Anthony Okpunor

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Anthony Okpunor

Anthony Okpunor is a Nigerian poet and artist. He was a finalist for the 2020 Palette Spotlight Poetry Award, and was longlisted for Palette Poetry’s 2020 Emerging Poet Prize. He was also a finalist in the poetry category of the 2021 Chestnut Review's Stubborn Writers Contest (the only Nigerian in that list), and is a semifinalist for the 2021 Adroit Journal Contest (poetry category). His works have appeared or are forthcoming on online platforms including The McNeese Review, Rattle, Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere.

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27 Nov 2023

Poetry

want you

By: Lune Loh

you no longer have image. in photos your cheek² sharpens, vectors.

Poetry

Binary Star System

By: lae astra

That cis-tem is now only a speck.

Articles, Non-Fiction

Out of the Damp and Dark: The Evolution of Mushrooms in Fiction

By: Rosamund Lannin

Mushrooms didn’t exactly sweep sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, but much like their real-world inspiration they persisted, growing in the damp, dark crevices of the creative minds of every generation. They were a template for the anxieties of each age, seasoned with the fears of the era.

Columns, Non-Fiction

The Ghost Did What?! Translation Exposing Providentialist Thinking

By: Ada Palmer

Stories of extensive evil, in which the threat is not a single villain, nor even a man-made pollution monster, but systemic structures of harm in which we are all complicit, offer tools to think through real-life problems, which are rarely fixed by defeating one villain.

Columns, Non-Fiction

Stories From The Radio: The Slide

By: Kuzhali Manickavel

My most hearty and luxurious greetings fam, hope all are doing well. Friends, I feel like I often start this column by saying I can’t remember what happened in the previous episode. Today, I honestly cannot remember a single thing that happened last time. Fam, so many things happened lately and my brain has been all over the place. I had to move! I am getting too old for this kind of lifestyle and now I’m not going to unpack anything because I will just have to repack and move again at some point. I don’t know if that is

Columns, Non-Fiction

Writing While Disabled

By: Kristy Anne Cox
By: Claire Light

Well, when people say writing every day, I think some people take it too literally. I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about writing every day. People use the term dailyness to mean consistency. Write Consistently. Time-wise, write consistently. You build a practice. Because remember what I said earlier, a writer is someone who writes. It's about being in the present. Writing has to be a present practice for you. That's all it means.

Reviews

Monday: You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories by Octavia Cade

By: Tehnuka Ilanko

Wednesday: Angel of Death: Dearly Departed by Ralynn Kimie

By: Racheal Chie

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