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OyeDrum's 2023 Best of the Net Nominees: Valeka Cruz, Marianne Hales, Carmen Calatayud and Sally Quon!
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OyeDrum's volume six open call!OyeDrum Magazine is a volunteer-run independent publisher of creative, experimental, and explorative work produced exclusively by women...
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Happy Anniversary! Let's keep OyeDrum alive!Happy anniversary to us! Support the only all female volunteer-run online journal/press that celebrates and...
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February 2023 | OyeDrum Lovin'🔮💜 February News Happy Valentine's Night! It might be winter, but things are caliente here at...
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OyeDrum Magazine 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominees🎉 Notes to the Ghost of a Suicide Now NamelessArya F. Jenkins PerilCarla Cherry Body...
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An Afternoon Dedicated to Experimental & Hybrid Art & Artists! With Special Guest Ava Koohbor. Join us Saturday, December 3rd...
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OyeDrum's Best of the Net Nominations! 2022🎉 Poetry: Jenny Dunbar's "The surprising occurrence ghosts" Karen L. George's "Emily Carr’s...
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OyeDrum Magazine's Volume 5 Open Call! OyeDrum Magazine is an intersectional feminist community that publishes explorative, creative, experimental and intellectual...
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OyeDrum's 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominations!🎉 Laundry Day by Ilaria Cortesi Congratulations and good luck to all of these very talented...
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OyeDrum's 2021 Best of the Net Nominations!
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August 2021 Announcements!
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You’re invited to our party on Saturday May 29th @ 1PM (EST), celebrating Volume 4:Secrets and Lies! Join us for...
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The Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of OyeDrum Magazine was interviewed on Coffee with Bao!
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OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: VOLUME 4! We are SUPER excited to share with you Volume 4’s theme! Drum roll please…....
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Friday I'm in Love: November Newsletter!The Curse of 2020…. Hey witches! Unfortunately, due to some personal challenges our staff is...
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OyeDrum Presents! Introducing OyeDrum Presents! OyeDrum Magazine’s Podcast Channel! The first podcast show we’re presenting is In Conversation With…, hosted...
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Trish Hopkinson Interviews our Editor-in-Chief About All Things OyeDrum and Open Call for Volume 3! ANNOUNCING VOLUME 3'S...
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OPEN CALL: VOLUME 3! ANNOUNCING VOLUME 3'S THEME! SEX. Oh my! Women's ability to talk...
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August Flowers, Newsletter & Announcements!Hello! We hope you’ve all been enjoying our Volume 2 issue on galaxies and stars. We’ve...
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Interviews / Reviews
How to Start a Coven: An Interview with Author Deirdre Danklin By Corinne Shearer
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All the Blood Involved in Love: A Review of Maya Marshall’s Poetry Collection By Corinne Shearer.
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Q & A with OyeDrum's new Writing & Hybrid Works Editor jo reyes-boitelBy Amarantha da CruzTell us about your background...
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Talking Trauma, Shakespeare, and Movement for Theater: A Conversation with Alexandra Beller by Corinne ShearerThere is an old superstition in...
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Corinne Shearer reviews Kaleena Madruga’s new collection, an exploration of pain, emotional and physical. Her narrator is like an open...
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Q & A with OyeDrum's volume five Poetry Editor allia abdullah-matta, by Amarantha da Cruz.
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A Walk Through The Woods with Linda Ferguson: A Review By Corinne Shearer After taking second place in their 2021...
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Writing in The Time of COVID-19 : A Review of Carla Rachel Sameth's What Is Left By Corinne Shearer Some...
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Transforming Trauma: Reclamations and Exclamations In R.E.I.L.'s Ashes to Justice By Corinne ShearerFor those missing in-person Poetry Slams, here’s one...
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An Interview with Jenny Qi: A look at grief, memory and science in her debut book Focal Point By...
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Nandini Bhattacharya's debut novel, Love's Garden, highlights the lives of 3 generations of Indian women living through a century of...
