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Independent literary magazine since 1977. We publish fiction, cnf, poetry, translations, interviews, reviews, art, and audio/visual work. Read: https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/ Submit: https://anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit
At 4 a.m. I am awakened by a vision of the river goddess. I am told without words that she saved baachan from drowning. After the funeral of my great-baachan.
“Dear Mother: Notes of an Ordained Lay Buddhist Felon Traveling Japan,” by Tony Koji Wallin-Sato
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"Danielle Steele’s Going Home, Alice Munro’s Dear Life. Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Ali flips open a moldy Farsi translation of The Three Musketeers..."
“The Dreamer of Bandar,” by Pegah Ouji. Art by Dmitry Samarov.
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the opening of a cut grape
the butterfly
if it were to lightly rest upon the
extremity of the grape..."
“Pretending to Drink,” a poem by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated from the Japanese by Corey Wakeling. Art by Patty Paine.
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''After descending into the basement, you act as if you never went, as if you have no idea what the basement really is or what happened there." - “Sister Replay,” Excerpted from “Body of Evidence” by Aimee Parkison.
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When my father measured women in percentages, I learned to chart myself like livestock—head, pelvis, torso. Yet the red horse leaned his warmth into me...and the body refused to stay math.
“Magnitude,” by Meredith Shepherd. With art by Edward Supranowicz.
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"The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker."
Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses,” by Tiffany Troy.
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"The poems in Naming the Rose draw from vulnerable, autobiographical elements mixed with the obliviousness of those around the speaker."
Review of Kim Noriega’s “Naming the Roses,” by @tiffanytroy.bsky.social.
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"The holes breathed damp breath that wasn’t quite alive but wasn’t dead either. It takes little to make beauty out of wreckage, wreckage out of beauty."
“If Gravity, Then,” by Michael Wiley. With art by Brian McPartlon.
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"He had written DECEASED next to my mother’s name on his return. That threw the whole system off, sending his return into the void for further review."
“Death and Taxes,” Excerpted from “An Ignorance of Trees,” by Jim Daniels.
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"This collection of poems explores the fracture of a marriage after a secret is revealed—a husband’s closeted homosexuality, at odds with his religious upbringing..."
Review of Kimberly Ann Priest’s “tether & lung,” by @mickafoos.bsky.social
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/23/r...
"I am sorry to say this, but what if
You made a mistake?
What if You took the wrong kid?"
“I think I’m special” by L.F. Khouri. With art by Giuliana Eggleston.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/18/i...
I walk across the highway to the other side, lean over the same crumbling concrete guardrail and look down into the stagnant cesspool.
“Lost in East Chicago,” Excerpted from “Walking Chicago’s Coast,” by Michael McColly.
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Every night I read
My country’s history
of profit wrung from working people
and before dawn I burn my shoes
“Before Dawn I Rend My Clothes,” Excerpted from “Political Prisoners USA and Other Poems,” by James Madigan.
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"Discovering Tarkovsky upended my attempt to build a coherent, if radically reduced, worldview post-Iraq."
“Hunters in the Snow,” by Michael Carson. Art by Mia Broecke.
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“What do you know of killing a child?” Medea shouted, her voice trembling with the hereafter.
From “The Complexity of Compassion,” by Chantal Maillard, translated from Spanish (Spain) by Samantha Schnee. Art by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay.
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The film is a collection of footage accumulated from days walking around Chicago and noticing the different movements, colors, and forms of the city. It attempts to embody a dissociated state of mind.
“Everybody’s Dancing Upside Down,” by Georgia Zinzan.
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"Can violence be made into beauty? Can beauty be used to dignify the stain of violence? Sloan seems to suggest so, perhaps, by conceiving of Ophelia’s body as part of nature—indistinguishable from it."
Review of Emma Sloan’s “Opheliac,” by Rina Shamilov.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/26/r...
Out of the fog, she came
A woman with no name
A woman, a doe: the same…
—Dominique Hunter’s “Deer Hide is Thicker Than a Tribal ID” is featured in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social & our #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth reading list: anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/05/29/f...
wait, things improve, around every
corner is a prize.
Let’s go back to that track and crush pine
needles
with our heels. Crush our watches too.
Five Poems by Marianne Kunkel. Art by Cara Bloomfield.
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we’d just torn out not the eyes but the
reflection in the eyes
while culture hanging on the media’s
fangs was dying there...
Two poems by Bernard Noël, translated from the French by Eléna Rivera. With art by Nadia Arioli.
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"See? I’ve been frank, while the TV
keeps beaming images–you yelling at the cop
dragging you away: Don’t take me away..."
Two poems by Mandira Pattnaik. Art by Michael Singh.
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8 years ago I brought @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social back to life. We've done great things but I'm leaving as exec editor and nonfic editor. Why don't you apply? anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit/33755... and
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And they continued with more world
history examples
where a victim lived happily ever after
next to her executioner...
Two poems by Yuliia Iliukha, translated from the Ukrainian by Anna Antonova. Art by David Goodrum.
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"I’d tell you to be careful, that everything
here is lousy with history..."
“Ghost Towns,” by Michael Derrick Hudson. With art by Joe Lugara.
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"I’ve started thinking the worst of people. I wasn’t always like this. Can I keep doing this job? Why did I take the first one I found?" - “Breathing Salvation,” by Liza Porter. Art by Dmitry Samarov.
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Another Chicago Magazine has published excerpts from Aimee Parkison's upcoming collection, Body of Evidence. Get a sneak peek of the title, arriving 10/28/25:
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"Shiki wrote haiku—tens of thousands of haiku—elevating himself to the immortal ranks of Bashō, Issa, and his personal hero, Buson." - Matt Martinson’s Review of “The Glass Clouding,” by Masaoka Shiki, translated by Abby Ryder-Huth.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/12/m...
"You watch your aunt unbutton a rabbit
carcass
and you feel the vocal folds of your dark
throat..."
Three poems by Kateri Menominee. With art by Chris Pappan.
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“So, I’m not saying one’s better than the other, but maybe because [Iraq] had so many wars, they put people first. In our culture, we put profit first." - “You Can’t Have All the Lives at Once”: An interview with Alex Poppe by Meredith Boe.
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Thanks to Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social for publishing my micro series "Sister Replay" Excerpted from my Forthcoming book __Body of Evidence__ from @unboundedition.bsky.social anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/09/s...