Lisa Piazza

We are always open for submissions!!

Check out this month’s fiction, poetry, and CNF at the links below.
Fiction by Patrick Johnston: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/march-2026-f...
Poetry by Gloria Heffernan: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/march-2026-f...
CNF by Lisa Piazza: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/march-2026-f...

check out this month’s features! www.thirteenbridgesreview.com

happy to have a new piece of cnf featured here!

Join us this Friday! All words are welcome, as are listening ears, as we sit around a table with beer and water and share poems, very informally. Then troop over with us to Golden Sardine to listen to poets Kelly Gray, Nica Giromini, and Brian Ang on the mic for the @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social launch!

so yes, you can transform a CBS or a CNN into right-wing slop, and yes that will have an impact, but it is also true that americans will have access to a large universe of other information AND they will continue to build new venues for telling stories about the world and sharing their views…

always!

I love this! Can’t wait to share with my students. Thanks for posting it.

I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

New online issue is open for subs. A lot going on here these days.

ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.

Just a reminder that ChatGPT cannot betray anyone because it doesn’t have feelings or motives or thoughts

I keep thinking about this and realize it’s because a lot of my work is more about beginning the poem like I’m talking to the dead and ending the poem realizing I’m speaking again to the ones I love who are, briefly, alive again

Greetings from UW - Madison, where the two biggest initiatives of our university in the last four years have been <checks notes> an initiative to hire 50 faculty “innovators” in AI & the creation of <checks notes> a College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence 🤔

BLK History Month If Black History Month is not viable then wind does not carry the seeds and drop them on fertile ground rain does not dampen the land and encourage the seeds to root sun does not warm the earth and kiss the seedlings and tell them plain: You're As Good As Anybody Else You've Got A Place Here, Too

Nikki Giovanni

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with black text and two textured teal ink stripes in the background. It says "justice is what love looks like in public / - Cornel West"

Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with black text, sitting on a printing press bed next to the inked printed type. It says "justice is what love looks like in public / - Cornel West"

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of wood letterpress type arranged on a metal printing press bed with ink on the press rollers. The type says "justice is what love looks like in public / - Cornel West"

Some more quick letterpress printing: Cornel West's "justice is what love looks like in public"

Ok fine let‘s gather together the existing remnants of professional book reviewing and figure out how to support what still survives/expand options.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

TWO UNSIGNED POEMS BY CHILDREN IN PIQUA, OHIO David Shevin I. I was a rabbit who could hop the farthest. I was a girl who had long hair. II. I dream of you and so on I can’t believe it

David Shevin

teaching is really saving my mental equilibrium right now

Ai was one of my first purchases from a poetry section as a teenager and lord was I so happy and also not ready, she is amazing

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires.

Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

Jim Harrison

Always a good one

When billy b is writing songs about your town you have already won