Headway Quarterly is back open for submissions! We can't wait to start reading your poetry, prose, and process. Check out our submission guidelines or reach out with any questions, observations, concerns, and love notes...editors @ headway lit (dot) org https://t.co/Ud2o9pggZu
Close the volume.
Go to sleep.
Dream up something
intimately personal and
possible. Play
yourself as an inexperienced
contract psychologist with
the old-age home
new #poetry by Paul Watsky in @HeadwayLit issue 8.
https://t.co/7LagerHLSi
I get shawled up sometimes
No worries
As in the feeling of
utter failure
when you play Tchaikovsky wrong and I yell
Iโll get hauled off sometime
My deepest chemical horror
is eternity and myself
new #poetry from @jacobwalhout in @HeadwayLit issue 8.
https://t.co/WguWQoyQlc
Into the exquisite. Into the x-quiz
of what is it. No defining. The design
too deep for divining. All is a vertiginous
falling. Cliff diving. Love leaping. In-to-
me-seeing.
new #poetry by Robert Rothman in @HeadwayLit issue 8.
https://t.co/GFXqi8uCZ8
Who better, stone
knows all about burialsโจand hillsides โits slow rise
would shelter youโจthe way these wallsโจstill surface one by one
from some long-gone sea
new #poetry by Simon Perchik in @HeadwayLit issue 8.
https://t.co/Cfj60ZQaps
You fled to water, slipped in a wooden boat
โจbut there the wind blew, drunken and amatory.
new #poetry (#ghazal!) by Celia Meade in @HeadwayLit issue 8.
https://t.co/vJaeXZ93eL
I saw you from the inside.โจIt was like you spread your legs for me!
My jaw drops. My visitorsโ eyesโจgrow round. Yep, thatโs exactly how it was.
new #poetry (about poetry!) from Lynn Hoggard in @HeadwayLit issue 8.
https://t.co/TMmA3mzmmf
โTheyโre quite common,โโจthe bird-watcher saysโจto our oohs and aahs.โจHe would say the sameโจof a white crane.โจIn my head I tell himโจand his khaki cargo vestโจto fuck right off.
new #poetry by @benharnett in @HeadwayLit issue 8.
https://t.co/mx9Q2FVDpQ
Any man who spends hours of his dayโจasking himself what heโd most preferโจwill go mad, and badly
new #poetry by Colin Dodds in @HeadwayLit issue 8.
https://t.co/k0xFhdv3Ez
I wonder
at her insistence of giving me the exact same thing
every single time,
but I try not to dwell too much
on the motivation of spiders.
new #poetry by Holly Day in @HeadwayLit issue 8.
https://t.co/mgOgpHybwW
It seems like the whole worldโจis busy whacking weedsโจor wishing they had weeds
to whack.
new #poetry by Glen Armstrong in @HeadwayLit Issue 8.
https://t.co/epPu5SQuun
Completely feel the same as you Liz! Congrats to @HeadwayLit and my fellow summer readers on producing such a lovely issue! You can read it here - https://t.co/t8JsRAjuiX
summer 2020 is such a world away but during that time I was a reader for headway quarterly and helped to select some of the pieces that went out in this issue ๐ค such a lovely team to work with and Iโm excited to see what made it in!
โจnew issueโจ
featuring:
- a ghazal (our first!)
- a meditation on "Magic, Illusion, and Other Realities"
- a mother's heartbreak after Gerard Manley Hopkins
- an insect trilogy
- a "minesweeper, a proxy, a doppelgรคnger" named Spill-O
and so much more.
https://t.co/pdYGlKtXZs