Prairie Home Magazine
@prairiehomemag.bsky.social
A bi-monthly online journal aiming to feature short, humble #poetry and #prose pieces from established and emerging voices.
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For our May '25 issue we're shooting for a theme for the first time: the subject of loneliness, perferably in #prose format (normal paragraphs, normal punctuation).
Please send us your immediate thoughts on this topic!
Guidelines: prairiehomemag.com/submit/
#prose #poetry
Please send us your immediate thoughts on this topic!
Guidelines: prairiehomemag.com/submit/
#prose #poetry
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When We PublishPrairie Home Magazine is an online collection of poetry that will appear on the first of every other month (January, March, May, July, September, and November) via our website a…
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April 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
For our May '25 issue we're shooting for a theme for the first time: the subject of loneliness, perferably in #prose format (normal paragraphs, normal punctuation).
Please send us your immediate thoughts on this topic!
Guidelines: prairiehomemag.com/submit/
#prose #poetry
Please send us your immediate thoughts on this topic!
Guidelines: prairiehomemag.com/submit/
#prose #poetry
Steve Lambert in last month's issue of Prairie Home:
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April 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Steve Lambert in last month's issue of Prairie Home:
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Hi folks, for our May '25 issue, we're looking for prose (characterized by paragraphs rather than lines and stanzas, while retaining traditional grammar and punctuation) on the theme of loneliness.
If this sounds like something you'd be interested in:
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If this sounds like something you'd be interested in:
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Prairie Home Magazine
Poetry and Prose Submissions
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April 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Hi folks, for our May '25 issue, we're looking for prose (characterized by paragraphs rather than lines and stanzas, while retaining traditional grammar and punctuation) on the theme of loneliness.
If this sounds like something you'd be interested in:
prairiehomemag.com
If this sounds like something you'd be interested in:
prairiehomemag.com
The March '25 edition of Prairie Home is here! Featuring six outstanding new poems from five talented poets and writers.
Read it here: prairiehomemag.com/march-2025/
Read it here: prairiehomemag.com/march-2025/
March 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The March '25 edition of Prairie Home is here! Featuring six outstanding new poems from five talented poets and writers.
Read it here: prairiehomemag.com/march-2025/
Read it here: prairiehomemag.com/march-2025/
See you tomorrow with a brand new issue of Prairie Home, compliments of the following poets and writers!
Catch up with our older issues here:
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Catch up with our older issues here:
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March 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
See you tomorrow with a brand new issue of Prairie Home, compliments of the following poets and writers!
Catch up with our older issues here:
prairiehomemag.com/issues/
Catch up with our older issues here:
prairiehomemag.com/issues/
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Excited to have a piece included in this collection of sweet and spicy love poems! Thank you @prairiehomemag.bsky.social for putting together this lovely valentine!
Friends, our Valentine's Day mini-issue is here:
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Five spicy new poems concerned with intimacy, passion, and love by Karen Baumgart (bsky.app/profile/cake...), M. Florence (bsky.app/profile/mflo...), Douglas MacKevett, and Fred Karns.
We hope you enjoy 💘
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Five spicy new poems concerned with intimacy, passion, and love by Karen Baumgart (bsky.app/profile/cake...), M. Florence (bsky.app/profile/mflo...), Douglas MacKevett, and Fred Karns.
We hope you enjoy 💘
February 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Excited to have a piece included in this collection of sweet and spicy love poems! Thank you @prairiehomemag.bsky.social for putting together this lovely valentine!
Friends, our Valentine's Day mini-issue is here:
prairiehomemag.com/issues/
Five spicy new poems concerned with intimacy, passion, and love by Karen Baumgart (bsky.app/profile/cake...), M. Florence (bsky.app/profile/mflo...), Douglas MacKevett, and Fred Karns.
We hope you enjoy 💘
prairiehomemag.com/issues/
Five spicy new poems concerned with intimacy, passion, and love by Karen Baumgart (bsky.app/profile/cake...), M. Florence (bsky.app/profile/mflo...), Douglas MacKevett, and Fred Karns.
