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Independent literary magazine since 1977. We publish fiction, cnf, poetry, translations, interviews, reviews, art, and audio/visual work.

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At 4 a.m. I am awakened by a vision of the river goddess. I am told without words that she saved baachan from drowning. After the funeral of my great-baachan.

“Dear Mother: Notes of an Ordained Lay Buddhist Felon Traveling Japan,” by Tony Koji Wallin-Sato

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“Dear Mother: Notes of an Ordained Lay Buddhist Felon Traveling Japan” by Tony Koji Wallin-Sato
At 4 a.m. I am awakened by a vision of the river goddess. I am told without words that she saved baachan from drowning. After the funeral of my great-baachan. After a mokugyo drum was broken throug…
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January 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM
"Danielle Steele’s Going Home, Alice Munro’s Dear Life. Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Ali flips open a moldy Farsi translation of The Three Musketeers..."

“The Dreamer of Bandar,” by Pegah Ouji. Art by Dmitry Samarov.

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“The Dreamer of Bandar” by Pegah Ouji
Danielle Steele’s Going Home, Alice Munro’s Dear Life. Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Ali flips open a moldy Farsi translation of The Three Musketeers, his eyes landing on “All falseho…
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December 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
the opening of a cut grape
the butterfly
if it were to lightly rest upon the
extremity of the grape..."

“Pretending to Drink,” a poem by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated from the Japanese by Corey Wakeling. Art by Patty Paine.

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“Pretending to Drink,” a poem by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated from the Japanese by Corey Wakeling
the opening of a cut grape the butterfly if it were to lightly rest upon the extremity of the grape and pretend to drink if it wasn’t drinking what was to be done then? I would have to improve how …
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December 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
''After descending into the basement, you act as if you never went, as if you have no idea what the basement really is or what happened there." - “Sister Replay,” Excerpted from “Body of Evidence” by Aimee Parkison.

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“Sister Replay” Excerpted from “Body of Evidence” by Aimee Parkison
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: After descending into the basement, you act as if you never went, as if you have no idea what the basement really is or w…
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December 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
When my father measured women in percentages, I learned to chart myself like livestock—head, pelvis, torso. Yet the red horse leaned his warmth into me...and the body refused to stay math.

“Magnitude,” by Meredith Shepherd. With art by Edward Supranowicz.

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“Magnitude” by Meredith Shepherd
When my father measured women in percentages, I learned to chart myself like livestock—head, pelvis, torso. Yet the red horse leaned his warmth into me, the chickadees sang, and the body refused to…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker."

Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses,” by Tiffany Troy.

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Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses” by Tiffany Troy
The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker. The two-sectioned poem “The Light of Day” contrasts loving mem…
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December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker."

Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses,” by @tiffanytroy.bsky.social.

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Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses” by Tiffany Troy
The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker. The two-sectioned poem “The Light of Day” contrasts loving mem…
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December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"The holes breathed damp breath that wasn’t quite alive but wasn’t dead either. It takes little to make beauty out of wreckage, wreckage out of beauty."

“If Gravity, Then,” by Michael Wiley. With art by Brian McPartlon.

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“If Gravity, Then” by Michael Wiley
The holes breathed damp breath that wasn’t quite alive but wasn’t dead either. It takes little to make beauty out of wreckage, wreckage out of beauty. Winter sun gleams in the spray, constellates i…
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December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"He had written DECEASED next to my mother’s name on his return. That threw the whole system off, sending his return into the void for further review."

“Death and Taxes,” Excerpted from “An Ignorance of Trees,” by Jim Daniels.

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“Death and Taxes” Excerpted from “An Ignorance of Trees” by Jim Daniels
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: He had written DECEASED next to my mother’s name on his return. That threw the whole system off, sending his return into …
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December 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"This collection of poems explores the fracture of a marriage after a secret is revealed—a husband’s closeted homosexuality, at odds with his religious upbringing..."

Review of Kimberly Ann Priest’s “tether & lung,” by @mickafoos.bsky.social

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Review of Kimberly Ann Priest’s “tether & lung” by Brittany Micka-Foos
This collection of poems explores the fracture of a marriage after a secret is revealed—a husband’s closeted homosexuality, at odds with his religious upbringing and the life he has built. Set agai…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"I am sorry to say this, but what if
You made a mistake?
What if You took the wrong kid?"

“I think I’m special” by L.F. Khouri. With art by Giuliana Eggleston.

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“I think I’m special” by L.F. Khouri
I am sorry to say this, but what if You made a mistake? What if You took the wrong kid? I heard You took two more kids today from Askar’s middle school. Are the soldiers working for you? (Palestini…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I walk across the highway to the other side, lean over the same crumbling concrete guardrail and look down into the stagnant cesspool.

“Lost in East Chicago,” Excerpted from “Walking Chicago’s Coast,” by Michael McColly.

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“Lost in East Chicago,” Excerpted from “Walking Chicago’s Coast” by Michael McColly
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: I walk across the highway to the other side, lean over the same crumbling concrete guardrail and look down into the stagn…
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November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Every night I read
My country’s history
of profit wrung from working people
and before dawn I burn my shoes

“Before Dawn I Rend My Clothes,” Excerpted from “Political Prisoners USA and Other Poems,” by James Madigan.

