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The dragon motif is nothing but a bladeinside a lake in a forest-green gladewhere your typical Marian is wearing a coat with arms, and rustand diamond buttons. The coat:she puts it on or takes it off dependingon whether. The beak of the halberdis good for piercing and/or for pullinga knight from his steed. She doesn’twant […] The post Marian Armor or Mary in Amor first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Has tenido un aborto. You’ve had an abortion. This observation is from Fernando, my acupuncturist in Málaga, Spain where I live now, where I’ve turned over a new life. Not that my old life was depraved or corrupt. No, it was perfectly ordinary, including the abortion part. Fernando delivers his observation after looking at my […] The post Ordinary first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
David Allen Sullivan is the former poet laureate of Santa Cruz county. His books include: Strong-Armed Angels, Every Seed of the Pomegranate, a book of co-translation with Abbas Kadhim from the Arabic of Iraqi Adnan Al- Sayegh, Bombs Have Not Breakfasted Yet, and Black Ice. He won the Mary Ballard Chapbook poetry prize for Take […] The post Visit to Tiyospaye Institute’s Abortion Museum first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
*When a lake turns over, a dynamic process occurs. The colder layer at the bottom, the hypolimnion, and the warm layer toward the top, the epilimnion, reverse position. The border is called the thermocline. Some lakes do this several times a year. Always it is a shock, that holy cooling, beloved waters touching skin with […] The post The Lake Turns Over: A Prose Pantoum first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Stella Honeycutt was raising a colored child and everyone around here knew it. Her, with all the la-tee-da airs, though she came from trash. Living in that blue Queen Anne on Front Street, spending money like water and showing off those old war medals. Every penny she had stemmed from the family inheritance and army […] The post Bumblebee first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
There were four pills, chalky white and hexagonal in shape. I held them in the palm of my hand, examining them. It was their shape that felt like the final indignity—why would the manufacturers of a medication that has to be inserted vaginally design it to have six sharp edges? This was my fourth pregnancy, […] The post April, 2020 first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
a found poem: L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon I was alonewhen a torn coward of a storm—an underhanded mad priest— burst over the night and said it had to smash me to pieces. So it worried at me like a bad quarrel— I just couldn’tstand the worst of it. It hid the courage and […] The post The World Hurts first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Fortunately, I live by the sea. Unfortunately, the sea is dying.Fortunately, for me, the blob of seaweed is on the west coast. Unfortunately, the east coast of Florida where I live has sharks. Fortunately, the sharks prefer to eat other fish.Unfortunately, overfishing has wiped out a lot of shark meals. Fortunately, lifeguards keep watch from […] The post Fortunately, Unfortunately, Florida! first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Godzilla stomps down the interstate shoulder, overturning billboards with gigantic baby heads and menacing adult teeth and baby bodies, advertisements for pregnancy crisis centers, and scripture signs warning of HELL for baby killers. She flattens them like Burma Shave signs until all that’s left is Baby Baby because nothing rhymes with baby really. The singular […] The post Stated Lines first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Where are you when the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade? I am at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington, DC, nearest the Supreme Court. My job is to help keep the sidewalk clear for people to walk into the clinic, which promises “Care no matter what.” My partner and I wear orange tunics identifying […] The post I Stand Here Sweeping first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
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Yolanda Nieves, born and raised in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, is an award-winning poet, playwright, director, educator,actress, and founder of The Vida Bella Ensemble. Author of two highly acclaimed poetry books, Dove over Clouds and The Spoken Body (Plainview Press), Dr. Nieves’s research and poetry has been featured in Hunter College’s prestigious El Centro Journal […] The post A Gentle Love Poem first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Cynthia Atkins (she/her) is the author of Psyche’s Weathers, In The Event of Full Disclosure (CW Books), and Still-Life With God (Saint Julian Press, 2020), and a collaborative chapbook from Harbor Editions, 2022. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Barzakh, BOMB, Cider Press Review, Diode, Indianapolis Review, Los […] The post FAHRENHEIT 451: BOOKS, GUNS & BABIES first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
(Of the sort that’s painful to live through but, in retrospect, carries a hint of pleasure.) Evenings, I made a cup of tea and poured milk into a shallow bowl for the cat, then carried both outside to the picnic table. The cat and I sat together, drinking and watching as orange and lavender streaks […] The post Autobiography of Conviction (In Seven Stages) first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Tara Betts is the author of Refuse to Disappear, Break the Habit, Arc & Hue. Betts teaches at DePaul University’s Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program and serves as poetry editor for The Langston Hughes Review. Betts co-edited The Beiging of America: Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century, a new edition of Philippa Duke […] The post Vessel first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
