A journal of rediscovery
Welcome to the Spring 2024 issue of Poor Yorick Journal! We are so excited to share this with you all. Please enjoy, and support our wonderful contributors by taking a moment to read their bios at the end of the journal and engage with their other work. For best viewing,
Welcome to the Spring Issue of Poor Yorick Journal! We are delighted to share a selection of wonderful prose, poetry, and visual art with you. Please enjoy, and support our wonderful contributors by taking a moment to read their bios at the end of the journal and engage with their
We’re continuing our monthly reading series with a virtual open mic and fireside chat! Cozy up with your favorite beverage and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Stick around for an open discussion between readers and writers. This month’s theme is about family—the people who get us through
Continue readingPoor Yorick Reading Series: “Family Matters”
We’re continuing our monthly reading series with a virtual open mic and fireside chat! Cozy up with your favorite beverage and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Stick around for an open discussion between readers and writers. This month’s theme is something we all need: a fresh start
We’re continuing our monthly reading series with a virtual open mic and fireside chat! Cozy up with your favorite beverage and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Stick around for an open discussion between readers and writers. This event will be hosted on Microsoft Teams. Contact the Poor
We’re continuing our monthly reading series with a virtual open mic and fireside chat! Cozy up with your favorite beverage and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Stick around for an open discussion between readers and writers. This event will be hosted on Microsoft Teams. Contact the organizer for an invitation. This month’s theme invites you to let go and
My hand slides into my left front pocket, reaching for my iPhone. It’s not blind reflex or mechanical routine. It‘s a practice. I have decided quite intentionally to do less of other things so I can do more of this. When I grab my iPhone, I’ve trained myself to be ready, curious, and alert. I try to frame a photo so that I’m seeing what interests me, eliminating what doesn’t, and keeping my own image out of it. … Continue reading“Beauty, Prayer, and the Sticky Image: My iPhone Practice” by Randall VanderMey
Show us your best flash fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or photo essays that will make our hearts pound and skin crawl–monsters, haunts, gothics, psychological thrillers, or murders most foul. Accepting submissions until 8/31. … Continue readingCall for Submissions: “Hallow’s Eve Horror” Special Issue
We’re continuing our monthly reading series with another virtual open mic! Cozy up with your favorite beverage and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. This month’s theme is a ready platform for our ideas and truths, whether we choose to stand on it our think outside of it. … Continue readingPoor Yorick Reading Series: “Soap Box”
Loss can be a terrible thing, but not always. In some cases, “gone” is good. After all, absence makes the heart grow fonder. People who lose weight are happy.
But it’s not only what we lose that changes us. It’s what we keep, as well. … Continue reading“An Eternal Light” by Mara Fein