April 05, 2024
Jennifer Maritza McCauley
When I was a college kid at the University of Pittsburgh, joy-eyed and largely a loner, I came across the album Full Circle by the hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics (which includes all of the members of Souls of Mischief, the group behind the groundbreaking 90s hit “93 ‘til Infinity”) at the Phantom of the Attic.
To me, a comic bookstore was a magic land. Phantom of the Attic, sandwiched ...
January 18, 2024
Pleiades congratulates Mitchell Jacobs, winner of this year’s Prufer Poetry Prize, judged by Nicky Beer. He will receive an award of $1,000 and his winning poem, “At the Immersive Van Gogh Multimedia Projection Exhibit,” will be published in the Spring 2024 issue of Pleiades.
Mitchell Jacobs is a writer from Minnesota, with work in journals such as Black Warrior Review, the Massachusetts Review, ...
December 17, 2023
S. J. Ghaus
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Under The Sargam, The Sea
S. J. Ghaus is a Pakistani American writer, artist, and cultural worker for the people. They are a Tin House alum and resident, VONA/Voices of Our Nations fellow, and recipient of the 2020 Vera Meyer Strube Prize from the Academy of American Poets. You can find their work at poets.org, Poetry Daily, Hayden’s ...
December 11, 2023
Saúl Hernández
This Is How I Fight
I learned how to kiss a man easy
when he held a gun to my neck. I pulled a thread off my shirt &
watched the end become a beginning—
At school I was taught how to hide from a storm,
never how to stop one.
When I was a child, I collected fireflies every night.
For years I ate them, hoping one day my insides could hold light.
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