"'Sold!' flashes across the screen before / he can leap to action, fist stretched outward. / $88,000 for an unopened cartridge: his life unlived." —@shellyjansen, "On the Auction of Super Mario Brothers 2" from OROTONE Journal, Issue One orotone.org/jones.html

"Martin Van Buren, which rhymes with foreign only in the late-night, online, rhyming dictionary’s particular and algorithmic accent." —S.J. Pearce, "Martin Van Buren is Foreign" from OROTONE Journal, Issue One orotone.org/pearce.html

"He just stays, all small and shrunken, / gulping down peanuts, / and a fly lands on his eye, / and rubs its little black hands together greedily." —Em, "The Gang Realizes" from OROTONE Journal, Issue One orotone.org/power.html

"Feast your eyes on how tall the grass grows / and our crops flourish in this seemingly uninhabitable land." —👁, "Visions of the Future: Mars" from OROTONE Journal, Issue One orotone.org/tom.html

Hello friends and #WritingCommunity! We're so pleased to announce that ISSUE 02 submissions for OROTONE Journal 🌿 are open from now until March 31st, 2022!! Send us your ekphrastic poems responding to visual art, music, films/TV shows, etc. Submit here: orotone.org/submit

"I’ve got two hearts now, one of them down low / like a little bun and the other one up high / just kind of floating off the back of my head" —@rebekah_wolman, "The Full Grace & Mercy" from OROTONE Journal, Issue One orotone.org/wolman.html

insanely, insanely grateful to YoungArts and the yarts week panelists (esp christopher castellani) for this recognition and genuinely life-changing scholarship 😭 may or may not have cried when i got the call shhh

Our contributor from ISSUE 01, Stella Lei (s), was awarded a $50k scholarship from YoungArts! We’re utterly thrilled and can’t wait to see what she will continue to accomplish in the coming years 🌿 Read Stella’s poem in OROTONE Journal here: orotone.org/lei.html

We're SO PROUD of poetry reader s! - "Wolf Princess, to the Ironworks" in OROTONE Journal 🌿: buff.ly/3pQprXt - "Graftings" in CRAFT: buff.ly/3Csnw0v - She won the 2022 YoungArts Lin Arison Excellence in Writing Award! buff.ly/3vMTPGd

Our first 48-hour response event for Issue V: FACADE will begin tomorrow! All submissions received between 3/11-3/13 11:59 EST will receive a response within 48 hours 💙💙 theaugmentreview.weebly.com/submit.html

so excited to be a part of this!!!!!!

We’re so close to 700!! 🥳

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