Issue 57: Mend Readers' Notes
We are thrilled to share some hand-picked readers' notes featured in Issue 57: Mend. Be sure to check out our winter 2020 issue.
Sister Synergy + Pregnancy from Contemplating My Internal Organs + Digestive Issues
Pinky Bass's visual art appears in Issue 57: Mend.
For the Millions
Oh Best Beloved, a poem can’t pull / anyone back from death / into life, but it can pull the dead / into a poem.
Cutting the Good Rosemary
Michael Mlekoday's poem "Cutting the Good Rosemary" appears in Issue No. 42: Forming One Another.
Issue 56: Expression Readers' Notes
We are thrilled to share some hand-picked readers' notes featured in Issue 56: Expression. Be sure to check out our fall Issue which releases mid-September.
Everything on the menu looks wrong + To Kiss Again After So Long
Pace Taylor's visual art appears in Issue No. 56: Expression.
The Two-Body Problem
Brandon Thurman's poem "The Two-Body Problem" appears in Issue No. 56: Expression.
Our Hands Are Bowls of Dust
Clemonce Heard's poem, Our Hands Are Bowls of Dust won second place in the 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize and is featured in Issue 49: Mattering.
When the Good Lord Willed the Creek to Rise
Charnell Peters's poem appears in Issue 42: Forming One Another
A List of Songbirds
Melanie S. Smith's essay "A List of Songbirds" appears in Issue No. 55: Under Pressure
Issue 55: Under Pressure Readers' Notes
We are thrilled to share some hand-picked readers' notes from Issue 55: Under Pressure. Be sure to check out our Summer Issue which releases mid June.
Issue 54: The Everyday Readers' Notes
We are thrilled to share some hand-picked readers notes from Issue 54: The Everyday. Be sure to check out our spring issue which releases mid-March!
A Bird's Voice Calls
We're thrilled to share Madeleine Mysko's essay "A Bird's Voice Calls," which appears in our summer 2018 Issue No. 47: Hauntings.
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The Waking is an online literary magazine and a part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form prose and image-text hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.