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Independent literary magazine since 1977. We publish fiction, cnf, poetry, translations, interviews, reviews, art, and audio/visual work.
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- 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 anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/28/d...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/21/t...
- 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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/14/p...
- ''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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/09/s...
- 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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/07/m...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/02/r...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/02/r...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/30/i...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/25/d...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/16/l...
- 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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/11/b...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/04/h...
- “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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/09/02/f...
- 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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/28/e...
- "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...
- Reposted by Another Chicago MagazineOut 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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/22/f...
- 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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/21/t...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/20/t...
- Reposted by Another Chicago Magazine8 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 anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit/33754...
- 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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/19/t...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/18/g...
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/14/b...
- Reposted by Another Chicago MagazineAnother 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: anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/10/09/s... @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social @aimeeparkison.bsky.social
- "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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/07/t...
- “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. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/08/05/y...
- Reposted by Another Chicago MagazineThanks 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...
- Reposted by Another Chicago MagazineHey, #WriterSky and #BookSky! Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social is specifically looking "for creative work in all genres" from #Palestinian artists. I'm just the messenger. anotherchicagomagazine.net/submissions/
- "The book...follows the speaker’s daily journeys along a rugged mountain road over the course of a year..." Review of “If Only for a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again): Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma,” (translated by James Nolan) by Stephanie Burt anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/31/r...
- "You hang out on top of the three ancient towels you’ve layered on your couch and know you’ve done the automated surveys, and they improve nothing." “Run-On/Run-Down,” by Alina Zollfrank. Art by Char Gardner. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/29/r...
- Springtime is for the seeds and letting light into the home our spirits live in. We prep the soil for the ones who sleep there. Summer picks berries for playtime. Four Poems by Tyra Prayer. Art by Chris Pappan. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/24/f...
- "She poignantly asks, 'In such a teeming ocean of words how could I know there was anything else to swim in?'" Review of Naomi Cohn’s “The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight,” by Anne Sawyier. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/22/r...
- "even baby’s breath is weary and stale in their nostrils falls the hail the country’s black men sent to jail" A poem from “G A G,” by Nicole Wislon. With art by Patty Paine. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/18/a...
- "You are forced to think very formally, very philosophically, Someday a siren will come for you..." “The Late Late Show,” by George Thomas. With art by Syd Brewster. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/17/t...
- "One guy said I looked like Queen Elizabeth in it, so I wore it everywhere, led entrances with hip swishes and a smirk..." Two poems by Jesse Eikmann. Art by Jeri Griffith. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/16/t...
- Despite what you may think, I am comfortably phallic. I wonder if your punchline can live for two hundred years, burrowing through human muck and blood and flushed tissues. Pacific Geoduck Responds to a Meme - Bex Hainsworth Art - Patty Paine. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/15/a...
- through my brother’s bedroom door, the expectations of manhood complete: apology, sincerity, apology—take it and move on. Five poems by Kimberly Ann Priest. Art by Michael Anderson. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/14/f...
- "One of the essential qualities of my mind has always been an inability to distinguish between 'being' and 'being with.'" “Physical Education,” by Ru Marshall. With art by Edward Michael Supranowicz. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/10/p...
- "When I traveled to Geneva, no matter what else was on the agenda, a reservation at the Boeuf Rouge was required. I never changed my order from quenelle de brochet." “Quenelle de Brochet,” by J.H. Palmer. With art by Patty Paine. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/08/q...
- "did you know trees grieve one another? i wonder how long they hold grief in their bodies i wonder how grief sticks in tree ring?" Three poems by Sareya Taylor. With art by Debra Yepa-Pappan. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/03/t...
- "I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way..." From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman. Art by Patty Paine. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/01/f...
- “The incarcerated are forgotten time and time again”: A conversation with Santa Fe curators Chloe Accardi and Patricia Sigala by @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social with Ellye Sevier. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/26/t...
- Reposted by Another Chicago Magazine“know that time and light are ephemeral here that’s why they’re in such a rush to offer…” Read Roxana Crisólogo’s “Those who came to sell mushrooms” this #WITMonth (translated by Kim Jensen & Judith Santopietro in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social): anotherchicagomagazine.net/2024/10/17/t...
- "Your kitchen is transfigured, is wild rice soup and Lil Nas X..." Two poems by Zoë Johnson. With art by Chris Pappan. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/24/t...
- Reposted by Another Chicago MagazineHelp me let go of my expectations of people. I am the one who wants to run screaming out the front door. Recognize that your sense of overwhelm arises as a normal response to trauma. “Don’t get weird on me,” Bobby’d say, every time I cried. READ Liza Porter in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social
- "And mirrored in the dilated, upturned eyes, can you, she asks, see a room’s bright window, panes of light..." A poem by Joseph Tate.With art by Giuliana Eggleston. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/19/a...
- Help CPS Students Foster A Love Of Reading. @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/b2s-2025/
- "She used to talk nonstop, now she calls so little, asking strange questions." - Four poems by Srisuda Rojsatien. With art by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/17/f...
- Reposted by Another Chicago MagazineRead an excerpt from Jennifer Bélanger’s MENTHOL, translated by Sophie Grace Lellman, in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social this #WITMonth: “Walking around the hospital, clinging to the hallway walls, nauseated by all the signage, scanning words...” anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/01/f...
- Reposted by Another Chicago MagazineThis one mattered a lot to me. @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social @fonografeditions.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/31/r...
- I sat at his grave, rearranging ever-present anger and decades old resentments into drunken one night stands, warring with abstract and weak forgiveness. By Louise Waakaa’igan. Art by Chris Pappan. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/12/t...
- “An eleven-year-old girl sees something no child should—and keeps her silence.” - “Mercy” by Nandini Bhattacharya. Art by Michael Singh. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/10/m...
- "Focused primarily on her childhood, Kercheval’s memoir is told in a series of seventeen fanciful chapters...Shifting metaphors abound." - Review of Jesse Lee Kercheval’s “French Girl” by Garnett Cohen. @jesselkercheval.bsky.social anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/06/r...
- Reposted by Another Chicago MagazineMany thanks to @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social for this fantastic review of THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA by Naomi Cohn! anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/22/r...
- "The book, at its core, follows the speaker’s daily journeys along a rugged mountain road...fueling reflections on humanity in general, and the present moment more specifically." - Review of Kristin Dykstra’s “Dissonance,” by Matt Martinson. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/05/r...
- Reposted by Another Chicago MagazineMy poem 'Pacific Geoduck Responds to a Meme' is now up at @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social! 🐚 (You may want to google pacific geoduck before you read...) anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/15/a...
- Supposing there was any...hope that...capitalism might deliver us...Gilbert’s poems are here to announce the ethical insolvency of that hope - First as Farce, Then as Threnody: A Review of Alan Gilbert’s “The Everyday Life of Design” by Eric Tyler Benick. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/04/f...
- "Catrileo’s florid, visceral writing traverses the centuries—from the so-called Conquista...to the modern-day capital city." -Review of Daniela Catrileo’s “Guerrilla Blooms” (translated by Edith Adams) by Emily Hunsberger. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/03/r...