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Review of Christine Sloan Stoddard’s photography collection Hello, New York – The Living And Dead. KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ reviews Stoddard's...
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An interview by KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ with poet Kay Bell about her new chapbook. Bell discusses faith, form, family and...
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Amarantha da Cruz interviews musician and badass Shilpa Ray about her latest single "Heteronormative Horseshit Blues," her thoughts on gender...
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Ethical Adult Cinema: An Interview with Trailblazing Porn Director Erika LustBy Amarantha da CruzTrailblazing female porn director Erika Lust has...
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Poet, blogger and advocate Trish Hopkins talks with Alex Graffeo about feminist influences in her poetry, what she's working on,...
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What is the Resolution?: Christine Sloan Stoddard Urges Us To Stop and Reflect In Her Poetry Collection Heaven Is a...
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Kristine Esser Slentz latest interview with poet Steph Castor celebrating her second full length chapbook. Read all about Castor’s inspiration...
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A Review of The Meadow by Kristin Garthby Kristine Esser SlentzKristin Garth opens her chapbook with the declaration: “The Meadow is a sexual...
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"Poetry, Sex, and Being Unruly: a Conversation with Elysia Lucinda Smith"by Kristine Esser Slentz“maybe you’ve been taking it/up the ass...
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Hybrid & Writing 2023
Two poems by ire'ne lara silva poem for my kidneyswhat the curandera saidire’ne lara silva is the author of four...
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The Re/Sum of All Logos Under the I?’s Skin By Sherese Francis Plese click here.Sherese Francis (she/they) describes themselves as...
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from Ophelia By V.C. McCabeV.C. McCabe is the author of Ophelia (Femme Salvé Books, 2023) and Give the Bard a...
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Hunting for More By Anyély Goméz-Dickerson Señorita Suspiro set out on her customary morning ride after a cup of café...
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Las Cucarachas: A Story for Performance by Florinda Flores-Brown Denise was 7 and I was 8 when we met in...
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"Spell for a Full Moon in Mercury Retrograde, or: Prayer for La Llorona Who is Me" and "Dictionary (Revised)" by...
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Lazarus Women By Trish Hopkinson Lazarus Women--found remix from Margaret Fuller Ossoli’s “Appeal for an Asylum for Discharged Female Convicts”...
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If Sarah Franklin Lost Five Pounds by Abby KoenigIf Sarah Franklin lost five pounds, her life would be so much...
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Creature by Shannon HardwickShannon Elizabeth Hardwick's (she/her) work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, Salt Hill,...
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Playing Dead By Noreen Graf The putrid odor meant something had died. Elle figured it was one of the opossums...
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Between Rocks and Hard Places By Maribel Sanchez Even as I raced down the shoulder of the expressway at 120...
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Fingerprints on the Ultrasound Pics By Monique QuintanaSeptember 16 My son was born on Mexican Independence Day when I was...
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Sparrow By Gerry RodriguezGerry Rodriguez is a poet and playwright from Mission, TX. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing...
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WATERHEATDREAMPLACE By Amber OrtegaMy body can't hold anymore the life that it keepsMy ribs keep loosening and the vertebrae lets...
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Verde / Azul by Violeta GarzaVioleta Garza (she/they/ella) is a non-binary Latinx poet, weaver, and artist from the Historic West...
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Two poems by Amy HoskinsThe ConstantThe madness for tulips in the 1700s. Now in 2022. Nesting ten bulbs in three...
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Poetry 2022/2023
Natural Alchemy by Cindy RinneAriGift GiverNature's AlchemyCindy Rinne creates fiber art and poetry in San Bernardino, CA. Her artworks have...
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Dawn/Dusk by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-VreniosDawn/Dusk om tiny blaze in squash blossom sea fire in Ferrari- red maples flutter scarlet cardinal wing...
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Poems "Run" and "Chaos in the mouth," by Jen Yáñez-Alaniz
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Poem "#1, #63: Last Request to Alpha and Omega" by Karla Linn Merrifield
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Poems “When We Were Islands” and “Learn.” By Monica Raymond.
