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We're beyond grateful for these poems from Victoria Melekian to cap our 2nd Anniversary Issue, gifting us hope, humor, solace, grief, and everything in between | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/victori… #poetry #dihpturns2 #riphippobanjonashhumphries

happens because the weather man says it will be a very wet, very windy night. Before nightfall, we nail wooden planks over our eyes… Susan L. Lin’s “What Happens Behind Boarded Windows,” featured in Does It Have Pockets & our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: doesithavepockets.com/poetry/susan-l…

Read online works from Shō Poetry Journal, Southeast Review, Fork Apple Press, Georgia Review, POETRY magazine, Cincinnati Review, ANMLY :: Anomaly :: Anomalous Press, Does It Have Pockets, Apple Valley Review, Split This Rock, The Drift & more lit mags in our #APAHeritageMonth reading list! clmp.org/news/a-reading…

“I listen to elite law firm attorneys speak of students from lesser schools or lower grades, and a look of disdain crosses their faces, like a cloud...” —Esther Ra’s “the best & the brightest,” in Does It Have Pockets & our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth: doesithavepockets.com/cnf/esther-ra

"My house is all legs & shoulders." Wake up all your senses with these two gorgeously immersive poems from Satori Good: doesithavepockets.com/poetry/satori-… #poetry #PrideMonth

"I only knew how to reject a person fully." New for June, gripping, reflective #creativenonfiction from Marin Smith | doesithavepockets.com/cnf/marin-smith

"The television’s undersea light animating her face as she darns their socks." These 3 new flashes from Patricia Q. Bidar zing with crystalline imagery and deep resonance | doesithavepockets.com/fiction/patric… #fiction

"...If I could cock my head/ to howl, who would understand?" A warm welcome back to our friend Robert Okaji 🌻 with two epic reprints for our June collection | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/robert-… #poetry #wemissyouHippoJessaNashHumphriesandBanjo

"I hope this letter finds you at the bottom of a bog, drowning in a river, or in the middle of a long lecture from your father." June's #longread & debut by Michelle Filer is a deliciously witty, epistolary triumph | doesithavepockets.com/fiction/michel…

"On days like this you know/ there will always be days like this." Two big deep breaths of cold, fresh air from Naomi Stenberg | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/naomi-s… #HappyPride2025 #poetry

A meditation on the moment we are completely changed in this quietly perfect #fiction from Michael Thériault | doesithavepockets.com/fiction/michae…

"Here, I am eating things to eat them./ I am drinking things to drink them." Two powerful left hooks from Caroline Keir, up next in our June #poetry collection | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/carolin…

"The dresser and I maintained a stilted, somewhat one-sided, conversation..." A maelstrom of grief, loss, and the magic of the inanimate, new in June #fiction from Arria Deepwater | doesithavepockets.com/fiction/arria-…

"Things began to disappear: one red mitten, a growing boy, as if they’d fallen through a worn-out pocket." Two new woodsmoke-scented, rustic-flecked #poems from Alice Haines | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/alice-h…

"‘Choose carefully what you look at,’ she advised..." With a meticulous hand filled with resonant metaphor, these two dark flashes from Eirene Gentle absolutely sing | doesithavepockets.com/fiction/eirene…

So as not to forget the gifts of winter, here we present three serenely gorgeous new poems from Nate Hirschtick | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/nate-hi… #poetry

"As a former refugee, I know how fragile ‘today’ can be." June's Art & Hybrid Gallery features the vivid, effervescent work of writer & artist Andrea Damic in 'Stages of Being' | doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrids/…

"Strangers. Things that are similar to strangers." This tiny, dynamic inventory is emotional momentum in narrative form; superlative #creativenonfiction from Adam McOmber in "Phallic Symbols" | doesithavepockets.com/cnf/adam-mcomb… #pride25

To round out our June edition with a splash, here's the spectacular #flashfiction "Milk and Honey" from Lucinda Kempe, in a vibrant collab with artist and DIHP alum Lorette C. Luzajic | doesithavepockets.com/fiction/lucind…

"Writing for me is kind of a daily devotion that has little to do with talent and everything to do with just showing up..." Don't miss our June feature, an interview with the incomparable Sarah Freligh, plus five fantastic flashes | doesithavepockets.com/features/sarah… #fiction #interview