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Burningword Literary Journal Established in 2000, Burningword Literary Journal publishes poetry, flash nonfiction, flash fiction, Submit your work at http://burningword.com/submissions/.

Burningword is published quarterly from beautiful Kokomo, Indiana, a town that's full of factories and surprises.

Kathryn Jordan
15/04/2024

Kathryn Jordan

  Kathryn holds an English M.A. from UC Berkeley. Her poems have twice won Honorable Mention in the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize and the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, and have twice garnered Speci…

The Dao of Collage
14/04/2024

The Dao of Collage

after Joy Harjo   Clear a space for yourself. This includes time. No thinking, no ideas, no answers, no logic, no reasons. Stand against productivity. Don’t be afraid to put the needs of othe…

Jihu Kim
14/04/2024

Jihu Kim

  Jihu Kim is a junior at Yongsan International School of Seoul, South Korea. Her art practice began with an interest in art history. She is the founder of her school’s Art of Korea club and s…

Taco Tuesday
14/04/2024

Taco Tuesday

Lisa sends me this long text grumbling about her husband and how he’s informed her he can’t handle Taco Tuesdays anymore and now she must redo her ENTIRE menu for January because the selfish bastar…

On Reading Auden to the Ghost of a Lost Limerence
14/04/2024

On Reading Auden to the Ghost of a Lost Limerence

In the Peabody Library reading room, a ramshackle longing has liberty to roam, While the rhetoric of busybodied reality bustles without and within The center of self-knowing. Beneath the architrave…

Shipwreck
13/04/2024

Shipwreck

This ash-gray mouse asleep in my pocket, this miserable list crumpled in my pocket, this comet rattling around in there, in the cluttered pocket, unable to escape.   No squeaks—shy twitching o…

V Club
13/04/2024

V Club

Remember Twiggy, her skeletal body was all the rave. That led us to Form the V Club. Teachers thought we meant Glee club. (Not V for Vomit) It wasn’t until three 8th grade girls were taken away in…

Jian Kim
13/04/2024

Jian Kim

  Jian Kim is an 11th grader student attending St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju in South Korea. She is interested in many fields, wanting to explore and inquire deeply about them and express them ar…

Yeobin Park
13/04/2024

Yeobin Park

  Yeobin Park, a BC Collegiate sophomore and Vice-President of BCC Point of View, debuted her film “Unfinished Dream,” showcasing her skills in directing, filming, and editing with…

A grasshopper in tall grass
12/04/2024

A grasshopper in tall grass

I. The Buddhas tell us not   to think of a heaven, of a hell…   This breath comes. That breath goes.   Then nothing.   II. Klara Dan von Neumann,   drove from home to the b…

What You Didn’t See Coming
12/04/2024

What You Didn’t See Coming

The first time you get the wind knocked out of you, you will be astonished by what seems a fatal wallop— one moment running, the next, bulge-eyed and gaping like a carp tossed in a rowboat. No one …

An entry journal
12/04/2024

An entry journal

Feb or March 17, 1995 As my suitcase orbits away from me, I surprise myself by shouting “our bag.” Unbeknownst to me I have begun talking in plural. As we drive toward our home, I am puzzled by the…

Ian Wells
12/04/2024

Ian Wells

  Ian Wells is a graduate researcher at the Washington State University HYPER Lab studying Mechanical Engineering. He focuses on optical and EM systems with experience in aerospace, thermal, a…

Marina
12/04/2024

Marina

It is a ritual to bathe the daughter. Baptized, she purifies dirty water, rinsed over long hair that falls out between fingers. Years ago, we handed her to a man over a vat and believed him when he…

A New Term for It
11/04/2024

A New Term for It

Indoctrinating myself I shuffle towards the polls And pull the lever Expecting a trapdoor to open up And plunge me into the awaiting waters below The Styx or just a secret underground channel Leadi…

Martha Nance
11/04/2024

Martha Nance

  Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota whose cellphone has a wandering eye, which gets rewarded mostly when she is not in Minnesota.

Carrion
11/04/2024

Carrion

The boy loves lying in this open field, blinking at the bowl of summer sky. Heedless of wiregrass itching his neck, of ants sizing up his ears, he tracks the somber wings that float and swoop in pr…

Red Ink
11/04/2024

Red Ink

You’ll never guess what I just found. Ann steps over the pile of boxes blocking the doorway, a small black object in her hand. Haven’t seen one of these in years. She hands it over. An old floppy d…

The Trio of Kiev
11/04/2024

The Trio of Kiev

The concert hall took a direct hit during the first week the city was shelled. Sandbags piled alongside the walls protected the stained glass windows of the former church, but the roof was punctur…

Roger Camp
10/04/2024

Roger Camp

Roger Camp is the author of three photography books, including the award-winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano, 2008. His work has appeared in numerous j…

Aidan J Hong
10/04/2024

Aidan J Hong

  Aidan J Hong is a sophomore at Seoul International School in Seongnam, Korea. His passion for arts is geared towards architecture and art history. He also develops ideation on journalism, en…

Seo Jin Ahn
10/04/2024

Seo Jin Ahn

  Seojin Ahn Is a Junior attending Chadwick International School in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea. His art practice is to create photo-based images. He developed and harnessed his skills in pho…

Fertility
10/04/2024

Fertility

It was spring, no I mean dusk, and the killdeer began stepping up out of intricate doors in the field.   They sported unseen fires beneath their downy vests.   Their presence had been war…

What to Wear When Having a Drink with Your Ex
10/04/2024

What to Wear When Having a Drink with Your Ex

It has been forty years. he in New York me in San Francisco. erasing him with ease for forty years. yet he is coming and wants to meet for a drink. really? does he regret the divorce and realize …

Secrecies
09/04/2024

Secrecies

After I share my secrets, I’ll remind you to Burn them in a pyre when my body’s ash. Carry my regret, silence in stone. Feel the weight. Deny my mysteries. The loudest plead for light. Euphemisms a…

Everywhere All the Time (with a Line from Ashley Capps)
09/04/2024

Everywhere All the Time (with a Line from Ashley Capps)

I hear a shotgun crack and find mother at the woodpile—she’s shot another rat snake. “But,” I say, “they keep the rabbit population down?” “I like rabbits,” is her reply. “But your garden,” I say. …

Larena Nellies-Ortiz
09/04/2024

Larena Nellies-Ortiz

  Larena Nellies-Ortiz is a freelance photographer from Oakland, California. Her photos have been featured in Sun Magazine, Barren Magazine, Indianapolis Review, Burningword Literary Journal, …

“Not everything’s a poem”
09/04/2024

“Not everything’s a poem”

When she said that, I think she has never tasted how a good Irish whiskey echoes in your mouth after you swallow its heat. Or understood the way lint can reveal the archeology of your life. Her com…

The Rise and Fall of Burlington West
09/04/2024

The Rise and Fall of Burlington West

No one within hearing badmouthed the new town’s two ceramic frogs perched columnar on oxidized blue lily pads outside City Hall like they never did on Crenshaw Pond. * Sheriff Osprey couldn’t find …

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Burningword Literary Journal (ISSN 2161-8992 print / ISSN 2157-7366 online) is a quarterly publication focusing on emerging and established writers of poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, and photographic artists. Burningword has been published continuously since June 2000. Submit your work at http://burningword.com/submissions/.