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Plenitude Magazine promotes queer and trans literature through online publication of poetry, prose, book reviews, and interviews.
Canada
Joined October 2012
There's still time to apply for one of our two open positions: Poetry Editor, or Prose Editor!. This is a virtual job that can be done from anywhere in the world. Apply by March 21:.
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Plenitude is hiring!. Ever wanted to work for a literary magazine? Now's your chance!. We're currently seeking permanent, part-time editors for two positions: Associate Poetry Editor, and Associate Prose Editor. All details can be found on our website:.
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"For Anna, when she painted, she was just covering a canvas, and her intention was not to represent anything at all.". A new short story by T. Liem is here! Read "Doubled" on our website today @coachhousebooks .
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"You left a purple denim jumpsuit in your online shopping cart, told me one in five women owns a jumpsuit—seems you never achieved the social prestige of the one category.". —from @SA_Leger's new poem, "Are you out there?".
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New on the Plenitude website, Paul Leonard reviews four plays by LGBTQ2S+ playwrights: Makram Ayache, Caleigh Crow, Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho), and Scott Jones & Robert Chafe! @PlayCanPress #plays #playwright #writing #newwriting #review.
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"i was a [servant-god] made for [you-me]— just.more [water-fire] to pour down a throat, just another. bushburn [sinking-rising] [down-up] the building’s spine, back to mirror,.a [child-adult] sleeping . ". —from Sai Liuko's new poem, "true at once, once".
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"Imagine, he repeated, that your life’s passion is painting pictures. You buy the paint, you buy the canvas, you go and paint your masterpiece. No one bothers you at all.". —from M Jay Smith's new short story, "A Guy Named Guy," now live on our website!.
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"I have never tried to be sexy on purpose, to use my expression to seduce, to use the expanse of my flesh like the call of a siren on a stage but I am learning . ". —from @talichajpoetry's poem, "Learning a New Routine in Burlesque Class"!.
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Our final post of 2024 is a book review of Jes Battis' stellar poetry collection, I Hate Parties (@NightwoodEd)!. Read it on our website, written by Lisa Timpf:.
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"Mistletoe ornaments a branch. the forever green of it, eaten out of season. here, birds wipe their beaks against pink sky,.& the language adheres to trees.". Our last poem of 2024 is "To Busy One’s Fist with So Much Delight" by Samuel Samba!.
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"Double denim, doubled down and soaked through. 17 bus line, headlights cleaving Canadian five pm. You are scratchy and wet. Stage left, glinting gold, the girl is muttering to herself.". —from Acadia Currah's new creative nonfiction, "New Testament".
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"I’ve been thinking: it’s a shame we can’t tiptoe backward through the continuum to say hey, to the protos. To say keep on;. to say you really fucking matter.". -from @BouillonCarlee's new poem, "Quarter Life Crisis".
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"You used to dislike spicy food until you visited friends in Texas and fell in love with mouth-singeing TexMex. Your tongue still adores the flavour but your gut violently disagrees.". —from @Willoheart's new Genre Bender piece, "The Anxious GERD Diet"!.
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"With a poet’s polish and a novelist’s mastery of narrative motion, Whittall’s collection of ten stories is an entertaining, emotionally charged read.". —from Anne Perdue's book review of @zoewhittall's new collection of short stories, Wild Failure:.
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"The Jungian analyzes.my bladed braids and lipsticked lips. What are you trying to prove?.He asks as I kill. our molly fish and sleep.at the morgue as punishment.". —from Katherine Alexandra Harvey's new poem, "The Prostration of Piousness in Perpetuity".
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"things like that made me into this kind of person, a queer who sees another queer in a doorway and thinks we are going to know each other for a long time, that’s how I met Costa.". -from Alex Leslie @notherstories's new short story, "The Formula"!.
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"You may not realize this, but.I’m that famous dog, who after reaching.heaven, with Yudhistira on my side, I was thrown.back on earth". -from Vivek Sharma's new poem, "Autobiography of a Dog".
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"Grief is a punctuation mark. For some, it’s a period, and for others more lucky, a semi-colon… No matter what you find yourself grieving, there is a before and an after.". —Kegan McFadden in a new book review of Hannah Godfrey's OUBLIETTE:.
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"I am not hungry, I say. I am not hungry. I have said it so many times that my mouth is compost and the words are larvae, getting stuck in a craw, spinning wheels in the snow, spewing on the lawn.". —from @TessaSwck's new short story, "A Fragile Hunger".
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"when we lay on the sand as a triangle.trying to invoke some truthful looking,.there’s much disturbance.". A new poem by Laura Mota-Juang is on our website! Read "unit of ordeal" here:. #newpoem #newwriting #litmag #plenitude
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