Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine

09/27/2025

Five newly published poems by yours truly in Lothlorien Review

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09/12/2025

Keep those fall submissions coming! The magazine is looking great so far. Think cozy, change, harvest, gathering, storing, beauty...would love to see art, poems and prose!

09/03/2025

I'm thrilled to have three micro fiction pieces published in Fresh Words' new anthology: Thresholds. My stories are on pages 4, 6, and 6

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09/03/2025

So thrilled to have my poem, "Working Hands" published in The Book of Jobs. Here's a link to the soft launch online journal. The hardback will be published next year. My poem is onl page 48. It's one of my favorite ones that I've written.

The Book of Jobs – Poems About Work (click the link to view anthology) *** ONE ART is pleased to present this “soft launch” of The Book of Jobs: Poems About Work. A…

08/29/2025

Fall Submissions open tomorrow! Send in your best poetry, prose & art to [email protected]

08/29/2025

From Volume 1, Issue 3 Summer 2025

Hank Tells How It Was
by John Grey

His story never changes
other than the delta summer
is one degree hotter every time
he tells it

and the plow gets bigger
by an inch here and there
but it’s still not mechanized

and his feet are bare
his arms brown
as he grips the handle
cusses out the old gray mule
that pulls it through the field

and that mule gets more stubborn
needs more of a whipping
by the year

and he throws in a snake or two,
hissing in anger
at this man-boy
and even an alligator,
“biggest you ever saw”
slipping out of the nearby creek
and right into his path.

Every tale is a chapter in a book called,
“You kids don’t know how
good you got it.”
He sits with two other guys
his own age,
on the bench outside
“Henry’s Hardware Store.”

All three of them
wrote the same book.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, River And South and The Alembic. Latest books, Subject Matters, Between Two Fires, and Covert are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Paterson Literary Review, White Wall Review and Cantos.

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08/29/2025

From Volume 1, Issue 3 Summer 2025:

Shrink Wrapped
by Matthew J. Hall

The idea assumed; cocoon
filmed and wrapped time
and drafts of myself,
Am I close? Professor?

With rubber handed joy,
a precise ploy, paper degree,
a diploma to see the bodies
buried; the latter end
china skull borstal,

A cold dinner disk,
above my heart,
vitals and breath,
to warm my chest,

You think you’re slick,
with analyst technique,
a silver brow to feign
interest? You? With PHD?

See, I know you,
cat walk doctor,
vinyl run away,
corridor casualty,
how you love a good
case,

Sherlock, by Jove,
you’ve nutcracked it,
had a good look in,
walked up and hacked it,
you’ve caught him, Shrink
wrapped him up and cling
filmed his mind,

Perhaps they’ll give you
a medal
this time.


Matthew J. Hall is an emerging contemporary poet, artist, writer and director; his work often tackles existential questions, personal experience and the human condition, through a voice inspired by other poets such as Sexton, Plath, Lowell, Snodgrass and Armitage. He has been featured in Apros*xia Lit and is a frequent performer within the Yorkshire poetry scene, being a member of the winning team of the 25' inter-university poetry 'Say Owt' slam. He attempts to wrestle weighty topics such as death, love, s*x and despair in often surrealist and free verse scapes and projections of thought.

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08/24/2025

From Volume 1, Issue 3 Summer 2025

Resurrection
by May Garner

You do not ask what broke me—
instead, you show up with quiet hands,
a tool kit tucked behind your heart.

Under moonlight, you kneel beside my shattered ribs,
tighten the bolts behind my breath, the catch in my throat,
change the bulbs in each eye every time they flicker.

You call it routine maintenance.
I call it my resurrection.

May Garner is a poet and author based outside of Dayton, Ohio. She has been dedicated to crafting and sharing her work online for over a decade. She is the author of two poetry collections, Withered Rising and Melancholic Muse. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies and magazines, including Querencia Press, Cozy Ink Press, and the Ohio Bards. You can find more of her work on Instagram (.hands).

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