Delicate Friend Issue #11 OUT NOW!

Get ready to sweat. Delicate Friend Issue #11: OVERPOUR is out now, featuring poetry, prose, and visual art by seven incredible creatives. delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"I didn’t lose my virginity / too early. By then it was too late." So concludes our features for Issue #11: OVERPOUR! Read @Jimjakk's poems in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"[B]lubbering not / from shock, not pain, / but from losing again / (strapped down this time) / the god-thighed piano / tuner, my month-dead / heart..." Read James Kangas's poignant poem in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"You need to be reminded of barbarity and the outer reaches of deviance." Read Joe Sonnenblick's haunting poem in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"I was thinking about the random detached feet that wash up on beaches sometimes, and how some of them are still inside shoes..." Find Lesley Warren's striking prose piece in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

Check out @sebisdrawing's gorgeous piece, "beauty and love," in full on our site, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"The way your moustache falls over / the corners of your upper mouth / like a flyover. I want to know if it ever / falls into your cup of milk when you drink..." Read @morleyxoxo's poems in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

"I bet you think things I could NeverEver think, / and I want it! I want you, I want warmth, / I don’t want to be alone!" Read @everyepithet's stunning poem in full here, alongside the work of six other creatives: delicatefriend.com/current-issue

SEB’S ART IS IN HERE!!!!! 🎉

@morleyxoxo You said it loudly, and you said it well

@sebisdrawing Thank you for gracing us with your art ❣️

🍷 thank you @delicatelit for giving me the incredible opportunity to contribute to this beautiful publication! 🙏✨ it's an honor to be featured alongside such talented people :D

@ardentlywritten ❣️❣️❣️

@delicatelit i love y’all so much 🥺🥺🥺

not this again not this again (yes, this again)

@ardentlywritten We still think/talk about this poem so often

this is so “rejected werewolf fantasy” published by @delicatelit lmaoooo

Featuring @everyepithet, @morleyxoxo, @Jimjakk, James Kangas, Joe Sonnenblick, Lesley Warren, and @sebisdrawing!

Get ready to sweat. Delicate Friend Issue #11: OVERPOUR is out now, featuring poetry, prose, and visual art by seven incredible creatives. delicatefriend.com/current-issue

Wanna read a speculative love poem about top surgery? @delicatelit and I got you: delicatefriend.com/haley-bosse/

Delicate Friend is open for submissions to our unthemed eleventh issue through May 15th, 2023 at 11:59 PM EDT! We pay $10+ to contributors upon issue release. Send us your burning yearning, your half-remembered romantic dreams, your T4T fantasies— delicatefriend.com/submissions

@underscore_mag @AothenMagazine @muffiemagazine @ScrawlPlace @TBQuarterly @DivinationsMag @fifthwheelpress @SpiritusMund1 @USdotorg @ratworldmag @dollarstoremag Thank you for the shoutout!

happy st patrick’s day and happy #ff! here are some mags and presses that we’re excited about 🤩 @AothenMagazine @muffiemagazine @ScrawlPlace @delicatelit @TBQuarterly @DivinationsMag @fifthwheelpress @SpiritusMund1 @USdotorg @ratworldmag @dollarstoremag

Our final BODYLOVE double-feature. Take one last drive along the coastline with @sober_poet; internalize validation's only truth, articulated by three-time Delicate Friend contributor @ararthurwriter. Revisit @flower_dommy's immaculate issue in full here: delicatefriend.com/current-issue