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POETRY: “Lotería” by Philip Kobylarz

At the gate, bottles with cut lips. Crypts of grass cuttings. Moth wings. Stationary […]

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Poetry: “Migration” By Emma Demopoulos

It was an easy ba-da-bum joke
Not so much funny as clever
A bubble in my chest burst into a million
So they flew out my mouth like a swarm
of butterflies, monarchs flying […]

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Poetry: “Buttocks And All, Or The European Bodybuilder” By Mark Parsons

Rocky Kitchen, a dedicated bodybuilding trainee, had plenty of time to visualize his future chest development during the three hundred mile round trip he made from Vero Beach three times a week.
Several of our staff noticed […]

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Poetry: “The Escapee” by Donald Illich

It’s terrible the sun has escaped.
We wait for it to come back,
to behave like a sun should,
keep us warm, grow our crops.
We freeze ourselves […]

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Poetry: “Signature” by Holly Day

Theoretically, if I were to put my hand against that tree
and kept it there for years and years, the bark
would continue to grow until it enveloped my hand
send leafy tendrils along my arms and under my flesh.
But if I were to stand here for a […]

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Winter Cover Contest

Call for artists!

Submit your artwork for a chance to be featured on Euphony Journal’s cover this winter!

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Fall Contest: Pumpkin Spiced Stories

It’s pumpkin season! Show us your best fall-flavored works and submit to our contest. Limit one entry per author. Please address any questions to euphonyjournal@gmail.com.

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Back to School Reading Recommendations

Our poetry and prose editors Annabella Archaki and Orliana Morag are here with some recommendations for the coming school year! […]

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REVIEW: Minotaur and Other Stories by Salvatore Difalco

Salvatore Difalco is a much-published author from Toronto.  “The Teeth,” collected in his recent Minotaur and Other Stories, was first published in the Winter 2018 issue of Euphony Journal. Minotaur and Other Stories is a slow read in the best possible way.  Yes, these are meditative, brooding stories (though there are a few page-turners mixed […]

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REVIEW: Fake News Poems by Martin Ott

Martin Ott is a writer from Los Angeles.  In April of 2014, Euphony Journal published “Fireside Chat,” a collaborative poem between Ott and John F. Buckley, online.  Fake News Poems is Ott’s eighth book. The concept that underpins Martin Ott’s Fake News Poems is compelling, of course: for every week of 2017, Ott took a […]

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