About Place Journal
@aboutplacejournal.bsky.social
A literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute blackearthinst.bsky.social | Dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society.
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Submissions – About Place Journal
Call for submissions of poetry, prose, visual art, multimedia and hybrid work that explore place as a site of struggle and survival.
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Call for Submissions ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | We seek works that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
🖌️ Icarus Reborn (feel the burning light)
Joseph Laurro's recent works take the form of resilience. Perhaps a myth rewritten in defiance of fate or the freedom of a swimmer late in life. Meditations on movement—turn to folklore, science, and the sacred.
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Joseph Laurro's recent works take the form of resilience. Perhaps a myth rewritten in defiance of fate or the freedom of a swimmer late in life. Meditations on movement—turn to folklore, science, and the sacred.
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February 9, 2026 at 3:13 AM
🖌️ Icarus Reborn (feel the burning light)
Joseph Laurro's recent works take the form of resilience. Perhaps a myth rewritten in defiance of fate or the freedom of a swimmer late in life. Meditations on movement—turn to folklore, science, and the sacred.
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
Joseph Laurro's recent works take the form of resilience. Perhaps a myth rewritten in defiance of fate or the freedom of a swimmer late in life. Meditations on movement—turn to folklore, science, and the sacred.
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
🎨 Dancing with Fireflies/down here below
by Joseph Laurro
Laurro searches while painting, making visual decisions directly in the process. His work is visceral, open-ended, allowing anything to feel possible. Recent works take the form of resilience. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
by Joseph Laurro
Laurro searches while painting, making visual decisions directly in the process. His work is visceral, open-ended, allowing anything to feel possible. Recent works take the form of resilience. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
🎨 Dancing with Fireflies/down here below
by Joseph Laurro
Laurro searches while painting, making visual decisions directly in the process. His work is visceral, open-ended, allowing anything to feel possible. Recent works take the form of resilience. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
by Joseph Laurro
Laurro searches while painting, making visual decisions directly in the process. His work is visceral, open-ended, allowing anything to feel possible. Recent works take the form of resilience. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
Pretrial Case Management: The Weight of 1.5%
(for the underpaid, overwatched,
and underestimated)
They gave me a 1.5% raise
as if I wouldn’t notice the
extra weight of my silence,
as if the decimal point could
polish the edge
of my exhaustion.
Amanda Reavey
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(for the underpaid, overwatched,
and underestimated)
They gave me a 1.5% raise
as if I wouldn’t notice the
extra weight of my silence,
as if the decimal point could
polish the edge
of my exhaustion.
Amanda Reavey
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
Amanda Ngoho Reavey – On Freedom – About Place Journal
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January 29, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Pretrial Case Management: The Weight of 1.5%
(for the underpaid, overwatched,
and underestimated)
They gave me a 1.5% raise
as if I wouldn’t notice the
extra weight of my silence,
as if the decimal point could
polish the edge
of my exhaustion.
Amanda Reavey
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
(for the underpaid, overwatched,
and underestimated)
They gave me a 1.5% raise
as if I wouldn’t notice the
extra weight of my silence,
as if the decimal point could
polish the edge
of my exhaustion.
Amanda Reavey
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
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The call for the next issue of About Place Journal, "The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance," is now open. We would love to have your work!
🗓️ Submission period: January 1 to March 10, 2026
🖋️ Editorial team: Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak. #LitMag
🗓️ Submission period: January 1 to March 10, 2026
🖋️ Editorial team: Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak. #LitMag
Call for Submissions ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | We seek works that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
Submissions – About Place Journal
Call for submissions of poetry, prose, visual art, multimedia and hybrid work that explore place as a site of struggle and survival.
aboutplacejournal.org
January 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The call for the next issue of About Place Journal, "The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance," is now open. We would love to have your work!
🗓️ Submission period: January 1 to March 10, 2026
🖋️ Editorial team: Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak. #LitMag
🗓️ Submission period: January 1 to March 10, 2026
🖋️ Editorial team: Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak. #LitMag
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You love your home
but leave it, visit when
shells cease and soldiers
go to military tents
beyond the concrete
tons of Ukrainian grief.
From 'Epistle to Liubov Tymchenko'
by Theresa Senato Edwards (poem), Lori Schreiner (painting)
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but leave it, visit when
shells cease and soldiers
go to military tents
beyond the concrete
tons of Ukrainian grief.
