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Join the underground generation. • A literary magazine pushing boundaries since 1957. Edited by Dale Peck, published by John Oakes. Now online, no paywall! Profile art by Senon Williams. https://evergreenreview.com
“When I was a New York City kid living on 151st Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive, many jazz musicians lived in that Sugar Hill (Harlem) neighborhood . . . .”

Up now: “From the Soul: On the Life & Music of Jesse Powell” by @magonzales.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...
From the Soul: On the Life & Music of Jesse Powell
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November 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“The silver trailer full of live bulls
cramped darkly together being trafficked
now pulls to the right of this Highlander . . .”

New at Evergreen: “Mother Nature Doesn’t Care If You’re Ignorant” and one more poem by Jerome Ellison Murphy. Art by S Emsaki. evergreenreview.com/read/mother-...
Mother Nature Doesn’t Care If You’re Ignorant
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November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“I’m guessing that if you held a map of the world up to the comics attending the Riyadh festival, less than ten would be able to find Saudi Arabia . . . .”

Up now at Evergreen: “Riyadh-a Yadda Yadda” by @jayemcb.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/riyadh-...
Riyadh-a Yadda Yadda
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November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
UPCOMING NYC EVENT ALERT! Sunday, November 9

“Body Language”, a one-act play by Evergreen's EIC @dalepeck.bsky.social & directed by Carson Parish, is about the life and afterlife of Linus Herrell, a gay activist, artist, and porn shop owner from Cleveland . . . More info at the link!
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“Body Language”, a new one-act play by Dale Peck, is about the life and afterlife of Linus Herrell (played by the luminous and licentious Jonah Wheeler), a gay activist, artist, and porn shop owner fr...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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When I was writing my @evergreenreview.bsky.social essay on saxophonist Jesse Powell, I thought about the jazz comics of artist Howard Chaykin. Indeed, the artist has inspired my jazz leanings for years and I wanted the story to be literary homage to Chaykin's work. evergreenreview.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Coming up in Harlem in the 1970s Jesse Powell owned a candy store. Decades later I learned that he was also a respected saxophonist who once played with Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie. My story on Powell was published at @evergreenreview.bsky.social

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October 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“Love is forbearing and requires constant revival. Each day, I choose to father my father, even when it feels too difficult for me. Every moment with him alive is a blessing.”

New at Evergreen: “Afụnwaelotanna” by @chinonsonzeh.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/afunwae...
Afụnwaelotanna
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October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“My ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ character was a fat, short, slutty, transmasculine lightfoot halfling bard named Apple (no relation to Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter).”

Up now in Evergreen’s DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Bad Apple” by @natmesnard.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Bad Apple
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October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Very grateful to @evergreenreview.bsky.social for taking these. People should know about Mondale (and about my favorite modern Spanish poet). Potentially attn @dfl.org too?
“Maybe it’s good you never got to see
what our generation did: loss most of the way,
ambulances in reverse on rickety bridges . . .”

Up now at Evergreen: “At the Grave of Walter Mondale” and two more poems by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Art by Betsy Weis. evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
At the Grave of Walter Mondale and Other Poems
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October 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“Maybe it’s good you never got to see
what our generation did: loss most of the way,
ambulances in reverse on rickety bridges . . .”

Up now at Evergreen: “At the Grave of Walter Mondale” and two more poems by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Art by Betsy Weis. evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
At the Grave of Walter Mondale and Other Poems
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October 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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New essay up on @evergreenreview.bsky.social where I talk about my hot Baldur's Gate 3 character, POV in video games & the indie game dev work I've been doing as part of @unquietgames.bsky.social: evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Bad Apple
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October 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Streaming live now!: check out “Last Call – DemocracyICED,” Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese (LigoranoReese)'s installation of a 3,000-pound ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” that will slowly melt away throughout the day today on the National Mall.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“Lagos is a hard place. Our brothers, uncles, or cousins keep promising to set us up as soon as they can. But we know better. We know that they never wanted us here in the first place.”

Up now: “Arewa Boys” by Hussani Abdulrahim. Art by jc lenochan. evergreenreview.com/read/arewa-b...
Arewa Boys
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October 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I've got some new poems @evergreenreview.bsky.social (read the whole new issue, it's lovely) evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
At the Grave of Walter Mondale and Other Poems
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October 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“Alone in my room, imagining
your shirt opening, my big hands
finally useful in the twilight,
I reestablish you atom by atom.”

Up now in our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “Whom I Have Loved So Long” and two more poems by Jeremy Radin. Art by Julia Schwartz. evergreenreview.com/read/pattern...
Patterner and Other Poems
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October 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“A hush falls on the class as you are wheeled in one morning, your neck frozen in a cervical collar, both legs and an arm in a cast.”

—“My Heart and the Parts of You That Break” by Michelle Enehiwealu Iruobe. Art by Christopher Schade. evergreenreview.com/read/my-hear...
My Heart and the Parts of You That Break
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October 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“What unified the different works in ‘See-saw’ may not be a set of decisions but rather an overarching sensibility and aesthetic, applied to discoveries and happy accidents. This rather than that, not there but here.”

Up now: Adam Simon on artist Carrie Yamaoka evergreenreview.com/read/carrie-...
Carrie Yamaoka: See-saw
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September 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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So happy that my piece is out at the evergreen review (such an iconic name in the game). I'm very fond of this one, I have performed variations of it live, but I'm quite happy with this text incarnation
“Copyright laws are great if you are a rumored-to-be-cryogenically-frozen racist in America, but thieves like us we know how the song goes.”

Up now our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian” by @laraacorona.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/if-bruc...
If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian
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September 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Copyright laws are great if you are a rumored-to-be-cryogenically-frozen racist in America, but thieves like us we know how the song goes.”

Up now our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian” by @laraacorona.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/if-bruc...
If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian
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September 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Crocodiles serve as our lunch and/or as our supper. For breakfast which is also spontaneous, we usually go for ants. Eat them raw and ask me what else you know about yummy meals.”

—“A Kilo of My Husband” by Helsea Ikwanga. Art by Senon Williams. evergreenreview.com/read/a-kilo-...
A Kilo of My Husband
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September 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Hunger be dumb as money, drum against dome,
a thunderous dumpster diver
mistaken for a male runway model.
Body through the stage door just in time to expand form.”

Up now: “Hammer Strike” and two more poems by the late Thomas Sayers Ellis (1963–2025). evergreenreview.com/read/adult-a...
Adult and Other Poems
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September 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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"Frankie Five Hundred" was published in the spring/summer 2025 edition of Evergreen Review. The story of young Frances coming of age in 1959 Harlem follows her from high s to adult shenanigans. @evergreenreview.bsky.social @aalbc.bsky.social @electricliterature.com
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September 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
“When the head is imagined as a house, in the ancient way, it is often received as a story, a compendium of humiliations, and—most readily—as a keepsake.”

From our brand-new Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “Boxthorn” by Jason Schwartz. Art by Lyne Lapointe. evergreenreview.com/read/boxthorn/
Boxthorn
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September 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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F/W 2025-26 has launched with poems by Gregory Powell and artwork by William Downs
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S/S 2025 archived here:
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Cover image: Cemetery Flowers by Don Tinling
September 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“back in the day
before I was slick
head and gray
minds grew hair
leaping free
from conk and jheri
curl captivity . . .”

F/W 2025 issue unrolling now!: “P-Funk Peoples and Afro Metaphysics of Sun Ra” and five more poems by Gregory Powell. Art by William Downs. evergreenreview.com/read/biolumi...
Bioluminescence and Other Poems
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September 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM