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Call for Submissions!

We are accepting creative writing submissions for our next issue until October 31st. Submit here: http://www.beforeileavezine.com/contact

atreides

Only remembering that a self in exile is still a self, as a bell unstruck for years is still a bell.

Jane Hirshfield, Sheep (via 7-weeks)

Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.

Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead

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beforeileavezine

We now are accepting creative writing submissions for our April 2017 issue! Email your work to [email protected] by March 26.

Check out our February issue here: http://www.beforeileavezine.com/february-2017

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beforeileavezine

Our December issue is out today. Cover art by Andres Perez.

http://www.beforeileavezine.com/december-2016

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call for submissions - I want you to see this before I leave

all are welcome to submit creative writing for the december 2016 issue of our online literary magazine. submissions will be accepted through november 27th. art is a crucial thing. art gives us hope. help us to continue this project. we need your voices now more than ever.

email your work to [email protected]

www.beforeileavezine.com

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lifeinpoetry

Here is the handful of shadow I have brought back to you: this decay, this hope, this mouthful of dirt, this poetry.

Margaret Atwood, Mushrooms (via cactuslungs)

call for submissions

I Want You to See This Before I Leave, my online literary magazine, is accepting submissions for our October 2016 issue. Deadline is the last week of September. Email us at beforeileavezine.com and check out the submission guildelines at www.beforeileavezine.com. All are welcome!

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litverve

To write poetry in America is in itself a subversive act, a refutation of, and resistance to, certain assumptions about what constitutes “the public” and its interests. Poetry protects language from serving any master. One can see better from the periphery than from the center.

Ann Lauterbach, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (via litverve)

beforeileavezine

Our June 2016 issue is out now at www.beforeileavezine.com

Art by Linda Kuo

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lilmoth95

That visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

Audre Lorde on the Vulnerability of Visibility and Our Responsibility, to Ourselves and Others, to Break Our Silences (via enigmatic-being)

poetsandwriters

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”

—Miles Davis

poetsandwriters

I am not sure that language can grow to its full potential if we choose to leave certain words unsaid. If some things are deemed too hideous to understand. If we must distance ourselves from all that does not hold sway to our own beliefs…What I have begun to think: that before the word comes the image, that before we describe, we must first be willing to look. We must stare, then verbalize, then reclaim. We learn to comprehend what is in front of us by writing, by re-creating in such a way that we urge others not to turn aside.

Maaza Mengiste (The Massachusetts Review, 2016)

pigmenting

You are not afraid. You are a cathedral waiting to be filled with hymns; you are an infinite playground; you are sky-bound and sprinting, so cover your heart in goose-bump armor. It will only beat stronger, beat louder.

Miles Walser, from “Perfectly Human” (via pigmenting)