“Copyright laws are great if you are a rumored-to-be-cryogenically-frozen racist in America, but thieves like us we know how the song goes.” Up now our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian” by @laraacorona.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/if-bruc...

“Crocodiles serve as our lunch and/or as our supper. For breakfast which is also spontaneous, we usually go for ants. Eat them raw and ask me what else you know about yummy meals.” —“A Kilo of My Husband” by Helsea Ikwanga. Art by Senon Williams. evergreenreview.com/read/a-kilo-...

“Hunger be dumb as money, drum against dome, a thunderous dumpster diver mistaken for a male runway model. Body through the stage door just in time to expand form.” Up now: “Hammer Strike” and two more poems by the late Thomas Sayers Ellis (1963–2025). evergreenreview.com/read/adult-a...

"Frankie Five Hundred" was published in the spring/summer 2025 edition of Evergreen Review. The story of young Frances coming of age in 1959 Harlem follows her from high s to adult shenanigans. @evergreenreview.bsky.social @aalbc.bsky.social @electricliterature.com @parisreview.bsky.social

“When the head is imagined as a house, in the ancient way, it is often received as a story, a compendium of humiliations, and—most readily—as a keepsake.” From our brand-new Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “Boxthorn” by Jason Schwartz. Art by Lyne Lapointe. evergreenreview.com/read/boxthorn/

We're back! Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social F/W 2025-26 has launched with poems by Gregory Powell and artwork by William Downs evergreenreview.com/read/biolumi... ☀️🍸🌱🍃🍂 S/S 2025 archived here: evergreenreview.com/ss25/ Cover image: Cemetery Flowers by Don Tinling

“back in the day before I was slick head and gray minds grew hair leaping free from conk and jheri curl captivity . . .” F/W 2025 issue unrolling now!: “P-Funk Peoples and Afro Metaphysics of Sun Ra” and five more poems by Gregory Powell. Art by William Downs. evergreenreview.com/read/biolumi...

Dear Readers & Writers, I want to share an impressive literary magazine that I'm new to, @evergreenreview.bsky.social Evergreen has published: James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Milan Kundera, Marguerite Duras, Angela Davis: evergreenreview.com #writing #politics

While Evergreen is gearing up for our FALL 2025 issue, maybe it’s time to get your hands on some hi-vis merch? This awesome $32 tee is an excellent way to support your fave nonprofit literary magazine and helping us stay free to read! Available in medium, large, & XL : ) evergreenreview.com/shop

Don’t miss reading @evergreenreview.bsky.social this summer! A finalist for the #FirecrackerAward in Magazines/General Excellence, this lit mag is a great fit for any #SummerReading list: evergreenreview.com

“As she related her story, she took huge gulps of scotch that she threw back as if she were dying of thirst. It was still before noon . . . .” Up now: “The Picture of Iris Owen” by Jaime Manrique. Art by @kenschles.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/the-pic...

“There was no convincing my mother, no matter what truth the cameras and listening devices exposed. White folks were trying to kill her mind and her body.” Up now at Evergreen: “Schizophrenic Racism” by Allen Price. Art by Eldzier Cortor. evergreenreview.com/read/schizop...

“Narrative-based role-playing video games provide a dramaturgical approach to the deconstruction of the gender binary by allowing us to interact directly with a story as we follow along a character’s journey. . .” Up now: “Dagger Envy” by Serena Abdallah-Robbins. evergreenreview.com/read/dagger-...

“Every Iranian fought so courageously and so persistently to stop war, to end dictatorship through their own struggle, their own resistance, their own words. Now it all feels lost.” Up now: Sahar Delijani interviewed by Evergreen editor @porochista.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/an-inte...

I wrote this piece about the fashion-soulslike Infinity Nikki before the events of the #girlcott - truly what a case study in having a great game making some bold narrative choices and then absolutely tanking it due to greed. ...I still like this piece I wrote for DAS VIDEOSPIEL about it, though!

“The broader, sweep-of-history answer is that my daughter Lipdepdepju would not be in our lives if white America had not taken the Pacific and claimed it as its own.” —“My Nuclear Family,” a 2-part essay by @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social. Art: Peggy Casey-Friedman. evergreenreview.com/read/my-nucl...

