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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social is specifically looking "for creative work in all genres" from #Palestinian artists. I'm just the messenger.

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We’re open now for art, translations, poetry reviews, prose reviews, and voices from Palestine and Ukraine. Send work to us on Submittable. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to find out whe…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · 7d

"The book...follows the speaker’s daily journeys along a rugged mountain road over the course of a year..."

Review of “If Only for a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again): Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma,” (translated by James Nolan) by Stephanie Burt

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Review of “If Only for a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again): Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma,” (translated by James Nolan) by Stephanie Burt

The book, at its core, follows the speaker’s daily journeys along a rugged mountain road over the course of a year, with the gravel thoroughfare and its environs serving much the way Thoreau’s Wald…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · 15d

"You hang out on top of the three ancient towels you’ve layered on your couch and know you’ve done the automated surveys, and they improve nothing."

“Run-On/Run-Down,” by Alina Zollfrank. Art by Char Gardner.

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“Run-On/Run-Down” by Alina Zollfrank

You hang out on top of the three ancient towels you’ve layered on your couch and know you’ve done the automated surveys, and they improve nothing. You and your doctor have pushed pre-authorization …

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · 20d

Springtime is for the seeds and letting
light into the home our spirits live in. We
prep the soil for the ones who sleep
there. Summer picks berries for
playtime.

Four Poems by Tyra Prayer. Art by Chris Pappan.

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Four poems by Tyra Payer

Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. Springtime is for the seeds and letting light into the home our spirits live in. We prep the soil for the ones who sleep there. Summer …

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · 22d

"She poignantly asks, 'In such a teeming ocean of words how could I know there was anything else to swim in?'"

Review of Naomi Cohn’s “The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight,” by Anne Sawyier.

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Review of Naomi Cohn’s “The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight” by Anne Sawyier

She poignantly asks, “In such a teeming ocean of words how could I know there was anything else to swim in?” (reviews)

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · 23d

"even baby’s breath is weary and stale
in their nostrils falls the hail
the country’s black men sent to jail"

A poem from “G A G,” by Nicole Wislon. With art by Patty Paine.

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A poem from “G A G” by Nicole Wilson

This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. even baby’s breath is weary and stale in their nostrils falls the hail the country’s black men sent to jail (poetry)

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · 28d

"You are forced to think very formally,
very
philosophically, Someday a siren will
come for you..."

“The Late Late Show,” by George Thomas. With art by Syd Brewster.

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“The Late Late Show” by George Thomas

This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. You are forced to think very formally, very philosophically, Someday a siren will come for you, and you hold your breath, rub your eyes, roll with a…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Sep 3

"One guy said I looked like Queen
Elizabeth in it,
so I wore it everywhere, led entrances
with hip swishes and a smirk..."

Two poems by Jesse Eikmann. Art by Jeri Griffith.

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Two poems by Jesse Eikmann

This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. One guy said I looked like Queen Elizabeth in it, so I wore it everywhere, led entrances with hip swishes and a smirk, blasted “Flagpole Sitta” in m…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Sep 2

Despite what you may think,
I am comfortably phallic.
I wonder if your punchline
can live for two hundred years,
burrowing through human muck
and blood and flushed tissues.

Pacific Geoduck Responds to a Meme - Bex Hainsworth Art - Patty Paine.

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“Pacific Geoduck Responds to a Meme” by Bex Hainsworth

This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. Despite what you may think, I am comfortably phallic. I wonder if your punchline can live for two hundred years, burrowing through human muck and blo…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 28

through my brother’s bedroom door, the
expectations of manhood
complete: apology, sincerity, apology—take it and move on.

Five poems by Kimberly Ann Priest. Art by Michael Anderson.

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Five poems by Kimberly Ann Priest

This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. This is the first. through my brother’s bedroom door, the expectations of manhood complete: apology, sincerity, apology—take it and move on. In my be…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 27

"One of the essential qualities of my mind has always been an inability to distinguish between 'being' and 'being with.'"

“Physical Education,” by Ru Marshall. With art by Edward Michael Supranowicz.

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“Physical Education” by Ru Marshall

One of the essential qualities of my mind has always been an inability to distinguish between “being” and “being with.” I wanted to play with girls, and hence decided, age eight, that I wanted to b…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 23

"When I traveled to Geneva, no matter what else was on the agenda, a reservation at the Boeuf Rouge was required. I never changed my order from quenelle de brochet."

“Quenelle de Brochet,” by J.H. Palmer. With art by Patty Paine.

