"Buffalo Autumn' by Santa Fe #Artist Kathleen Frank. 🎨 Frank travels throughout the American West, seeking inspiration for her landscape paintings. Using vibrant hues, she captures light and pattern in her search for logic within complex terrains. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

About Place Journal May 2026 is a "bold and unflinching issue" bringing together poetry, essays, fiction, hybrid work, and visual art on the theme "The Ground Beneath Us: Place Power, and Resistance." #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

"This issue of About Place Journal emerges from a shared recognition: place is never just geography. It is a relationship between people, land, memory, and power." Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak, Editorial team for The Ground Beneath Us

Poetry friends, please suggest collections that explore ritual (you get to define that word). I already have Poetry as Spellcasting, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, and all of CA Conrad's, Danielle Vogel's, and Annie Finch's work. #Poetry

The shattering new issue of #aboutplacejournal from @blackearthinst.bsky.social is live. I've got one in here, in humbling company, thanks to Issue editors: Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Was such a great pleasure to edit this edition, which is full of incredible snd necessary work

Discover the latest edition of About Place Journal ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance Congratulations to Issue editors Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland, Assistant editors Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak for this outstanding issue. #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

TWO ✌🏽 poems out today in @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social in its incredibly pertinent issue “The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power & Resistance”: aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

So grateful to the editors of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social for publishing two of my poems: 𝐴𝑝𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑎 and 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎. Read in their excellent new issue 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝑼𝒔: aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g... #poetry #poetrycommunity

The new issue of About Place includes my brief essay "Landslide." It's about loss, interconnected ecological and human health, and the ocean. Give it a read. #writing #climatechange #ecology aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Nature writing about the land is so important as the modern world works to sever and numb these relationships @melissasevigny.bsky.social brings her unique voice to this essay connecting love, loss, memory, health and the sea. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g... @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

At best, we are what happens when everyone comes together, no one shunned, all free to rove on a Mother Earth without boundaries or land hogged by the mocking rich. __________ From 'Part Irish, In My Family We Are Stained Glass Windows' by Susan Deer Cloud aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Janet Ryan has spent the past fifteen years reading, writing, observing the antics of the birds and animals that visit her front yard, and discovering the stories behind the postage stamps she collects. Read her piece "The More Things Change…"in the latest edition of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.

In my eighty years I have seen many threats to our freedoms, from foreign tyrants to governmental witch hunters, from nuclear tragedy to environmental disaster, from unchecked power to unbridled greed. Today, I fear I see them all gathered before me. Janet Ryan aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

bone & blood thru sod & riverbed to loam restored each particle that passes through our aristotle intestines turning turf first from ballast water & root ball our origins emptied from ship to pack more tobacco From 'worm requiem' by Laura-Gray Street aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

When she posts photos from DC protests, I’m an ocean of mothers. The sky burns with pride and stings of menace. There’s more risk in ordinary language than a Cold War of kinetic bombardment could avert. From 'Canticle for Sydna' by Laura-Gray Street aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

What does freedom mean if you were never ruled? What if in your generational history, people thrived, lived communally, shared resource, honored agreements that meant there were no jails, no police forces, no orphanages... From 'Decolonized Freedom of Mind' aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

The vicuñas prancing the narrow ramp in hoofed obedience—gangplank to heaven, gangplank to cage—the lions with their ruffled, comic faces From 'While the U.S. President Throws A Military Parade, I Stand in Front of El embarque en el arca de Noé' by A. Teague aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

This country couldn’t, really couldn’t, spell freedom with a q, yet here we go again. Quietly quaking. Killing loudly. Spelling birthright like never here. ___ From 'On Inauguration Day, which is also MLK Day, I Consider America as a “Mouse Pie”' by A.Teague aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Deep freedom is the freedom to transform the state of one’s soul, self and society. Transformation is the organized emergence of a fundamentally distinct reality from that which presently reigns. From 'Nourishing Deep Freedom' by Aaron Jamal #LitMag #Freedom aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

'Giving Comfort' by Sherry Shahan Shahan has spent decades wandering the globe as a travel journalist, quietly watching the world and its people from behind. Her collages have appeared in Rattle, Josephine Quarterly, Orion’s Belt & elsewhere. #Photography aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Litany for Change Change the wars in the middle east wiping out the children in the streets dressed in grey rags playing with dirt and sticks and with pebbles Change the insatiable hunger of the rich for diamonds and dollar bills and oil to eat and to drink aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

"The Non-Breeding Option being exercised more and more pervasively of late demonstrates that Mother Nature can be kind. This contemporary system of Hers embraces traditions like: contraception, sterilization; same-sex marriage; abstinence, celibacy..." aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

"I wanted to know whether immigrants and refugees—especially those who might look, believe, think, or speak differently—still fit in the United States of today, our so-called 'nation of immigrants'...” From 'Why Are They Here?' by Peter Chilson aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

My mother told me anytime I see a mariposa monarca it is one of our ancestors, drifting with the breeze without restrictions. And still, I question why we have to wait until death to be free. From 'Untitled (Trabajadores)' by Daniel Gonzalez #Poetry #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

She stood stretched in the air, as if she Was winged & knew just how to fly Childish, dark, second-rate wasn’t her She meant to be long, golden, blue eyed ➡️ Red Gravel/Free Across the Roof-Top by Susan Terris aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

I am the 1st and only featured poet at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine's Medical Conference at the U of AZ. I lead Against Disease: Poetry of Resilience, Th and Fri for MDs & P.A.s from all over the nation. I'll use Refugee, (Red Hen)-- poems I wrote during Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer.

