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Independent literary magazine since 1977. We publish fiction, cnf, poetry, translations, interviews, reviews, art, and audio/visual work. Read: https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/ Submit: https://anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit
Okay, so my book is a 7-month old, but it still is forthcoming, right? Thank you, @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social for offering a 3-poem glimpse into my latest book, Little Joy. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/08/18/e...
Excerpt from “Little Joy” by Matthew Murrey
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books. there are trees. A tall one that has shed all its leaves, has its roots in my heart. One, still bright with red and orang…
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Thank you @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social for publishing my concrete #poem, “Schism.” The poem is inspired by the political and economic instability in my country, #Greece, which has which has shaken the foundations of the Greek society. #poetry #Schism anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/07/21/s...
“Schism” by Athena Melliar
How long is a piece of string when all we’ve got is scissors? (poetry)
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“She sought poetry as a balm during the dark night of the soul that she, her community, and her country often traversed” In @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social, Emily Hunsberger reviews Nadia Anjuman’s newly translated poetry collection, “Smoke Drifts” - anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/06/16/r...
Review of Nadia Anjuman’s “Smoke Drifts: Selected Poems” (translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar) by Emily Hunsberger
Smoke Drifts contains both free verse and poems that follow a formal architecture, including several of Anjuman’s ghazals, a centuries-old tradition that Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov describes as “a…
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Browse rolling submission opportunities at @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social! The editors are especially interested in receiving poetry as well as reviews of recently published full-length collections from independent and university presses: www.clmp.org/members/open...
Many thanks to Erica Goss for this thoughtful, attentive reading of Holli Carrell’s debut, Apostasies, and gratitude to Another Chicago Magazine for publishing the review! See the link in our bio for the whole review. @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social
"This is @mfraterrigo.bsky.social's first book-length work of nonfiction, and yet the collection rings with the assuredness of the Pushcart-nominated writer’s numerous successes," writes @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social of THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD. bit.ly/4sP8co3
Review: Reclaiming Power Over The Patriarchy: Melissa Fraterrigo’s “The Perils of Girlhood” by Anne Sawyier
If we look more closely, we see the doll’s skin marked by chips in the paint—traces of violence that our girl has survived—her searing blue eyes defiantly looking toward the sky, or at least something higher than where she is now. (reviews)
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We’re open now for fiction, nonfiction, art, translations, poetry reviews, prose reviews, and voices from Palestine and Ukraine. Send work to us on Submittable. Follow us on Instagram and Fac…
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At 4 a.m. I am awakened by a vision of the river goddess. I am told without words that she saved baachan from drowning. After the funeral of my great-baachan. “Dear Mother: Notes of an Ordained Lay Buddhist Felon Traveling Japan,” by Tony Koji Wallin-Sato anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/28/d...
“Dear Mother: Notes of an Ordained Lay Buddhist Felon Traveling Japan” by Tony Koji Wallin-Sato
At 4 a.m. I am awakened by a vision of the river goddess. I am told without words that she saved baachan from drowning. After the funeral of my great-baachan. After a mokugyo drum was broken throug…
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"Danielle Steele’s Going Home, Alice Munro’s Dear Life. Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Ali flips open a moldy Farsi translation of The Three Musketeers..." “The Dreamer of Bandar,” by Pegah Ouji. Art by Dmitry Samarov. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/21/t...
“The Dreamer of Bandar” by Pegah Ouji
Danielle Steele’s Going Home, Alice Munro’s Dear Life. Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Ali flips open a moldy Farsi translation of The Three Musketeers, his eyes landing on “All falseho…
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the opening of a cut grape the butterfly if it were to lightly rest upon the extremity of the grape..." “Pretending to Drink,” a poem by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated from the Japanese by Corey Wakeling. Art by Patty Paine. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/14/p...
“Pretending to Drink,” a poem by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated from the Japanese by Corey Wakeling
the opening of a cut grape the butterfly if it were to lightly rest upon the extremity of the grape and pretend to drink if it wasn’t drinking what was to be done then? I would have to improve how …
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''After descending into the basement, you act as if you never went, as if you have no idea what the basement really is or what happened there." - “Sister Replay,” Excerpted from “Body of Evidence” by Aimee Parkison. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/09/s...
“Sister Replay” Excerpted from “Body of Evidence” by Aimee Parkison
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: After descending into the basement, you act as if you never went, as if you have no idea what the basement really is or w…
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When my father measured women in percentages, I learned to chart myself like livestock—head, pelvis, torso. Yet the red horse leaned his warmth into me...and the body refused to stay math. “Magnitude,” by Meredith Shepherd. With art by Edward Supranowicz. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/07/m...
“Magnitude” by Meredith Shepherd
When my father measured women in percentages, I learned to chart myself like livestock—head, pelvis, torso. Yet the red horse leaned his warmth into me, the chickadees sang, and the body refused to…
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"The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker." Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses,” by Tiffany Troy. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/02/r...
Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses” by Tiffany Troy
The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker. The two-sectioned poem “The Light of Day” contrasts loving mem…
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"The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker." Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses,” by @tiffanytroy.bsky.social. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/02/r...
Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses” by Tiffany Troy
The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker. The two-sectioned poem “The Light of Day” contrasts loving mem…
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"The holes breathed damp breath that wasn’t quite alive but wasn’t dead either. It takes little to make beauty out of wreckage, wreckage out of beauty." “If Gravity, Then,” by Michael Wiley. With art by Brian McPartlon. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/30/i...
“If Gravity, Then” by Michael Wiley
The holes breathed damp breath that wasn’t quite alive but wasn’t dead either. It takes little to make beauty out of wreckage, wreckage out of beauty. Winter sun gleams in the spray, constellates i…
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"He had written DECEASED next to my mother’s name on his return. That threw the whole system off, sending his return into the void for further review." “Death and Taxes,” Excerpted from “An Ignorance of Trees,” by Jim Daniels. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/25/d...
“Death and Taxes” Excerpted from “An Ignorance of Trees” by Jim Daniels
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: He had written DECEASED next to my mother’s name on his return. That threw the whole system off, sending his return into …
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"This collection of poems explores the fracture of a marriage after a secret is revealed—a husband’s closeted homosexuality, at odds with his religious upbringing..." Review of Kimberly Ann Priest’s “tether & lung,” by @mickafoos.bsky.social anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/23/r...
Review of Kimberly Ann Priest’s “tether & lung” by Brittany Micka-Foos
This collection of poems explores the fracture of a marriage after a secret is revealed—a husband’s closeted homosexuality, at odds with his religious upbringing and the life he has built. Set agai…
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"I am sorry to say this, but what if You made a mistake? What if You took the wrong kid?" “I think I’m special” by L.F. Khouri. With art by Giuliana Eggleston. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/18/i...
“I think I’m special” by L.F. Khouri
I am sorry to say this, but what if You made a mistake? What if You took the wrong kid? I heard You took two more kids today from Askar’s middle school. Are the soldiers working for you? (Palestini…
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I walk across the highway to the other side, lean over the same crumbling concrete guardrail and look down into the stagnant cesspool. “Lost in East Chicago,” Excerpted from “Walking Chicago’s Coast,” by Michael McColly. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/16/l...
“Lost in East Chicago,” Excerpted from “Walking Chicago’s Coast” by Michael McColly
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: I walk across the highway to the other side, lean over the same crumbling concrete guardrail and look down into the stagn…
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Every night I read My country’s history of profit wrung from working people and before dawn I burn my shoes “Before Dawn I Rend My Clothes,” Excerpted from “Political Prisoners USA and Other Poems,” by James Madigan. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/11/b...
“Before Dawn I Rend My Clothes,” Excerpted from “Political Prisoners USA and Other Poems” by James Madigan
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: Every night I read My country’s history of profit wrung from working people and before dawn I burn my shoes
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"Discovering Tarkovsky upended my attempt to build a coherent, if radically reduced, worldview post-Iraq." “Hunters in the Snow,” by Michael Carson. Art by Mia Broecke. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/04/h...
“Hunters in the Snow” by Michael Carson
Discovering Tarkovsky upended my attempt to build a coherent, if radically reduced, worldview post-Iraq. Ten years after leaving the military I found myself replaying certain scenes from his Solari…
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“What do you know of killing a child?” Medea shouted, her voice trembling with the hereafter. From “The Complexity of Compassion,” by Chantal Maillard, translated from Spanish (Spain) by Samantha Schnee. Art by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/02/f...
From “The Complexity of Compassion” by Chantal Maillard, translated from Spanish (Spain) by Samantha Schnee
“What do you know of killing a child?” Medea shouted, her voice trembling with the hereafter. The woman bowed her head, circling endlessly over rocky ground, stacking stones, whispering absence and…
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The film is a collection of footage accumulated from days walking around Chicago and noticing the different movements, colors, and forms of the city. It attempts to embody a dissociated state of mind. “Everybody’s Dancing Upside Down,” by Georgia Zinzan. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/28/e...
“Everybody’s Dancing Upside Down” by Georgia Zinzan
The film is a collection of footage accumulated from days walking around Chicago and noticing the different movements, colors, and forms of the city. It attempts to embody a dissociated state of mi…
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"Can violence be made into beauty? Can beauty be used to dignify the stain of violence? Sloan seems to suggest so, perhaps, by conceiving of Ophelia’s body as part of nature—indistinguishable from it." Review of Emma Sloan’s “Opheliac,” by Rina Shamilov. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/26/r...
Review of Emma Sloan’s “Opheliac” by Rina Shamilov
Can violence be made into beauty? Can beauty be used to dignify the stain of violence? Sloan seems to suggest so, perhaps, by conceiving of Ophelia’s body as part of nature—indistinguishable from i…
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Out of the fog, she came A woman with no name A woman, a doe: the same… —Dominique Hunter’s “Deer Hide is Thicker Than a Tribal ID” is featured in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social & our #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth reading list: anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/05/29/f...
Four poems by Dominique Hunter
Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. My ancestors want you to know they see it coming. They feel the Earth shaking from the trauma Colonization has inflicted on her. They s…
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