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Storm Cellar 4.2 contributor Sea Sharp‘s poem “The Tallgrass Shuffles” appears in The Pushcart Prizes XLI, out this month [powells link] — have a gander!

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We’re always looking for more amazing work over here.

Jen Coleman: Dreaming Your Silence Is a Postal Service Error, 2005

What are these notes passed, folded letters, and communiqués? It is certainly a season for thin spaces and the thoughts that fill them. Here’s Jen Coleman’s poem “Dreaming Your Silence Is a Postal Service Error, 2005“:

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This poem originally appeared in SC 4.3, available in print & ebook forms. For more connective tissue, subscribe! Our envelopes are never fully empty, so, read on!

PS – if you’d like to contribute to our next issue & happen to be a woman or genderqueer author (broadly construed), submit here soon.

Sarah Ann Winn: Introducing the Midwest Amazon

Readers, today of all days is #NationalPoetryDay and we’re here with a preview from the next issue (due Monday!) (!!!) — it’s Sarah Ann Winn’s “Introducing the Midwest Amazon”:

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This one’s gonna be great, you guys. (!!!!!!)

We’re also open for submissions for an issue to feature authors who happen to be women or genderqueer (in the broadest sense). Full guidelines, submission portal. Read on!

Marvin Shackelford: Wet Tracks Far from a Crossing

A whirlwind miniaturized or contained in the human form is no less than a swath of destruction waiting to happen. Spun up from the archive is Marvin Shackelford’s “Wet Tracks Far from a Crossing”:

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This poem originally appeared in SC 4.2. This one here (or download); check out our latestsubscribe and we will bering your fingers with ink torii. Read on.

P.S. We’re seeking staff readers, especially for flash-and-fiction. Check it; then email us. 

Jim Davis: two poems

The rubber plant, by the bay window looking over the canal that wears illegible graffiti and transmission parts like a quilt, is perking. This week’s share comes from Jim Davis (no not that one): “Standard” and “Please Do Not Use This Toilet (If Possible).”

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These poems originally appeared in SC 4.1. More print issues/ebook editions here. Breathe outside air today, read on!