“I want to cry and sneeze at the same time I'm weird but without motives.” Read four new poems by John Coletti on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

“The first thing she hears in the morning (the sound that always wakes her up) is the typewriter in her husband’s study. But when she opens her eyes she sees him sleeping next to her.” Read new stories by Ariel Magnus, trans. from the Spanish by Kit Maude: www.relegationbooks.com/article/seve...

“That food bank was once a petrol station, which was once a field where my sister looked after a horse. Mostly she just brushed it and blew softly into its nose. Some horses like that.” Read seven new poems by James Brown: www.relegationbooks.com/article/seve...

Thrilled to have four new poems up on R&R, a really beautiful online literary journal! www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

“Do you like the way I have divided
this poem into six-line stanzas,
to give it more gravitas? Serious
poets divide their poems into
stanzas.” Read four new poems by Stuart Ross (@razovsky.bsky.social) on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

“A voice jumped out of a device that you had thought you had turned off. Stuff like that happens a lot these days. Just waiting for the pin to drop. Or bomb.” Read four new poems by Gillian McCain on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

“I liked the sound the school copier made. Sometimes when I needed to clear my head, I made blank copies or copies with a single word—‘apple’ maybe, or ‘petroleum.’” Read new fiction by Dalton Monk on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/mr-m...

“You love poetry and baseball--are they like one another? They both get you used to something--and then comes a surprise. You love it.” Read three new poems by Canada’s first Poet Laureate, George Bowering: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

“Someone cleared their throat. I looked southwest toward the promise of a never-ending day, then we all grimaced up at the sky that now seemed to be pressing down on us like the stubborn lid of some overfilled thing.” Read new fiction by Corey Lof on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/a-ro...

“sitting among the old men each singular at his own table separated by empty chairs unwrapping Burger King Whoppers my Burger is Impossible” Read four new poems by Bob Rosenthal: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

Five poems up today via R&R. Many thanks to the brilliant editor, @josephgrantham.bsky.social!

ICYMI— five new poems of mine are up over at @rnrmagazine.bsky.social! www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...

“Tree tips are silvery pricking
clouds with flat bottoms.
I'm all cut up by the blinds
and by the sconce light.
There is a dog on the baseball field.” Read five new poems by Ty Holter: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...

“And you would laugh. And I would die laughing with you. And I would call you a dufus for laughing at me. But only in my head. And only if dead people have thoughts.” Read two new stories by Ellie Goins: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...

“I wear an earring. My hair is long. I don’t smoke, drink, or watch TV. I got a dog and a growth starting up on the side of my head but that’s about it.“ Read new fiction by Sam Anderson on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/pape...

“A very fortunate thing happened to me this summer. What it is, I can’t say yet—I’m writing as if it has already occurred, but the truth is it hasn’t.” Read new fiction by Daisuke Shen (@daijoubu.bsky.social) on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/summ...

“People need to think twice before they Start throwing good money at bonehead Schemes aimed at bringing American Professional sports to foreign countries I know I speak from experience” Read four new poems by Paul Fericano: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

“He dreamed that a bird alighted at his window and told him: ‘There’s a treasure awaiting you in the city of the five cypresses.’” Read new fiction by Marina Colasanti, translated from the Portuguese by Adria Frizzi: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...

“Here I was in this shitty front yard. Ants crawling over my skin, ticks burrowing into my flesh, who cared, who cared?” Read new fiction by Jimmy Cajoleas on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/who-...

“I read Hegel and nothing else. I watch infomercials and nothing else. I eat saltine crackers and nothing else. I drink water and nothing else. My point is, I am a boring man.” Read two new stories by Matthew Washington on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...

“She took him on a walk early every morning. Leg protested at first, but he was able to forget himself for long stretches of the trail. Knee made a fuss. He was stiff. He didn’t seem willing to hold the rest of Leg up.” Read new fiction by Sherril Jaffe: www.relegationbooks.com/article/leg-...

““I thought it might be a good day to make spaghetti sauce. I’d made spaghetti sauce before. But this time, I decided, it was going to be different.” Read new fiction by Ken Sparling on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/hi-i...

i had forgotten about R&R after i ditched twitter and for whatever reason, just remembered it again and went digging through some of the recent stuff. really enjoy these 3 shorties from gabe jimenez-ekman!

“It feels wrong to move away from this place Listening to this music, Sitting in the car, about to pull away The leaves in the distance, all around, Don’t want you to leave yet And so you stay and listen” Read four new poems by Vincent Katz on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

“He drinks so slow I don’t know whether to feel put on or just alcoholic. He spits talking and my face is in the way so what’s the dignified response.” Read two new stories by Selen Ozturk: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...

