write a story in #SixWords sensei sipping red wine that’s only four words there will be a sequel

"a memory held against the sky of concealment / the horizontal line in the left corner / a garden / big enough to bivouac a little girl / & her oversized griefs / the horizontal line of the right corner...." #poetry by S. Abdulwasi’h Olaitan www.existotherwise.com/manual-of-be...

#FuckTheCIStem sticker is a hard one to write alt text for

I think there are multiple American traditions...but one of them is fascist, and Trump is very recognizably in that tradition.

"I got lost in a single moment. he had an ace of hearts and played it. I went home and heard the world’s smallest violin..." #poetry by Caitlin Cacciatore www.existotherwise.com/someone-else...

are you on #Fediverse / #Mastodon? #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal (that's us) *is* social media you can follow/read/comment and otherwise interact with all of our content here: @[email protected]

"chick in a membrane waiting to crack through to the wider world..." #poetry by Golda Grais www.existotherwise.com/dove-to-cunt/

last night, i sat down to read a book i have been reading. i read one sentence, and i couldn't read any more because i spent thirty minutes thinking about it

The latest episode of #TheseOldQueers Megan @darkhabitsmag.bsky.social talks about #queer #dyke surrealist revolutionaries: #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore - find it via the link, or wherever you get your podcasts

Portraits in Pride, celebrating queer people! Today: Claude Cahun. fr.tipeee.com/gabian-spiri... #Pride #portrait #claudecahun #queer

Decided to do a new “As my Idols” mini set tonight. As Claude Cahun Sono Una Fotografia On body, androgyny, resistance, and identity #photography #eastcoastkin #classicmono #ArtofSelfPortraiture #homage #claudecahun

La triple entente. #ClaudeCahun

Check out the latest episode of my other podcast @theseoldqueers.bsky.social about Nazi subvertin' badass queer couple: #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore !

Visionary Milwaukee artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein was a poet and painter. Von Bruenchenhein painted on canvases and on the wall and ceilings of his home. He repeatedly photographed his wife Marie, posed as wife, ingénue, calendar girl and more. from The Marie photographs #Photography

Dutch photographer Nona Limmen #Photography

Contemporary experimental German photographer Floris Neusüss. Traumbilder (c), München, 1958 #Photography

American photographer Clarence John Laughlin Water Witch, 1939 #Photography #Surrealism

Patti Lynn Goldsmith

So this just happened! Enjoy today's poem (and every day) from Second Coming (remember W.B. Yeats, political genie-poet of the 1920s) Thanks to editor Michael Broder for his swift, falcon's eye! I am honored to be published by Second Coming. secondcoming.substack.com/p/second-com...

"I tamed my dysphoria as I realized I was a ‘foreigner’ in my own country before I was a woman. And I’m not ashamed to admit I prefer it this way..." #prose by Palipuff www.existotherwise.com/foreigner-be...

Elaine Freyja writes about "being in a flesh suit." #NonBinary #poetry #ExistOtherwise www.existotherwise.com/non-binary/

Issue #16 of Exist Otherwise Literary & Art Journal is live. The theme for this one is "Neuter is the Only Gender That Suits Me." www.existotherwise.com/tag/issue-16/ #LitJournal #poetry #writing #ExistOtherwise

Dan Nicholas sees #snow in a most unusual environment... www.existotherwise.com/jungle-snow/

For the record, Exist Otherwise Literary Journal does not use AI or LLM software in any capacity. Nor, to the best of our knowledge, will we ever publish writing or art that is not genuinely written entirely by human beings. #Writing is #Living

p.s. i shall be reading from it at this #online #event with @hakaiika-crow.bsky.social and @tommywyattblake.bsky.social and @opensorceryy.co <3 because what better way to welcome a new book than a little #environmental action

