Our Summer 2026 issue is filled with work that moves between the whimsical and the all-too-real with a strong undercurrent of awareness and attention that can make even a toad or a tampon seem sacred.
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-43-sum...
are you just going to do this for every generation
Excited for two poems from my next book to appear in American Poetry Review.
“Hurt Boy
I find you, and I tire of you
I tire of your rag-and-bone doctrine:
how any bloom ends in dry slaughter—
don’t you see beauty isn’t twice itself for being fleet?”
From “Like a Reed Made of Grass” by Nathan Fako in ISSUE 29!
Vibe Walking Into The Ocean
picked this up at AWP and forgot to post about it hehe.. fun to finally have a poem in print!
practicing not-poetry
so happy to have a poem in @westtradereview.bsky.social ! such a beautiful and special issue to me (this is the first poem I ever had accepted for publication)
Etheridge Knight from Belly Song and Other Poems
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
