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New fiction, “To Set Love Alight” by Saleah Yusuf
“The fire ate the curtains first. It ran along the furniture like a child in a race. There was a small,
satisfying sound when the TV blew. I had expected more noise when the gas cylinder went…”
writenowlit.org/2026/06/to-set…
Nonfiction, “Your Father Is Just a Boy” by Adetutu Adedoyin is live
“To hold this image of your father is not to diminish him. It is, if anything, to make him larger, to restore to him the full complexity of personhood that the roles we assign people…”
writenowlit.org/2026/05/your-f…
Read “Blue Hours” by Diane Wilson Parks
“Our prayers fade into clumps of silence,
the darkness stands in between the blue hours
and the blue souls crossing the night,
we prune the sky of dark clouds, we remove
the wintered arrows returning to tear...”
writenowlit.org/2026/05/blue-h…
Three Poems by Herb Kitson
“Secret thunder.
Reason inimical
to memory.
You can't suck
honey from a rock.
Honor cannot erase
the onslaught
of tainted dream,
scars
on the soul,
sharp
as gray sky in winter...”
writenowlit.org/2026/06/three-…
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Photography by Claudia Wysocky: Celestial Nights
Claudia Wysocky is a Polish poet and photographer based in New York, celebrated for her evocative creations that capture life's essence through emotional depth and rich imagery.
writenowlit.org/2025/10/photog…
Read “Nap” by Paul Smith
“Today’s nap
was like no other
in other naps
you dream about
the life you lived
the lives you didn’t live
this one was different…”
writenowlit.org/2025/10/nap-by…
Flight and The Wonder of Things: Three Photographs by Larena Nellies-Ortiz
Mountain Ridge; Sea View; Bird Flying High
“Whether it’s the lift of wings against an open sky, the slow endurance of a high altitude…”
writenowlit.org/2025/10/flight…
“The Woman” by Holly Day
“I used to wonder if I’d recognize her
if I passed on her on the street
if there would be some spark of recognition
in her eyes…’”
Day currently teaches classes at @MuseWritersCntr in Virginia.
writenowlit.org/2025/10/the-wo…
“Revelation” by Howard Brown
“It was only a dream, and I was fully aware of that fact, even as I dreamed it. Yet the absolute verisimilitude of the nocturnal fantasy was such that, moment to moment, I was enmeshed in its unsettling narrative…”
writenowlit.org/2025/10/revela…
Re-reading a Classic: Bashō by Ronald Tobey @Turin54024117
“Basho became a servant to a poetry-writing samurai, but was never himself promoted to the samurai caste. His lord died in 1666. Bashōapparently renounced any samurai ambitions…”
#criticismwritenowlit.org/2025/10/re-rea…
“It’s the third time this week he saw her, sitting on her small stool in front of her portable easel painting the view across the Seine. The first two times he’d seen her…”
Short fiction, “Pisco on the Quai de Montebello” by Julian Gallo @JulianGallo66writenowlit.org/2024/09/pisco-…
“And I’d defend the moon with longings
With anything I could muster
No limits --
To keep it up over
In harvests or phases
Even for no one…”
Three poems by Hiram Larew @HiramGLarew
writenowlit.org/2024/09/three-…
“I have built an ethereal monument of
Immortality, a universal museum of
The human heart, where the most
Treasured mainstay is my thought of you…”
Five Poems by Yuan Changming. See bio @poetswritersincwritenowlit.org/2024/09/five-p…
“In the morning,
the dog sniffs out
some rabbits
in our planters,
and it’s all we can do
to keep them
out of her jaws.
Later, hawks circle above…”
Three poems by John Brantingham @JohnBrantinghamwritenowlit.org/2024/09/three-…
@JoseHernandezDz Douglas Cole’s The Cabin at the End of the World is a flight through “heating ducts and beast parades” on a slowly sinking tanker, because “Who wouldn’t want their illegal cargo sunk / without a trace?…”
—Scott Ferry, author of Sapphires on the Graves
Blurbs for The Cabin at the End of the World:
“Douglas Cole paints with an imagist’s clarity, a minimalist’s precision, and a poet’s sense of Duende... Well done, poet!”
—Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of Bad Mexican, Bad American. @JoseHernandezDz
Our contributor, Cole Douglas, whose five poems was published earlier this year has a new poetry collection coming out this Fall with Unsolicited Press called “The Cabin at the End of the World.”
Prepublication orders can be made through the press:
unsolicitedpress.com/store/p458/the…
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