Woke in second sleep Caught in the rain Eon a season —Kazim Ali poets.org/poem/tagaq-sut…

I'm so excited to be reading for Cleaver Magazine 's Visual Poetics poetry contest. Do you have an odd creation in your portfolio? Something half-poem, half-dog, half-cheesecake factory menu with pictures? This is your moment: cleavermagazine.com/contests/

SHE'S BACK! Megan Stielstra leads an all-new, all-genre masterclass Sunday, Aug 24, 2pm ET on Zoom. BUILDING A REWRITING PRACTICE examines rewriting as an invitation to invite readers into your writing practice &, in many ways, your own head & heart. cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/327483/…

We see you. That is, we WANT to see you. The deadline for our 2025 Visual Poetics Contest, judged by Kazim Ali, has been EXTENDED to September 15. That's two more weeks for the artist-poet in you to submit #poetry that is meant to be SEEN. cleavermagazine.com/contests/

POETS: Submit to our Visual Poetics Contest, judged by Kazim Ali, by Monday, Sept 15. We want to see poems that engage with visual life — from a single photo to a complete re-imagining of how language lives on the page. Only ONE WEEK left: cleavermagazine.com/contests/

THIS SUNDAY, Sept 14 at 7pm, Cleaver faculty, staff, & editors take over our Zoom for a special reading. Tune in and celebrate the fantastic working writers behind our magazine! Register now to receive the link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

POETS: The deadline for our VISUAL POETICS Contest is this Monday, Sept 15, 2025. Submit 1-4 poems that combine visual art & written expression, that consider not just the typographic elements of verse, but the poetic potential of images. cleavermagazine.com/contests/

My review of Carla Spataro’s MORE STRANGE THAN TRUE (Sagging Meniscus) is up Cleaver Magazine—I sometimes forget just how fun it is to review books, and this was a fun one! cleavermagazine.com/more-strange-t…

Thank you Tracie!

Kathy Fish leads an engaging, interactive two-hour session to prime your brain for creative expression. READY! SET! WRITE! is Sunday, Sept 28, 2-4pm ET. #flashfiction More info: cleavermagazine.com/classes/

"For African Americans who were taken on a slave ship across the treacherous Atlantic ocean, it is, as with the baby Kal-El, a loss of identity and place." ON SUPERMAN, an essay by Cornelius Fortune, is featured in Cleaver Issue 51. cleavermagazine.com/on-superman-by…

"Ambrose Bunch’s backyard was a tangle of weeds that his wife Florence kept harping on him about, so he went out, ostensibly to buy a lawn mower, and came home with a goat." GOATVILLE, flash fiction by Susan Israel, appears in Cleaver 51. cleavermagazine.com/goatville-by-s… Susan Israel

when he was eight he stuck a fork / into an electric outlet / he fried the nerve endings / in his right thumb / his sense of touch swept away / by the current PERFECT CONDUCTOR, #poetry by Dara Goodale cleavermagazine.com/perfect-conduc…

"Aiden Meyers attempts to wade through the bodies and find Helly but discovers she sits on the shoulders of Ulysses, the rival halfback." THE SPARTANS SACK TROY, ALABAMA, #flashfiction by Travis Flatt in Cleaver 51. cleavermagazine.com/the-spartans-s…

"Stinging pain began to radiate out from the spot where I was bit, crawling slowly toward my thigh. Both legs ruined now." RED-HEADED MIKE FINNEGAN, fiction by Jake Stimmel, in Cleaver 51. cleavermagazine.com/red-headed-mik…

"Having memorized, in alphabetical order, the entire manifest of the Titanic ... I feel I can now take the necessary precautions required for avoiding an icy death in the North Atlantic." THE MONARCH, short fiction by Mary Sauer, in Cleaver 51. cleavermagazine.com/the-monarch-by…

Love Travis Flatt's (Travis Flatt) new flash in CLEAVER: "The Spartans Sack Troy, Alabama" in Cleaver Magazine. (Our local football team is also called The Trojans.) cleavermagazine.com/the-spartans-s…

Congrats to Converse MFA fiction grad Harris Quinn on the publication of his story "Fairview" in Cleaver Magazine! <There’s a confidence in losing, in knowing you can undo it, and I guess I have that. You can always undo it, win it back, make it right.> cleavermagazine.com/fairview-by-ha…