/ kä • jē • bē / Co-founded in 2017. A literary journal publishing quarterly online issues and an annual print issue. Also, an annual Macaron Prize in poetry & prose, and writing retreats.
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Cagibi: a literary space
What a joy, to find our poetry editor Jeanne-Marie Osterman's book "Shellback" on the poetry reading list of The Academy of American Poets.
The Academy of American Poets' Reading List for the 25th Anniversary of #NationalPoetryMonth includes SHELLBACK.
https://palomapress.net/tag/shellback/ Jeanne-Marie Osterman
Issue 13 on Tuesday! Cagibi's quarterly online journal of poetry & prose, and works in translation.
https://cagibilit.com/issue-13-in-flight-landing-tuesday-april-20/
Cagibi Issue 13 Works And Contributions By: Aefa MulhollandAmaranta Caballero PradoArden LevineBarry PearceBen PowellBrian YapkoCB BradyCharles GroselCharles HoldeferClare […]
"Like sparrows on a line when the train comes through, the group went still at the noise we made. All 30 of them. All shapes and sizes, teens to middle-aged, in sweats and jeans, mainly, and mostly men. Many were disfigured."
Flash memoir piece from our current issue by Mickey Greaves.
by Mickey Greaves
"The dog knows better
which way in the darkness to go"
Click to read the full poem by Christine Jones.
Image Stéphane Cocke
by Christine Jones
Sunday poem by Kathleen Loe.
Image Nadia Belalia
by Kathleen Loe
THE ESSENTIALS: There is still time to submit! Send us your work for our print issue 2021, to be published later this year! We are now accepting submissions — please spread the word!
Visual artists: there is also a photography and artwork category!
https://cagibilit.com/submission-guidelines/
Cagibi accepts and reads submissions year round.
"I woke to a faint aroma of cinnamon that hung in the air.
The pungent bark helped my mother’s chronic abdominal pain. When she drank tea she added a sliver of cinnamon bark to help settle her stomach. The backdoor was left open and it was gray outside. In the pale light of dawn I saw her pick peppercorns that came down in deep green jade from a vine around the trunk of an areca.
I didn’t feel like getting up, but I knew I had to get going to catch Chim’s boat."
Continue reading below, a short story by Khanh Ha.
Image Olga Breydo
by Khanh Ha
A postcard from Colorado by Marlie McGovern for your reading pleasure this morning:
"When I think of you, alone and together meld like molten gold. I write to you on a golden morning just beyond the summer solstice, this late June light is an immersion into liquid gold..."
https://cagibilit.com/linger-here-postcard-from-boulder-colorado/
by Marlie McGovern
Tuesday reading: from issue 12, this short story by Carla Miriam Levy.
"When he was finished he tapped the shaver against the sink to knock the hairs out of it. He set it back in its case, lying open on the shelf above the sink, and ruffled Carter’s hair on his way out.
She was alone with the shaver, and she gazed at it like it was a holy relic. She reached for it and caressed its chrome body, still warm from her dad’s hand, like a living thing with a heartbeat inside of it."
by Carla Miriam Levy
Submit now for our print issue 2021, to be published later this year! Our editors look forward to reading your work. We are now accepting submissions — please spread the word!
Visual artists: there is also a photography and artwork category!
https://cagibilit.com/submission-guidelines/
Cagibi accepts and reads submissions year round.
"Our children, at their respective ages of six and three, struggle daily to separate truth from the mires of myth, fantasy, and dream. My son dreams that his bed, of which he’s fond, spit at him. For two days afterwards tears spring to his eyes at the recollection of that dream. He just can’t figure out why his bed would do such a thing."