From 'Epistle to Liubov Tymchenko'
by Theresa Senato Edwards (poem), Lori Schreiner (painting)
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January 24, 2026 at 3:10 AM
You love your home
but leave it, visit when
shells cease and soldiers
go to military tents
beyond the concrete
tons of Ukrainian grief.
From 'Epistle to Liubov Tymchenko'
by Theresa Senato Edwards (poem), Lori Schreiner (painting)
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
but leave it, visit when
shells cease and soldiers
go to military tents
beyond the concrete
tons of Ukrainian grief.
From 'Epistle to Liubov Tymchenko'
by Theresa Senato Edwards (poem), Lori Schreiner (painting)
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
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Exciting news! On March 6th, at 6:00pm, Cutthroat and the #BlackEarthInstitute @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social are holding a reading during the @awpwriter.org conference at the Black Genius Art Show. We hope that you can join us.
January 21, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Exciting news! On March 6th, at 6:00pm, Cutthroat and the #BlackEarthInstitute @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social are holding a reading during the @awpwriter.org conference at the Black Genius Art Show. We hope that you can join us.
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Call for Submissions ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | We seek works that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
Submissions – About Place Journal
Call for submissions of poetry, prose, visual art, multimedia and hybrid work that explore place as a site of struggle and survival.
aboutplacejournal.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Call for Submissions ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | We seek works that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
Young twins, somber eyes
below scuffed foreheads. The artist’s painting holds
you amid the ship’s sway before disembarkment
from a porthole you’ll never stop looking through.
Poet - Theresa Senato Edwards / Artist - Lori Schreiner
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below scuffed foreheads. The artist’s painting holds
you amid the ship’s sway before disembarkment
from a porthole you’ll never stop looking through.
Poet - Theresa Senato Edwards / Artist - Lori Schreiner
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
January 17, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Young twins, somber eyes
below scuffed foreheads. The artist’s painting holds
you amid the ship’s sway before disembarkment
from a porthole you’ll never stop looking through.
Poet - Theresa Senato Edwards / Artist - Lori Schreiner
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
below scuffed foreheads. The artist’s painting holds
you amid the ship’s sway before disembarkment
from a porthole you’ll never stop looking through.
Poet - Theresa Senato Edwards / Artist - Lori Schreiner
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
And there, face down on the carpet of an old Victorian apartment building that had survived the 1906 earthquake, he realized something: He had entered a new world.
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From 'Pan Francés,' by Mauricio Ernesto Ramírez, a Salvadoran American artist and scholar.
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From 'Pan Francés,' by Mauricio Ernesto Ramírez, a Salvadoran American artist and scholar.
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Mauricio Ernesto Ramírez – On Freedom – About Place Journal
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January 14, 2026 at 12:41 AM
And there, face down on the carpet of an old Victorian apartment building that had survived the 1906 earthquake, he realized something: He had entered a new world.
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From 'Pan Francés,' by Mauricio Ernesto Ramírez, a Salvadoran American artist and scholar.
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
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From 'Pan Francés,' by Mauricio Ernesto Ramírez, a Salvadoran American artist and scholar.
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
Churches constructed
along riverbanks,
helped with waterborne escapes,
becoming havens for all
who entered. Finding strength
through faith, within
the hallowed walls, worshippers
found solace there that no one
could ever take away.
-Marjory Wentworth
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along riverbanks,
helped with waterborne escapes,
becoming havens for all
who entered. Finding strength
through faith, within
the hallowed walls, worshippers
found solace there that no one
could ever take away.
-Marjory Wentworth
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
January 11, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Churches constructed
along riverbanks,
helped with waterborne escapes,
becoming havens for all
who entered. Finding strength
through faith, within
the hallowed walls, worshippers
found solace there that no one
could ever take away.
-Marjory Wentworth
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
along riverbanks,
helped with waterborne escapes,
becoming havens for all
who entered. Finding strength
through faith, within
the hallowed walls, worshippers
found solace there that no one
could ever take away.
-Marjory Wentworth
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
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Very important to know, Renee Nicole Good, murdered by an ICE agent, was a poet. Here is one of her works.
Read and Remember her.
@poetsorg.bsky.social
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Read and Remember her.
@poetsorg.bsky.social
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2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
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January 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Very important to know, Renee Nicole Good, murdered by an ICE agent, was a poet. Here is one of her works.
Read and Remember her.
@poetsorg.bsky.social
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
Read and Remember her.
