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Independent literary magazine since 1977. We publish fiction, cnf, poetry, translations, interviews, reviews, art, and audio/visual work.

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"This collection of poems explores the fracture of a marriage after a secret is revealed—a husband’s closeted homosexuality, at odds with his religious upbringing..."

Review of Kimberly Ann Priest’s “tether & lung,” by @mickafoos.bsky.social

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Review of Kimberly Ann Priest’s “tether & lung” by Brittany Micka-Foos
This collection of poems explores the fracture of a marriage after a secret is revealed—a husband’s closeted homosexuality, at odds with his religious upbringing and the life he has built. Set agai…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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"I am sorry to say this, but what if
You made a mistake?
What if You took the wrong kid?"

“I think I’m special” by L.F. Khouri. With art by Giuliana Eggleston.

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“I think I’m special” by L.F. Khouri
I am sorry to say this, but what if You made a mistake? What if You took the wrong kid? I heard You took two more kids today from Askar’s middle school. Are the soldiers working for you? (Palestini…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I walk across the highway to the other side, lean over the same crumbling concrete guardrail and look down into the stagnant cesspool.

“Lost in East Chicago,” Excerpted from “Walking Chicago’s Coast,” by Michael McColly.

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“Lost in East Chicago,” Excerpted from “Walking Chicago’s Coast” by Michael McColly
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: I walk across the highway to the other side, lean over the same crumbling concrete guardrail and look down into the stagn…
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November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Every night I read
My country’s history
of profit wrung from working people
and before dawn I burn my shoes

“Before Dawn I Rend My Clothes,” Excerpted from “Political Prisoners USA and Other Poems,” by James Madigan.

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“Before Dawn I Rend My Clothes,” Excerpted from “Political Prisoners USA and Other Poems” by James Madigan
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: Every night I read My country’s history of profit wrung from working people and before dawn I burn my shoes
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November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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"Discovering Tarkovsky upended my attempt to build a coherent, if radically reduced, worldview post-Iraq."

“Hunters in the Snow,” by Michael Carson. Art by Mia Broecke.

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“Hunters in the Snow” by Michael Carson
Discovering Tarkovsky upended my attempt to build a coherent, if radically reduced, worldview post-Iraq. Ten years after leaving the military I found myself replaying certain scenes from his Solari…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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“What do you know of killing a child?” Medea shouted, her voice trembling with the hereafter.

From “The Complexity of Compassion,” by Chantal Maillard, translated from Spanish (Spain) by Samantha Schnee. Art by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay.

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From “The Complexity of Compassion” by Chantal Maillard, translated from Spanish (Spain) by Samantha Schnee
“What do you know of killing a child?” Medea shouted, her voice trembling with the hereafter. The woman bowed her head, circling endlessly over rocky ground, stacking stones, whispering absence and…
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November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The film is a collection of footage accumulated from days walking around Chicago and noticing the different movements, colors, and forms of the city. It attempts to embody a dissociated state of mind.

“Everybody’s Dancing Upside Down,” by Georgia Zinzan.

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“Everybody’s Dancing Upside Down” by Georgia Zinzan
The film is a collection of footage accumulated from days walking around Chicago and noticing the different movements, colors, and forms of the city. It attempts to embody a dissociated state of mi…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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"Can violence be made into beauty? Can beauty be used to dignify the stain of violence? Sloan seems to suggest so, perhaps, by conceiving of Ophelia’s body as part of nature—indistinguishable from it."

Review of Emma Sloan’s “Opheliac,” by Rina Shamilov.

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Review of Emma Sloan’s “Opheliac” by Rina Shamilov
Can violence be made into beauty? Can beauty be used to dignify the stain of violence? Sloan seems to suggest so, perhaps, by conceiving of Ophelia’s body as part of nature—indistinguishable from i…
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November 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Out of the fog, she came
A woman with no name
A woman, a doe: the same…

—Dominique Hunter’s “Deer Hide is Thicker Than a Tribal ID” is featured in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social & our #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth reading list: anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/05/29/f...
Four poems by Dominique Hunter
Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. My ancestors want you to know they see it coming. They feel the Earth shaking from the trauma Colonization has inflicted on her. They s…
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November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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wait, things improve, around every
corner is a prize.
Let’s go back to that track and crush pine
needles
with our heels. Crush our watches too.

Five Poems by Marianne Kunkel. Art by Cara Bloomfield.

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Five poems by Marianne Kunkel
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. wait, things improve, around every corner is a prize. Let’s go back to that track and crush pine needles with our heels. Crush our watches too. (poet…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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we’d just torn out not the eyes but the
reflection in the eyes
while culture hanging on the media’s
fangs was dying there...

Two poems by Bernard Noël, translated from the French by Eléna Rivera. With art by Nadia Arioli.

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Two poems by Bernard Noël, translated from the French by Eléna Rivera
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. we’d just torn out not the eyes but the reflection in the eyes while culture hanging on the media’s fangs was dying there no more tongue-in-cheek now…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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"See? I’ve been frank, while the TV
keeps beaming images–you yelling at the cop
dragging you away: Don’t take me away..."

Two poems by Mandira Pattnaik. Art by Michael Singh.

