Listen, friends. I mean this literally! This superlative new epistle/list hybrid #CNF from @christielauryn.bsky.social has its own playlist. Pour yourself a cup & really spend some time with this one if you can. <3 www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/christie...

"For a while you look too, until he turns his head just enough to let you know that he’d like you to stop." A masterclass in tension & nuance, don't miss this poignant new #fiction from Susannah Rigg | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/susa...

"I bargain with my reflection" Two serenely abyssal #poems from Lindsay B. Sears, new for July | Ihttps://www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/lindsay-b-sears

"One night we sat next to each other in silence for almost two hours. It should have been okay, but it wasn’t." This month's #longread #fiction is a #mustread powerhouse, new from Marc Kaufman| www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/marc...

"I was often jealous, back then, of the girls he brought flowers to, the girls with painted nails," Cherished DIHP alum Tyler Lemley @tylerlemley1.bsky.social returns with two utterly exquisite new #poems for July | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/tyler...

"608-315-5408 Haha, no, not a scam. I just wanted to know how you were doing. You seem nice. (Sent: 11:55 PM; Read: 11:56 PM)" A poignant study in loneliness & technology in this tremendous new #fiction from Zach Shea | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/zach...

"If you’re reading this, it’s because you have been taken in by The Girl and her mother who are mourning the loss of me." A gorgeous love song to our very best friends in this new #fiction from Karen Zlotnick | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kare...

"I cling to the material/ to my binding habits/ unnecessary/ yet too tightly held/ to let go/" Two #poems on time and tide, new for July from Ann Weil | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/ann-w...

"So you learn that on the days when you walk less softly and carry a small stick, people magically sort themselves into three groups." New #creativenonfiction from DIHP Alum @ellennotbohm.bsky.social full of wit & packed with wisdom | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/ellen-no...

"...ignore his refrain sung from a deadnamed shadow." One powerful piece and one essential reprint in this duo of #poems from JC Alfier, www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jc-al...

"Okay, maybe this has been a little set-up with the free taco, the Bible, the foot tapping, you all alone, trying to make me imagine I’ve got a choice..." Two exceptionally brilliant flash #fictions from @mattjakubowski.bsky.social, new for July | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/matt...

"If you say love is a hexagon or a pentagon I feel like you’re saying love is a trap." A warm welcome back to DIHP Alum @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social alongside a pair of #poems each tiny, tender, & terrific | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jeffr...

"I’m competent at Sardonic and totally excel at Anxious, but those skills are never in high demand." A warm invitation to the worst party in this sharply witty new #CNF from Sarah Flick | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/sarah-fl...

"Outside, the possum with the green trousers took a slingshot out of his green pocket and aimed it at the moon. He said: Watch this!" Two effervescent, playful, & bittersweet new #poems from Jason Davidson | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jason...

"The following is not a record of what I found." What do we destroy that we cannot see? Don't miss this tremendous new hermit crab #fiction from @libbyiscomplex.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/libb...

"What is beauty but knowing this will end?" A singularly exquisite new #poem from Anna Crandall | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/anna-...

Our art & hybrid gallery this month comes from Sarah Carson who takes another look at the disavowed tome *I Kissed Dating Goodbye* with gorgeous erasure #poetry| www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...

"“No, it can’t be…” I muttered as I started walking towards him instinctively. “Oh my God, it is. It’s Henry Kissinger,” I gasped." Delightfully quirky, darkly funny new #fiction from Craig Stockwell, new for July | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/crai...

Be sure to bookmark our #PrideMonth reading list for year-round reading recommendations from lit mags and indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

We're thrilled to share our first appearance on the Wigleaf longlist this year. Congrats to the amazing Mikki Aronoff and her fantastic piece "Why We Cant Lose Weight." www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mikk...

I promised the staff a bit of a rest this summer after reading for 37 months in a row (!) We'll be back in full pocket force on July 15th. If you've got something you'd like us to read right away, pls send it soon. Catch you on the flipside, beloveds. - Cami www.doesithavepockets.com/subs

"Grimluck became a character with a story to tell through landscapes, interiors, and ordinary moments of stillness." Please don't miss this whimsical gallery of work from this month's featured artist, Sabrina Cleary | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...

This month's #longread #fiction is funny, tender, honest, and brilliant, encircling love, spiders, sleepwalking, and roller coasters. An absolute banger from our friend J.R. Angelella | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jr-a...

