Today's the day! I know you've been procrastinating on getting those poems/essays/short-shorts submission ready, but speak now or forever hold your peace!
15.04.2025 17:07 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Submit now or forever hold your peace. Only 1 day left to submit to the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and the Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize!
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14.04.2025 19:15 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Fig Cartography by Jane Flett — Passages North
Associate Poetry Editor Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: Toeing an often unseen line between violence and romance, Jane Flett’s “Fig Cartography” is wonderfully bittersweet. Try as we might “not t...
Poetry Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: "Exploring emotional entanglement further, in the final moments of the poem, Flett details the dance of attraction through the lens of complex bio mutualistic give and take."
Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett
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Act fast! Only 5 days left to submit to our poetry and CNF contests!
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10.04.2025 17:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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08.04.2025 16:44 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We are so thrilled to see contributor @erindorney.bsky.social new book "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" out in the world from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social !! Congrats, Erin!!!
12.03.2025 14:40 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Purple and light blue poster with white text reading "Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, judged by Diane Seuss. Opens February 15. Deadline April 15th. More information is available at passagesnorth.com/contests." A photo of the judge, Diane Seuss.
We are still open for submission for our Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize judged by Diane Seuss! Enter your best poems for a chance to win some $$$ and publication in Passages North!
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Shorts team lead Jordan Vines on today’s short: "Apocalypse is a genre all too familiar. And yet, “The Movie Theater at the End of the World” invites us to experience the end like a good film: tinged with nostalgia; a blissful memory of how the world used to be."
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28.02.2025 15:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Do you have a visually-striking essay? Or a formally-inventive memoir? Or even just a darn-good piece on velociraptors? You should submit it to our CNF contest! Subs open now until April 15
24.02.2025 21:05 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Check out our interview with Diane Seuss, judge of the 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, conducted by Alex Watanen.
Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com
22.02.2025 17:53 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
WE LOVE THIS SHORT-SHORT ABOUT DAD SHORTS!!!!
19.02.2025 18:07 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Delighted to be in this issue with so many great writers!
19.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Issue 46 of Passages North is now available!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
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That’s right! Our poetry and nonfiction contests are NOW OPEN until April 15th!
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Get your poems and essays ready! Passages North's CNF and poetry prizes open this weekend! Check out passagesnorth.com/contests for more info!
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Really exciting to read this poem by a former student.
06.12.2024 16:48 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Anniversary by Erik Moyer — Passages North
Poetry Editor Nicolette Visciano on today’s poem: The weight of a laugh is heavy in “Anniversary” by Erik Moyer. By confronting grief through the lens of absurd rituals, Moyer presents a new perspect...
Poetry Ed. Nicolette Visciano on today’s poem: By confronting grief through the lens of absurd rituals, Moyer presents a new perspective on what it means to be rational when the definition for rationality has been lost.
Read "Anniversary" by Erik Moyer
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06.12.2024 16:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Happy December! Free submissions are now open for our Poetry, CNF, Shot-Shorts, and Visual Essay categories! Hope to be swooned by your work soon!
01.12.2024 17:31 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Bigfoot Goes to the DMV by Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom — Passages North
Wanted to share some of my latest writing here! My short story "Bigfoot Goes to the DMV" was published in 2024 by the fabulous @passagesnorth.bsky.social - www.passagesnorth.com/issue-45/big...
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Go buy @tguzman.bsky.social ‘s book!!!
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Poetry Editor Abby LaForest on today’s Poem: Lizzy Ke Polishan’s “This Poem is Melting in the Sun” welcomes us to appreciate the transience of our lives without the need for anxiety or rigid configurations. Polishan’s language is fluid and inviting, dripping into readers’ mouths and leaving them with sun-soaked reminders of our own temporality. After all, were we not put on this earth to enjoy what’s around us?
This Poem is Melting in the Sun
Things become other things.
A cone of strawberry ice cream becomes the meaning of life. So lovely you could lick it. So pink you could know how it is before you know how it is.
A dog becomes a dog with a cone. A fish, a flash in a wave. A wave, a pair of lovers, parking in the park’s parking lot.
What is is not for very long. It's okay. Let it happen.
Here is the ice cream, here is the last bite, here is the ridged cardboard ring.
You can carry it around a little longer before you light it with your lighter, watch it turn back to light.
Here is your voice. Here is the last line. Here are a few more words.
Lizzy Ke Polishan is a poet and the author of the poetry collection A Little Book of Blooms (2020). Her recent poems appear in Gulf Coast, Gigantic Sequins, The Banshee, The Penn Review, and Dappled Things, among many others. She is a poetry reader for Psaltery & Lyre, and a Guest Editor at Palette. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband. You can find more of her work on her website, https://www.lizzykepolishan.com or on Instagram: @dizzymiss.lizzy.
You can support the writer by sending a tip via Paypal to elizabeth.polishan@gmail.com.
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"A cone of strawberry ice cream becomes the meaning of life. So lovely you could lick it. So pink you could know how it is before you know how it is."
"This Poem is Melting in the Sun" by Lizzy Ke Polishan, from @passagesnorth.bsky.social
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