Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
my body is a wing
of dislocated bones
a revised welt of want
burning itself out
like a morgue of summer stars
ghosts of things
that used to be whole
birth a marrowbone
of cloven moons & murky
ocean floors
a dust storm of wounded words
nest in my throat
promise me
just one last thing
Susan Milchman was most recently a Best of the Net 2018 nominee. Her poetry has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, bramble & thorn (an anthology from Porkbelly Press, 2017), Rogue Agent, Rust+Moth, Bad Pony, and elsewhere. She is working on her first chapbook. Susan lives in Minneapolis by way of Washington, D.C. and holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland. Her published work can be found at susanmilchman.com.