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Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose is a multi-genre print and online journal published by Columbia College’s English & Creative Writing Department.  Allium is committed to publishing work that represents a wide aesthetic range, from the traditional to the experimental.

Allium are flowering plants that include hundreds of species. Alliums vary dramatically in size, shape, and color, and are cultivated as both vegetable and ornament. They naturally resist taxonomy. 
Our Allium aspires to create a similar resistance by publishing diverse creative voices, recognized and emerging writers, and a variety of forms and genres from the traditional to the experimental.

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Cora Jacobs

Ann Hemenway

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Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose

Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose publishes three issues each year: two online issues (Fall and Summer) and one print issue (Spring).

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Mervyn R. Seivwright
PSC 2, Box 14398, APO AE 09012
+1 937-768-9331
DeepCobra13@gmail.com

Blessings and Salutations Editors,
 
Enclosed are poems for your consideration. It is a pleasure for this opportunity for you to entertain my work.

A short bio, should you need it: 

Mervyn Seivwright writes to balance social consciousness & poetry craft for humane growth. He is a nomad from a Jamaican family, born in London, England, and left for America at age 10, now residing in Schopp, Germany. He is a Spalding University MFA Grad and has appeared in AGNI, American Journal of Poetry, Salamander Magazine, African American Review, & 64 other journals across 10 countries, receiving recognition as a 2021/2023 Pushcart Nominee & Voices Israel's Rose Ruben Poetry Competition Honorable-Mention. His new collection “Stick, Hook, and a Pile of Yarn,” is available through Broken Sleep Books (https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/mervyn-seivwright-stick-hook-and-a-pile-of-yarn).
Link:  https://www.clippings.me/mervynseivwright

Socials: https://www.facebook.com/deep.cobra / 
https://twitter.com/Deepcobra / 
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I sincerely thank you for your time. 
Mervyn Seivwright


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Queerness, Madness, and Trauma: The Morphology of Narrative Through Lived Experience

That Girl Has Nits

Last Shift

Rachael

Unpacking Mom

I Cannot Keep Black Skin from My Child

Circular

Four

 She said, “If you want to torture someone, put them on acid, then dump them here.” 

To the Coast

The year is 1970-something. Somewhere before Sid Vicious ODs, but somewhere after The Exorcist has been released.

Portrait of a Borough Boy, New York

A short experimental fiction piece published by Hair Trigger Magazine in 2019.

Heaven

An experimental magical realist short story published by Hair Trigger Magazine in 2019.

Mother Saint

A magical realist short story inspired by "the Nose" by Nikolai Gogol for an Intermediate Creative Writing Class, published by Hair Trigger Magazine in 2020.

The Li'l Fingers

A poem published in the first print edition of Allium in 2022.

tights

A short story inspired by Edvard Munch's "The Girl By the Window," published by Allium in 2021.

The Flood

A gifted pickpocket struggles to go straight. (Appears in Spring 2023 print issue of Allium.)

No Hill for a Climber

The Potato Washers at the Tomebamba

An intriguing and inspiring interview with Poet José Olivarez as talks about Mexican culture and publishing his second bilingual poetry collection, Promises of Gold.

Interview with José Olivarez

"Still Waters Run Deep" is an excerpt from a novella I am currently writing. The piece was published in the Spring 2024 print issue.

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