Month: June 2015
Woo
by Kim Chinquee
She sits at the counter, sipping the broth from her soup, lifting her long arm. Her elbow drags to the floor. It takes a lot of effort. (more…)
Text Photography Series, 4
by Adel Souto
Growing Pains
by Avital Gad-Cykman
The sun is absent, we inform the secretary at the principal’s office.
She looks up from below a unified brown curl of her whole hair, and says that it is winter, a season in which bears hibernate, as we have studied, and butterflies develop in cocoons, she thinks, so of course the sun remains absent.
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Text Photography Series, 3
by Adel Souto
No one can be with you in your life
by Jari Chevalier
Text Photography Series, 2
by Adel Souto
Artist’s Note: This photo series stems from the many walks taken to capture the natural elements of New York City, and returning to find I’ve caught more than just photographs of the exterior world, but a glimpse inside a few people I hadn’t even come across. They are the result of paying attention, to both, the physical, and metaphorical, writing on the wall.
Editor’s Note: Matter Press will be publishing seven (7) images from Adel Souto’s Text Photography series, one a week, for 7 weeks. 2 of 7
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Rain
by Ben Loory
A man is lying in bed, trying to fall asleep, when he hears the sound of rain outside, just beginning to fall.
The man lies there listening as the rain falls on the roof. He lies there listening as it falls upon the windows. He lies there listening as it falls on the trees, on the mailbox and the cars parked in the road.
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Text Photography Series, 1
by Adel Souto
Let’s Never Be Apart
by Digby Beaumont
Late afternoon, I’m sitting alone in the lounge of the Brighton Holiday Inn remembering Ed, how he was drawn to the dark side, even when we were kids, The Joker to my Batman, Lex Luther to my Superman. (more…)
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.
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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
09/15 • Abbie Doll
09/22 • Karen Regen Tuero
09/29 • Amy Speace
10/06 • Jennifer Edwards
10/13 • Joseph O’Day
10/20 • Carolyn Zaikowski
10/27 • Sunmisola Odusola
11/03 • Sara Cassidy
11/10 • Liz Abrams-Morley
11/17 • Alison Colwell
11/24 • Lucy Zhang
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