pulpmouth

literary magazine of the in-between // editorial team: @baileypittenger @frumpy_bogart @lispservice @endlesslykelsey @karenanhweilee

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

Issue 3: “Translation as Afterlife” is here https://t.co/Kp6ULnwTcO 🐝 Thank you to our guest editor, Karen An-hwei Lee @karenanhweilee, who clarified the theme for the issue. Many, many thanks to all who contributed. Stay well, everyone. 🖤

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

Congratulations to pulpmouth issue 3 contributor JoAnna Novak! Read her poems in our latest issue here ~ https://t.co/I4IFlEOxCp

[Fiction Collective 2 @FCtwo]

🥳🥳🥳Congratulations to the winner of our 2020 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest, JoAnna Novak! Be on the lookout for Meaningful Work, which will be published in early 2021! 🥳🥳🥳

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

We were spies and Communists, we would spread contagion, steal jobs from U.S. citizens. They opened the gates only to some of us (there were quotas) and even then, reluctantly.

from WHAT IS A GHOST by Leni Zumas

https://t.co/OmLIJ03MGy

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from ON PRAISING THE LIVER by Khaty Xiong

https://t.co/z9RFGAhC0T

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from 少女営巣弓

Sawako Nakayasu translated by Kyoko Yoshida

https://t.co/zN0D2ygGcv

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from THE HISTORY by S. Yarberry

https://t.co/3ZHYecdpC5

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

It was difficult to give her a job but it didn’t matter, she usually forgot what the job was before she began it.

from MRS. KEEP by Jennifer Tseng

https://t.co/meydMgoSRQ

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from FOR THE SEVENTH TIME, THREE OF SWORDS IS OUR FINAL OUTCOME by Kailey Tedesco

https://t.co/SGqn4IbaXP

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

Hildegard’s visions come to her while she is in a waking state, not a trance, as they come to Mary Robinson, and to Coleridge.

from from WYRD] BIRD by Claire Marie Stancek
Photo by Shelby McAuliffe

https://t.co/vls4iM0M65

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

BELOVER by JoAnna Novack
https://t.co/I4IFlF690Z

[Tabako on the Windowsill @HariAlluri]

“our mouths opening/ to drink our sweet luck/my thigh aching for a stretch my heel snipped/the saola performing migration in loose script.”—@khatyxiong in @pulpmouth
As I texted @dmadness : holy f*. these 2 poems. wait til you get to the last lines https://t.co/qTs44zqOuS

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

I take my penis out and look at it. She is like a strange bird who cannot fly. "Where are your wings," I ask her. She has no answers for me.

from FLOWERS, SNOWS by Never Angeline Nørth

https://t.co/Oj81xyDVg7

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

The study ignores coal staining the sheets

like ink as they hang out the window,

twisting in the wind down the brick wall.

from INTERLOCUTOR: WHAT THIS STUDY IGNORES by Tyler Mills
Image by Serena Chopra
https://t.co/8TR94vmn6K

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

The days lengthen and suffer until they give way;
all these months, my ship lies ready to ride the current;
and all these days, I wander their city,
a silent and unremarkable stranger...

P.C. Bouten's "FOURTH VERSE" trans. by Lucien Darjeun Meadows
https://t.co/0HPRG7tbt1

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

I [気] was an injury

suspended [掛]. A reproduction of flight [气]

dangling in a well [宀]. Uneasy of lungs,

trapped [重] in seamless meat [且].

from I WAS A DIVINE BONE, THROWN by Kenji C. Liu
Image by Dara Cerv
https://t.co/2vvwrVoXvh

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

"After that bargain, a bargain she felt she had made with the Devil himself but was a bargain well-paid for nonetheless, she did grow up and mature into a capable, young lady."

from THE WRITER by Janice Lee
Image by Amy Badgett Beck

https://t.co/nzDDgdQxNc

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

"I read about a woman with dysmorphia whose glance in a mirror begets hours of fixing and fixing and fixing her hair. She keeps her | her shiny metallic toaster in a cupboard."

from FACING THE MIRROR: AN ESSAY by Katherine Indermaur, image by Dara Cerv
https://t.co/Y0FA68hjC1

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

We don’t want to share this night
with other people. Even though it comes
from a good place, sometimes people end
up being strange.

from L.A. CENTO by Brianna Noll
Image by Shelby McAuliffe

https://t.co/FJJNcmfIQX

[pulpmouth @pulpmouth]

"The amulet women live all over the world. They have never met. They all own the same amulets, except that each one was molded and poured uniquely. Some are lawyers, some are teachers..."

from "Amulets" by Yanara Friedland. Image by Dara Cerv. Read more: https://t.co/8xHQW77HlC