An essay on writing, memory, fantasy and truth, from our current issue.
by Elizabeth Templeman
Issue 12! Contributors Beth Kephart // Boris Kokotov // Carla Miriam Levy // Christine Jones // Claudette Sherlock // Don Boes // Elizabeth Templeman // Gabriella Bedetti // George Franklin // Henri Meschonnic // James Ellenberger // Kathleen Loe // kerry rawlinson // Khanh Ha // Krijn Peter Hesselink // Larisse Mondok // Michael Hetherton // Mickey Greaves // Micki Blenkush // Mikhail Aizenberg // Suzanne Garcia Pino // Ximena Gómez
https://cagibilit.com/issue-12/
Welcome to Cagibi Issue 12.
That is tomorrow! Come back and check it out.
Beth KephartBoris KokotovCarla Miriam LevyChristine JonesClaudette SherlockDon BoesElizabeth TemplemanGabriella BedettiGeorge FranklinHenri MeschonnicJames EllenbergerKathleen Loekerry rawlinsonKhanh HaKrijn Peter HesselinkLarisse […]
"Found in the Dictator's Desk" and "Calculations." Two poems by David Allen Sullivan. Or why poetry is always timely.
Found in the Dictator’s Desk // Calculations
"There’s a rebellious cornerstone you reach when you’re a kid on the Wirral, children from the new estates roaming dark streets, in a thrill because you know you should be home, but you share a buzz with the street lamps, like they’re trying to show you all the mad sh*t you overlook in daylight, and that if you go home now you might miss a smackhead running in circles, or a lost tenner blowing against a curb, or a game of Truth and Dare with girls who ignore curfews."
This personal essay by Edward Little is quite a ride to read. Hope you enjoy it as we do.
Image by Olga Breydo
by Edward Little
Today's postcard is from Oregon, to the man wearing flip-flops at the protest, by Kira Smith.
"I didn’t have the courage to ask you when you reached down to help me to my feet after the die-in."
READ at https://cagibilit.com/postcard-from-oregon/
by Kira Smith
"... Dad seized every opportunity to instill Americana in me, especially when it came to TV, movies, and pop culture. However, he refused to abandon two sacred tenets from our Filipino roots: eating rice and respecting one’s elders. ..."
Today's entry in our On The Ground series of short nonfiction essays. Enjoy!
https://cagibilit.com/thank-you-karen-arnold/
by Kristen Gaerlan
What a night! It was wonderful to be able to hold this first virtual event celebrating the Cagibi 2020 print issue. Such powerful readings by our contributors. Thank you so much everyone for making this happen.
If you've missed it, you can watch it by clicking on the Dec 8 link below. And while you are it, register to next week's event!
https://cagibilit.com/event-program-2020-print-issue-celebration/
by Cagibi
Mark your calendars for this Tuesday's virtual reading, first of two Tuesdays to celebrate our 2020 print issue! The Event Program is now live on the Cagibi website — link below. Register in advance at the Crowdcast links provided there.
https://cagibilit.com/event-program-2020-print-issue-celebration/
by Cagibi
Cagibi’s nominees for the 2020 Pushcart Prize! Good luck to these writers—we hope to see their work win this prize and appear in the The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series.
Becca Carson
Hatcher Grey
Chris Stuck
Jared Green
Mathina Calliope
Ranbir Sidhu
https://cagibilit.com/cagibis-nominations-for-the-2021-pushcart-prize/
Join our editors in congratulating Cagibi’s nominees for the 2020 Pushcart Prize! Good luck to these writers—we hope to […]
We're proud too!
We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—launching new issues in late October and November 2020, including Anomalous Press, Broken Pencil Magazine, Cagibi, Chestnut Review, The Common, Conjunctions & Friction!
Today, a postcard by Kyra Simone! "Return to Sender: Postcard from Tbilisi" —
"This place invokes no memory of childhood. If it does it is one that is buried or imagined—what I thought “far away” was when I lay in bed at night as a girl. ..."
Read at https://cagibilit.com/return-to-sender-postcard-from-tbilisi/
by Kyra Simone
This story--you must read it in full.