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Poems “Balance” and “A Memory Disguised as a Poem,” by Laurie Kuntz
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Poems “Swollen Heart” and “For the Woman Who Knows Death and Loves Hard” by Carmen Calatayud
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Poems “gods and goddesses” and “Stillness, before” by Marianne Hales
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Poem "CesarChavezCesarChavez" by Valeka Cruz
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Poems “Husk” and “Zemirot,” by Rikki Santer
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night by Sally Quon bits of darkness cling to walls heavy with hunger reluctant egress easy enough to be swallowed...
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Poem "Fish Poem" by Liz DeGregorio
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2021
Poems "Fruit Fly" and "Nestling" by Carolyn Adams.
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"everyone's afraid to touch themselves" poem by samantha rose johnson.
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Mixed media art series by Cecilia Martinez "The series deals with the secrets and lies the government tells us, from...
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"This Thing, Woman" poem by Rebecca Zimmerman.
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collage ditty 2 by Mia MartelliThis collage references how 1950s science fiction imagery made a resurgence in the 1990s. I...
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Poem "Flesh World" by Juliet Cook 1. They shoot multiple times without asking. Arms tied and bent backwards.
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Muñeca de Agujero is an autobiographical piece about the trauma of childhood sexual abuse and the healing found through art.
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Don't Tell by Julene Tripp WeaverThe attempted kiss by my best friend’s father on a clear summer day on her...
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Take a walk through Lydia Host’s Vera- a dreamy speculative fiction filled with magic and mystery. Host’s beautiful prose gives...
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Nina Fosati's fiction piece "Dirrty Gurl(z)" is a coming of age college tale about burgeoning sexuality, hypocrisy, and losing yourself...
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2020
To Be Connected With You by Ashley PearsonTo be connected by sticking your finger into my outlet Cold, cream, plastic...
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Ashley Pearson's fiction piece "Stork" glides between humor and despair in a striking narrative migration. A tongue-in-cheek look at the...
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Our Story by Marci SchurThe bottle of wine between us like the semicolon and we are two independent clauses that...
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A mixed-media scrapbook detailing the experience of pregnancy and the loss of a child through poetry and artwork. Maxima's hybrid...
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Stairwells by Lina ChangShe is the guardian of the Cliffside: a mass of colors, surrounded by elaborate systems of roots...
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Read about past lovers, destructive passion cast shadows, churn up memory and desire in Carla Sameth’s poem Oxytocin, a stormy,...
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A look into how complicated relationships can be as we grow older, little deaths, wisdom, and personal evolution. Cook covers...
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Unruly Combinations: Two Poems by Isibeal OwensHeat ExchangeThe man I met at the party does not bother to place a...
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SCROTUM by Katharyn Machanpink as coral pink as uncensored lips meeting curve of skin and tissue to give deep pleasure...
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False Narrative: Hymen by Chelsea FanningContrary to popular belief, the hymen does not break during vaginal intercourse. It stretches ...
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Lourdes Dolores Follins writes of love and strength in “A Warrior Obliges”, a personal look into the relationship between a...
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The series explores Melanie Klein’s Object Relations Theory, which regards the breast, the first object on which the infant is...
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To break the monotony of working from home, Brener and Imara seek the perfect time to party online. They debate...
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A satirical flash fiction that explores the struggles and humanity in all of us.
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My Lover's Chest by Stacey CameronI lay my head upon my lover’s chest, Musing he exists wild-eyed; He’s nothing more...
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Cierra G. Rowe is a self-taught artist based in rural Kentucky. This painting series presents women in relation to race,...
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Look Up by Hilary Davies
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Sprawling in Spring’s Trilogyby Amy TrussellArt by Arizona Smith Stratified IslandThe blown up ship in the chest was what I...
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Two Poems by Jessica Covil: Testimoney & For My Sister, After Her Transition
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A photo series that gives a nod to breaking down archetypal gender roles, and pairs items like skulls and bones...
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