A is for Acholi By Otoniya J. Okot Bitek Wolsak & Wynn 120 Pages, $20 A is for Acholi is a collection deeply connected with the concepts of place and displacement. In the opening stanzas, the poetic voice interrogates the concept of home, nation, and belonging....
Nine Dash Line By Emily Saso Freehand Books 266 pages, $23 Emily Saso’s Nine Dash Line is a tale of survival as, Zi Shan, an exiled Chinese national, and Jess, a US naval officer on a classified covert operation, navigate hostile environments in the South China Sea....
Test Piece By Sheryda Warrener Coach House Books 80 pages, $23 A test piece, Sheryda Warrener informs her readers near the end of the collection, “is a record of an experiment/ with unconventional materials,” a trial run to see “how they might behave or/ transform...
Modern Fables By Mikka Jacobsen Freehand Books 224 pages, $23 A lie’ is one of three definitions for “fable.” “Fable” can also mean a story that’s intended to convey “a useful truth,” especially if the story involves anthropomorphic animals. Or it can describe a story...
This World Poetry Day, we’re serving a sneak peek from ROOM 46.1 Around the Table: Asian Voices.
The Chipmunk is the Third Place Winner of Room’s 2022 Short Forms Contest, as judged by Alix Ohlin. You can find the full list of winners, and what judge Alix Ohlin had to say about each winning piece, here. ___ The Chipmunk At the campsite, my sister and I knot...
We are so very pleased to announce the winners of our 2022 Short Forms Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three writers whose works were handpicked by our amazing judge, Alix Ohlin. We won’t keep you waiting any longer: here they are! ____ First Place:...
Can’t wait to get your hands on ROOM 46.1 Around the Table: Asian Voices? Neither can we. Dive into an exclusive sneak peek of the issue with “Such Good Girls” by K. Quyen Pham.
Wonder World By K.R. Byggdin Enfield & Wizenty 183 pages, $21.95 Isaac Funk is a character many of us know. This is not to say he’s generic—he’s anything but—but he feels familiar, at least within certain communities or subcultures. We find Funk, a wildly dressed...
PLACE By Alexei Perry Cox Noemi Press 122 Pages, $24 In the author’s second full-length prose poetry collection, Perry Cox’s inquisitive nature shines through. In PLACE, the disciplines of language, anthropology, philosophy, history, and geography converge. Perry Cox...
ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE
I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.
ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?
In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.
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