Her scales are the size of silver dollars. Her green hair mystically covers her breasts. Water drips from her fin and turns into pearls that she strings with the thread of her hair. Her pinky nail is the needle. She sits on a rock in the middle of the night, waiting for the boats full… [Read More]
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The New Avenues the Only Avenues We Have
by Christopher Citro There were some of us going to become musicians. Some standing in the blue dark beneath lake trees as stars emerged. Some of us— I don’t know what some of us were thinking— for proof the lives we’ve lead since then. I’m learning the creaks of this new house, grow a neuron… [Read More]
A Review of Eryn Green’s BEIT
By Chelsi Sayti This book welcomes the spell of a room. Domestic and meditative, poet Eryn Green is looking out the window of nature and memory to define home. The Yale Younger Poets prize-winner’s second collection, BEIT, praises the newness at the heels of every moment, the connection between the immediate and holy ancient. Judaic… [Read More]
A Review of Two Books by New Issues Press
“It is an embrace meant to renew our energies and replenish our soul.” [Read More]
A Review of Ryan Sallans’ “Transforming Manhood”
“It is an embrace meant to renew our energies and replenish our soul.” [Read More]
Mice-troes: A Review of “The Life and Times of Ward Kimball: Maverick of Disney Animation”
“It is an embrace meant to renew our energies and replenish our soul.” [Read More]
Witness 2020 Literary Awards — Poetry Finalists
New Year
Over the long holiday, three of Parviz’s sisters got nose jobs. Anahita’s came out perfect, like a dwarf rose floating in a porcelain finger bowl. Nasibeh, who along with her twin sister, Niloofar, had just turned twenty-one, woke to the stylish button Niloofar had wanted – a mix-up of the hospital or a twist of… [Read More]
Vol. XXXII No. 3 (Dark Holidays Zine 2019)
Witness Magazine proudly presents our 2019 Dark Holidays-themed fiction e-zine. These literary works are exemplary of experiences during the winter holiday months when the days are short in the northern hemisphere and thoughts turn to celebrations — and sometimes avoidance of those celebrations. [Read More]
Vol. XXXII No. 2 (Winter 2019)
Photo by Shravya Kag Click for PDF of the Winter 2019 Issue Poetry Bruce Bond, Southern Music Carolyne Wright, Shadow Palimpsests Miriam Bird Greenberg, Of Kampong & Creekbank F. Daniel Rzicznek, Memorial for the Apollonian Ichor F. Daniel Rzicznek, Memorial for a Cresting Wave Josef Krebs, Moving so slowly I barely am somnambulant Aimee Noel,… [Read More]
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Vol. XXX.3 (Winter 2017)
Poetry Karen Kevorkian, Cat Rampaging a House at Night Howling for a Cloth Mouse Adam Greenberg, from “Fortune” Kimberly Kruge, from “ARTICULATION” Marina Tsvetaeva, Poem of the Gates Jane Huffman, Sestina, Spilling Over Andrew Joron, While I Was Away Fiction Alex Madison, Penguin Classic Stephen Pett, The H-Shaped Thing Jessica Metzler, The Jumping Off Place… [Read More]