"Magda inspects the carcass, the scars inscribed on its hull-shaped head like ancient writing. She runs her hands along the jagged saw of its open mouth. Her copper tendrils radiate in the rising sun and the crowd barely moves, knowing that they’re before something older than time, and stranger. We prepare to make the incision. The documentarians frame us in tight close-ups. We are serious and somber and I wonder if they can understand how much we are meant to be in love. I wonder if they know what it is they are seeing."
by Jared Green
From Issue 11, "Inland Story" by Christopher Wood, a writer based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Above the bed the glass had frosted over. Stray droplets of condensation ran down the pane and cleared the odd line, but not enough to let in the world beyond. Darshana instinctively worried about running the air conditioning like this. They don’t charge for it, do they? she asked, but she felt stupid saying it. ...
Read at https://cagibilit.com/inland-story/
by Christopher Wood
From Issue 11, two poems by Brazilian-born Italian and translingual writer Julio Monteiro Martins, from his final poetry collection, La grazia di casa mia, published in 2013. Translated by Donald Stang and Helen Wickes.
... There would be another me
awaiting
in my homeland.
A useless wait,
a glitch.
If we encountered each other today
we would not
recognize one another. ...
Read at https://cagibilit.com/in-translation-two-poems-by-julio-monteiro-martins/
trans. Donald Stang & Helen Wickes
From Issue 11 — a short story "For Weightlessness" by Alexandra Apuzzo
"... I have started writing back to her: there is no such thing as lightness. I am choking on time. I am choking on the smell of you burning."
https://cagibilit.com/for-weightlessness/
by Alexandra Apuzzo
A personal narrative essay from Issue 11! "Honeymoon 2002" by Christina S Yovovich
"A series of three pictures taken during my honeymoon show me smiling. ..."
https://cagibilit.com/honeymoon-2002/
#amreading
by Christina Socorro Yovovich
From Issue 11! Hot off the press. A short story "Shelf Life" by Kyra Simone
"... Her hands are young and unused, like those of an heiress who has never lifted a finger. She keeps them out of sight, hidden in the sleeves of her new kimono and wrapped around her body, like wings. ..."
https://cagibilit.com/shelf-life/
Photo artwork by Olga Breydo
by Kyra Simone
"Blessed are the deserters. Every
dying narcissist wishes on a satellite
to be as memorable as
all of the plastic and Styrofoam
we already know will outlive us."
Click to read this poem in full. By Becca Carson
Image Nadia Belalia Design
by Becca Carson
Issue 11 interview with Rachel Louise Snyder-No Visible Bruises "I spoke in Dallas last week to a ballroom full of people of all political stripes who believed abusers should lose their guns. This gives me hope."
Interview by Lavonne Roberts
https://cagibilit.com/rachel-louise-snyder-on-domestic-violence/
by Lavonne Elaine Roberts
Cagibi's cover photo
Live today! We are so grateful to these contributors, and to everyone who made this possible! ❤️🙏 https://cagibilit.com/issue-11/
Welcome to Cagibi Issue 11.
Two years ago, Cagibi held its first writing retreat. Imagine this: a bunch of writers, strangers to each other, some flying from the West coast, coming together to spend a long weekend in a rental home upstate NY. Sharing a house! Some of them a room! And between meals, participating in daily workshops led by the inspiring Terri Muuss and Matt Pasca. What a time!
This year's fall retreat in France was postponed for obvious reasons. But Cagibi will continue to dream and imagine and hopefully soon manifest this again--strangers coming together for food, creativity, place, inspiration, and community.
Thanks again to all of our alumni!
“Cagibi created a perfect environment. I came out feeling motivated and reinvigorated. I came out with specific action steps. Do not change a thing!” —a participant
Cagibi 2020 print issue is out in the world! If you pre-ordered, you should be getting your copy very soon. Thank you to all our contributors, our Macaron judges and hundreds of contest participants. And huge thanks to our heroic team at Cagibi--we couldn't have put this together without your continuing work and passion.
To order a copy, click here:
https://cagibilit.com/product/cagibi-2020-print-issue/
CAGIBI’s 2020 print issue. This issue brings you: This year’s Macaron Prize winners and finalists, with introductions from […]
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