We hope you enjoy 💘
February 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Friends, our Valentine's Day mini-issue is here:
prairiehomemag.com/issues/
Five spicy new poems concerned with intimacy, passion, and love by Karen Baumgart (bsky.app/profile/cake...), M. Florence (bsky.app/profile/mflo...), Douglas MacKevett, and Fred Karns.
We hope you enjoy 💘
prairiehomemag.com/issues/
Five spicy new poems concerned with intimacy, passion, and love by Karen Baumgart (bsky.app/profile/cake...), M. Florence (bsky.app/profile/mflo...), Douglas MacKevett, and Fred Karns.
We hope you enjoy 💘
Submissions have closed for our Valentine's Day issue, but we're still reading #prose and #poetry for our March issue to be released March 1!
prairiehomemag.com/submit/
prairiehomemag.com/submit/
Submit
When We PublishPrairie Home Magazine is an online collection of poetry that will appear on the first of every other month (January, March, May, July, September, and November) via our website a…
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February 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Submissions have closed for our Valentine's Day issue, but we're still reading #prose and #poetry for our March issue to be released March 1!
prairiehomemag.com/submit/
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‘So, with five full languages and three cultures / Hung between us, I send emojis, those / Revived hieroglyphs of tongue-tied youth’ - such delicate and beautiful writing in this piece 💗
January 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
‘So, with five full languages and three cultures / Hung between us, I send emojis, those / Revived hieroglyphs of tongue-tied youth’ - such delicate and beautiful writing in this piece 💗
Chill Subs is now accepting nominations for Best Lit Magazine for 2024! If you’ve enjoyed our work and had a positive experience with us, we’d be honored if you’d consider nominating us for the Poetry catagory!
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December 8, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Chill Subs is now accepting nominations for Best Lit Magazine for 2024! If you’ve enjoyed our work and had a positive experience with us, we’d be honored if you’d consider nominating us for the Poetry catagory!
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(1/3) Submissions are now open for our January 2025 issue and will close on December 31, 2024. If you're interested in submitting to our special Valentine's Day issue, we want to read your smut (!!!) and invite you to send five poems that fit the theme.
December 8, 2024 at 1:26 AM
(1/3) Submissions are now open for our January 2025 issue and will close on December 31, 2024. If you're interested in submitting to our special Valentine's Day issue, we want to read your smut (!!!) and invite you to send five poems that fit the theme.
"This is not the end. Scoop away
the weight of the grave & what do
you find, there all along
humming a hammer tune
a sound like doors slamming shut
and flinging wide again."
from "Was I A Potato?" by Cyn Kitchen, read the whole thing here:
prairiehomemag.com/was-i-a-pota...
the weight of the grave & what do
you find, there all along
humming a hammer tune
a sound like doors slamming shut
and flinging wide again."
from "Was I A Potato?" by Cyn Kitchen, read the whole thing here:
prairiehomemag.com/was-i-a-pota...
Was I A Potato?
Cyn KitchenHear me out—last year I buried a row of slips in a soft furrow of earth, then gently mounded a sift of black soil over each hard knot & waited. Rain came from the spigot of sky or th…
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December 8, 2024 at 1:13 AM
"This is not the end. Scoop away
the weight of the grave & what do
you find, there all along
humming a hammer tune
a sound like doors slamming shut
and flinging wide again."
from "Was I A Potato?" by Cyn Kitchen, read the whole thing here:
prairiehomemag.com/was-i-a-pota...
the weight of the grave & what do
you find, there all along
humming a hammer tune
a sound like doors slamming shut
and flinging wide again."
from "Was I A Potato?" by Cyn Kitchen, read the whole thing here:
prairiehomemag.com/was-i-a-pota...
I send emojis, those
Revived hieroglyphs of tongue-tied youth
A smirking ghost, a lumbering tortoise,
A long-necked dinosaur pop up: you know
I’m saying hi.
from "Appearing in Patches" by Hibah Shabkhez prairiehomemag.com/appearing-in...