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“Quenelle de Brochet” by J.H. Palmer

When I traveled to Geneva, no matter what else was on the agenda, a reservation at the Boeuf Rouge was required. I never changed my order from quenelle de brochet. I looked forward to the quenelles…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 22

"did you know trees grieve one another?
i wonder how long they hold grief in
their bodies
i wonder how grief sticks in tree ring?"

Three poems by Sareya Taylor. With art by Debra Yepa-Pappan.

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Three poems by Sareya Taylor

Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. did you know trees grieve one another? i wonder how long they hold grief in their bodies i wonder how grief sticks in tree ring? (poet…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 21

"I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way..."

From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman. Art by Patty Paine.

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From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman

I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way, let it melt on my tongue like a communion wafer, pierce it with my teeth and…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 19

“The incarcerated are forgotten time and time again”: A conversation with Santa Fe curators Chloe Accardi and Patricia Sigala by @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social with Ellye Sevier.

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“The incarcerated are forgotten time and time again”: A conversation with Santa Fe curators Chloe Accardi and Patricia Sigala by Sasha Weiss with Ellye Sevier

“One of the overwhelming and heartbreaking themes of mass incarceration is dehumanization. Time and time again, these stories of what happens to prisoners in any of these systems gets buried …

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Aug 18

“know that time and light
are ephemeral here
that’s why they’re in such a rush to offer…”

Read Roxana Crisólogo’s “Those who came to sell mushrooms” this #WITMonth (translated by Kim Jensen & Judith Santopietro in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social): anotherchicagomagazine.net/2024/10/17/t...

Two poems by Roxana Crisólogo, translated from the Spanish (Peru) by Kim Jensen and Judith Santopietro

to know everything and understand everything doesn’t guarantee I’ll be able to tell the difference between poisonous and edible (No Place is Foreign/ translations)

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 14

"Your kitchen is transfigured, is wild rice
soup and Lil Nas X..."

Two poems by Zoë Johnson. With art by Chris Pappan.

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Two poems by Zoë Johnson

Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. Your kitchen is transfigured, is wild rice soup and Lil Nas X Your porch, a portal, re-applying lipstick between each press to cigarett…

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · Aug 14

Help me let go of my expectations of people.

I am the one who wants to run screaming out the front door.

Recognize that your sense of overwhelm arises as a normal response to trauma.

“Don’t get weird on me,” Bobby’d say, every time I cried.

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 12

"And mirrored in the dilated,
upturned eyes, can you, she asks, see a
room’s
bright window, panes of light..."

A poem by Joseph Tate.With art by Giuliana Eggleston.

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A poem by Joseph Tate

And mirrored in the dilated, upturned eyes, can you, she asks, see a room’s bright window, panes of light. And can you see how the selfsame light pours into us, the shine of attention, of ten…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 10

Help CPS Students Foster A Love Of Reading.

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Back To School With Block Club Ahead of the school year, Block Club is partnering with the nonprofit Open Books to provide 1,600 free books to CPS students on the South and West sides. Every $20 contr...

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 7

"She used to talk nonstop, now she calls so little, asking strange questions." - Four poems by Srisuda Rojsatien. With art by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay.

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Four poems by Srisuda Rojsatien

She used to talk nonstop, now she calls so little, asking strange questions. One time she asked him about that Wednesday morning in 1976. He was just fifteen then. She wasn’t even born yet! Crazy g…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Aug 3

Read an excerpt from Jennifer Bélanger’s MENTHOL, translated by Sophie Grace Lellman, in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social this #WITMonth:

“Walking around the hospital, clinging to the hallway walls, nauseated by all the signage, scanning words...”
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From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman

I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way, let it melt on my tongue like a communion wafer, pierce it with my teeth and…

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · Aug 1

This one mattered a lot to me. @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social @fonografeditions.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/31/r...

Review of “If Only for a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again): Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma,” (translated by James Nolan) by Stephanie Burt

This week, ACM is posting book reviews every weekday. The book, at its core, follows the speaker’s daily journeys along a rugged mountain road over the course of a year, with the gravel thoroughfar…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Jul 29

I sat at his grave,
rearranging ever-present anger and
decades old resentments into
drunken one night
stands, warring
with abstract and weak forgiveness.

By Louise Waakaa’igan. Art by Chris Pappan.

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Two poems by Louise Waakaa’igan

Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. I sat at his grave, rearranging ever-present anger and decades old resentments into drunken one night stands, warring with abstract and…

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Jul 24

“An eleven-year-old girl sees something no child should—and keeps her silence.” - “Mercy” by Nandini Bhattacharya. Art by Michael Singh.

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“Mercy” by Nandini Bhattacharya

“An eleven-year-old girl sees something no child should—and keeps her silence. In a world of broken promises and simmering class tension, what she witnesses becomes a secret weapon in a house…

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