Volume 9
The Main Squeeze team is thrilled to present forty-six pieces in Volume 9 that awed us, dazed us, made us jump up from our seats or lay on the floor (sometimes both). From the visual arts of photography, collage, and physical and digital drawing to the writing arts of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that eagerly avoid strict definition, the writing in this issue embraces everything language is and isn’t, to its vague divinity and sharp disregularity, the space it takes up in the mouth as well as the mind. These pieces speak to each other, to the object of art itself, and connect to the electric thread that is being alive.
Staff
- Editor-in-Chief: Parker Boom
- Fiction Editors: Emily Parker, Liam Bull, Justin Horton, Cheyenne Nieto
- Poetry Editors: Sierra Jameson, Ellipses Griffin, Rowan Johnson
- Nonfiction Editors: Cheyenne Nieto, Jessie Vaughan
- Art Editor: Kirstin Mains
- Design & Layout: Emily Parker
- Communication & PR: Sammy Recino, Jessie Vaughan
Main Squeeze Volume 9 Cover by Morgan Kaura
It Happens in a Different Year by Nathaniel Brame (poetry)
manic pixie dream boy by b. h. fein (poetry)
When The Clever Animals had to Die by Evan Chapin (fiction)
Universal Breakdown by Emily Alcaraz (art)
the ornamental cherry tree […] by Lindsay Loughin (poetry)
Bobbing for Kelp by Aydin Eliason (poetry)
The Kraken by Josh Patton (fiction)
Ocean Rock by KJ Hannah Greenberg (art)
Crazy Crab Poem by Aydin Eliason (poetry)
All this weight by Thomas Holton (poetry)
oxidize by Poch Saldana (poetry)
Wherever You Are by Rebekah Hopp (nonfiction)
Merry Go Round NO. 2 by Morgan Kaura (art)
Wall Study by Poch Saldana (poetry)
OREGON by Nathaniel Krenkel (poetry)
Nameless by Guillermo Jaro (art)
Ribbons and Sequins by JB Cordez (poetry)
Pink drinks for my mud buddies by Poch Saldana (poetry)
The Best in the World by Cathy Ulrich (fiction)
Chalk and Elmers Glue by Sam Veres (poetry)
View10 by KJ Hannah Greenberg (art)
Untitled by Sarah Jade Stokes (fiction)
Spider Web by Ollie Ollinghouse (poetry)
Midnight Snack by Lion Leonis (art)
TOY SOLDIERS by MICHAEL CHANG (poetry)
tiktok stoic man by b. h. fein (poetry)
LANGUAGE BEING SPEECH […] by Joe Kunkel (poetry)
Merry Go Round by Morgan Kaura (art)
HOTWHEELS by Aydin Eliason (poetry)
Slug Sonnet with Approx. 27,000 Teeth by Josh Patton (poetry)
Gender Envy by Lion Leonis (art)
From the Stoner, Hundreds of Miles Away by Sam Veres (poetry)
Co-Worker Part 3 by Rhiannon Cielos Chavez (nonfiction)
Melatonin Gummies by Lindsay Loughin (poetry)
DUPLEX — HOMECOMING by Asher Marin (poetry)
Coyote Bathroom by Rebekah Hopp (fiction)
Missing Nature by Lion Leonis (art)
Late last night by Joe Kunkel (poetry)
Julia, oh Julia by Sarah Jade Stokes (fiction)
Hillside by Jade Harper (art)
The Safe House by David Gilbert (fiction)
Azazel by Joe Kunkel (poetry)
The Signifier by Rhiannon Cielos Chavez (poetry)
Davy Crockett Wiggins Was Here by Guillermo Jaro (art)
See double you by Mags Brown (poetry)
Merry Go Round No. 5 by Morgan Kaura (art)
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