“Stylist Nikki is on the case. She’s not just the chosen one: she’s also a card-carrying member of the Stylists Guild. We love a pro-labor queen.” Up now in Evergreen’s DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “The Sovereign of Fresh” by @annacwebs.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/the-sov...

I wrote about growing up Bahai, adopting a child whose birth parents are from the Marshall Islands, and the United States’ toxic legacy in the Pacific. Part 1 of a longer essay up today evergreenreview.com/read/my-nucl...

The Evergreen Review (@evergreenreview.bsky.social) is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence. Tune in to the awards ceremony on June 26: www.clmp.org/event/2025-f...

my freudian analysis of garnet/dagger and queen brahne from final fantasy ix is in DAS VIDEOSPIEL presented by @evergreenreview.bsky.social - which has published writings by malcolm x, jean paul sartre & many other prolific figures. what an honor to be tied to it! evergreenreview.com/read/dagger-...

It’s international yoga day 🙄 Re-upping essay on what’s wrong with all that “Notes of an Ambivalent Yogi” published at @evergreenreview.bsky.social last year evergreenreview.com/read/notes-o...

Congratulations to the finalists for the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! We’ll be cheering them on and announcing the winner on Thursday, June 26! www.clmp.org/event/2025-f...

“I thought of how ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ was really a Chinese novel, the land money, with people intriguing over every inch of it.“ Up now!: an excerpt from “Daydreamers” by @alvinlu.bsky.social (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social). Art by @schutmaat.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/daydrea...

Check out this excerpt from @alvinlu.bsky.social's DAYDREAMERS in @evergreenreview.bsky.social! Learn more & preorder for 30% off with code AWP at checkout! fc2.org/authors/lu/#...

First look at my novel Daydreamers, which publishes next month. Stylish treatment for this excerpt by @evergreenreview.bsky.social, paired with photography by Bryan Schutmaat. Thanks to old friend @johnghoakes.bsky.social, who published my first novel The Hell Screens, for making this happen.

How it started How it ended. I wrote the short story "Really Gone" about my dad for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social I wrote the short story "Frankie Five Hundred" about my mom for @evergreenreview.bsky.social Both can be read online #fiction

“I imagine Stanislavski nodding with recognition while stroking his beard upon hearing I’d become my mother. The performance had been achieved, he might say, at least in part, by hard, preparatory work.” —“The Method” by Lydia Stryk. Art by Susan Salinger. evergreenreview.com/read/the-met...

“He was one of the three great gigglers in literary history—the others being Proust and Kafka—and would laugh so hard at his own absurdities he was incapable of reading his work out loud to friends. . . . ” —a tribute to Edmund White (1940–2025) by Rick Whitaker. evergreenreview.com/read/in-memo...

“Skimming across a semi-stagnant pond, Illusion lenses form wherever I Stop, condensing the shimmering light Into self-luminous ink blobs. I float. . . .” New at Evergreen: “My Life as an Insect” and two more poems by Eric Thomas Norris. Art by Ken Weathersby. evergreenreview.com/read/my-life...

Edmund White, 1940–2025 “My father would spend hours shaving with the hot Water running and running, but as if in penitence for So much narcissism his only cologne was witch Hazel, liquid masculinity. . . . ” —White’s poem “Shaving,” from our fall/winter ’20 issue. evergreenreview.com/read/shaving

“On Monday morning Marcos Greene is drinking his maté in the back garden, under a trellis of ivy, before the day gets too hot. The strong tea he sucks through the silver straw has the earthy taste of memory.” Up now: “Certeza” by Mark Jacobs. Art by Sue McNally. evergreenreview.com/read/certeza/

“I suppose our role is in part to be ready in the shadows. I lived through the Vietnam era, in which poets became very active, vocal as poets, it did bring people out. . . .” —Michael Anania, in a two-part interview by Joshua Corey. Art by Amanda Guest. evergreenreview.com/read/from-ai...

