The Fourth River

Check out our latest "Collaborations" issue if you haven't already! Thank you to our wonderful editors and contributors for crafting such a beautiful collection! thefourthriver.com

SUBMISSION PERIOD OPEN! Happy Disability Pride Month! The Fourth River welcomes submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and visual art that explore the nuance of disability, regardless of how apparent they may seem.

"Home is a heavy place a mass of gravitational consequence an island of volcanic rock and hot memory How many times I've agreed" -- from "Good Grief" by Trevor Moffa, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"A series of parties commence that I almost tolerate. A last hurrah followed by a fallow. A sustained rest from the cacophony." -- from "College Townie" by Andrew Zubiri, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"Dissassociation begins While you are negotiating The roadblocks," -- from "Azovstal" by Tatiana Retivov, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"Shadbush dangled over the bank, spicing April air. White petals swirled in tight eddies before a pool where pearl dace glittered [...]" -- by Richard Jordan, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"if the sea wasn't so half-asleep, it would have gifted them a home in the wrapping" -- from "deep, deep sea" by Prosper C. Ìféányí, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"Everything was red once— your bra popped behind the backseat, liquor mixed into wine, poppies breathing out from the graves" -- from "Bloom" by Lauren Elaine Jeter, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"The satellite in what was your yard brings questions to me from afar. Are you the one sending them from wherever it is you are?" -- from "Calling" by Deron Eckert, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"we were sun bruised cheeks and love bruised thighs, we were read eyes, redeyes." -- from "Minnow" by Elizabeth Levinson, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"Dug deep as claws could bear, half-moon black and stinking as the rot of the fallen—" -- from "Overwinter", Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"I believe that the willow has been watching you, because the good occurs for all who find delight in it." -- from "The Willowish Hue of an Inverted Relief" by David M. Alper, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

Friends, I have not one but three poems published in the newest issue of @thefourthriver. Here’s one that mentions the beautiful turquoise house I lived in while in Roanoke, VA. Please get yourself a copy if you’re able, and if not, send me a text, and I’ll take photos for you 💚

"draw your thumb down the surface of this stone knot and dent              thrum like bone the knot of sky, the dent of lip— where a river refuses to forget the gravity that moves it" - Mary Crockett Hill, Tributaries (link in bio) #NationalPoetryMonth #TheFourthRiver

"I conjure myself as a horse in their herd, running flank-to-flank to Delsea Drive. Would I steer us to the Delaware River or the Atlantic if I were leading?" -- from "Weak Link" By Tomra Vecere, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"Men came by the house near old Tanasi with polite stares hunting hooch and spring water," -- from "Ebullition of Spirits" by Micah Daniel McCrotty, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"I tell you that you can always know a crow by their laborious flight that you can know them in the air" -- from "The Flight of Crows" by Danny Solomon, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"draw your thumb down the surface of this stone knot and dent thrum like bone" -- "Rapture" by Mary Crockett Hill, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"Your life, for once, feels ripe to you, an orchard of futures ready to be plucked and devoured. In these late summer months, you feel dizzied with it, as though you are sun-drunk." -- from "Valencia" by Daphne Rose, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"Will there always be these awful months of fear when i am foam of the sea" -- from "I Wake Up & Deja Vu" by Idman Omar, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…

"It is either the dying of a country or the country of bodies Stacking an unrest to the molecules of nature, agitated" -- From "Nowhere to Run" By Olumide Manuel, Tributaries thefourthriver.com/tributaries-ne…