"We know our fathers were ordered to tame that land and grass, Hermano. Everywhere the hands and blades and bricks of ghosts, and I want to be real—" from Gustavo Hernandez's "Cienega" in Issue IX. #poetry #poets brackenmagazine.com/issue-ix/ciene… Gustavo Hernandez

3 #PHOTOS of mine in very good company. Wonderful issue by brackenmagazine #poetry #photography brackenmagazine.com/issue-ix/seren…

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As we begin to anticipate summer residency, take a moment to relish this poem by #RWW alum Tina Schumann (2009) featured in brackenmagazine. #MFA #RWW2022 ow.ly/OUUn50JyBVg

"Fallen petals fan across the photo on your bedside table Air pollution and low socioeconomic You’ve knocked it over, again..." —from "Associations with impaired cognitive function, my mother’s necklaces" by Jenny Della Santa John DellaSanta brackenmagazine.com/issue-ix/assoc… #poetry

A sampling of the work of Lex Lucius from Issue IX: "Erased Horse," & "Charge of the Light Brigade." You can find the rest of his work in Bracken here 👉 brackenmagazine.com/issue-ix/lex-l… #BrackenMagazine #IssueIX #art #artwork

"...thinking myself a bird because I needed the flight so bad, I had to cut myself a sea of air to fix me a wing or something worthy of it." —from Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan's "Flight" in Issue IX. Nwuguru, Chidiebere Sullivan(he/him) brackenmagazine.com/issue-ix/fligh… #BrackenMagazine #IssueIX #poetry

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Dear Friends, consider submitting to Bracken's brief series, Over Tea and Tears: for Ukraine. Submittable is now open, until Sept. 15, and all submission fees will go to helping those whose lives are disrupted by the violence. #Ukraine brackenmagazine.submittable.com/submit

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The latest entry in Over Tea and Tears: for Ukraine is "The Inexplicable Matter of Something Human," by Danyil Zadorozhnyi and translated from Ukrainian by Yuliya Charnyshova brackenmagazine.com/over-tea-and-t… #Ukraine #poetry

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New moon crooked a skinny finger overhead: spread those ashes. Chastised, I returned at dawn with my ceramic pot. The poor tree naked, a total overnight drop. They do that. -Beverly Burch, from Hollow Bones, in brackenmagazine brackenmagazine.com/issue-ix/two-p…