I. On the tarpaulin I lay your body, cold and rigid as the geometry you love. Tiny invaders already hunger, stretching their wings and cilia in prayer. The banana-yellow mud tastes of forever, and when I sink to my knees the puddles run clear with eggs of sated flies. In worship they will subsume your … Continue reading Outfield by Hal Y. Zhang
Gray has completed two poetry collections, Contested Terrain, FutureCycle Press, 2017 and Overwatch, published by Grey Sparrow Press, 2011. His work has appeared in The Sewanee Review, Appalachian Heritage, Rattle: Poets Respond, Syntax & Salt, The Good Men Project, Still, and War, Literature and the Arts among many other journals. Gray holds an MFA from The Sewanee School of Letters and … Continue reading Theseus in Baghdad by D.A. Gray
Gemma Mahadeo (she/they) is a Melbourne-based, London-born writer and occasional musician whose poetry and non-fiction has appeared in online and print journals throughout Australia. Gemma blogs drink & zine reviews on eat, drink, stagger and edits reviews for Melbourne Spoken Word when not writing poetry or reviewing books, or reading submissions for Syntax & Salt and can be found online … Continue reading Two Pieces by Gemma Mahadeo
Brynn McCall is a high school student from Denver, Colorado with an endless file of unfinished work. She loves poetry and graphic novels, and is hoping that capes soon come back into style. Find updates or future works on her blog. 1.In the beginning, there was rust and oil and her hands wrapped around her … Continue reading Genesis by Brynn McCall
Gretchen Tessmer is a writer/attorney based in the U.S./Canadian borderlands of Northern New York. She writes both poetry and short fiction, with work appearing in Nature, Strange Horizons and Daily Science Fiction, among other venues. You can find her on Twitter and Tumblr. in poorly designed seasonsI stand in smoldering fields, fidgetingwith fingers dug deepin … Continue reading Demeter’s Daughter by Gretchen Tessmer
Courtney O’Banion Smith writes, edits, and raises her sons in Houston, Texas. Her work has appeared in several print and online publications including The Ekphrastic Review and Relief. Find her on Twitter @cobanionsmith. You can also find Courtney here. What was it like? Well, we believedour little corner was everythingand like everywhere else and always would … Continue reading Around the Fire by Courtney O’Banion Smith
Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His poetry has appeared in inkscrawl, Liminality, and West Branch, among others. Find him on Twitter as @_vajra. When the water rises to the kneeto the thighwhen my calves are strong from wadingmy antlers grown in at long last bone branching like lightning seeking older earth a narrower … Continue reading Vajrakantakasalmali by Vajra Chandrasekera
An introduction to HWL, by Ani King, EiC: YOU MIGHT WONDER why Syntax & Salt, a magazine focused on speculative fiction, and only recently dipping a toe into poetry, might be publishing HWL, a terrific send up of tech culture, based on Howl, which is perhaps the most well known Allen Ginsberg poem of his … Continue reading HWL by Margo Stern
Syntax & Salt Magazine is thrilled to announce that it will publish its first poetry feature issue, Future Myths in October 2018, with special guest editors and contributing staff members, Elizabeth Archer and D.A. Gray. The Editors: Elizabeth Archer had it made as a National Merit Scholar, but sadly her only ambition was to write. … Continue reading The Poetry Issue: Future Myths – Call for Submissions
D.A. Gray is the author of one previous collection of poems, Overwatch, Grey Sparrow Press, 2011. His poetry has appeared in The Sewanee Review, Appalachian Heritage, Kentucky Review, The Good Men Project, Still: The Journal, War, Literature and the Arts among many other journals. Gray recently completed his graduate work at The Sewanee School of … Continue reading Sirena by D.A. Gray