@poetsorg.bsky.social
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
The Painter of Sad Faces
"Before long, I became an ardent admirer of Nuri İyem, especially of his sad women faces and migration paintings. They touch and move me in ways that no other painting has ever done.'
Aysel K. Basci is a nonfiction writer & translator
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"Before long, I became an ardent admirer of Nuri İyem, especially of his sad women faces and migration paintings. They touch and move me in ways that no other painting has ever done.'
Aysel K. Basci is a nonfiction writer & translator
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
Aysel K. Basci – On Freedom – About Place Journal
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January 7, 2026 at 11:26 PM
The Painter of Sad Faces
"Before long, I became an ardent admirer of Nuri İyem, especially of his sad women faces and migration paintings. They touch and move me in ways that no other painting has ever done.'
Aysel K. Basci is a nonfiction writer & translator
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
"Before long, I became an ardent admirer of Nuri İyem, especially of his sad women faces and migration paintings. They touch and move me in ways that no other painting has ever done.'
Aysel K. Basci is a nonfiction writer & translator
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
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Our Fiction Contest is open until the end of the month! We're so excited to have Jamil Jan Kochai as this year's judge. Send us your best fiction under 4,000 words. Winners receive publication, contributor payment, and a full scholarship to our Writers Workshop.
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January 7, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Our Fiction Contest is open until the end of the month! We're so excited to have Jamil Jan Kochai as this year's judge. Send us your best fiction under 4,000 words. Winners receive publication, contributor payment, and a full scholarship to our Writers Workshop.
kenyonreview.org/submit/short...
kenyonreview.org/submit/short...
I am a branch grown wild far from ancient groves—
Olive roots watered by distant sun,
Shadowed now by London rain.
Even here, the keffiyeh’s threads
run under my skin—
heredity memory stitched into mornings dense with tea
From 'Roots in exile' - Adam Suleiman
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Olive roots watered by distant sun,
Shadowed now by London rain.
Even here, the keffiyeh’s threads
run under my skin—
heredity memory stitched into mornings dense with tea
From 'Roots in exile' - Adam Suleiman
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January 4, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I am a branch grown wild far from ancient groves—
Olive roots watered by distant sun,
Shadowed now by London rain.
Even here, the keffiyeh’s threads
run under my skin—
heredity memory stitched into mornings dense with tea
From 'Roots in exile' - Adam Suleiman
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
Olive roots watered by distant sun,
Shadowed now by London rain.
Even here, the keffiyeh’s threads
run under my skin—
heredity memory stitched into mornings dense with tea
From 'Roots in exile' - Adam Suleiman
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
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How do you write a place? How does a place resist?
I couldn't be more excited about this incredible opportunity. Thank you to Amanda for inviting me to guest edit this issue. Send us your place pieces!
I couldn't be more excited about this incredible opportunity. Thank you to Amanda for inviting me to guest edit this issue. Send us your place pieces!
The Call for Submissions for the next edition of our literary journal opens January 1, 2026.
The @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social editorial team for 'The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance' issue invites work that explores place as a site of struggle and survival.
Explore the call ⬇️
The @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social editorial team for 'The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance' issue invites work that explores place as a site of struggle and survival.
Explore the call ⬇️
Call for Submissions ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | We seek works that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
January 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM
How do you write a place? How does a place resist?
I couldn't be more excited about this incredible opportunity. Thank you to Amanda for inviting me to guest edit this issue. Send us your place pieces!
I couldn't be more excited about this incredible opportunity. Thank you to Amanda for inviting me to guest edit this issue. Send us your place pieces!
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It's open! Our own Seth is a guest-editor alongside some very cool people. Can't wait to see what you've got!
The Call for Submissions for the next edition of our literary journal opens January 1, 2026.
The @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social editorial team for 'The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance' issue invites work that explores place as a site of struggle and survival.
Explore the call ⬇️
The @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social editorial team for 'The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance' issue invites work that explores place as a site of struggle and survival.
Explore the call ⬇️
Call for Submissions ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | We seek works that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
January 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
It's open! Our own Seth is a guest-editor alongside some very cool people. Can't wait to see what you've got!
These days, our only sanctuary might be with one another.
Wherever the women are calling us, fear can galvanize action, impelling us to take risks, to voice our dread when even everyday life becomes paralyzing.
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From 'Anthem for the Silenced' by Gail Tyson
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Wherever the women are calling us, fear can galvanize action, impelling us to take risks, to voice our dread when even everyday life becomes paralyzing.