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Two poems by Mandira Pattnaik
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. See? I’ve been frank, while the TV keeps beaming images–you yelling at the cop dragging you away: Don’t take me away yet; but the cops keep man…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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8 years ago I brought @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social back to life. We've done great things but I'm leaving as exec editor and nonfic editor. Why don't you apply? anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit/33755... and
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November 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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And they continued with more world
history examples
where a victim lived happily ever after
next to her executioner...

Two poems by Yuliia Iliukha, translated from the Ukrainian by Anna Antonova. Art by David Goodrum.

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Two poems by Yuliia Iliukha, translated from the Ukrainian by Anna Antonova
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. And they continued with more world history examples where a victim lived happily ever after next to her executioner, having forgiven and forgotten. (…
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November 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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"I’d tell you to be careful, that everything
here is lousy with history..."

“Ghost Towns,” by Michael Derrick Hudson. With art by Joe Lugara.

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“Ghost Towns” by Michael Derrick Hudson
This week, ACM is posting poetry every weekday. I’d tell you to be careful, that everything here is lousy with history, from the first megafaunal extinctions to those buffalo carcasses rotting in h…
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November 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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"I’ve started thinking the worst of people. I wasn’t always like this. Can I keep doing this job? Why did I take the first one I found?" - “Breathing Salvation,” by Liza Porter. Art by Dmitry Samarov.

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“Breathing Salvation” by Liza Porter
I’ve started thinking the worst of people. I wasn’t always like this. Can I keep doing this job? Why did I take the first one I found? Cause Mom just died and I couldn’t think straight? And minimum…
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October 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Another Chicago Magazine has published excerpts from Aimee Parkison's upcoming collection, Body of Evidence. Get a sneak peek of the title, arriving 10/28/25:

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“Sister Replay” Excerpted from “Body of Evidence” by Aimee Parkison
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: After descending into the basement, you act as if you never went, as if you have no idea what the basement really is or w…
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October 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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"Shiki wrote haiku—tens of thousands of haiku—elevating himself to the immortal ranks of Bashō, Issa, and his personal hero, Buson." - Matt Martinson’s Review of “The Glass Clouding,” by Masaoka Shiki, translated by Abby Ryder-Huth.

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Matt Martinson’s Review of “The Glass Clouding” by Masaoka Shiki, translated by Abby Ryder-Huth
Shiki wrote haiku—tens of thousands of haiku—elevating himself to the immortal ranks of Bashō, Issa, and his personal hero, Buson. However, Shiki did not want to go back to the past and its masters…
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October 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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"You watch your aunt unbutton a rabbit
carcass
and you feel the vocal folds of your dark
throat..."

Three poems by Kateri Menominee. With art by Chris Pappan.

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Three poems by Kateri Menominee
Kateri Menominee is the ninth and final Native voice we are publishing in our series collected by Mark Turcotte. You watch your aunt unbutton a rabbit carcass and you feel the vocal folds of your d…
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October 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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“So, I’m not saying one’s better than the other, but maybe because [Iraq] had so many wars, they put people first. In our culture, we put profit first." - “You Can’t Have All the Lives at Once”: An interview with Alex Poppe by Meredith Boe.

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“You Can’t Have All the Lives at Once”: An interview with Alex Poppe by Meredith Boe
“So, I’m not saying one’s better than the other, but maybe because [Iraq] had so many wars, they put people first. In our culture, we put profit first. Our whole geopolitical conduct has now …
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October 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Thanks to Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social for publishing my micro series "Sister Replay" Excerpted from my Forthcoming book __Body of Evidence__ from @unboundedition.bsky.social anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/09/s...
“Sister Replay” Excerpted from “Body of Evidence” by Aimee Parkison
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: After descending into the basement, you act as if you never went, as if you have no idea what the basement really is or w…
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October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Hey, #WriterSky and #BookSky!

Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social is specifically looking "for creative work in all genres" from #Palestinian artists. I'm just the messenger.

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We’re open now for art, translations, poetry reviews, prose reviews, and voices from Palestine and Ukraine. Send work to us on Submittable. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to find out whe…
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October 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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"The book...follows the speaker’s daily journeys along a rugged mountain road over the course of a year..."

Review of “If Only for a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again): Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma,” (translated by James Nolan) by Stephanie Burt

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Review of “If Only for a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again): Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma,” (translated by James Nolan) by Stephanie Burt
The book, at its core, follows the speaker’s daily journeys along a rugged mountain road over the course of a year, with the gravel thoroughfare and its environs serving much the way Thoreau’s Wald…
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October 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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"You hang out on top of the three ancient towels you’ve layered on your couch and know you’ve done the automated surveys, and they improve nothing."

“Run-On/Run-Down,” by Alina Zollfrank. Art by Char Gardner.

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“Run-On/Run-Down” by Alina Zollfrank
You hang out on top of the three ancient towels you’ve layered on your couch and know you’ve done the automated surveys, and they improve nothing. You and your doctor have pushed pre-authorization …
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September 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Springtime is for the seeds and letting
light into the home our spirits live in. We
prep the soil for the ones who sleep
there. Summer picks berries for
playtime.

Four Poems by Tyra Prayer. Art by Chris Pappan.

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Four poems by Tyra Payer
Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. Springtime is for the seeds and letting light into the home our spirits live in. We prep the soil for the ones who sleep there. Summer …
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September 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM