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From the Archives: Digital Issues 1 to 5 Available Again

When Plenitude Magazine first started in 2012, we published traditional issues in print and digital versions. Five issues in total were published before we transitioned to an online-only format, with content posted regularly each month to our website. The first five issues were no longer digitally...

Literature Oliver Brooks Poetry

In My Molting Season

When you tell me to run, I can’t help but wonder if you really mean me or the busy blue heron to the right of me, its neck like an enchanted oboe charming the residents of the river where fish swarm in wild despair—because surely this danger is a farce, surely not all gators bite. To the insect...

Fiction Literature Renée D. Bondy

Hunger

I was a gluttonous child. From their first tentative offerings of pap, my parents knew I wanted more. They could see it in the way I grabbed at the spoon and the bowl, the way my nostrils flared and I screeched when they were not ready with the next bite. They discarded The Common Sense Book of...

Gordon Taylor Literature Poetry

Short Turn

fog swirls in my water ~  glass ~  rain hashtags the window ~ heaven ~ was closer to earth ~ in ancient Greece ~ goddesses wore the same cloaks as us ~ strolling in marketplaces ~ pulling lightning from pockets ~ in the shape of windflowers ~ aster and iris as currency ~ to pay for pomegranate ~...

Genre Bender Kay Kassirer Literature

shapeless paradox & kay’s hope passed away

Kay Kassirer (they/them) is a white queer poet whose autobiographical work focuses on grief, disability, and sex work. Kay curated and edited A Whore’s Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers published by Thornapple Press. Their work can be found in Frontier, Foglifter, Button...