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A Gathering Together: Literary Journal
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A Gathering Together: Literary Journal
past issues
interviews and features
about us
past issues
interviews and features
about us

Julia Mallory, Sanctuary, (Just Resting My Eyes series), 2023, Mixed-media collage on paper, 11 in.  x 14 in.

Spring 2024

Sanctuary The Editors

Essay
Gates We Can't Close Wallace Rose Belongs

Poetry
sum’n (or sunflower seeds & hot mamas)/my muva (or James, Audre, Gil, & Nikki)Xaviére R. Smith
no contact/i tasted hell and it wasn’t so bad Dylan Aasha
Quantum Entanglement: The Warmth of Other Suns/When Grief Was But a Word Maxime Banks
In Praise of Palmettos and Other Invasive Roots/Love Letter with False Start Constance Collier-Mercado
Windows: A Burning Haibun/The Chair/Notes on Living or Landing/Hold Still KeeShawn Murphy

A Gathering Together is a journal that resists the easy and often unsophisticated attempt to say profound things in the moment, without deep contemplation, or in the heat of discursive battle. Building upon John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie’s words, we seek to build a place that cultivates and discusses improvised acts of taking ourselves from here to there. We publish works that simultaneously transcend and address the moment they speak from, works that will last beyond the creator’s last breath and still be relevant, and/or works that put the writer and reader in conversation with the intellectual thought of Ancestors of all kinds. In the end, we offer a gathering of works that endure and elevate us to a space of inquiry and move us toward resolution of not only the challenges that mark our lives but also those that can no longer be our realities.

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