_
From 'Anthem for the Silenced' by Gail Tyson
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December 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
These days, our only sanctuary might be with one another.
Wherever the women are calling us, fear can galvanize action, impelling us to take risks, to voice our dread when even everyday life becomes paralyzing.
_
From 'Anthem for the Silenced' by Gail Tyson
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
Wherever the women are calling us, fear can galvanize action, impelling us to take risks, to voice our dread when even everyday life becomes paralyzing.
_
From 'Anthem for the Silenced' by Gail Tyson
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
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The Call for Submissions for the next edition of our literary journal opens January 1, 2026.
The @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social editorial team for 'The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance' issue invites work that explores place as a site of struggle and survival.
Explore the call ⬇️
The @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social editorial team for 'The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance' issue invites work that explores place as a site of struggle and survival.
Explore the call ⬇️
Call for Submissions ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | We seek works that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
Submissions – About Place Journal
Call for submissions of poetry, prose, visual art, multimedia and hybrid work that explore place as a site of struggle and survival.
aboutplacejournal.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Call for Submissions for the next edition of our literary journal opens January 1, 2026.
The @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social editorial team for 'The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance' issue invites work that explores place as a site of struggle and survival.
Explore the call ⬇️
The @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social editorial team for 'The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance' issue invites work that explores place as a site of struggle and survival.
Explore the call ⬇️
Did you miss the livestream with our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees? Here's the link to watch and listen to the virtual readings from the 'On Freedom' and 'Careful/Care-full Collaboration' issues of About Place Journal. @pushcartprize.bsky.social #LitMag #Poetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=N37u...
Pushcart Prize Nominee Reading About Place Journal 2025 On Freedom & Careful/Carefull Collaboration
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December 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Did you miss the livestream with our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees? Here's the link to watch and listen to the virtual readings from the 'On Freedom' and 'Careful/Care-full Collaboration' issues of About Place Journal. @pushcartprize.bsky.social #LitMag #Poetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=N37u...
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I could not be more pleased that my poetry appeared in Shenandoah Literary Magazine, Ploughshares, and Poetry Northwest this year. It's really such an honor and I'm so grateful.
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I could not be more pleased that my poetry appeared in Shenandoah Literary Magazine, Ploughshares, and Poetry Northwest this year. It's really such an honor and I'm so grateful.
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Very stoked to have a new poem up at @somewordslit.bsky.social today. It’s such a cool project. I hope y’all give it a look. Big thanks to editor @juscarts.com for giving this one a home! somewords.boards.net/thread/32/ja...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Very stoked to have a new poem up at @somewordslit.bsky.social today. It’s such a cool project. I hope y’all give it a look. Big thanks to editor @juscarts.com for giving this one a home! somewords.boards.net/thread/32/ja...
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The Flight 2 poetry selection comes from @jackbedell.bsky.social who weaves highway hypnosis in his poem “sillage”
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December 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The Flight 2 poetry selection comes from @jackbedell.bsky.social who weaves highway hypnosis in his poem “sillage”
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Call for Submissions ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | We seek works that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
Submissions – About Place Journal
Call for submissions of poetry, prose, visual art, multimedia and hybrid work that explore place as a site of struggle and survival.
aboutplacejournal.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Call for Submissions ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | We seek works that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
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Our Pushcart Prize Virtual reading is happening soon, tonight at 7:30 PM ET, join us live on YouTube. ⬇️
www.youtube.com/live/N37ufs2...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Our Pushcart Prize Virtual reading is happening soon, tonight at 7:30 PM ET, join us live on YouTube. ⬇️
www.youtube.com/live/N37ufs2...
www.youtube.com/live/N37ufs2...
'There’s a door' artwork by Crash Solo.
Solo is a collage artist/poet/playwright in Bellingham, Washington. He has made thousands of small collages...most of which have been added to little booklets mailed all over the world to other artists.
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Solo is a collage artist/poet/playwright in Bellingham, Washington. He has made thousands of small collages...most of which have been added to little booklets mailed all over the world to other artists.
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
December 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
'There’s a door' artwork by Crash Solo.
Solo is a collage artist/poet/playwright in Bellingham, Washington. He has made thousands of small collages...most of which have been added to little booklets mailed all over the world to other artists.
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
Solo is a collage artist/poet/playwright in Bellingham, Washington. He has made thousands of small collages...most of which have been added to little booklets mailed all over the world to other artists.
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...