Poetry & Prose
The Pinch Journal Online publishes essays, stories, and verse several times a year. We feature work that intersects with current culture and that interacts with our digital world. We’ve been publishing authors in our online journal since 2012. It serves as a sister publication to the print version of the Pinch.
Traveling with you is being hungry, always. We prowl the sites like jackals, waiting for our chance to jump. Hot, sugary churros chased down by beer after beer at the ancient bar behind the new colonialist temple, and the ruins of the older Aztec one where we ducked in to escape the rain and warm our July-cooled bones, and stayed until we were as dry and comfortable as the dogs we are, our conversation the only fire, and the music, and the only other people in the place another couple, she with heavy, tightly constrained hips and red, plum-red, hair.
“My boyfriend shows up at my apartment with his face made up like a hideous monster. It’s not Halloween, but he’s an amateur actor, so I’m more surprised than shocked.”
“A week after Mom leaves, Dad tells us to stop asking about her. A postcard arrives. We recognize Mom’s handwriting. Dad snatches it away.”
Second-year MFA student finalist in Palette Poetry contest.
Second-year MFA student publishes in Redivider
Senior Poetry Editor for issue 44.2 publishes in Hunger Mountain.
Schlich’s second book comes out Tuesday, January 16, 2023. Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife, explores belief and forgiveness as a boy grapples with his faith and sexuality on a rollicking family road trip to Bible World.
Our selections for 2023’s Pushcart nominations! Congrats to our contributors and good luck!