"“I’m perfectly happy with my appendage,” Mom said." An intimate tangle of wit and a bramble of relationships in this new #fiction from Judy Slitt | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/judy...

"The world is going to hell in a hand cart. But we’ll get past this, just like we always do." "Lost Letters" is achingly timely and profoundly unique new #fiction from Ben Daggers | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ben-...

"His front teeth were a little crooked, like they were all leaning away from something in his mouth." Intense, darkly funny, and sobering, Brett Nelson's new #fiction "Exposure" | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...

"... yes we cannot guess do not ask ..." Two beautifully immersive, musical new #poems from Michael Diebert | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/micha...

"I don’t make the rules, that’s what the ghost of a sparrow is born to do..." Two tiny, perfect prose #poems from Robert McDonald | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/rober...

"Dying is an official act. Institutions insist on involvement." Profoundly moving and delicately surreal, don't miss these two short stories new from DIHP alum @eireneeleni.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/eire... #fiction #flashfiction

"“Would you like me to treat those?” A friend who administers Botox recently asked, pointing to the crow’s feet." Deft, tender, witty, relatable; Casey Jo Graham Welmers on RBF and a whole lot more. #creativenonfiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/cjgraham...

"Pinyon pines and juniper resist fires better. You know I am neither." Three epically gorgeous epistolary #poems from Will Falk | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/will-...

"We don’t have a plan for this." A love story for the land & its people with a splash of time travel in this fantastic new #fiction from Rachel Attias | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rach...

"....My love has turned into a tantrum of demands: be children, for fuck’s sake." Perspectives on the kids in our lives and so much more in two sparkling new #poems from @kmagee29.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kelly...

"There is a walking cadaver in the corridor. He is me." Surreal and poignant new #fiction from @joeltomfohr.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/joel...

"We’re only this cruel with a couple good days in the pocket, some memories to keep us warm." Not a word wasted in these three tiny, searingly honest, & gorgeous poems from Pratiksha Ahuja | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/prati...

"His eyes weren’t suspicious. Just tired of needing to decide who to believe." Immersive, narrative, lyrical new CNF from @zaryfekete.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/zary-fek...

"Did you know I still overfeed the ones I love?" Two aching, breathtaking new #poems from Bri Gearhart Staton, new for June | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/bri-g...

The warning is a story; the story is a warning. Keenly sharp, powerful new #fiction from Elizabeth Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/eliz...

"And I imagined it to be us, an old thing that always was, was always becoming" Deeply rooted in love and with the true heft of living, two gorgeous new #poems from Albert Hwang | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/alber...

"...[Erasure #poetry] has been my obsession and my salvation during these strange and troubling days we all find ourselves navigating. Don't miss these magnificent pieces from @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social in our May Arts & Hybrids gallery | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...

"And we came to a house, somewhere in a space that was not where we had come from, and not quite where we were going." Dreams of the past thread through this lush new #fiction from @ricketywhite.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rick... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"My father had been right about one thing—there was no saving this country. But maybe there was saving myself." A powerful voyage through grief and resilience in this new #fiction from S. Mubashir Noor | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/s-mu... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I say out loud the bitter truth I'm carrying, "No one likes me." Behind me, a small, certain voice says, "But I like you."" A deeply vulnerable #poem of hope & healing, new from DIHP alum Naomi Stenberg | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/naomi... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I step forward, trying to visualize the ocean but instead seeing traffic on the bridge, my last bad sunburn, and headlines about sharks and jellyfish." A surreal, fantastical love story; #fiction from Dustin Duby-Koffman | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/dust... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"What is the square footage of your bedroom and how fast can you run?" Part list story + part math problem = summations of the lives we live in this new fiction from Patricia Fuentes Burns | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/patr... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Especially in the bleakest of times the Wow longs to be seen" Your daily dose of hope in these two joyfully ephemeral #poems from Laura Denny | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/laura... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"They let everyone get away with everything. I’m growing uncertain whether there even is a tangible “they.”" Deeply funny and darkly apt, a romp through the zany halls of academia in new #fiction from Lucas Flatt | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/luca... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"You twist the plots of treasured dreams, then sow and harvest fresh visions." This new #CNF from @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social is many things at once, not least of all a lyrical and metaphorical gem | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/aarik-da... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"How soon can I stop pretending I’m dredging the silt from my system." One singularly exquisite #poem from @jorigg.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jo-rigg Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"how to break the spine of time..." Two deeply shadowed, illustrative poems, new from Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/lena-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social