If you’re drawn to poetry that risks something—work that’s strange, gorgeous, and willing to push back against the systems we live in—South Broadway Press is a space you’ll want to know. Based in D…

Image: Algozhy South Broadway Press has an open call for poetry for our autumn 2026 edition. There is no theme for the autumn edition. Please send us your best poems. South Broadway Press loves to …

A book review of Andy Riley's new collection, Brooklyn ave. Hymnal, available now through Pilot Press.

Get to know South Broadway Press Editor, Chris Bullock AKA Tall City

A book review of John Calderazzo's new collection, In the Soup, available now through Middle Creek Publishing.

Book Review: Compost Your Despair by Hayden Dansky A BOOK REVIEW BY LIZA SPARKS Compost Your Despair is Hayden Dansky’s love letter to Palestine, community organizers, to the “queer and weird and trans and disabled,” to the “dark and indigenous,” to “those of us who live in liminal spaces, or are kin to it,” to their past self, to anyone who feels empathy, anyone with a heartbeat.

A review of Laurel Radzieski's book Leaf Manifesto by Shelli Rottshafer

a poem by leta iris

Two poems by Maple Scoresby

Two poems by Maple Scoresby

South Broadway Press is seeking submissions for our upcoming print anthology.

Image: Mayur Deshpande SCRIBE BY T. LYDIA MCKINNEY Isubscribe to the pronounweas inwedon’t f*ck with themorin this housewedon’t play thatWe,the peopleprotect one another I’d saywe family butwedon’t…

Get to know Portland-based artist Rachel Mulder a little better

Call For Submissions: Autumn Edition Online Image: Olga Kovalski South Broadway Press has a free open call for submissions for our online journal. South Broadway Press has an open call for poetry f…

Source: Vackground ode to my belly button BY LIZA SPARKS You remind me that I am hungry. That I hunger. That I am meant to be fed. That this is a natural state of being. I should not be ashamed to …

Image: Donna Brown Spin the Bottle BY BRIAN DICKSON Three-liter Cola,zeppelin of delightand angst, weimagined your daresat once containedand floatingto our bodies. We imagined eachempty spin—steady…

Image: Spring Night By Russell T. Limbach, 1928 A GUIDE TO SLUMBER; A TIRADE WITH TANGENTS; A MANSPLAINING; A SURRENDER BY DUSTIN KING I was asked at a party how I sleep at nightit is a delicate ba…

Image: Harrison Fitts In the back of my mind, you died. BY LATOYA WILKINSON I find comfort in stillnesswhen blades kiss my skinand thundered tongueshail down my name.In the grey,I close my eyes—and…

Image: Azka Rayhansyah Assimilation BY JOSEPH WILCOX i destroy myselfwith a slow grindpressing my body againstthe bitter wheel at any signof sharp successpolishing away the burrsof hope and joy unt…

Image: Derek Story Luigi Mangione BY HILARY SIDERIS On December 4, 2024, 27-year-old engineer Luigi Mangione assassinated BrianThompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare—who had made millions denying claims…

Image: Harrison Fitts In the back of my mind, you died. BY LATOYA WILKINSON I find comfort in stillnesswhen blades kiss my skinand thundered tongueshail down my name.In the grey,I close my eyes—and…

Image: Simon L Grief As An Orange BY LYDIA FORD An orange rind peeledin one swift ribbon, white veins of pithsnaked around ripened grief offering.Glinting, a little sun in the center of the bowl,a …

South Broadway Press is a publisher of poetry through books, print journals, and on our online journal, South Broadway Ghost Society.Our mission is to provide a platform for ideas that provide alterna

Image: Hadassah Carlson Anatomy of a Poet, or This Ol’ House BY DAVID ESTRINGEL roof tiles gray and thinfalling away in the sunlike ash ‘round my feet windows cloud and warpwith the long passing of…

Image: Wixina Tresse A Fallen Yew BY SALVATORE DIFALCO I passed it unawares, others fallen, rottingwith perfume pervasive as the gnatsforming my halo and feasting delicatelyon the membranes of my e…

Image: Lika Yer Cherry Picking in Washington D.C. BY AMY WRAY IRISH First, the cherry trees blossom, bursting open into skirted ballerinas filling the boulevard and the White House and the whole na…

Image: Kris Sevinc Underbrush BY SARA WHITTEMORE I have watched the figsripen for centuries I have stolen the dandelionsscattered their seeds across fields of tulips and tamarindI have felt desire …

Image: Jason Mayer Summer Silence BY JACOB BUTLETT In my dreams psalms of rainecho and echo around a cabinmy parents rented one summer. I stand invisible beside my nine-year-old self as he gazes be…

Image: Laurent Perren Night Train to Chicago BY GUILLERMO LAZO Let’s get off at OsceolaAnd grab our coonskin caps, boys.Forgetting the farmer’s fieldsAnd head for the wild patch of landIn the corne…

Image: James Wainscoat Kneading Dough BY MIMI KHOSO We’re gathered here in this sacred placeDarting looks of judgement and envyYou still manage to pull a sour faceAs the imam gives the khutba about…

Image: WEFAIL A Chorus of Mourning Echoing Out Toward Mecca BY TED VACA the chosen peoplegod’s blessedpeople brutalized attacked and slanderedbeaten throughout centurieswandering througha mist of s…

South Broadway Ghost Society @southbroadway.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. #amwriting

Call For Submissions: Autumn Edition Online Image: Olga Kovalski South Broadway Ghost Society has a free open call for submissions for our online journal. South Broadway Press has an open call for …