Tag: poem
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Reserve your spot now for Asha Ponnachan’s Poetry Writing Workshop, presented in collaboration with The Hemlock Journal.
Only 11 Slots Left In the bustling heart of the Toronto Arts community, Asha Ponnachan is a name synonymous with versatility, as a writer, actor, dancer and mental health advocate,…
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‘Unfinished Exit’ by Claudia Wysocky
I keep thinkingabout the time in high schoolwhen you drewmea map of the city,I still have it somewhere.It was so easyto get lostin a place where all the treeslook the…
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Announcing the Winners: Fiction Writing Contest
There are moments, as editors, when reading feels less like evaluation and more like discovery. This contest was one of those moments. When The Hemlock Journal partnered with Remington Review…
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‘War Core’ by Elisha Thompson
The metal beat to a craterExposing the mantle of flesh. Behind those blue screens is a beastOf skin and boneOf fear and happiness. Maybe a father, definitely a son.No question…
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‘Beyond the Scar’ by Ritobeena Kanjilal
I float in a fancy,when you touched my skinwith fingers wet and glossy,Like the panels of your cabin’s windowson a pleasant summer evening.The ailing sun with a glowing womb,pushes down…
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Rachel Turney in Conversation with Nina Nicole Garner, Author of ‘The Composition of Returns’
“Those poems reflect the conditions under which the book was completed. Questions of dignity, labor, and stability had become unavoidable, and they intersected directly with the emotional concerns already present…
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Jonathan Chibuike Ukah Interview : ‘Be yourself. Every individual is unique’
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah was among the poets whose poems were shortlisted from The Poetry Writing Contest 2025 organized by The Hemlock Journal. His poem ‘Love in the Times of Hunger’…
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Aditi Dasgupta Interview: ‘I would be a fool to define love as a feeling’
Aditi Dasgupta was among the poets whose poems were shortlisted from The Poetry Writing Contest 2025 organized by The Hemlock Journal. Her poem ‘Plum Cake in My Chest’ gained 5th…
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‘Pune: an ode to being haunted by a city’ by Hrishita Gulumkar
Something about the cold bringing about sobriety in thoughts the tingling, lingering warmth of alcohol down the throat had on motorcycles leading to muddy thoughts, muddy puddles and muddier boots, …
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Nala Washington Interview : Love is in the way we treat one another
Nala Washington was among the poets whose poems were shortlisted from The Poetry Writing Contests 2025 organized by The Hemlock Journal. Her poem ‘We Are’ gained 4th position and was…
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