Main Street Rag

Publishing award-winning poetry and literary fiction since 1996. Hard to love, but worth the effort.

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POETS: Call for submissions.
Political poetry for the times we live in.
Opens April 15th.
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"Poetry is believing there is something deeper than what you think you heard or saw. It requires examination of memories, feelings, the turn of your tongue when you form a word..." - Terresa Cooper Haskew
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Buy Terresa's poetry: https://t.co/VUFLPSXka0

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Of Fame, Fire Engines, and the Heart"
by Alice Friman Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Lip Service" by Kristen Keckler
Full story in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Lovelorn" by Gavin Kayner
Full story in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Authors’ Advance Sale Page password was spotted on the dark web. Rather than risk a breach, the password has been changed. Please contact Scott for the new password. Moving forward, new titles/authors will be provided the new password in their Marketing Instructions email.

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"Gardening, Not Farming. As in, most of us are writing not as our day-jobs or to maximize saleable output, but to put something new into the world via creative process." - Dave Essinger
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Dave's book: https://t.co/NiI4TXX1RO

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Beware the Chinese Inch" by Susan J. Hudson
Full story in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Abandoned" by Karen George
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Sarah" by Adam Coulter
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Stop & Go" by John Paul Caponigro
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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"We live in a wondrous, exuberant, vibrant, alive world that just blows my mind how it is even here. For me, there seems no end as to how it wants to tell its story, but I am here - listening, aware, sifting, pondering, astonished - to humbly act as chronicler." - Michael Drummy

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Swan Song" by Alan Elyshevitz
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "The Truthful Moon" by David Dragone
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Emily as a More Hatchets" by Darren C. Demaree
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Easter" by Ricks Carson
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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"I am totally at the mercy of my characters. They are particularly fond of starting a conversation at bedtime or in the middle of the night, so I keep a notebook and pen next to the bed. They say what they want to say, and I just take dictation." - Linda Griffin

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Cough" by Chris Bullard
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "March Buds" by Brian Builta
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Moving On" by Cleo Griffith
Full poem in the issue: https://t.co/mEqfuEq46d

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Watch Becky Gould Gibson read from her latest poetry collection, Characters:
https://t.co/Rsk48kISAj