A journal of nature & environmental writing, published by Chatham University's MFA in Creative Writing Programs.
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Check out our latest "Collaborations" issue if you haven't already! Thank you to our wonderful editors and contributors for crafting such a beautiful collection!
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Happy Disability Pride Month!
The Fourth River welcomes submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and visual art that explore the nuance of disability, regardless of how apparent they may seem.
"Home is a heavy place
a mass of gravitational consequence
an island of volcanic rock and hot memory
How many times I've agreed" -- from "Good Grief" by Trevor Moffa, Tributaries
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"A series of parties commence that I almost tolerate. A last hurrah followed by a fallow. A sustained rest from the cacophony." -- from "College Townie" by Andrew Zubiri, Tributaries
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"Dissassociation begins
While you are negotiating
The roadblocks," -- from "Azovstal" by Tatiana Retivov, Tributaries
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"Shadbush dangled over the bank, spicing
April air. White petals swirled in tight eddies
before a pool where pearl dace glittered [...]" -- by Richard Jordan, Tributaries
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"if the sea wasn't
so half-asleep, it would have
gifted them a home in the wrapping" -- from "deep, deep sea" by Prosper C. Ìféányí, Tributaries
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"Everything was red once—
your bra popped behind the backseat, liquor
mixed into wine, poppies breathing out from the graves" -- from "Bloom" by Lauren Elaine Jeter, Tributaries
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"The satellite in what was your yard
brings questions to me from afar.
Are you the one sending them
from wherever it is you are?" -- from "Calling" by Deron Eckert, Tributaries
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"we were sun bruised cheeks
and love bruised thighs,
we were read eyes, redeyes." -- from "Minnow" by Elizabeth Levinson, Tributaries
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"Dug deep as claws
could bear, half-moon
black and stinking
as the rot of the fallen—"
-- from "Overwinter", Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Tributaries
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"I believe that the willow has been watching
you, because the good occurs for all who
find delight in it." -- from "The Willowish Hue of an Inverted Relief" by David M. Alper, Tributaries
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Friends, I have not one but three poems published in the newest issue of @thefourthriver. Here’s one that mentions the beautiful turquoise house I lived in while in Roanoke, VA. Please get yourself a copy if you’re able, and if not, send me a text, and I’ll take photos for you 💚
"draw your thumb down the surface of this stone
knot and dent thrum like bone
the knot of sky, the dent of lip—
where a river refuses to forget
the gravity that moves it"
- Mary Crockett Hill, Tributaries (link in bio)
#NationalPoetryMonth #TheFourthRiver
"I conjure myself as a horse in their herd, running flank-to-flank to Delsea Drive. Would I steer us to the Delaware River or the Atlantic if I were leading?" -- from "Weak Link" By Tomra Vecere, Tributaries
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"Men came by the house near old Tanasi
with polite stares hunting hooch and spring water," -- from "Ebullition of Spirits" by Micah Daniel McCrotty, Tributaries
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"I tell you that you can always know a crow by their laborious flight
that you can know them in the air" -- from "The Flight of Crows" by Danny Solomon, Tributaries
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"draw your thumb down the surface of this stone
knot and dent thrum like bone" -- "Rapture" by Mary Crockett Hill, Tributaries
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"Your life, for once, feels ripe to you, an orchard of futures ready to be plucked and devoured. In these late summer months, you feel dizzied with it, as though you are sun-drunk." -- from "Valencia" by Daphne Rose, Tributaries
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"Will there always be
these awful months of fear
when i am foam of the sea" -- from "I Wake Up & Deja Vu" by Idman Omar, Tributaries
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"It is either the dying of a country or the country of bodies
Stacking an unrest to the molecules of nature, agitated" -- From "Nowhere to Run" By Olumide Manuel, Tributaries
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