Welcome to Writers Resist, the September 2023 Issue
As Mercedes Lawry writes in the closing poem of this issue, “This Time, Ukraine,” how do we watch from afar? How do we watch the countless ravages and failures that populate mass media, our devices, even over-the-fence gossips?
The impulse to look away is strong, but the need to maintain the focus—long enough, at least, to see the truth—is dire.
And so it is that we continue to create and share and publish—and hope. In this issue you’ll see truths of the climate crisis, unregulated weapons and bullying, assaults on reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights.
And you will see hope—in the very acts of creating and publishing these truths. Many thanks to the following contributing writers and artists. and to our readers.
Janis Butler Holm “Skull Fries“
Amy Cook “Amendments“
Amelia Díaz Ettinger “The Lure of Socks on Warm Feet“
Ariel M. Goldenthal “A Sunday in October“
Christina Hennemann “The Mind-Plough“
Emily Hockaday “The first day of cherry season“
Mercedes Lawry “This Time, Ukraine“
Kelsey D. Mahaffey “Ho’oponopono“
M.R. Mandell “Crying in Texas“
Jeremy Nathan Marks “Montana“
Janna Miller “Campers Rarely Drown at the YMCA“
Nancy Squires “Two Poems“
Mark Williams “It’s Complicated“
Join them and the Writers Resist editors Saturday 14 October 2023 for Writers Resist Reads, a virtual literary celebration of this issue. Email WritersResist@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
And, thank you for reading! If you appreciate creative resistance and would like to support it, you can make a small, medium or large donation to Writers Resist from our Give a Sawbuck page.