Pangyrus Eight

With this 8th collection Pangyrus Literary magazine responds with art heart verve and vulnerability to the COVID-19 pandemic. Woven throughout this volume are poems essays stories and comics from our new In Sickness and In Health section. These include Xiaoly Lis Your Fire and Thunder a tragic posthumous tribute to a voice of warning L.M. Browns What We Worried About and much more. Writers also found ways to capture the cultural reckoning around race with Celeste Cosmes For Greenwood and Ryane Nicole Granadoss Love Letter to My Soon To Be Thirteen-Year-Old Son representing some of the most powerful writing weve published.These pieces and more are woven throughout Pangyrus Eights mix of stories poems and comics all of it designed to spirit youaway and bring you back more here than youve ever been before. Other highlights include Martín Espadas The Spotlight at the Corner... PamelaPainters The Red Bicycle and Simple Math Charles Bernsteins ringing verse (we were the fire before the fire was ours)