The baby was a monster. That wasn’t a metaphor. It was real—and growing inside of Melanie. At first, they thought heart defect. Dr. L pressed the transduceragainst her belly and listened. Melanie expected the sound she’d heard with her two sisters’ pregnancies—a rhythmic, metallic whisper, like someone bending a tiny saw back and forth. But […] The post What They Made first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Simone Manuel, Tell us about your relationship to water? Jalynn Harris is a writer, educator, and book designer from Baltimore. They are the founder of SoftSavagePress, an indie publisher promoting the works of Black artists. Their literary work can be found in Poets. org, The Best American Poetry 2022, Feminist Studies, The Hopkins Review, Obsidian, […] The post Dipthong of the year dies in tragic accident // or Ode to the letter “I” first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
This excerpt is the first few pages of the novel In the Past. The novel follows two sisters and their pregnant friend as they attempt to escape the vexed ghost of a girl sacrificed alongside her own two sisters in a protection spell cast by a village during the 1967 Nigerian Civil War. In building […] The post Remember (a novel excerpt) first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
The boy in red is on top. The boy underneath him, in blue, struggles, lifting and turning them both. They flip and flip again, locked together. Now the red boy is again on top, his arms and legs churning tirelessly, as if trying to row a boat across the mat. At the referee’s whistle the […] The post Looking for a Hold first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Jess Yuan is a poet, architect, and educator. Her first full length collection, Slow Render, was recently published in April 2024 as winner of the Airlie Prize. She is the author of the chapbook Threshold Amnesia (2020), winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest, and has received fellowships from Kundiman and Miami Writers Institute. Her poems […] The post Self-Portrait as Bi-Valve first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Joni Wallace’s third full-length poetry collection is Landscape with Missing River (Barrow Street Press, 2023), recipient of the AZ-NM Book Award. Other honors include Four Way Books’ Levis Prize for her second collection, Blinking Ephemeral Valentine, and fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Baltic Writing Residency. Work from her documentary poetry […] The post For the Record first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Eva is on her way to court to deliver closing arguments in her firm’s bulletproof case against Big Oil. This morning, after she pressed her pantsuit, combed fingers through her short hair, and selected her brightest, most professional shirt, her wife kissed her and said, “Kick their asses, babe.” Behind the steering wheel of her […] The post Pencil-Drawn Woman first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
I zigzagged through Long Beach to avoid stoplights, tapping my fingers against the steering wheel one at a time, counting the weeks since my missed period, trying to force a new calculation, a more tractable measurement of time. Who had decided a week was seven days? A month, twenty-eight, or -nine, thirty, thirty-one? Time seemed […] The post Intractability first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of the poetry collections Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page, 2024) and The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear, 2018) and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone, 2017). He teaches English at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago and creative writing at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies. Mohyuddin […] The post Myth first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Cecilia Pinto is a writer whose fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. Her poetry chapbook, A Small Woman, is available from Dancing Girl Press and her novella Imagine the Dog is available from Texas Review Press. She teaches creative writing to high school students. The post This blanket, this brush first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Without telling anyone, the missionary took a picture of the little girl when she wasn’t looking and posted it on all her social media pages. “Are there any kind souls that would like to sponsor this little girl from a small village in the jungle, tens of hundreds of miles away from civilization? She doesn’t […] The post Choose Your Deity first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
One thing I notice about me is I’m deep . . . deeper than most people care to go. Thomas claims my “deep-osity” is the whole reason I see things. He says my visceral feelings, about shit I’ve been through and my inability to get past whatever it is, clashes. “Like colliding atoms,” Thomas says| Hypertext Magazine - Publishing fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, & interv...
Interview by Beth McDermott I’ve been lucky enough to know Virginia Bell as a writer and editor since my first summer working for RHINO Poetry in 2015 in what is now called the Helen Degen Cohen Summer Reading Fellowship. Having listened to Virginia discuss poems with care and intellectual curiosity, it wasn’t a surprise to| Hypertext Magazine - Publishing fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, & interv...
By William Lychack My friendship with Miles Harvey goes back 35 years, back to our MFA days at the University of Michigan. Hardly a week goes by when we’re not on the phone or writing emails or even visiting in real life to go bowling, and I shudder to think where my life would be| Hypertext Magazine - Publishing fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, & interv...