Main Squeeze Literary JournalWe are Southern Oregon University's student-run literary magazine organized by Creative Writing students! For the 2024 issue, we are looking for works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual art. Submit today!
Had I not been a boy but a triangle instead, a patch of asphalt shaped thereof, or the steel that keeps the swing-set in the ground at Delaney Park, you would’ve seen me, touched me, remembered me. As a boy (there are a million boys), all I did was stutter and laugh, look up at […]
the arena has been set the frog jumps from its pixel bit bit bit bit cheers from the bleachers Tommy laughing as the frog leaps bit bit bit bit the blazing sun beats down I don’t own a Gameboy how am I playing this? Gracie Britton is a Creative writing major at SOU. She loves […]
with a lillie mae song splay-footed the straight lick lightning wastes nothing digs deeper in derelict otherness strips me to my old ink honestly this beating brought me home with elsewhere ohio offers me walking off & away good lord off & away all the time i don’t like being told what to do so […]
⠀⠀⠀A white white is not heavy, a wide white can encompass many but light and nothing lite does not mean light there is no fire it doesn’t even exist and can’t spew out of the stove burners burning until it’s bitter and slid into the trash like the balls of pepper seed on your tongue […]
this poetry is a shutter of four: i. a stray dream. ii. an august instinct. iii. opium. and iv. solitude. the room still wears the scent of your skin. pristine. it sets me on fire. the fire you only can kill. i taste the whistling air. it leaves your name on my tongue. the photographs […]
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