Thank you to our @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social readers, our venue hosts, & everyone who attended the reading on Friday! It was a great success. Special thanks to Teri Hairston for hosting, and RaeLynn Gallagher for her photos and video! youtube.com/watch?v=z9cecUfokpg&feature=youtu.be

🗓️ Reminder: Submissions for our next issue are due March 10, 2026. 🖋️ We welcome poetry, essays, fiction, hybrid work, visual art, and multimedia submissions from those rooted in activism, spirit, and justice. Emerging and established artists are encouraged to submit. #Poetry #Art #LitMag

One more week to submit to this!

🗓️ Reminder: Submissions for our next issue are due March 10, 2026. 🖋️ We welcome poetry, essays, fiction, hybrid work, visual art, and multimedia submissions from those rooted in activism, spirit, and justice. Emerging and established artists are encouraged to submit. #Poetry #Art #LitMag

Super stoked to have a poem in this stellar issue! Thanks to everyone at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, especially @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for giving my poem a perfect home!

But you don’t sail aimlessly either. Unlike what some ill-wishers say, imprisoned spirits who envy your fluidity, you know exactly where you want to go, and every stroke of your oar is a reaffirmation that this is where you are headed, here and now. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Join us for an off-site reading during the #AWP2026 conference! March 6th, from 6-8pm, at the Black Genius Art Show. ➡️ 15 readers will read their work from "Taking Liberties" & "On Freedom" editions of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social @anniefinch.com @beingpoetry.bsky.social @elegystreet.bsky.social

We welcome poetry, essays, fiction, hybrid work, visual art, and multimedia submissions from those rooted in activism, spirit, and justice. 🗓️ Submissions open January 1, 2026 ✅ Submissions due March 10, 2026 📑 Issue to be published May 2026 🔗 aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

You love your home / but leave it

J.W.M. Morgan is writing a novel as a series of linked stories about the inspiration of the religious mystic slavery abolitionist John Brown. 📖 Read Morgan's text: John Brown: Only the Messenger, in the latest edition of About Place Journal. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Each night we count about the same number & those are just the ones with backbones & we assign more value to anything with a spine Tonight in politics they’re all exoskeletal old as dust & perhaps the jellyfish is just the second largest animal without a heart

🖌️ Icarus Reborn (feel the burning light) Joseph Laurro's recent works take the form of resilience. Perhaps a myth rewritten in defiance of fate or the freedom of a swimmer late in life. Meditations on movement—turn to folklore, science, and the sacred. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

🎨 Dancing with Fireflies/down here below by Joseph Laurro Laurro searches while painting, making visual decisions directly in the process. His work is visceral, open-ended, allowing anything to feel possible. Recent works take the form of resilience. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Pretrial Case Management: The Weight of 1.5% (for the underpaid, overwatched, and underestimated) They gave me a 1.5% raise as if I wouldn’t notice the extra weight of my silence, as if the decimal point could polish the edge of my exhaustion. Amanda Reavey aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

The call for the next issue of About Place Journal, "The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance," is now open. We would love to have your work! 🗓️ Submission period: January 1 to March 10, 2026 🖋️ Editorial team: Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak. #LitMag

You love your home but leave it, visit when shells cease and soldiers go to military tents beyond the concrete tons of Ukrainian grief. From 'Epistle to Liubov Tymchenko' by Theresa Senato Edwards (poem), Lori Schreiner (painting) aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Exciting news! On March 6th, at 6:00pm, Cutthroat and the #BlackEarthInstitute @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social are holding a reading during the @awpwriter.org conference at the Black Genius Art Show. We hope that you can join us.

Young twins, somber eyes below scuffed foreheads. The artist’s painting holds you amid the ship’s sway before disembarkment from a porthole you’ll never stop looking through. Poet - Theresa Senato Edwards / Artist - Lori Schreiner aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

And there, face down on the carpet of an old Victorian apartment building that had survived the 1906 earthquake, he realized something: He had entered a new world. _ From 'Pan Francés,' by Mauricio Ernesto Ramírez, a Salvadoran American artist and scholar. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Churches constructed along riverbanks, helped with waterborne escapes, becoming havens for all who entered. Finding strength through faith, within the hallowed walls, worshippers found solace there that no one could ever take away. -Marjory Wentworth aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Very important to know, Renee Nicole Good, murdered by an ICE agent, was a poet. Here is one of her works. Read and Remember her. @poetsorg.bsky.social poets.org/2020-on-lear...

The Painter of Sad Faces "Before long, I became an ardent admirer of Nuri İyem, especially of his sad women faces and migration paintings. They touch and move me in ways that no other painting has ever done.' Aysel K. Basci is a nonfiction writer & translator aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Our Fiction Contest is open until the end of the month! We're so excited to have Jamil Jan Kochai as this year's judge. Send us your best fiction under 4,000 words. Winners receive publication, contributor payment, and a full scholarship to our Writers Workshop. kenyonreview.org/submit/short...