Poems
“I read the line over and over / as if I might discern / the little fires set / the flames of an idea licking the page”
“Illumination,” Natasha Trethewey
Black: | Poetry
Editor’s note: due to its special line-spacing, this poem has been published as an image. For optimal viewing, we recommend reading on a computer or tablet screen. A graduate of Howard University, Carmin Wong is a Guyanese-born poet, playwright, and scholar of...
Two Poems | Poetry
Letting what you held slip back into the water There is an art to everything. To letting the line drag out, to the extra moment given before the hook is set. To how one learns, eventually, to watch the light and not indulge the urge to name it. Eventually I will get...
The EZ Trail | Poetry
The EZ Trail . In the desert, it doesn’t take much for us to begin to hate each other. The 100 degrees, the lit magazine rejection, the AC clunking along like a loose chain on a bicycle. The tension rises. It falls. The red in my cheeks bloom like the sharp...
Best of the Net 2020 Nominees | News
The New Southern Fugitives is proud to announce our Best of the Net nominations for 2020! We nominated these pieces for Best of the Net back in October, but we wanted to wait until our “Best Of” issue to announce them alongside our Pushcart Prize nominees....
Pushcart Prize 2021 Nominees | News
The New Southern Fugitives is excited to announce our Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2021!. About the Pushcart Prize: The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Since 1976,...Follow Us
