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elsewhere magazine the prose poetry magazine issue 30 books issues submit the prose poetry magazine elsewhere issue 30 fall 2026 morgan matchuny meg pokrass giles goodland noah soltau ken poyner iain grinbergs morgan matchuny an ex addict s thoughts on phallocentric language here is what i do know you can t break a habit like a man bend it over leg snap it hammer it can t bury it under cement brick it down in oceans reckless degenerate can t cut it open pull out the junkyard meat leaving holiness innocence to be used again again for what you have to feel it be it treat it like a woman how do i know because i am i just am there s a trick to everything a loophole threaded subtlety born for subversion we have been misled see i didn t brawl with my addiction head over foot tearing flesh from the sockets didn t fight my depression like a campbellian hero on some mythic journey to slay a beast return home regaled changed there were no laurels at my reunion only ghostly pallor frightened eyes words redacted edited hundreds of times you think you have to shatter yourself a million little performance pieces renting space in the minds of men what about your mind i give myself permission to leave their battlefield their stomping grounds pull the thread some infinite tapestry unfurls before you the only way out is through the language not built for me and you morgan matchuny is a poet based in kentucky who works in the behavioral health field she is a poetry editor for tiger leaping review her work has been published or is forthcoming in had and anti heroin chic and she was the featured poet in the inaugural point blank series for rawhead journal meg pokrass dreaming of comforts there s always a brother somewhere who will offer a stranger a bowl of soup there s nothing as good following a meal as a stolen cigar the earth is red the horses are wild the men are smiling as if life is beginning all over again they didn t die in the desert blistering minimal the fair haired man no longer resembles a shedding snake they are sharing maps and they are dreaming of comforts thinking of a woman s dog brown eyes an apron falling from her shoulders a sweet faced hound by the fireplace they are talking about what happens when they get there wherever there is it feels so good to be with a friend who used to be an enemy talking about money dreaming of pillows watching the horses run with their heads together as if they re telling each other secrets meg pokrass has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including new england review wigleaf electric literature five points plume and rattle she has published 10 books of fiction and prose poetry her newest full collection first law of holes new and selected stories is from dzanc books giles goodland feeling feeling for ripeness of fruit the finger unexpectedly breaks through at a rotten spot touch them hard enough they touch in return how plastic feelering i could stroke the felt of the infant s head for the attrition the finery at the tomb of the unknown particular or in the balcony scene gross mechanical hands turn the world off or turn it in touch runs the fingers along the inexplicably yielding giles goodland s books include of discourse grand iota 2023 a spy in the house of years leviathan 2001 capital salt 2006 dumb messengers salt 2012 and the masses shearsman 2018 he has worked as a lexicographer editor and bookseller and teaches evening classes on poetry and linguistics for oxford university s department of continuing education and lives in west london noah soltau running errands fiber optic line knotted like methamphetamine spider silk over february fields drone nets like white frosting crisscrossing the pastry brown remnants of unharvested crops i lay under a thermal blanket wanting baked goods and waiting for my radio to crackle i m not mad i m just disappointed beep i just wish you would tell me about things before they get to that point beep drone buzz a truck in the distance maybe a kilometer away a crack a low thud from a secondary fuel explosion a few pigeons flap across the buttercream sky anyway i know you re busy beep let me know what you find beep blanket folded i stitch gray footprints in the dusting of frost and soot trudge hungry toward a column of smoke in the distance love you beep love you too noah soltau teaches about art literature and society to the mostly willing he is managing editor of the red branch review his debut collection of poetry titanfall is forthcoming from madville publishing his most recent work is forthcoming from cutleaf door is a jar and elsewhere he lives and works in east tennessee ken poyner breaking through he has been seen on the corner by thole s reading aloud from a stash of loosely organized papers just another poet to ignore two popped up last week one as a cliché outside of the coffee shop one two blocks down from our town hall the one at town hall the authorities chased away no one knows what they read we have so much to ignore if you want to make a splash run naked at mid day along main street or start implausible rumors that nonetheless flex our moral sensibilities indulge our crudeness you will not grow our attention spans ken poyner has ten collections of poetry flash fiction and micro fiction out there the latest science is not enough speculative poetry he cheers his world class power lifting wife at meets and once worked wrangling computers he has been appearing in the small presses since 1974 www kpoyner com iain grinbergs what the cattle knew each july i flew west out of the tired vinyl of my mother s house the flowers always lying and kept flying lubbock was an odd flower i never knew which way the corn grew it didn t matter the landscape was all scrape and echo the dust a strange heaven the cattle read my dreams they said we know we know i m the most unserious person you ll ever meet one day my father made hummus another sausage rolls he showed me his latest estate sale finds still lifes a smith wesson rifle a clock that stopped then we went farther west through new mexico and arizona and nevada until we broke somewhere in eastern utah i said i found more little bottles in her boots he said that s how it always goes no i don t pray anymore did i even have to tell you i m holding the long view iain grinbergs he they is an english professor and the author of the chapbook vanity twist bottlecap press he earned his ph d in english from florida state university his work appears in or is forthcoming from sho poetry journal south florida poetry journal meridian rogue agent ghost parachute and other journals art illustration by rachel sherman about elsewhere cares only about the line no line we want short prose works flash fiction prose poetry nonfiction that cross blur and or mutilate genre we publish as many diamonds as we can twice a year give us your homeless your animals your lunch money we re hungry submit here masthead sam thayn received his mfa from brigham young university his pieces are published in had nightblock nano fiction cutbank literary magazine and elsewhere rachel sherman studied humanities at brigham young university and flirts with writing art and childrearing hadley griggs is an mfa candidate at syracuse university and the creative director of elsewhere books she s been published in cutbank hobart after dark and bodega contact mail sometimes twitter never facebook now instagram 2026 elsewhere contributing authors