Issue 4 is live!!! www.cottonmouthjournal.com

I just found out that Michael Bazzett’s poem, “My Favorite Book,” from Issue 1, was featured on Verse Daily yesterday! www.versedaily.org/2025/myfavor...

Issues 2 and 3 are live!!! www.cottonmouthjournal.com

"No, pearls don't grow inside of people, / but miracles happen all the time."--Olivia Jacboson, "I Remember My Father's Hands Always the Same" from Volume 1, Issue 1 www.cottonmouthjournal.com/olivia-jane-...

"I know the songs a machine sings / as it looks into the skull's architecture, // into the brain's weak / spotlight."--Rivka Clifton, "Ariadne's String" from Volume 1, Issue 1 www.cottonmouthjournal.com/rivka-clifto...

"I'm supposed to eat without / discernment, like a snake // unhinging its jaw."--Rivka Clifton, "The Minotaur" from Volume 1, Issue 1 www.cottonmouthjournal.com/rivka-clifto...

"Love is easy in an orange grove."-- @richard-siken.bsky.social, "Field" from Volume 1, Issue www.cottonmouthjournal.com/richard-sike...

Issue 1 is live! www.cottonmouthjournal.com