#prose #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
Revived hieroglyphs of tongue-tied youth
A smirking ghost, a lumbering tortoise,
A long-necked dinosaur pop up: you know
I’m saying hi.
from "Appearing in Patches" by Hibah Shabkhez prairiehomemag.com/appearing-in...
#prose #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
Appearing in Patches
Hibah ShabkhezWords scatter like bunties, in waterfallsRainbow-hued and melodious. Like day,Appearing in patches, building blue walls,Proving slice by slice its own existence; Like rivers, nurturin…
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December 5, 2024 at 1:44 AM
I send emojis, those
Revived hieroglyphs of tongue-tied youth
A smirking ghost, a lumbering tortoise,
A long-necked dinosaur pop up: you know
I’m saying hi.
from "Appearing in Patches" by Hibah Shabkhez prairiehomemag.com/appearing-in...
#prose #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
Revived hieroglyphs of tongue-tied youth
A smirking ghost, a lumbering tortoise,
A long-necked dinosaur pop up: you know
I’m saying hi.
from "Appearing in Patches" by Hibah Shabkhez prairiehomemag.com/appearing-in...
#prose #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
"I drove seven hours
through rain. Ferrum pulsing
like a sore tooth,
to see if the house stood still
and it did but wrong now, wrong
painted green, not white,
a color like forgetting my father’s voice."
from "Ferrum is dangerous for returning dogs" by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social
through rain. Ferrum pulsing
like a sore tooth,
to see if the house stood still
and it did but wrong now, wrong
painted green, not white,
a color like forgetting my father’s voice."
from "Ferrum is dangerous for returning dogs" by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social
Ferrum is dangerous for returning dogs
Chrissy StegmanI drove seven hoursthrough rain. Ferrum pulsinglike a sore tooth,to see if the house stood stilland it did but wrong now, wrongpainted green, not white,a color like forgetting my fat…
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November 28, 2024 at 3:23 AM
"I drove seven hours
through rain. Ferrum pulsing
like a sore tooth,
to see if the house stood still
and it did but wrong now, wrong
painted green, not white,
a color like forgetting my father’s voice."
from "Ferrum is dangerous for returning dogs" by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social
through rain. Ferrum pulsing
like a sore tooth,
to see if the house stood still
and it did but wrong now, wrong
painted green, not white,
a color like forgetting my father’s voice."
from "Ferrum is dangerous for returning dogs" by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social
"I didn’t look him in the eyes again, not then,
and not years later when I saw him
in the drive-thru line, barking at some girl
over cold fries."
from "Rust and Dust" by @maudiemichelle.com, please have a read!
and not years later when I saw him
in the drive-thru line, barking at some girl
over cold fries."
from "Rust and Dust" by @maudiemichelle.com, please have a read!
November 25, 2024 at 10:01 PM
"I didn’t look him in the eyes again, not then,
and not years later when I saw him
in the drive-thru line, barking at some girl
over cold fries."
from "Rust and Dust" by @maudiemichelle.com, please have a read!
and not years later when I saw him
in the drive-thru line, barking at some girl
over cold fries."
from "Rust and Dust" by @maudiemichelle.com, please have a read!
A beautiful one from Noralee Zwick in the November '24 issue of Prairie Home:
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November 25, 2024 at 12:44 AM
A beautiful one from Noralee Zwick in the November '24 issue of Prairie Home:
#poetry #prose #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #writing
#poetry #prose #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #writing
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Thrilled to have a poem in the latest issue of Prairie Home Magazine. @prairiehomemag.bsky.social prairiehomemag.com/november-2024/
November 2024
self-actualization in old convertibles – Noralee Zwick Rust and Dust – Maudie Bryant Ferrum is dangerous for returning dogs – Chrissy Stegman Appearing in Patches – Hi…
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November 21, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Thrilled to have a poem in the latest issue of Prairie Home Magazine. @prairiehomemag.bsky.social prairiehomemag.com/november-2024/