We’re proud to announce Issue 11 of Hemlock Journal.
This issue brings together writers and artists from different places, cultures, and ways of seeing.
There are new voices here. There are established ones too. Their work comes from different geographies, but the questions are often the same. What does it mean to live, to remember, to make, and to look closely at the world?
Issue 11 is a collection of those voices. Different places. Different lives. One shared belief in the value of good work. We hope you enjoy it.
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Contributors List (Print)
Poetry
Old Roses (Daniel Nathan Terry)
i get my storm-cloud eyes from my father (E.A. Noble)
In Memory of Josephine (John Muro)
Heavy Water Music (Danielle Salerno)
the forgotten village (Chaerin Jung)
Night Train Through Multan (Hashmi-al-Haseeb Faisal)
through rain, through walls of poisoned sunlight (John Sweet)
The War On Us (Samuel Brammell)
Rafoo (Dr. Anamika Nath)
Another Virus Arrives (Greg Lehman)
My grandfather’s navy-blue jacket (Imola Tóth)
Paghman Triptych (Homa Mojadidi)
I met Kali on the Ghats (Sonali Bawa)
Over Tea (Tanusha)
Hangman, or Love as a Gargoyle (Kataru Yahya)
i rode a horse (Britton Theurer)
The End That Wasn’t (Shalini Singh)
Fiction
The Saint with a Cabbage for a Head (Sam Hunt)
A Soft Landing For Vaulting Ambitions (Shweta M)
A Time for Everything (Vrinda Varma)
La Patriota (Marie Holmes)
Nostos (Valentino Feltrin)
Flash Fiction
The Hustle (Andrew Borneman)
Non Fiction
Worm in a Wormhole (Sarah Coffer)
Optical Handshakes at Bar Bohužel (Karly Danielle Rager)
Art/Photography
Connections & artworks (Yana Bila)
Nirvana Bliss & other artworks (Prasoon Mahawar)
Blue Shadows & other artworks (JC Alfier)
In The Mirror (Cleo Heroy)
Workload 1-4 (Patrick McEvoy)
Delo Park (Akanksha Singh)
Oblivion (Nasta Martyn)
A Room Of Our Own (Robyn Daly)
Reserved Happiness & artworks (Puja Sarkar)
Golden Hour (Risse Tacadena)
In The Breeze (Mary Tina Shamli Pillay)
A Sense of Pride (Ugonma George)
Book Reviews
Soumya Doralli’s ‘Those Ripples Call Me Home’
Ann Chinnis’s ‘Love Song: Port & Starboard’
Avni Doshi’s ‘The First House’
Maureen Clark’s ‘Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon Girl’
Contributors List (Digital)
Poetry
Bloom (Karan Goyal)
Randomly Zigzagging Paths (Jim Tilley)
Old Roses (Daniel Nathan Terry)
Planted in the Heart (Cem Dogan)
i get my storm-cloud eyes from my father (E.A. Noble)
To My Timid Child (Jeff Burt)
In Memory of Josephine (John Muro)
Even Mountains Slowly Crush Into Hills (Seth Wade)
Some compromises are (Karly Danielle Rager)
Ask for (Amy Wilde)
Keep Smiling Anyways (Arnav Sharma)
Heavy Water Music (Danielle Salerno)
always always epitaph (Abi James Human)
I, Mary Lowndes, Design Banners (Michele LeNoir)
The Grain of Her Voice (Erik Hinton)
the forgotten village (Chaerin Jung)
Night Train Through Multan (Hashmi-al-Haseeb Faisal)
through rain, through walls of poisoned sunlight (John Sweet)
Crocheting Sorrow (May Garner)
The War On Us (Samuel Brammell)
Swansbeak (Ashley Duraiswamy)
Rafoo (Dr. Anamika Nath)
Another Virus Arrives (Greg Lehman)
War and witnesses (Debashis Chakraborty)
My grandfather’s navy-blue jacket (Imola Tóth)
Paghman Triptych (Homa Mojadidi)
I met Kali on the Ghats (Sonali Bawa)
Over Tea (Tanusha)
Hangman, or Love as a Gargoyle (Kataru Yahya)
i rode a horse (Britton Theurer)
The End That Wasn’t (Shalini Singh)
Fiction
Professor Wibbles Appropriates Hemingway (Ron McFarland)
The Saint with a Cabbage for a Head (Sam Hunt)
Glowers (Lola Brooke)
Apotheosis (David Lasby)
Man Down (Jack Dream)
A Soft Landing For Vaulting Ambitions (Shweta M)
Burning (Jyotishikha Bhuyan)
A Time for Everything (Vrinda Varma)
The Hunger Storm (Corie Hudspeth)
Chairmasters (Sean Taro Nishi)
One Room Country Schoolhouse (C. Richard Beavers)
La Patriota (Marie Holmes)
The Love of a Father (Robert Earle)
Freedom (Charlie Fish)
Nostos (Valentino Feltrin)
Stone (EJ Towndrow)
Flash Fiction
Nine (Jesmal Jalal)
Indulgence (Meggie Royer)
Empty Seat (G.D. Lane)
The Hustle (Andrew Borneman)
Non Fiction
Secret Agent SbD (John RC Potter)
The Runner: Childless By Choice? (Marian Mathews Clark)
Happy Nowruz (Shaina Taebi)
Intangible Blessings in Tangible Form (Laura Swan)
Worm in a Wormhole (Sarah Coffer)
Optical Handshakes at Bar Bohužel (Karly Danielle Rager)
Book Reviews
Soumya Doralli’s ‘Those Ripples Call Me Home’
Ann Chinnis’s ‘Love Song: Port & Starboard’
Avni Doshi’s ‘The First House’
Maureen Clark’s ‘Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon Girl’
Art/Photography
Connections & artworks (Yana Bila)
Nirvana Bliss & other artworks (Prasoon Mahawar)
Blue Shadows & other artworks (JC Alfier)
In The Mirror (Cleo Heroy)
A City’s Embrace & other artworks (Mary Tina Shamli Pillay)
Workload 1-4 (Patrick McEvoy)
Delo Park (Akanksha Singh)
A Room Of Our Own (Robyn Daly)
Reserved Happiness & artworks (Puja Sarkar)
Golden Hour (Risse Tacadena)
She Walks with Spring & artworks (Ugonma George)
Oblivion (Nasta Martyn)
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