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Major 7th Magazine | literary mixtape
Major 7th Magazine: Your literary mixtape. Curated weekly.
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A portrait of so many things–neighborhood quirks, neighborhood dogs, people and animals who misunderstand one another but still try anyway–Josh Shepard screams out "Runnin' Down a Dream" • Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from the garage. In Volume 27! www.major7mag.com/post/runnin-...
"Runnin’ Down a Dream" • Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (by Josh Shepard)
Saying “you be good.”
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Inhale deep to "Smoke on the Water" • Deep Purple by Kathryn Kysar and feel the wild desperation between girlhood and what we believe we should become when we leave it. 💜 @darklake.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/smoke-o...
"Smoke on the Water" • Deep Purple (by Kathryn Kysar)
Girls trying to be women in all the wrong ways.
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Are you painfully uncool? Have you developed a delayed angsty streak? Colin Brightwell proves you (we) are not alone in his piece "Undone - The Sweater Song" • Weezer Listen in Volume 27. www.major7mag.com/post/undone-...
"Undone - The Sweater Song" • Weezer (by Colin Brightwell)
I’m so uncool.
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Lizzy Turner takes us stomping and clomping across hardwood floors, square dancing in perfect time with our protagonists, finding flow state under the fluorescent beer signs and jukebox turns.👢 Read "Black Velvet" • Alannah Myles in Volume 27. www.major7mag.com/post/black-v...
"Black Velvet" • Alannah Myles (by Lizzy Turner)
We’re clomping the grapevine, like molasses.
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Jeremy Mauser’s poem "Pumped Up Kicks" • Foster the People confronts the impact and legacy of gun violence in America, manifested bodily, personally, and open-eyed. www.major7mag.com/post/pumped-... @jeremymauser.bsky.social
"Pumped Up Kicks" • Foster the People (by Jeremy Mauser)
How does the punchline go?
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Casey Jo's "Tiny Dancer" takes us into the operating room with small mercies between medical staff and patients. Sometimes, you just need Sir Elton John. ⚕️ www.major7mag.com/post/tiny-da...
"Tiny Dancer" • Sir Elton John (by Casey Jo Graham Welmers)
Romancer? Chancer? Prancer? Is he asking if he has cancer?
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Certain things about music and friendship are hyper-ephemeral. Yet, somehow, also forever. How does that work? ✈️🎧 Read "By the Way" • Red Hot Chili Peppers by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in Volume 27. www.major7mag.com/post/by-the-...
"By the Way" • Red Hot Chili Peppers (by Chris Scott)
"Just something my body needs right now. This song.”
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Let’s get into Volume 27! First track is Innocent When You Dream • Tom Waits by Henrick Karoliszyn. This piece takes us into the deep subconscious, and the shadows we find there—ones that haunt us with what could be. 🎪 www.major7mag.com/post/innocen...
Innocent When You Dream • Tom Waits (by Henrick Karoliszyn)
It’s one that refuses to take stock of damages.
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Is the cure for male loneliness just listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers' "By the Way" over and over for days on end? Check out my contribution to the @major7mag.bsky.social mixtape, and thank you to the amazing @keersteemack.bsky.social for selecting it: www.major7mag.com/post/by-the-...
"By the Way" • Red Hot Chili Peppers (by Chris Scott)
"Just something my body needs right now. This song.”
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Major 7th Magazine@major7mag.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew mixtape up for you! It will be one of our last. Details in my editor's letter Now playing: Volume 27 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
I’m stoked to have a poem featured in the latest issue of Major 7th! Please check out all the sick pieces in this issue!
Major 7th Magazine@major7mag.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew mixtape up for you! It will be one of our last. Details in my editor's letter Now playing: Volume 27 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
New mixtape up for you! It will be one of our last. Details in my editor's letter Now playing: Volume 27 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
Literary Mixtape Volume 27
On folding.
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“You handed me a tissue and asked if I needed to go to the emergency room. I said I was fine. I wanted to show you that I was doing my therapy tasks.” Davi Schweizer closes out Volume 26 with a piece so cold, it burns: "Winter Solstice" • Phoenix www.major7mag.com/post/winter-...
"Winter Solstice" • Phoenix (by Davi Schweizer)
You said I really needed to stop being the security, I was the bartender only.
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Devastating beauty from Amy Laessle-Morgan in Volume 26, Side B: "The Tracks of My Tears" • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 💿 www.major7mag.com/post/the-tra...
