choppers in the sky”
Amber Beacon Tower
By Tiffany Wu
“our island’s favorite ghost is a / tower by the sea. men are afraid of the / woman in white stalking the shores, / shells uncracked and gleaming under her feet”
August
“Clad in a green vest and khaki shorts, he unshells / boiled groundnuts, his girlfriend draped in an orange dera // yells politely to the helpers,”
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Deadlines: December & January 2025
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.