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About Place Journal, Volume VIII, Issue IV, October 2025 cover: On Freedom (text on blue paper that is curling away to reveal a colorful oil painting of wings)

On Freedom

Volume VIII, Issue IV – October 2025

Issue editors: DJ Lee & Michael McDermott

Assistant editors: Rachel Sanchez & Jacob Klaung

Managing editor: Michael McDermott

Layout editor: Jesse Hughes

Web development: Creature Works

Cover artwork: A song for you/Flight by Joseph Laurro

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Section artwork: River, Roots, Sing Me Home by Danielle Boodoo-Fortune

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Section artwork: Color in Wind by Zohreh Zadbood

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Section artwork: There’s a door by Crash Solo

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Section artwork: Giving Comfort by Sherry Shahan

  • Sherry Shahan
    • Giving Comfort
      Visual Art
  • Aaron Jamal
    • Nourishing Deep Freedom
      Prose
  • Alexandra Teague
    • On Inauguration Day, which is also MLK Day, I Consider America as a “Mouse Pie”
      Poetry
    • While the U.S. President Throws A Military Parade, I Stand in Front of El embarque en el arca de Noé
      Poetry
    • Lonestar State
      Poetry
  • Marcie Rendon
    • Decolonized Freedom of Mind
      Prose
  • Laura-Gray Street
    • Canticle
      Poetry
    • worm requiem
      Poetry
  • Janet N. Ryan
    • The More Things Change…
      Prose
  • Susan Deer Cloud
    • Part Irish, In My Family We Are Stained Glass Windows
      Poetry & Visual Art
    • The Partisan’s Granddaughter
      Poetry & Visual Art
    • Partisan Cabin with Wild Mountain Thyme, Slovenia
      Poetry & Visual Art
  • Debra J Stone
    • Freedom! Freedom! Cut me loose!
      Prose
  • Mel Michelle Lewis
    • Poems from Slave Narrative Project 1936-1937, Revisited 2025
      Poetry
    • Belle Ball
      Visual Art
  • Anastasiia Terentieva
    • Motanka2
      Visual Art
  • Delicia Daniels
    • How to be The Barrier
      Poetry
    • Committed in Three-Part Au-ton-o-my
      Hybrid
  • Laura Shaine Cunningham
    • How Did the Moon Get Home Before We Did?
      Prose
  • Pamela Uschuk
    • Dear cedar waxwing,
      Poetry
    • Dear quail calling from the creosote bush,
      Poetry
    • Dark
      Poetry
  • Denise Duhamel
    • Roe v. Wade
      Poetry
    • People Who Say They’ve Connected With Me
      Poetry
  • Brandel France de Bravo
    • Bad Virgins
      Prose
  • Ipung Purnomo
    • Paradigm War
      Visual Art
  • Stephen Gibson
    • Entryways 2021 (Redux)
      Poetry
    • Portrait of Three Young Men, One Holding Umbrella, 1880
      Poetry
    • Boy with a Straw Hat Waiting to March in a Pro-War Parade, N.Y.C., 1967
      Poetry
  • Natalie Coe
    • No Frogging Way
      Poetry
  • Ciara Miller
    • Chapter 1: No One Gives a Fuck About the Poor
      Prose
  • Rossy Evelin Lima
    • I Eat Freedom for Breakfast
      Poetry
    • Tethered Flight
      Poetry
  • Sarah Browning
    • April, 2025, USA
      Poetry
    • To unfurl
      Poetry
  • Allen M. Price
    • Reschooling the Well-Educated Negro
      Prose
  • Jacqueline Johnson
    • A Kind of List Poem
      Poetry
    • This America
      Poetry
    • Los Desaparecidos*
      Poetry
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Section artwork: Don’t Be Afraid by Gabriella Bedetti

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Section artwork: Animals on the Verge by Jillian McDonald

  • Kelle Groom
    • A Secret Country
      Poetry
    • A Meridian Calling the Sun
      Poetry
  • Marjorie Maddox & Karen Elias
    • What Monarch Sees on the Way to Milkweed
      Poetry & Visual Art
    • Still Life of Memory and Plate
      Poetry & Visual Art
    • I Wake to Sleep and Take My Waking Slow
      Poetry & Visual Art
  • Heather Swan
    • Samhain
      Poetry
    • For the Field Mouse Stealing Food from My Kitchen
      Poetry
    • All the Sun Long It was Running, It was Lovely
      Poetry
  • Jillian McDonald
    • Deep Fear
      Visual Art
    • Deep State
      Visual Art
    • Deep Dive
      Visual Art
    • Animals on the Verge
      Visual Art
  • Andre F. Peltier
    • Portrait of a Poet in Flight
      Poetry
    • Free Pride Flag
      Poetry
    • Solving for X
      Poetry
  • Lisa Shulman
    • Singing in Scarlet
      Prose
  • Michael Lauchlan
    • Meadow
      Poetry
  • Matthew Johnson
    • Better Breathing Through Trees
      Poetry
  • Luther Allen
    • vultures
      Poetry
  • Lacy Snapp
    • Dandelion Wine
      Poetry
  • Roger Gilman
    • ReVision: a Moment of Natural Grace
      Poetry
  • Danielle Boodoo-Fortune
    • From the Book of Beginnings
      Poetry & Visual Art
    • River, Roots, Sing Me Home
      Poetry & Visual Art
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Section artwork: Art is Love by Roger Camp

 

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