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Our art submissions are open! Here's a quick guide for those wanting to submit art pieces to the Pinch. For more information, please check the link to our Submittable page.

🖼 Art by Marina Manoukian

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October 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Looking for a place to submit your poems? Today is the last day our submission window for poetry will be open for the year! Submit by going to our website linked in our bio or visiting our Submittable page. We look forward to seeing your work! #poetry #pinchjournal #litmag

October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM Everybody can reply

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This week, we present a preview of "how easy, to take the lungs for granted" which is another poem by Amanda Nicole Corbin. Read the full piece on PJO now.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM Everybody can reply

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Looking for something fun to read today? Check out our latest poem "on my flight home they make an announcement" by Amanda Nicole Corbin. Read the full poem on our site now!

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September 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM Everybody can reply

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Check out an excerpt from our newest piece "Eclipses" by Jimmy Kindree - then go read the full post on PJO #pinchjournal #thepinch #litmag #literarymagazine #writing

September 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM Everybody can reply

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"Hover" by Robert Frankel is our newest fiction piece. Read the full story on PJO now.
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Hover
By Robert Frankel

He’d learned how to levitate when he was young as a defense mechanism against “who-knows-what,” the fear of which metastasizes amongst every raised-right Southern queer. If that was the strangest thing about him, he thought, maybe the bullies would think he was Jesus. Maybe his parents wouldn’t expel him or disown him if they learned anything more pertinent. The bullies grew tired of throwing rocks and soon enough pursued reachable targets. As for his folks, either his strategy worked or he had underestimated them: He received an exaggerated shrug, and dinner—hand-pulled noodles, shiitake mushrooms, Bok choy, a dark brown sauce that took its sweet time biting back—continued, unabated. He has two brothers, after all.

August 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM Everybody can reply

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To start August, a new poem. "Rainbow Coat" by Caitlin Cowan is a piece looking back on childhood through the misty and multicolored lens of memory. Read it on PJO now.
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Rainbow Coat
By Caitlin Cowan

The best kind of clouds
are the color of car wash foam.
Friday nights I pay
to see a rainbow, to recline
my seat and soak myself
in the soft neon of the tunnel.

August 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Looking for something new to read? Check out our latest poem, "Say This" by Lynne Ellis. The full piece is out on PJO. Read it on our site now.
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Say This
By Lynne Ellis

Say you drive us across the state at night, one hand on the wheel &
one hand bent backwards on your lips. Love follows in the car behind,
shines its brights into our rearview mirrors. Say we're on river sand,
say we're in those brights, say we're in the moon dark & you wrap two
fingers between my thumb & knuckle, hard. Say I tie your wrists
to the animal bark of a tree & go after your ribs. Say you kiss
my cheek & fill my mouth with apricots.

July 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Our newest poem, "Some Baleen Whales Have Learned to Sing at Frequencies Too Low for Predators to Hear" by Abby E. Murray, contemplates the coexistence of violence with peace in the context of marine life. Read the full piece on PJO now.
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SOME BALEEN WHALES HAVE LEARNED TO SING AT FREQUENCIES TOO LOW FOR PREDATORS TO HEAR
Abby E. Murray

Some Baleen Whales Have Learned to Sing at Frequencies Too Low for Predators to Hear
By Abby E. Murray

Most days, I am so preoccupied
with trying to understand violence

and its constant evolution, its sick genius
and knack for producing young

with one more row of teeth than it had before,
plus thicker skin, an extra stomach—

July 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM Everybody can reply

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"Of Wait" by Elisabeth Preston-Hsu is our latest poem. Read the full piece on PJO now.
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Of Wait
By Elisabeth Preston-Hsu

The coastline paradox is the length of a coastline is not static, and depends on the scale used to measure it. Coasts are not made of straight lines. They cannot be measured definitively.

I.
A reindeer grows antlers in the same pattern year to year. No other mammal can regenerate an organ naturally. The same knob on the left remains lower than the right. The same velvet tissue bleeds ribbons onto snow when injured. It’s the same over and over but the possibilities depend on scale. Dark will find light. Heat will find cold. Water will find salt.

July 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Read the rest of our newest fiction piece, "Girls Just Wanna Have" by Rachel M. Beavers, out now on PJO.
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Girls Just Wanna Have
By Rachel M. Beavers

Your bed looks like it’s going to eat you, mouth ravenous and open and red like blood. I kick my shoes off next to your desk, black chunky boots that make a thunking sound when they hit real wood, not the cheap Ikea shit. The zipper of my dress catches on my tights and rips them. Another pair ruined. They’re coming off anyway, so I strip down and stand tall for your careless inspection. You’re just going for the bed, like you want to be swallowed up.

July 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM Everybody can reply

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To close out the month of June, "On Coming Out" by Emma Thomas Jones uses natural imagery to reflect upon the feeling of such a singular and distinctive process. Read it on PJO now.
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On Coming Out
By Emma Thomas Jones

The feathers were slender,
brown like grill marks
or swatches on an aspen.

They belonged to a house
sparrow, clogged
my throat until I fingered

my uvula, burst my lips
like a pillow, feathers
scattering the staircase.

June 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM Everybody can reply

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A new poem has been published on PJO! Read "I Used to Have Green Thumbs" by Seth Wade on our website now!
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I Used to Have Green Thumbs
By Seth Wade

Fat, wrath, cobwebs in gin: splashed
hamburger grease burning our arms as we
thrashed to beats of Sting, of KISS—

outside, the lilacs
barked, You
are not
a man.

June 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Here is a preview of our latest piece, "Employment History (Partial)" by Sera Gamble. Read the full poem on our site now!
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EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
(PARTIAL)
Sera Gamble

Employment History (Partial)
By Sera Gamble

I'm naked again on a horse for minimum wage.
My pain tolerance is insanely high.
It's good for business

for a haunted house
to pretend to be
a home.

June 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM Everybody can reply

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It's PJO Monday!! Our newest publication, "Dictionary of Trans Horror Tropes" is a nonfiction piece by Darby Powers. Find this thrilling story at pinchjournal.com to immerse yourself in these tropes!!

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May 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM Everybody can reply

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Check out “Song of the Peloton Mobile App” by Betsy Mitchell Martinez on PJO. The poem features an English bulldog named Dolly, workouts and dance routines. Go to pinchjournal.com to read it. #poetry #pinchjournal #litmag

February 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM Everybody can reply

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“The GPS tells me I am going the wrong way. I do not turn around. It is almost noon, and I’ve been driving in impossible loops since midnight.”
Sam Risak’s nonfiction piece “Reroute” is now live. Check it out on pinchjournal.com
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February 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM Everybody can reply

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Submit your artwork to the Pinch today!
We can’t wait to see what you’ll send us.
Full details on our website and the Submittable page.
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February 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM Everybody can reply

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Check out our latest PJO publication: 'Community Ode' by Blaine Purcell! This poem features mud and gators and slant rhymes. Find it at pinchjournal.com

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