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“My honey is blood
and my meat is bone.
The wilderness is in me.
I wander through its hedges,
over the sloping hills
through the meandering rivers . . . .”
Up now: “THE BOOK OF CAIN” and two more poems by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi. Art by Rosanna Bruno. evergreenreview.com/read/the-boo...
“The sun was up, and it was hot, especially in this black suit I had on. A soft, hesitant breeze blew from the direction of the other clusters of funerals, it being a Saturday in KwaMashu.”
—“Solo,” a novel-in-progress excerpt by Mandla Langa. Art by Betty Blayton. evergreenreview.com/read/solo/
“Whole, each wedge snug
in the thick, gleaming skin,
every segment buttressed
and bounded by kin.
Held close, cheek to cheek,
then peeled and torn?
Touch-grown, together-fed—
of course they mourn.”
—“Orange” and more poems by Angie Hexum. Art by Ashley James. evergreenreview.com/read/orange-...
“Big George and George look for birds to tell them where the fishing is good and then the other fisherman look to Big George and George.”
Up now: “I’m with the Fish” by Daniel Goulden. Art by @peteredlund.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/im-with...
“The construction work came to an end. From the outside, it was clear that two distinct times had come together. The smooth plastered walls of the old house blending with the clean lines of the new structure.”
—“Embers” by Cynthia Abdallah. Art by Cindy Rehm. evergreenreview.com/read/embers/
“In Dambudzo Marechera’s short story ‘Burning in the Rain,’ an unnamed young man looks in the mirror only to see his reflection given back as an ‘ape.’ ”
Up now: “From the Stutter to the Gutter” by Jeffery Renard Allen. Art by Ken Weathersby. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...
“i
At close range, the sugar cubes are freckled.
ii
When they move, they take very short steps.
iii
They wear small white shoes.”
New at Evergreen: “Sugar cubes” and two more poems by Per Olvmyr. Art by Carolyn Case. evergreenreview.com/read/sugar-c...
“On the day your city burns, you do not wake up with soot in your chest, neither do you wake up to the sick smell of burning flesh. You wake up to the sound of your best friend singing.”
—“We are still here” by Olákìtán T. Aládéṣuyì. Art by William S. Schwartz. evergreenreview.com/read/we-are-...
“*
to wait
for peace
in times
of force
to cut oneself
a treaty
*
unreliable
your tales are tall
the mental lift
a pilot . . .”
New at Evergreen: a selection from “more than anything” by Africa Wayne. Art by Maya Deren. evergreenreview.com/more-than-an...
“ ‘Fielding’s Hollow’ is an intense, paranoiac live-action role-playing experience for sixteen players, set in a fictional mining town in 1890s New England.
You can only play it once in your life.”
Up in DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Beautiful Suffering” by Alice Maynwaring. evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...
you // must have been sleeping so deeply to dream a river this wide
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“I met the famous spinster Hepzibah Pyncheon, described by Nathaniel Hawthorne as so ancient and hopelessly decrepit when really she was only 60-something . . . I became obsessed with her . . . .”
—“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...
“In 2001, I found three large books of photographic proof sheets in a dumpster in Washington D.C. The pictures contained in these volumes document the inaugurations of presidents Nixon, Carter and Reagan.”
—A selection from Marc Ganzglass’s “D.C. Repro” series. evergreenreview.com/read/dc-repro/
A few new poems from my upcoming collection!!!
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“As a natural man himself, a son of the blues, he undoubtedly needed a natural woman in his life in addition to my mother.”
New at Evergreen: “Son of a Natural Man” by Reggie Scott Young. Art by Hugh Mangum. evergreenreview.com/read/son-of-...
“There was a winter she slept here.
There was a snow that silenced even her
loud dreams with its quiet gathering.”
Up now: “Origins According to Stone Swimmer” and two more poems by @mgarrigan.bsky.social. Art by Mary Mattingly. evergreenreview.com/read/origins...
“On June 8th, 2025, I went to my first baseball game at Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees were playing against the Red Sox.
It was one of the most interesting things I have ever witnessed.
I was stunned and shocked.”
—“Baseball” by Kathy Joyce. Art by Danny Ische. evergreenreview.com/read/baseball/
“Beyond these things—bricklayer, WORK—I knew absolutely nothing about what my dad did. And that was fine with me.
But it wasn’t fine with him.”
—“Heaven Knows” by Ed Pavlić, one of the “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in “The Best American Essays 2025”!
evergreenreview.com/read/heaven-...
"Dori (Who Walked Barefoot Over the Mountain" (@evergreenreview.bsky.social), one of my best published stories, is set on New Year's Eve day and features my dad-in-law Gregg Campbell's beautiful color film photography of Mount St. Helens after the '80 explosion evergreenreview.com/read/dori-wh...
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“Send me a pic of your hot arms.
How would you describe a person’s arms.
Seems dumb, everyone has them.
Why would you blow up your life for a pair of arms.”
Up now: “Ghazal w your arms” and two more poems by Marisa Crawford. Art by @gabriellegarland.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/robbie-...
“The Darién Gap has played host to all manner of other adventures beyond the established conquest, plunder, and canal pursuits of centuries past.”
—Up now: an excerpt from “The Darién Gap” (Rutgers University Press) by Belén Fernández. Art by Susan Hamburger. evergreenreview.com/read/silent-...
“The sun rises with blood streaks on its eye rims as mornings are dense with wings of dust emanating from early morning chores of young women . . .”
Up now: “Rail-track Radio Station” by Mbizio Chirasha. Art by @jessicadunne.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/rail-tr...
“Looking at William Hogarth today, his revolutionary vision leaps over the centuries to accuse the many bullies in power. I entered his work to follow in his path.”
Up now: “The Four Stages of Cruelty (after Hogarth)”—art and words by @suecoe.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/the-fou...
“Brother Morpheme had succeeded in keeping his emotions out of his work for the 150,982 assignments he’d handled prior to Ms. Mvungi.”
Up now: “The Witness of Nina Mvungi” by @koimolove.bsky.social, translated by @jaybossrubin.bsky.social. Art by Valerie Hammond. evergreenreview.com/read/the-wit...
“The first thing João Marçal mentioned about his upcoming show was that it was going to have custom pizza boxes in it, which sent my mind racing.
What is the meaning of the pizza box? Why a pizza box?”
—“Pizza Space-Time” by Gabriel Abrantes. Art by João Marçal. evergreenreview.com/read/pizza-s...
🥂 @evergreenreview.bsky.social 🌲
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1959: It was that magical time between Thanksgiving and Christmas...
--" Frankie Five Hundred"
“A star reporter during WWII, my mother-in-law Patricia (Pat) Lochridge Hartwell was the only female journalist to cover both the Pacific and European theaters—and perhaps danced with Hermann Goering.”
—Up now: an excerpt from @tsvoboda.bsky.social’s new memoir. evergreenreview.com/read/witch-h...
“How much of a spectacle was the bang? Was all that white intimidated by your dark expanse?”
Up now at Evergreen: “Questions You Never Thought to Ask of Blackness (For Obvious Reasons)” and three more poems by Daemond Arrindell. Art by Carl E. Hazlewood. evergreenreview.com/read/infamy-...
And the final piece in the collection—the title story, "The Witness of Nina Mvungi"—is out today in @evergreenreview.bsky.social, accompanied by beautiful artwork from Valerie Hammond. Thanks to Africa Editor Jeffery Renard Allen for all the support. "Ninaaaaaaa!" evergreenreview.com/read/the-wit...
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