Bracken Magazine

07/01/2025

This is it, our thirteenth issue of Bracken! May it serve your spirit!

Yes, dear fellow quirky mortal peering into this humbly offered selection of words and pictures we’ll call Issue XIII of Bracken…

05/09/2025

Heart keeps starting off on the trail of Martha Silano's brilliant soul.... Here's her poem in Bracken X, January 2023...

The fog-tinged sky. The slatted sunporch floor. My mother’s brooch in the shape of a heart...

05/01/2025

Here, friends, from our Issue XII (while we're composing Issue XIII...), a poem of love and grief at the nexus of nature and human nature...

Sixteen, you say you’ll be a Piney. Live alone in a crude hut, hunt squirrel and possum, spit your to***co. Sure you could lose a lot of sins in a million acres of ugly Pygmy Pines...

04/19/2025

A meditative poem in Bracken Issue XII that seems to subtly suit these moments...

Tiny wings are helicoptering off the maples onto fresh mulch.

04/13/2025

These times call for felt reminders of our mysterious nature. Poetry, art...

Warm greetings across the waters! Bracken is open to submissions for Issue XIII only till the end of April! We're watching intently for the exquisite shimmer... https://brackenmagazine.submittable.com/submit

04/13/2025

Warm greetings across the waters! Bracken is open to submissions for Issue XIII only till the end of April! We're watching intently for the exquisite shimmer... https://brackenmagazine.submittable.com/submit

04/02/2025

"Confirmation"

04/02/2025

Our Issue XII cover artist Faizan Adil invites the viewer to see not only the image but the viewer's attributions to the image!...

"Confirmation"

03/17/2025

I heard the tree groan under the weight. Each crimson globe shining with its burden of sweetness and regret.

03/17/2025

Revisiting this magnificently honed poem by Jennifer Bullis in our current issue--lines that live in the ecotone between nature and human nature...

I heard the tree groan under the weight. Each crimson globe shining with its burden of sweetness and regret.

03/09/2025

The collection describes processes of finding and losing balance. As such, the poems are deliberately a little off-kilter in their meter and rhyme schemes...

03/09/2025

Featuring here this interview/dialogue with Sati Mookherjee that we're blessed to have in our current Issue XII...

The collection describes processes of finding and losing balance. As such, the poems are deliberately a little off-kilter in their meter and rhyme schemes...