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Our Pushcart Prize Nominees


Our Best Microfiction Nominees


Our 1st Session is live






Our ‘Best New Poets’ Nominees


Our Best Microfiction Nominees





Our Pushcart Prize Nominees




Ran Off With the Star Bassoon is attending SMOL Fair 2022





L’orchestre de l’Opéra, Edgar Degas, 1870

2nd Session

In those early days, I walked into a Virgin Record Store, carrying a copy of Another Chicago Magazine. In passing, I’ve discussed the quality of this particular issue with Ron Mohring and we were both able to speak about a few of the poems and one short story in particular nearly twenty years later. I’m not…

Heart Play

I started building the foundation of a new literary journal website in January. It was burning a hole in my brain and I had to see some aspect of it realized. Still, I avoided buying the .com or paying for the space. I wasn’t ready to move on it. Mostly, I just knew the work…