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“Before Dawn I Rend My Clothes,” Excerpted from “Political Prisoners USA and Other Poems” by James Madigan
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: Every night I read My country’s history of profit wrung from working people and before dawn I burn my shoes
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November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"Discovering Tarkovsky upended my attempt to build a coherent, if radically reduced, worldview post-Iraq."

“Hunters in the Snow,” by Michael Carson. Art by Mia Broecke.

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“Hunters in the Snow” by Michael Carson
Discovering Tarkovsky upended my attempt to build a coherent, if radically reduced, worldview post-Iraq. Ten years after leaving the military I found myself replaying certain scenes from his Solari…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“What do you know of killing a child?” Medea shouted, her voice trembling with the hereafter.

From “The Complexity of Compassion,” by Chantal Maillard, translated from Spanish (Spain) by Samantha Schnee. Art by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay.

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From “The Complexity of Compassion” by Chantal Maillard, translated from Spanish (Spain) by Samantha Schnee
“What do you know of killing a child?” Medea shouted, her voice trembling with the hereafter. The woman bowed her head, circling endlessly over rocky ground, stacking stones, whispering absence and…
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November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The film is a collection of footage accumulated from days walking around Chicago and noticing the different movements, colors, and forms of the city. It attempts to embody a dissociated state of mind.

“Everybody’s Dancing Upside Down,” by Georgia Zinzan.

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“Everybody’s Dancing Upside Down” by Georgia Zinzan
The film is a collection of footage accumulated from days walking around Chicago and noticing the different movements, colors, and forms of the city. It attempts to embody a dissociated state of mi…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"Can violence be made into beauty? Can beauty be used to dignify the stain of violence? Sloan seems to suggest so, perhaps, by conceiving of Ophelia’s body as part of nature—indistinguishable from it."

Review of Emma Sloan’s “Opheliac,” by Rina Shamilov.

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Review of Emma Sloan’s “Opheliac” by Rina Shamilov
Can violence be made into beauty? Can beauty be used to dignify the stain of violence? Sloan seems to suggest so, perhaps, by conceiving of Ophelia’s body as part of nature—indistinguishable from i…
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November 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Reposted by Another Chicago Magazine
Out of the fog, she came
A woman with no name
A woman, a doe: the same…

—Dominique Hunter’s “Deer Hide is Thicker Than a Tribal ID” is featured in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social & our #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth reading list: anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/05/29/f...
Four poems by Dominique Hunter
Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. My ancestors want you to know they see it coming. They feel the Earth shaking from the trauma Colonization has inflicted on her. They s…
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November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
wait, things improve, around every
corner is a prize.
Let’s go back to that track and crush pine
needles
with our heels. Crush our watches too.

Five Poems by Marianne Kunkel. Art by Cara Bloomfield.

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Five poems by Marianne Kunkel
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. wait, things improve, around every corner is a prize. Let’s go back to that track and crush pine needles with our heels. Crush our watches too. (poet…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
we’d just torn out not the eyes but the
reflection in the eyes
while culture hanging on the media’s
fangs was dying there...

Two poems by Bernard Noël, translated from the French by Eléna Rivera. With art by Nadia Arioli.

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Two poems by Bernard Noël, translated from the French by Eléna Rivera
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. we’d just torn out not the eyes but the reflection in the eyes while culture hanging on the media’s fangs was dying there no more tongue-in-cheek now…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"See? I’ve been frank, while the TV
keeps beaming images–you yelling at the cop
dragging you away: Don’t take me away..."

Two poems by Mandira Pattnaik. Art by Michael Singh.

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Two poems by Mandira Pattnaik
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. See? I’ve been frank, while the TV keeps beaming images–you yelling at the cop dragging you away: Don’t take me away yet; but the cops keep man…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Reposted by Another Chicago Magazine
And they continued with more world
history examples
where a victim lived happily ever after
next to her executioner...

Two poems by Yuliia Iliukha, translated from the Ukrainian by Anna Antonova. Art by David Goodrum.

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Two poems by Yuliia Iliukha, translated from the Ukrainian by Anna Antonova
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. And they continued with more world history examples where a victim lived happily ever after next to her executioner, having forgiven and forgotten. (…
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November 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"I’d tell you to be careful, that everything
here is lousy with history..."

“Ghost Towns,” by Michael Derrick Hudson. With art by Joe Lugara.

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“Ghost Towns” by Michael Derrick Hudson
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. I’d tell you to be careful, that everything here is lousy with history, from the first megafaunal extinctions to those buffalo carcasses rotting in h…
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November 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"I’ve started thinking the worst of people. I wasn’t always like this. Can I keep doing this job? Why did I take the first one I found?" - “Breathing Salvation,” by Liza Porter. Art by Dmitry Samarov.

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“Breathing Salvation” by Liza Porter
I’ve started thinking the worst of people. I wasn’t always like this. Can I keep doing this job? Why did I take the first one I found? Cause Mom just died and I couldn’t think straight? And minimum…
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October 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM