An anthology exploring rivers and writing, forthcoming from River River Books in Fall 2026.

I concentrated on the view outside the back window. America, have you ever noticed how well you stretch the imagination?

Write about a moment of misconnection—mis-seeing, mishearing, or misremembering. You may write about a small moment (walking around your neighborhood, you think a wrapper is a flower), a big event …

Years later, I was writing poems about my great-great-great grandmother, Martha, and her marriage to her stepfather, David. This marriage made Martha’s mother, Alice, Martha’s sister-wife. When David ...

There is no grass. Just fabric flowers thin from sun. A chain link fence. A flagpole. No flag.

by J.I. Kleinberg

Check out These Saints Are Stones - <p>In Millie Tullis's new poetry collection, <i>These Saints are Stones</i>, a faithless daughter is haunted by her third-great-grandmother, Martha, a woman who mar...

Check out These Saints Are Stones - <p>In Millie Tullis's new poetry collection, <i>These Saints are Stones</i>, a faithless daughter is haunted by her third-great-grandmother, Martha, a woman who mar...

By what do I feel she is a woman rat

by Lisa Thornton

I don't want to be a farmer but my mother was right I should never have tried to rise out of the proletariat

My Director Once, my high school band director threw a metal music stand across the room. Not at any particular student,but not away from us either. My director loved teaching symphony, hated the marching band. The band director my director replaced——who had loved marching band almost above all else—stepped down after marrying an 18-year-old former student. The year before that, &hellip;

Sundress Publications announces the release of Delicate Machinery: Poems on Survival & Healing, edited by Erin Elizabeth Smith. Here, thirty-three authors share their experiences with sexual trauma, e...

by Sally O’Brien

Porcupine Literary is a journal by and for teachers.

"The National Anthem vampires at the blood. / I am a uniform. Not brusque. I bray" Gwendolyn Brooks, "Riders To The Blood-Red Wrath"

The Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts support, acknowledge, and celebrate writers in our nine-state region with $80,000 in awards. The genre for the 2025 cycle is Poetry.

Interviewed by Millie Tullis

Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share and examine their work, produced and moderated by John Gillespie. Episode 6 features Megan McDermott and Millie Tullis. Megan reads “...

by Laura Reece Hogan

by Lauren Camp

Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share and examine their work, produced and moderated by John Gillespie. Episode 6 features Megan McDermott and Millie Tullis. Megan reads “...

Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share and examine their work, produced and moderated by John Gillespie. Episode 6 features Megan McDermott and Millie Tullis. Megan reads “...

by Subhaga Crystal Bacon

by Eleanor Ball