March means Yemassee is hitting the road and heading to Texas!
We’re headed to San Antonio, TX for AWP2020 where Cody, Dylan, and I (and the entire Yemassee team)
are looking forward to the chance to meet our lovely readers and contributors in person,
and hopefully will make new ones at the conference and beyond.
We’ll be debuting Issue 26.2 and Threshold Amnesia, the 2019 Poetry Chapbook Prize Winner by Jessica Yuan.
Both titles are beautiful and we can’t wait to share them with you in Texas and back home in S.C.
If you’re not able to attend AWP this year, we hope you’ll enjoy what Yemassee Online has to offer for the month,
including…
For this month’s Spotlight, Yemassee Online has curated a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry exploring movement,
one that we think evokes the freedoms, choices, and dangers of journeys– both figurative and literal.
Whether pushing forward or anchored in place, they remind the reader of chance,
of the constancy of change, of anticipation for what waits just around the bend in a road that never stops unraveling.
March’s Spotlight features the work of
Dawn Abeita, Hannah Dow, Lauren Frausto, Scott Hutchison, David Rock, and Carolyn Schultz-Rathbun.
In addition to it’s featured place on our homepage for the next month,
you can also access the full March Spotlight at its permanent home here
all our best,
Cody, Dylan, and Victoria
Senior Editors
Yemassee
“fall out” by Lauren Frausto like the mushroom cloudthat follows mankinds’ greatest foibleall the rouge neutronsthe atomic sun abomination delicate soot piles to the smudge horizonclouds for the manic frolic of dirty cherubsor a confused Read more…
“Hard Waitress” by Scott Hutchison Haze Madison works the unpainted cinderblock bar out on the lostwestern edge of town. Broken-windowed shells of two gas stations, a small-time propane distributor and a chain-link fence companyall relinquish Read more…
“Corner of Main and Paradise“ by Dawn Abeita The man stands on the same street corner near the wire garbage can every day. He never sits or squats or leans. He is a Read more…
“The Road” by Carolyn Schultz-Rathbun The road is straight for miles: not that you can see that with the gentle roll of the land but you’ve driven and walked and run it Read more…
“My Mother Tries to Teach Me about Cars” by Hannah Dow If a man offers to help youcarry something heavy to your carflex your biceps and say no thanks. If a man pulls up next Read more…
“My Two Cents” by David Rock Here is a grain of salt, a pocket full of posies, ashes,crumbs for retracing our steps (if only we could), or better:pebbles immune to hyperactive birds: gravel, no—gravitas to Read more…
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