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Spring Issue: Rediscovery

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

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Valentine’s Mini-Issue: “After Julian” by Christie Cochrell

    After Julianby Christie Cochrell     When Julian’s ashes had been strewn in his family’s Hudson Valley, and the apartment in Mexico City been sold, Carrie was left feeling strangely homesick.  Not for the places they had lived, which held her husband and his memory, but for a

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Three Poems by James B. Nicola

Tetradic Sequence from Below and Above, Before and After blocked ears, closed minds, rage;wisdom falls as late fall’s leaves:heroes’ tragedies *** finch pecks by window February slows him downwarm inside. poor bird  *** after the last blastall the leaves curled, browned, crisped, droopedobsolete as arms *** gone. but where you weresmolders

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Announcements from Poor Yorick

  Hello from Poor Yorick! A couple of announcements from our editorial team:  Our submissions are currently CLOSED. We will be taking time to revamp our website and read through our standing submissions. Poor Yorick is going through a transformation this year, with new WCSU student leadership. We’d like to

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