“one day I was out in my shoes red shop peaks my interest sign said apply inside so I gone in but didn’t smell no apples that was sad” Read four new poems by Greg Brownderville: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

“I never felt anything. I had a hard time in high school, got bullied a lot. Dropped out of college after one semester. Then I started as a clerk at the grocery store.” Read three new stories by Gabe Jimenez-Ekman: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

“In heaven there are no automatic weapons To be found guilty of a crime there One need only to have arrived unexpectedly” Read two new poems by Norman Fischer on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...

“Once you get them back to your place, you pet him and he curls up on your lap and then you see it: that sparkle in their eyes, the tenderness. Suddenly, they like you more just for petting a cat.” Read fiction by Marta Jiménez Serrano: www.relegationbooks.com/article/buddy/

“He memorized pi to nine decimal places—3.141592654—and then he squared that. Another trick he did was he typed in this number that, when he turned the calculator upside-down, it spelled BOOBIES.” Read six new stories by Paul Maliszewski on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/six-...

“I didn’t have anything, really, besides this harrowing anti-life and lightweight clerical job that I escaped to five days a week, smiling and befuddled, in order to escape my cramped, depressing apartment.” Read new fiction by David Nutt on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/slat...

“UNCLE jungle DAUGHTER doctor” Read ten new poems by Craig Dworkin on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/ten-...

“When I went into the fridge next, I took a cucumber. I drank a glass of water. I read five pages of a book. I held a plank for seventy-three seconds.” Read three new stories by Hannah Applebaum on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

“Just one thing more I promise. Do you have rain too? Drainpipes and waterfalls? (Did you tell me already?)” Read two new poems by Charles North on R&R, the poet that James Schuyler called “the most stimulating poet of his generation.” www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...

“I’m always happy when people return their pizzas, that’s my dinner. I basically eat pizza every night. Albert Einstein ate the same thing every day, and never changed his clothes, and that’s why he was so smart.” Read new fiction by Dallas Campos on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/skit...

“Same poet, more in focus historically competent with pretty words rarely short-tempered, 5 foot 6 aggressively interested in football but that was always true.” Read four new poems by Isaac Jarnot: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

really grateful to @rnrmagazine.bsky.social for featuring three of my poems today! here’s one of them:

“eBay collectors spend thousands on dollar bills with printing errors” Read three new poems by Tom Snarsky (@tomsnarsky.bsky.social) on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

“Jenny’s misfortunes were more or less about how she came into the world. Mine were about wanting to get out of it.” Read new fiction by Grace Byron (@emotrophywife.bsky.social) on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/prin...

“I can’t decide what I want to be. Right now, I am becoming more careful with myself. I eat green foods. I’m dating around, but never stay out later than nine. Mom and Dad love me for being smart for so long.” Read new fiction by Jasey Roberts on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/vale...

“The sea monsters committed suicide in the mountains. There are no sea monsters in the world anymore. That’s why he grew up to work for Amazon.” Read three new poems by Yuyi Chen on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

“Because I've been wallowing too long. And now, in a stranger's apartment, happiness reveals itself to be an obese cat, and a woman from Alsace.” Read new fiction by Steve Anwyll on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/leo/

“my little mother, my little father in the morning when the sun is new my father’s village on my head feeding me, shaking with laughter i smell them like beer in the night time” Read new poetry by Leo Dunsker: www.relegationbooks.com/article/naiv...

“The common denominator was the impression that something had happened to each person, maybe at once, maybe over the course of decades. An event or simply an idea. An emotion. Something painful or unforgettable or both.” Read new fiction by Angela Ma: www.relegationbooks.com/article/as-i...

“She was still thinking about the King James Bible, thinking there had been an error in the translation of the Latin, no, Hebrew. The English loved their Greyhounds so much they wrote them into the past.” Read new fiction by Mitchell Galloway: www.relegationbooks.com/article/grey...

“Why bother writing so much that your own writing doesn’t recognise you? If you mean to get everyone to publish you, you know how many people you’ll keep busy working for how many decades?” Read three new poems by Ouyang Yu: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

“I want you to be happy like a man wants to live with his wife in neo-liberal derangement How she might feel about it is another poem” Read three new poems by David Larsen: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

“And then the waterfalls are nice. They’re nice the way these things tend to be nice: they’re pretty and two minutes later you don’t know what to do with them.” Read a short story by Samuel Solleiro, translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers: www.relegationbooks.com/article/grea...

“I thought the duration of human lives stacked up in a row and you could go back a century quite quickly if you only remembered a few lives would send you back to Rome” Read four poems by Hannah Piette on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

To celebrate his birthday today, June 6th, we are happy to share a never-before-published short story by Stephen Dixon. Read “The Day is Done” on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...