“They are sitting side by side on the couch, watching ‘The Simpsons.’ He puts his hand on her thigh and moves his fingers back and forth just below the inner seam of her jeans. She has turned to look at him . . . .” —“Blur” by Stephen O’Connor. Art by Sam Samore. evergreenreview.com/read/blur/

Congratulations to @evergreenreview.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! evergreenreview.com

“The wasps build cathedrals out of spit and cellulose, architects of instinct. I have made my own hollow things, wrapped with the gauze of pretense. . . .” New poetry up now!: “Apocrypha of Air” and two more poems by M. Elizabeth Scott. Art by Izumi Ueda Yuu. evergreenreview.com/read/babalon...

“I expected the bookshop to be small, reserved for a select few. It is a monument. Monumental in its arrangement...” —An excerpt from Daniele Del Giudice’s “A Fictional Inquiry” (tr. @annemilanoappel.bsky.social) @newvesselpress.bsky.social. Art by Rosaire Appel. evergreenreview.com/read/a-ficti...

An excerpt of A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Guidice translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social in @evergreenreview.bsky.social. Calvino called it a simple book, "straightforward to read, but at the same time possessing great depth and extraordinary quality." evergreenreview.com/read/a-ficti...

Learn more about The Evergreen Review (@evergreenreview.bsky.social): evergreenreview.com

Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Events tomorrow (Sat 5/24) in Boston & next week (Tues 6/3) in London! Join Pat Thomas—with Darryl Norsen & Ryan Walsh in Boston; and with John Oakes, Stephen Coates & Kasia Boddy in London—to launch EVERGREEN REVIEW Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957–1973!

NYC event on Wed, 5/21, 7 p.m. at P&T Knitwear Books! Join Pat Thomas, Steven Heller, Joe Hagan, and John Oakes, to celebrate the launch of a new collection of EVERGREEN REVIEW front covers ($5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your book purchase)! www.eventbrite.com/e/pat-thomas...

“i don’t remember how we got there, the seven or eight of us, or if it was before or after wine country, or if it was two hours away, or what i wore, or if we slept. . . .” —“before or after wine country” & two more poems by Eliza Dzulkafli. Art by Diyan Achjadi. evergreenreview.com/read/we-dont...

TOMORROW: Seattle friends, don't miss this event Fri, 5/16, 7 p.m. at Elliott Bay! Join @patthomashistorian.bsky.social & @fantagraphics.bsky.social cofounder Gary Groth to celebrate the launch of a new collection of EVERGREEN REVIEW front covers and more! www.elliottbaybook.com/events/45803

Tonight!! Exciting opportunity to reflect on the underground, the Beats, the counterculture, the explosion of the SF literary scene, and little magazines at the omphalos

San Francisco event tomorrow, May 13, 7 pm! @citylightsbooks.bsky.social Join @patthomashistorian.bsky.social & Steve Wasserman to launch the brand-new “EVERGREEN REVIEW: Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957–1973” @fantagraphics.bsky.social citylights.com/events/pat-t...

San Francisco! City Lights Tuesday May 13 - discussing my new book with Steve Wasserman- bonding on our love of 1960s and 70s literature/politics - book features vintage articles on Dennis Hopper, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Black Panthers, Yippies, Jane Fonda, and more!

“She was certain that I’d be able to handle myself at the open market, saying, ‘If there’s any twelve-year-old who can do this, it’s you.’ I did not only trust myself; my mother also trusted me.” —“My Mother’s Son” by Ikechukwu Ogbu. Art by Elizabeth Catlett. evergreenreview.com/read/my-moth...

Join us next Sun, 5/18, 6–8 p.m., for a book swap at Daddy’s Bar in Ridgewood, NYC! Bring up to 10 books to trade! AND each drink you buy earns a chance to win raffle prizes, such as Topos & @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social gift certificates, Evergreen merch, & Queen of Hearts burlesque show tix!

“Much of loss is weighed in the distance between water and a body on fire, and how much salt you can keep under your tongue . . .” New poetry to start your weekend off right: “The osprey and the tree” and two more poems by Dare Tunmise. Art by Kristin Capp. evergreenreview.com/read/bokeh-a...

@evergreenreview.bsky.social - Evergreen Review, Ginsberg in Prague, Jack Kerouac hot news and the legendary Ira Cohen - Friday's Weekly Round-Up on the Allen Ginsberg Project - allenginsberg.org/.../fridays-...