👻✨ BOY APPARITION is alive! my #transmasc #anarchist #poetry #chapbook —full of love letters to the #BashBack tendency, feral #boyhood chronicles, and lipstick-mirror #gender devotions—is up for preorder from Vinegar Press: www.vinegarpress.org/store/p/boy-... 🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥 support your local chaos poet

Our artist applications for "We've Always Been Here" are now open! Help us show that queer people have always existed, and always will 💕 Please share and tag your favorite artists! forms.gle/zHiVqh3SrsnT... #ZineSky #AToZines #Zine #Zines #ArtZine #QueerArt #LGBTQArt #ZineApps #ArtistsWanted

I believe I have responded to all submissions for Issue 16 as of a few minutes ago. If you submitted work for 16 and have NOT heard back from me, please reach out. We get a lot of submissions, and sometimes screw up. Don't ever take it personally.

"I got lost in a single moment. he had an ace of hearts and played it. I went home and heard the world’s smallest violin..." #poetry by Caitlin Cacciatore

"Jungle Snow" #prose by #DanNichols "As time moved on, the effect of drugs and alcohol took their toll on our bodies and our minds. One morning, when shaving in the outdoor latrine, my image looked back at me with a question, 'What are you doing?'"

DE MISERIA CONDICIONIS HUMANE #photography by #CleoméMorra ##DeadWhale www.existotherwise.com/de-miseria-c...

I wrote a lot of words to encourage you to read this #ProsePoetry by Mia Cheng but then the red circle stopped me, so here, please just read this. It's very good.

another pleasure is when all three poems submitted by a single author are so smart and in sync with a theme that i want to publish them all

sometimes, while, reading and considering submissions, a work will feel unremarkable until the final line/sentence/image, and than BAM it knocks me off my chair

Shout out to E. Jean Carroll for donating the $83M winnings from her suit against President Amber Alert to women’s reproductive rights and voting rights 💥

"Experiential Ecotone: Hashimoto’s Disease & Gestational Diabetes" is not a poetry title that immediately hits. Unless you're me, I guess. I love a piece that makes me think, "WTF?" but in a good way. This one is like a whirlwind tour of the author's mind. #ExperimentalMemoir by #CourtHarler

reading for issue 16 has begun. i am in trouble, having marked four of the first ten submissions as accepted. so many more to still read, then the painful cull...

ZENTROPY #dada #art #ewaste #assemblage #foundobjects #zenart #posthuman #neopop #surrealism #postindustrial #posthuman #sculpture #neodada #newaesthetic #recycledart #buddha

the contrast between the voice, that of a fallen warrior whose bones have been unearthed, and the light, breezy meter and rhyming leads to a delightfully spine tingling finish this completely took me by surprise in a most beautiful way #poetry www.existotherwise.com/history-neve...

The Trope is dead. Watch to escape, to suckle. How many people in a garden? Lonely on the inside, lonely on the outside, illuminated within. The fascism of nature. The assault of the air. Science asshole says fate is a lie. He's right of course. Everything is a lie. Fuck fate. Long live the Trope.

there’s a fish that crosses the street she does it on eyeballs why did she cross the street? because she wanted to be a car #koan #zen #ZenKoan #dada

lovely alliteration!

Trans-Illumination is haunting, evocative, affecting, moving, touching, emotive, expressive, powerful, stirring, atmospheric, soul-stirring; poignant, nostalgic, wistful, plaintive; memorable, unforgettable, and indelible #photography by #MelissaAnnArgay www.existotherwise.com/trans-illumi...

It’s HERE! My microchapbook from Ghost City Press's Summer Series! To benefit the TransLawCenter.org - please check it out! And share! ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

I am so pleased to be part of this amazing series! This has been such a great press to work with, thank you Kevin for being so awesome!

“Exegesis of Canned Tuna,” in Propagule issue 4, inspired by real events. www.propagule.co/fiction/exeg...

"...but i see a white woman at a podium again recognize our frustration as though it were a florist to thank not our desperate proof of humanity..." #poetry by #AnaumSajanlal