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UPDATED POSTER Euphony and Memoryhouse are having a joint launch party to release our spring issues! Come join us at Hallowed this Thursday, 5:30pm-7pm, to listen to some awesome music and grab copies of our latest issues. Performances by Puddlejumper, Leila, and Jake Marsh, as well as an open mic for poetry and songs. Bring your friends and come celebrate with us! :) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the COVER REVEAL youve all been waiting for!!! Thank you to the wonderful and talented David Edwards @daviid.e for this beautiful photo. Issue finalization is in the process as I type, and I can promise there are some amazing poems and short stories in store for you this spring!! Barnacles and burning stumps and GOTH GOODNESS!! Oh my! Lot of words on this post. It’s okay, you’re all readers and writers. More info can be found on our website!! SUBMIT!! ONE MORE DAY!!!! See the website link in bio for more information!!! OPEN MIC AT HALLOWED ON FRIDAY! Get in the Valentine’s Day spirit (💘💐) or throw it out the window (💔🥀). We don’t care. We just want to hear your music and poetry! Bring all your friends for a fun Friday evening! :) pssst…. PSSSST!!!! What’s that? It’s time for our ANNUAL PROSE CONTEST????? Submit your recreations, retelling, adaptations, etc., of a MYTH OR FAIRY TALE by FEBRUARY 17 FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN 20 WHOLE DOLLARS!!!! DM for details and GET WRITING Don’t miss our launch party this Friday at Hallowed Grounds! Stop by from 5:30-7:30 for live performances from Jake Marsh, Jhung, and Puddle Jumper, as well as readings from our newest issue. Bring your friends and hang out with us!! :) Happy Holidays, Euphoneers! We’re back with another staff bookcase tour. Today we have @sammy.aiko , our wonderful poetry editor! What’s everyone reading this winter break?

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Category: Poetry

POETRY: “THE STACK” by Michael Salcman

I apologize for not reading the stack of books
you’ve sent me,
those wet stories of a West Virginia childhood
with nighttime drives around cliffs […]

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Poetry: “Yesterday,” by Abie Irabor

we neighborhood kids flooded the sidewalk
waiting for the ice cream truck to sing its tunes.

Jelly sandals melted into the concrete while jean skorts
and tank tops colored the bleakness of the apartment block. […]

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Poetry: “SUNFLOWERS AND YELLOW LILIES” by Emily Hyland

We finally talk, palm tree humid balm doesn’t
wilt the rules. This rehab center is strict.

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Poetry: “ALONG THE RUSSIAN RIVER, LATE MARRIAGE” by Julia Chiapella

The silence a crushed space, you stood, cast
eyes to rocky ground beneath you. Fingers

in pockets a familiar anchor—you twisted,
bent, found the smooth, flat stone, considered […]

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Poetry: “IN DEATH VALLEY” by Emily Eddins

How unlikely that we should be here at all
Our presence but a brief raven’s call
Across the valley of this desert place
The worn rocks bearing an indifferent face […]

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Poetry: “Poem Written by a Robot” by Peter Bethanis

Poem Written by a Robot Roses and gladiators. I serve the purpose of serving you. The weather is reasonable. Czar Nicholas the II dug knives to Albuquerque . To whom recalibrates the brother of gregarious neighbors? Mary had a little lamb, little lamb… a blue outhouse reinstated the right timetable. I joke; I joke. The […]

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Poetry: “My First Attempt at a Love Poem” By Louise M Budd

I’ve never written a poem like this.
No cupid’s ever held my quiver
I’ve never felt the butterflies
That oft called “delicious” shiver

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Poetry: “Balackla” by Liana Sakelliou, trans. Don Schofield

The emperors vacationed at Balackla,
its palaces with springs
known for their fish
swimming in holy water […]

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poetry: “Who was and is and is to come” by Sam Ambler

WHO WAS AND IS AND IS TO COME I had flown in from halfway across the country for a family Labor Day reunion. I was tired and hungry. I stood in your open doorway. The sun, setting behind the Great Rocky Mountains, shed globules of light through the shimmering bay window surrounding your bed. I […]

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Poetry: “The longest day” by DS Maolalaí

The longest day o unreachable evening – it’s summer now; quite hot, not quite the longest day, though that’s approaching. and these are the times you don’t want to be indoors, on a wooden chair inside a bedsit, scratching yourself and writing poems. if I could I would be down now next to the river, […]

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