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Our ALOCASIA has unfurled a new leaf! And we're so proud! It's our first all-Indigenous issue! This is a showcase of the work of 20 writers from around the world, curated by our guest editors Yasmine Bolden, tripp j Crouse, and Sarah Clark. We hope you are as delighted by it as we are ALOCASIA.org

"I destroyed myself for a girl named after a flower." Annalisa Hansford's "Garden Sonnet" in petrichor 27 petrichormag.com/27-annalisa-...

Happy official release day for Issue 36 Fall 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine! www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-... It's our 10-year anniversary issue. Thank you to everyone who has helped us grow and thrive over this past decade! #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews

"there is peace of a land without pests, and our troubles submerge like manatees:" "Kayaking Cockroach Bay" by John Davis Jr. Read the whole poem in petrichor 27 petrichormag.com/27-john-davi...

"Hispanic sonnet with bad lyrics from a good song" by Alex Z. Salinas in petrichor 27. petrichormag.com/27-alex-z-sa...

Our Best of the Net nominees are in!

"When I Met A Man in New Orleans" by Oswaldo Vargas. Read the full poem here. petrichormag.com/27-oswaldo-v...

Read this thread. Stop falling for these accounts. 👇

pixelated shroud review of Caleb (one of our editor)'s collection from Stone Corpse Press! pixelatedshroud.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/i...

"I feel like it’s too far. I feel like it’s too far. No, it’s not far." from "The Progress of Love" by Joshua Massey. Read the whole poem and two more at petrichormag.com/27-joshua-ma...

Don’t pay to get published. Don’t pay for book reviews. Real agents won’t charge you a cent. Real publishers don’t make you pay for anything. Don’t submit to markets that don’t pay.

Poetry as ritual. Ritual as resistance. What do you return to when writing fails you?

There are names I can’t pronounce in my mother’s tongue. I write poems to remember what was never taught.

Another Brian Wilson banger courtesy my friend Rachel

"feel free to sedate me before i can behold the distance between airplane and iceberg, another thing so massive they literally sunk ships, reduced to a speck forty thousand feet away" nat raum in petrichor #27 petrichormag.com/27-nat-raum/

Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.

Up up. up. up. – Matthew Klane

Gas After a Colonoscopy Lactobacillus babies settling back in. The only kind of colonization one needs. – Shikha S. Lamba

Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist known for her ceramic figures #WomensArt

groupthink I don’t know what to – Debbie Strange

scattered oak leaves… from the smoker, lump charcoal white with ash – Joshua Gage

Trash You put lipstick on a pig When you had Aphrodite in your bed – Doniell Cushman

waking from a nightmare… cat on my chest – Stewart C Baker, Pebbles vol. 5

from "5 Collages from Thoreau's Journal" by Jordan C. Dunn, an ecopoetic blend of image and text in the current issue of petrichor petrichormag.com/27-jordan-c-...

For #smallpoemsunday, "A Moment to Consider" from my book Classic Crimes, which comes out end of next week from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social ! And to note for Mother's Day, the book is dedicated to my mom, who passed away in Jan. Amid final proofs, Sarabande generously let me change the page.

*tomorrow 😑 May 15 at 11:59pm CT😵‍💫 Sorry folks 🙃

SUBS CLOSE 11:59pm AND WON'T REOPEN TILL OCTOBER! Get those pieces in you rascals.

We hope anyone submitting to us would want to include us in their bios after being accepted. Obviously it's not a rule for acceptance or anything goofy like that, but smaller publishers notice. It's nice to feel like you sent us something you're proud of and that you were proud of being here.

Submissions for petrichor close Thursday May 15 at 11:59 pm. After that, you'll have to catch us in the fall along with issue 28.

My chap DEAR MOM was accepted for the @petrichorlit.bsky.social chapbook series 🖤 It’s a hand-collaged epistolary erasure project of letters written by my mom to her parents. Through the erasure, I render visible some truths difficult for me to speak to her. P.s. Querying works—shoot your shot!

Subs close in a week!

This is the country that refused to return royal ceremonial records they stole from Korea because they were "worried" about our ability to preserve our own historic assets

"relativity is bananas. dear diary, perhaps it’s not wise to dwell on how small i am—i feel large and lucky in love, for instance." from nat raum's "journal (take #27)." Read the whole poem in the new petrichor petrichormag.com/27-nat-raum/

The cliffs awash with colour as all the beautiful sea pinks come into bloom. Over on the beach another Lego flower from the 1997 spill emerges from the sand amid all the plastic on the beach. #Cornwall

You don't need the state apparatus to make your art. We're all already angry enough to write books even Zukofsky would think are too long. And we're still writing. There are always sabretooth tigers and we still always find time to rub pigment on the cave wall.

from "(texts from my mother, unread and unwritten)" by Khanh Nguyen. Read the full poem in petrichor 27. petrichormag.com/27-khanh-ngu...

Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Check out new collagework from Serse Luigetti, now in petrichor 28 petrichormag.com/27-serse-lui...

from "you can't stop it, baby, just enjoy" by Lizzy Ke Polishan, now in petrichor 27 petrichormag.com/27-lizzy-ke-...

This list makes us realize how lucky we are to be part of the publishing community in Canada, bringing out stories and lifting up voices from coast to coast to coast.

For a start, stop calling these “AI-written books” when “extruded book-like product” is just sitting there.

Jennessa Hester (@cherrypoppunk.bsky.social)'s "wilderness survival." If you need your heart torn out on Tuesday with queer poetry about scouting, have we get the poetic claws for you. Read the full poem in the new issue petrichormag.com/27-jennessa-...

Huge thanks to @petrichorlit.bsky.social for including two poems of mine in the newest issue!!! I wrote both while my partner was experiencing work visa issues (one lusty and one yearny lol). Here's the lusty one ;) petrichormag.com/petrichor-27

Huge thank you to founder & editor-in-chief Seth Copeland for tremendous pleasure of being a part (also have #tanrenga in there <3) of latest glorious edition of @petrichorlit.bsky.social in their #Pebbles volume 5!! petrichormag.com/pebbles-vol-... #writingcommunity #sedoka #poem #poems #poetry

ANMLY is seeking a new Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor to join our all-volunteer team! Time commitment is about 1-2 hours per week. Deadline: April 30th. Please email applications and questions to [email protected]!

TBT: petrichor 27, now out, is dedicated to Carl Sennhenn and Jim Leftwich, both recently passed.

Pleased to have these two pieces appear in the latest issue from @petrichorlit.bsky.social, Pebbles 5. “The Crossing”, and “I, Thou” are both pieces in mixed media collage. Materials include found papers, wax, foil, acrylic, and embroidery floss. #artist #artsky #collage #analogcollage