Literary Pilgrims Welcome. Submissions open up March 1, 2022

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Hello literary friends! Our submissions will be closing temporarily on Jan. 1 and will reopen on March 1. We have received an increasing number of submissions over the past few months and we need to give ourselves time to sift through the goodies. Please mark your calendars! ❤️
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13 Jan 2022
"I pinch at the tiny rocks on the ground for hours, until going backwards I become the first body on a planet too young for this." Poetry from @Bill_p_Erickson visitantlit.com/2021/12/29/o…

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13 Jan 2022
"It’s just us, I think, and the bees, floating through the dark. Sometimes I approach quietly, hoping to hear the buzzing, hoping we’re still alive." Poetry from @benharnett visitantlit.com/2022/01/11/t…

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"I have thought of that moment these long years have you? the memory saves me from mischief now I imagine the scurry of the spotted whiptail lizard is your voice rattling in the scree" Poetry by @drjrforman visitantlit.com/2021/12/06/y…

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22 Sep 2021
"It’s the blue throat captioning our brains, saying color, wow, color, fire, no words, shake a million nerves then scratch out every voice." Poetry by Clyde Kessler visitantlit.com/2021/09/22/h…

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21 Sep 2021
"Last night the sky was a child coughing into a blanket, drawing itself from a pale aurora jabbed with another storm on the sun, as if it’s got a circle of old friends jumping tombstones." Poetry from Clyde Kessler visitantlit.com/2021/09/21/s…

17 Sep 2021
"Then the miracle that my cupped hands in hers hold water, no leaks, no protruding river veins or age stains, they look prayerful rather than begging." Poetry by @triciaknollwind visitantlit.com/2021/09/16/i…

17 Sep 2021
"this moderate rain, more from the eaves than the clouds. I’ve long closed the blinds; I hear it, not see it. Like the tentative steps of would-be visitors killed in car crashes." Poetry from Mark Henderson visitantlit.com/2021/09/15/p…

17 Sep 2021
"Humans Are the success of their failure time and time again. That’s what’s truly alien. Truly unnatural As the sky opens up, the black roll of stars, planets – Some like necks on the gallows, some like an arena stage." Poetry by @clliedekev visitantlit.com/2021/09/14/l…

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10 Sep 2021
"They say, All I want is to live here and not think of the other eggs, other birds. Why must I think of them?" Poetry from Diane Callahan @QuotidianWriter visitantlit.com/2021/09/10/b…

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"This time, personal-trained and pilate-stretched, I arrive at the pier, settle into a rowboat and maneuver to the middle of the lake where I feather the oars, transfixed by a fish with shimmering silver scales." Poetry from Jan Ball visitantlit.com/2021/09/09/f…

"A coterie of chick-a-dees communes in my maple tree. A tribe of constellations self-distances in the rising night. Brown-robed monastics bow before broken bread." Poetry from Carolyn Martin visitantlit.com/2021/09/08/i…

"The kid and the dad eat tomatoes like heaven straight from the garden all sun warm and sweet the kid likes all this growing stuff sniffs fingers tomato scented." Poetry from Eve Rifkah visitantlit.com/2021/09/07/g…

"I’ve grown weary of the restless noise of earth, so I plan to gadabout the universe in search of alternatives to humanoids." Poetry by Carolyn Martin visitantlit.com/2021/09/01/d…

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31 Aug 2021
"Fake Eyes presses down on the black and gold Spray top, a mist pours down onto my wife’s wrist, The aftershock of a coastal storm - two presumed lost." Poetry by @clliedekev visitantlit.com/2021/08/31/m…

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26 Aug 2021
"Station after station of unmanned ticket booths MetroCard swipes unlock another world." Poetry from @ajanov visitantlit.com/2021/08/26/1…

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26 Aug 2021
"We raise our heads from the new trail to see their heights some look store bought even though they have never been inside." Poetry from @MBazilian visitantlit.com/2021/08/25/t…

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