Official Report on Posture

by Bill Neumire

Listen, some nights you have to slough
regret & laugh at how facts can’t cling
to us, how a copper chuckle erupts
from the news. Consider the engineers
of your credit score. You are doomed
to be paraphrased; in a kiosk
someone who can’t pronounce your name
will sell you. The old should remember
estrus & the way it twists, the way ministers
of law bind your life to words
in books you can’t afford, a hive
of lineated isolation. The engine of the end
runs well. The old should kiss
& tell.

Check out the write-up of the journal in The Writer.

Matter Press recently released titles from Meg Boscov, Abby Frucht, Robert McBrearty, Tori Bond, Kathy Fish, and Christopher Allen. Click here.

Matter Press is now offering private flash fiction workshops and critiques of flash fiction collections here.

Submissions

Poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction/prose poetry submissions are now closed. The reading period for standard submissions opens again September 15, 2025. Submit here.

Upcoming

10/12 • Kathy Fish
10/19 • Katherine Garrison
10/26 • Beverly Jackson
11/02 • Robert Scotellaro
11/09 • T.L. Sherwood
11/16 • Susan Buchler
11/23 • Chelsea Stickle
11/30 • TBD
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