Issue XV of Bracken is here! Enjoy reading www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/main

"Don’t think you can trespass in my garden & slip away clean No one walks out of a fairytale unscathed" Enjoy Diana Whitney's poem "Nightshade" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/ni...

"Sunlight reaches in, a hand that won’t commit." Enjoy "Houseplant" by Gordan Struić in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/ho...

"if we are light then we must . . . return to the opaque objects, offer them our apologies . . ." Check out Erin Slomski-Pritz's poem "lineage" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/li...

"I was post and beam, mortise and tenon, tongue and groove. I was the whole construction built on friction’s bite." Enjoy "I Was the House," along with "Autumn Work Song," by @haydensaunier.bsky.social in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

"... I would watch the world unfold like the pattering steps of a pregnant cloud." Enjoy CP Nwankwo's "April, If I Could Flee" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/ap...

"... an awe that’s part fear—the sharp blue shadows of cliffs bleaching us to smallness, to silence. " Check out Theresa Monteiro's "Dear Fernando, November" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/de...

"The inlet’s waves bare their teeth, seethe to shore. The grasses tremble, shark-colored clouds cruise the sky." Enjoy Jennifer Stewart Miller's "Gull and Mollusk," plus "To the Young Baltimore Oriole," in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

Compelling photography of India's stepwells by Claudio Cambon in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/cl...

Enjoy landscape photography by Michael Miller in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/mi...

Beautiful aquatic artwork by Charles B. Bowers in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/ch...

"... clocks became unreliable, their minutes spilling like old coins using the last currency of hours." Enjoy Jane Medved's "In the time before," as well as "follow the river and you will get to the sea," in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

Three more days until submissions close! Send us your best poems and art by April 30th. Guidelines at www.brackenmagazine.com/submit

"When did we come to know so much about generators, energy production, back-up batteries? Who has passports, dual citizenship?" Enjoy @kellymadigan.bsky.social's poems "Dinner with Neighbors" & "Seed Bank" in Bracken's current issue: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

"bivalves cracked at the spine plucked from seabed stripped for pearl’s iridescent light" Enjoy Leusa Lloyd's poem "I am oyster" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/i-...

"We know you have collected rainstorms in soup bowls, coaxed hummingbirds to your bed-pillow." From @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social's "Forgetting the Constellations," one of two gorgeous poems featured in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

Many thanks to @staniforthmick.bsky.social for this review of Diana Whitney's poem "Nightshade" in the current issue of Bracken!

"...my mother’s mother’s china cups exactingly formed from clay and bone dust—" Check out @abbiekiefer.bsky.social's poem "Prayer with Dust" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/pr...

Bracken is open for submissions until April 30th. Send us your best poems and visual art! Guidelines at www.brackenmagazine.com/submit

From Judy Kaber's poem "Feast" in the current issue of Bracken: " ...she walked among the poplar and budded shrubs. Foolish. The word rippled through my head like a stream." Enjoy the poem here: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/fe...

From Robert Fillman's poem "Holiday Gift Guide": "...how those glossy pages suddenly feel like the shiny black coat of a magnificent bear now motionless...." Enjoy the full poem plus "I tell myself I will learn" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

"I wondered what made him decide to ride the hot black asphalt of the empty road." Check out "Like Boys" by Jean Anne Feldeisen in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/li...

Bracken is open for submissions through April 30th!

"O chainsaw father, unhappy engine, you loved that spot near railroad tracks, next to the water’s edge." Check out Pam Crow's moving poem "Military Cemetery" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/mi...

That's a wrap on AWP 2026! Thanks to all who attended and participated in Bracken's offsite with Passager and stopped by our Bookfair table. Pictured (left to right) are Bracken editors Morgan Brajkovich, @medjyers.bsky.social, @katedeimling.bsky.social, Ted McMahon, and Linda Hillman Chayes.

More photos from Bracken's AWP offsite reading with Passager on 3/6 at Pratt Street Ale House: @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social, Diana Whitney, Julie Choffel, and Julia Lisella

Photos from Bracken's AWP offsite on March 6 with Passager at Pratt Street Ale House! Pictured reading here are @karigunterseymour.bsky.social, @robbiegamblewriter.bsky.social, and Sarah Browning

It's so nice to connect in person! Hello from Bracken, at Table 526 in the AWP Bookfair.

Greetings from AWP! Come say hello to Bracken's editors at Table 526 in the Bookfair.

Bracken opens for submissions of poetry and visual art on March 1st! See our guidelines at www.brackenmagazine.com/submit.

Going to AWP? Visit Bracken at AWP Bookfair Table 526! And please join us for our offsite reading with Passager at Pratt Street Ale House (Across from Baltimore Convention Center), Friday March 6, 5:00-7:00 p.m. We hope to see you there!

From the new issue of Bracken: "six sharp points and broad-chested // like a king’s stag from the old country." Check out @grantclauser.bsky.social's poem "Deer Morning"!

Going to AWP? Please join Bracken for our offsite reading with Passager on Friday, 3/6, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Pratt Street Ale House across from the Convention Center. Readers: Sarah Browning, Julie Choffel, Julia Lisella, Diana Whitney, @karigunterseymour.bsky.social, and @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social.

"Unseen, I came to you on my knees, reciting Millay // to the air like a seaside cure, three long mountains and a wood." Check out Rachel Becker's beautiful poem "Field" in the new Issue XIV of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/.../field-by...

Check out the new issue of Bracken! Issue XIV's cover features this image by Claudio Cambon: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/main. See more of his step well photos within the issue: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/cl...

Welcome to Bracken Issue XIV! www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/main

Last call for poems and art! Bracken's submission window closes November 30th.

Hello BlueSky! Bracken Magazine is open for submissions of poetry and visual art through November 30. Browse past issues and see our guidelines here: www.brackenmagazine.com/submit