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Show up Late, Show up Early, Show up Uninvited - Tahoma Literary Review Advocacy: Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby! And welcome to a world of families who are not invited, included, or accounted for. If

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We're Krista Lee Hanson fans, enjoying her original flashes as well as her long-form work (see comment below)
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... As South Korea reckons with its complicated history of international adoption, I hope my story adds to the conversation."

Schrödinger’s Father - Tahoma Literary Review My father has been dead for almost a decade. For most people, this wouldn’t come as a shock. Ten years is a long time, after all. I would’ve been

Spotlight on Tiffanie Kim, an artist and emerging writer based in Hudson, NY. About her essay "Shrödinger's Father," she says:
"When I found out my birth father died, I didn’t talk about it for weeks. I was surprised by the depth of grief I felt for someone I’d never known ...

She was a professor at Vermont College of Fine Arts while I was studying there for my MFA in Writing. The last line in “Poem Ending with a Line by Deborah Digges” is from her poem, “Lilacs” in her posthumously published collection Trapeze.

Poem Ending with a Line by Deborah Digges - Tahoma Literary Review Sometimes when I cannot write I remember my professor’s astonishing beauty, how we fell before the heft of her hair, lay down on her creased pages &

Spotlight on Katharine Whitcomb's breathtaking "Poem Ending with a Line by Deborah Digges." tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...

Poet’s Note:
[This poem] is an elegy and an homage. I have been greatly inspired as a writer by the work of Deborah Digges, who died by apparent suicide in 2009.

Tahoma Literary Review's nominations for Best of the Net 2025

Bear - Tahoma Literary Review Some of my kids’ friends came over and stayed until dark the other night, which, in winter on the Olympic Peninsula, is still quite early. My partner and

"'Bear' is a short, nonfiction piece that came from me and my family making it through the winter of 2025. By any means possible, that’s what we were doing to get through these both literal and figurative dark times."--poet & writer Melissa O'Neil

Thank you @tahomareview.bsky.social for nominating "Plague" for Best of the Net for 2026, alongside other great #artworks and online literary #writing! Read Issue 28 / Spring 2025 below.

Tahoma Literary Review Submission Manager We are reading!  We are open for submissions from August 15 to October 31. General guidelines are below.In addition to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, we are now open to graphic narratives and poetry...

Two more days to send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, or poetry in translation.

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"inspired by the social currencies of adolescence and the pressures of girlhood; the desire to fit in without understanding why we should even want to; the wounds of friendships that have become something else in the name of these pressures; &, last but not least, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson"

What to Do in a Bear Attack - Tahoma Literary Review Wyatt Stephen has been reading a book about bear attacks in the United States. I learn about this in great detail in Stacy Miller’s backyard. Stacy’s

A coming-of-age story meets A Walk in the Woods in this flash fiction piece by Kyra Kondis. From Issue 29:

Tahoma Literary Review Submission Manager We are reading!  We are open for submissions from August 15 to October 31. General guidelines are below.In addition to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, we are now open to graphic narratives and poetry...

One more week 🎃 to send work for our current reading period, open through October 31.
Remember that we are now open to graphic narratives and poetry in translation, in addition to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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teeth-grinder, lace-cutter - Tahoma Literary Review a Mansour and Tanning assemblage From cheap coffins, the dead blaze like stained glass in the gloom. Their airbrushed eyes of storms and logics, say Don’t

👀 Jackie K. White and Simone Muench's poem "teeth-grinder, lace-cutter," part of a collaborative project, "The Alchemy of Ghosts,” wherein they "engage with the voices of the women associated with both the artistic and literary Surrealist movement, who have often been historically marginalized"

Jackson Pollock by Jenny Molberg, poetry My poem, “Jackson Pollock,” is part of a manuscript-in-progress that interrogates famous men in the visual arts and their talented partners and wives who have been overshadowed, silenced, or lost to h

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Sunday, October 12 JACKSON POLLOCK I do not believe in forgiveness.

Today’s Poem Per Diem is “Jackson Pollack” by Jenny Molberg from our most recent issue.

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The Memory Root - Tahoma Literary Review For a while, Doris remembered when it started. A January day. Mild: 65 degrees, gentle breeze blowing in from the Gulf. She had brought her biology

Spotlight this week on Betty J. Cotter, writing what she initially thought of as the “field trip story,” which then evolved into a greater examination of aging, memory, and our threatened environment.

#lasteuropeansummer - Tahoma Literary Review The day the EU announced its impending border closure, we let the news and its implications settle among us, casting a long, dark shadow over our imagined

Embark contributor Jillian Schedneck has had a story called “#lasteuropeansummer” published in the @tahomareview.bsky.social! Check it out here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/l...

Poet’s Note:

This piece is part of a larger project called “My Prayer a Slit Throat: erasing the inheritance of war.” My source materials come from war ephemera in the Western canon; different modes of erasure are explored with each source text.

Spotlight this week on poet Ellen Kombiyil, whose gorgeous erasures can be seen on our website.
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Preserves - Tahoma Literary Review In winter, Lara eats root vegetables from the cellar—crisp carrots and sugar beets that snap between her calcified teeth. Outside, the snow is like

"Lara eats chocolate cake again when the man she loves brings it to her after his wife has gone into town to run errands." @kellypedro.bsky.social in @tahomareview.bsky.social
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Text of poem "Teeth"

Photo of poet Jennifer Martelli

I'm heartbroken that poet Jennifer Martelli has died. Her poem "Teeth" appeared in Issue 21 of @tahomareview.bsky.social - one of my first issues as editor. I fell in love with her poems and was lucky to become her friend. She was funny, brilliant, deeply generous, & kind. She will be very missed 🐈‍⬛💔

Two Poems by Susana Thénon, trans. from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop - Tahoma Literary Review from Unrelenting Age (1958) | from Edad sin tregua (1958) Advent Why does it never get to beour handsthe ones that rise up,the ones that proclaim the

Why does it never get to be
our hands
the ones that rise up,
the ones that proclaim the voice
of disgust…

Read Susana Thénon’s “Advent,” translated by Karen Elizabeth Bishop in @tahomareview.bsky.social this #NationalTranslationMonth: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Good Faith Marriage - Tahoma Literary Review I’ve taken 1,112 photos since December 8, 2023, the day we got married. Three hundred ninety-three are from my research in historical archives, large

What archival traces do our intimate relationships leave behind?
What happens to intimate relationships when forced to produce proof of their legitimacy, or "good faith," to the bureaucratic immigration system? What is lost, diminished, or silenced in the process?
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“And everywhere she went, always in the distance lay o le sami, the sea, turquoise indigo with a faint silver lining that caught her eye, glittering in the sun.”

The Mangrove Coast - Tahoma Literary Review She can still remember clearly, even after so many years away from home. The scent of plumeria and gardenia, carried through her window by the sea breeze,

Featuring this week: flash nonfiction from AR Manu, a Samoan-American graduate student attending Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA

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Rhythm by Isaac Yuen | Beyond thought.

Peep this short reads by associate fiction editor Isaac Yuen www.short-reads.org/rhythm/