Did I think the ocean was unchanged? Only on the surface. Down below, it’s warming. The ocean will take it and take it and take it until the ocean can’t take it anymore, and then, the ocean will rise. From 'Landslide' by science writer & poet Melissa L. Sevigny aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

In Elizabeth Cranford Garcia's 'American Spring, v.1', the author asks "is there anything, America, that can stretch you beyond your elastic tolerance?" Read the full text in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social #Poetry #LitMag

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2 to issue forth suddenly as water, or as Executive Orders renaming bodies of water America. As pink blossoms from the redbuds, flaunting their promises, their promiscuity. Also, as uterine blood from a woman sent home from the ER... From American Spring, v.1 aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

2 to issue forth suddenly as water, or as Executive Orders renaming bodies of water America. As pink blossoms from the redbuds, flaunting their promises, their promiscuity. Also, as uterine blood from a woman sent home from the ER... From American Spring, v.1 aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

...this child ran into the field and turned to look back at the house he scissored over the meadow arriving at the same place in the southeast corner near the trees there is a creek that runs at the base of the little bluff at the edge of the field... aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Every pastoral, including this one, risks sweeping clean history’s conscience. In the American vein, thick veil over the stygian face of forgetting every removal: people, animals, plants, water. From 'In Which She Considers the Midwestern “Landscape” S. Scarry aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

The market rumbles with the murmur of lean crops. All is still progress since the farmers still harvest smoke as protein to make their families & nation happy, to watch progress drip from the mouths of pipelines. From 'Progress in Delta' by Clement Abayomi aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Farewell, farewell—again, farewell—to the once clean home, to the odán trees now weeping on lonely nights as bats no longer keep them company. They, too, are witnessing how a place begins to fade before it crumbles. -Aiyétéjú, by Nigerian poet Clement Abayomi aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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This issue of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. Work must be submitted via Submittable by October 1, 2026.

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Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

Grounded on a sandbar, eight not-quite- icebergs slump and rot to mud- and soot- smeared hills of gritty worn-out snow. Stranded, tame, their keels and peaks thawed off, they reminded us of the mounds snowplows leave in strip-mall parking lots. - J. Atkinson aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Packs the wound, fills the space with mountains that rejected you to begin with. In a broken whisper you catch their attention ask them when the mountains abandoned you, how did you feel? From 'Appalachian Dystopia' by Anna Bohn aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Alone here, I am charged to the eyelids. Time comes and goes in waves and pleats, like the water I stand in. Time is moving through me, not me through time. From 'The Sea Remembers My Scars' by Adelina Basile aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Winter as it used to be purpled, blurred by cold I miss that, now How, the far hills become lavender in the sky of palest rose Snows, everywhere snows From 'Winter Solastalgia' by Catherine Young aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

tell me what you remember, past fault lines of some saving grace, the sea a risen god or was it that the land itself just sank a bathtub drunk, a quiet breath then gone From 'A Quiet Breath' by Estill Pollock #Poetry #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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An absence / filled the space where I was / born

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I miss when cypress thrived, the memory of moss hanging like a net of light. Back then, swans were swans, necks arched in song and everywhere we looked, otters. _____ From 'Ghost Forest' Swans Reflecting Elephants by Salvador Dali, 1937 by Stacey Balkun aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

I miss when cypress thrived, the memory of moss hanging like a net of light. Back then, swans were swans, necks arched in song and everywhere we looked, otters. _____ From 'Ghost Forest' Swans Reflecting Elephants by Salvador Dali, 1937 by Stacey Balkun aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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I've become a person who doesn’t want to write poems that sit like a well-formed vase on a steady table. I’ve become a person who is more interested in poetry that seems like maybe a spell? Maybe a teacup of rainwater? Maybe a glass upturned over a hole under which a wasp nest might reside?

I was born on the edge of death, a ghost forest lit from the bayou below I was born over-exposed underground, in the roots of a dying cypress tree From 'Oree' by Stacey Balkun Read the full poem in the lastest edition of About Place Journal. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Oklahoma is a land for the dead; Oral Roberts still has his hand in the till; crosses gleam, a football field apart, on every highway. ____ From 'It is There as if it were Nothing' by Caleb Jordan aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Edwina’s mother didn’t hand her a business plan. She handed her a way of being in relation to a piece of land – attentive, patient, proud. __ From 'Lakadong Turmeric and the Mothers Who Keep It' by Jonali Patgiri, a writer from Shillong, Meghalaya, in India. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Read Laura Donnelly's full poem 'Conserving the Sequoia,' published in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social Donnelly lives in Upstate New York and teaches at SUNY Oswego. @sunyofficial.bsky.social Learn more about her work at 🔗 laurakdonnelly.com

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Split in radials for shipping a century ago, you look like an eleven-hour clock but vast and quieter than time. You require a scaffold and team of small brushes, grand in your deterioration as the finest Renaissance fresco... - Laura Donnelly ✍️📃⬇️ aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Split in radials for shipping a century ago, you look like an eleven-hour clock but vast and quieter than time. You require a scaffold and team of small brushes, grand in your deterioration as the finest Renaissance fresco... - Laura Donnelly ✍️📃⬇️ aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

It is not the sand I seek it is the turbulence of my agglutinative tongue digging in defiance of viced currents that pull me further than I have gone further than the country that slips and slips through my finger From 'At Sea' by Ru Freeman 🔗 rufreeman.com aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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From the Preface to our latest edition: The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance “We stand on ancestral land. We walk through stolen cities. We return to sacred places. We resist with our bodies, with our breath, with our stories.” #LitMag #Poetry aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

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"Buffalo Autumn' by Santa Fe #Artist Kathleen Frank. 🎨 Frank travels throughout the American West, seeking inspiration for her landscape paintings. Using vibrant hues, she captures light and pattern in her search for logic within complex terrains. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

About Place Journal May 2026 is a "bold and unflinching issue" bringing together poetry, essays, fiction, hybrid work, and visual art on the theme "The Ground Beneath Us: Place Power, and Resistance." #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

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"This issue of About Place Journal emerges from a shared recognition: place is never just geography. It is a relationship between people, land, memory, and power." Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak, Editorial team for The Ground Beneath Us

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Discover the latest edition of About Place Journal ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance Congratulations to Issue editors Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland, Assistant editors Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak for this outstanding issue. #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Poetry friends, please suggest collections that explore ritual (you get to define that word). I already have Poetry as Spellcasting, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, and all of CA Conrad's, Danielle Vogel's, and Annie Finch's work. #Poetry

The shattering new issue of #aboutplacejournal from @blackearthinst.bsky.social is live. I've got one in here, in humbling company, thanks to Issue editors: Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

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