"The Tracks of My Tears" • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (by Amy Laessle-Morgan)
And I want to be held. And I want someone to hold onto.
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friday five for ya. new volume coming end of the month! www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
Friday Five: April 10, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
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An acceptance today from @major7mag.bsky.social for my poem after Me & Bobby McGee. Thanks Kirsti! The idea came from something a friend told me once. After a breakup, she told me not to fret--he was just my Bobby McGee. In other words, puppy love!
I love M7 and so it’s especially exciting to see Basking in Glory included in today’s Friday 5 !! Go check out Major 7th for some of the most interesting and exciting music writing!
Major 7th Magazine@major7mag.bsky.social · 4mo agosomeone told me Geese sounds like if The Sheepdogs went to art school and now I can't unhear it www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
Cool news: I got an acceptance from @major7mag.bsky.social
“Here’s something. It will take the edge off.” He tucks the pen into his coat pocket. “Mother’s Little Helper.” 💊 Erin Dawkins takes us into the exam room in "Mother's Little Helper" • The Rolling Stones. Read it in Vol. 26! www.major7mag.com/post/mother-...
"Mother's Little Helper" • The Rolling Stones (by Erin Dawkins)
Here’s something. It will take the edge off.
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someone told me Geese sounds like if The Sheepdogs went to art school and now I can't unhear it www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
Friday Five: April 3, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
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if you are waiting to hear back on a submission, I am aiming to respond by next week thx for your patience xo
“It has always been there, that sense that things are off. That there were forces at play that I couldn’t quite grasp.” Get paranoid with @badguybirnie.bsky.social in "Ballad of a Thin Man" • Bob Dylan www.major7mag.com/post/ballad-...
"Ballad of a Thin Man" • Bob Dylan (by Sheldon Birnie)
When did my life begin to unfurl?
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“I remember dancing my pants off and almost dancing off a beautiful stranger’s until she figured out I was lying about not speaking good English.” @martinezfjulian.bsky.social’s piece "Night Fever" • Bee Gees is sick. 🔥🤒 Check it out in Vol. 26! www.major7mag.com/post/night-f...
"Night Fever" • Bee Gees (by Julián Martinez)
You think I’m a sick puppy?
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“Drag pipes. No mistaking when Ray's in the neighborhood. The neighbors go inside.” Wade Harris gives us a riot of a toxic friendship in "Twice as Hard" • The Black Crowes. Read it in Vol. 26. www.major7mag.com/post/twice-a...
"Twice as Hard" • The Black Crowes (by Wade Harris)
No mistaking when Ray's in the neighborhood.
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@rachelturney.bsky.social gives us "Run, Run, Run" • Nico & The Velvet Underground via a single, quiet, perfect moment. on Side A of Volume 26. 🏃♀️ Listen here: www.major7mag.com/post/run-run...
"Run, Run, Run" • Nico & The Velvet Underground (by Rachel Turney)
Rachel Turney, Ed.D. (she/her) is an educator and artist located in Denver. Her poems, research articles, reviews, and drawings can be found in a variety of publications. Rachel is passionate about im...
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“when the volta comes / we are not ready” In "Fruit Fly" • Nada Surf, @invariablyso.bsky.social breaks our hearts. Read it in Vol. 26!! 💔🪰 www.major7mag.com/post/fruit-f...
"Fruit Fly" • Nada Surf (by Erika Gill)
five months not speaking twenty generations of fruit flies
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friday mixtape for ya! five albums, five stories, one fav (snuck three in there oop) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
Friday Five: February 20, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
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“And I couldn’t have the blood and pain of a bite / ruin the show. I’d put faith in / our bodies—four tall boys to one small girl—to keep / time.” Visceral, multilayered storytelling in this piece from Riayn Spaero! Read “Barbarella” • Scott Weiland in Vol. 26. www.major7mag.com/post/barbare...
"Barbarella" • Scott Weiland (by Riayn Spaero)
I’d put faith in our bodies—four tall boys to one small girl—to keep time.
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“When everything went dark I didn’t follow the light, I stayed behind.” Guy Cramer plays with how scary the attention economy can be in “Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man” • Concrete Blonde. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. In Vol. 26! www.major7mag.com/post/ghost-o...
“Ghost Of A Texas Ladies Man” • Concrete Blonde (by Guy Cramer)
Every day there’d be new content of me scaring the bejeebies out of her in unexpected places.
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