The Turning Leaf Journal

The Turning Leaf Journal has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in September 2024. The social media accounts linked to from The Turning Leaf Journal are: • Instagram • Bluesky • Website Besides social media accounts, theturningleafjournal has populated their site with: • Volume 3, Issue 2 • Submission Guidelines (Open Oct 1-Dec 1) • The Turning Leaflets (Quarterly Craft Zine) • Apply to read with us! • Print Shop • Duosuma • Chill Subs • Donate to The Turning Leaf Journal • “What to Do When You See a Bear While Walking,” Darcyn Gross • “Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” Michael G. O’Connell • “Wheel of Passion and Grief,” Mariann Lynch • “Pretty Good Years,” Matthew Keeley • “How Safe is this Plate of Chickpeas and Rice,” Patricia Russo • “inheritance,” Raphaela Pavlakos • “Two Addicts in the Rain,” “Listen,” and”Drop That Dark and Board This Ark,” James Diaz • “Immigration,” Allison Burris • “Turning Point,” “What not to do while decluttering,” Yesterday My Mother Died Again,” “To the Elementary Teacher who Caused Her Harm,” and “Father’s Day,” Melinda Coppola • “The Missing,” Rowan MacDonald • The Turning Leaf Journal (@turningleafjournal.bsky.social) • “Not Enough Rainbows, or Growing Old Disgracefully,” JB Polk • “Chiboy,” Abu Ibrahim • “Grandma Lolly’s Scalp,” Jacob Butlett • “detailed inventory of a hospital room,” Karen Baumgart • “Dressed and Disorderly,” Angela Townsend • “Painting Over Blue,” Mary Robbins • “she is gone. me now.” Theodore James • “Because I Don’t Have Spotify Premium,” Maria Giesbrecht • “An Encyclopedia of My Mother,” Amy Flyntz • “being raised catholic only taught me to resent god,” Ophelia Monet • “I’m Almost Relieved to Have Found Myself in an Actual Accident,” Ra Ebrahim • “I CAN’T EXPLAIN THE STATE THAT I’M IN—THE STATE OF MY HEART,” William Bortz • “Hard Swallow,” Courtney Welu • “POETRY & HEAVEN/HELL,” Uchechukwu Onyedikam • “Five Conversation I Had Among God and the Birds, Years Ago, While Savoring a Late Montana Summer,” Josie Peterson • Two Poems, Glenn Pape • “it’s all about earthly pleasure ..." Emily Perkovich • 2 poems, Rebecca Eagan • Two Poems, Rowan Tate • 3 Poems by Jean Feldeisen • “to the man in my gardenless backyard,” Alex Waitkus • “Regeneration,” Maddie Marriott • “I stopped admiring the sky,” Kelsy Bellah • “Christmas Dinner,” Shannon Mulvey • “fish calendar,” Anna Nygren • “A Moon by Any Other Name,” Adele Evershed • “Trusting Water to Hold Me,” Patty Somlo • “Wrong Fruit,” Christina Lee • “tangerines,” Kaavya Butaney • Summer 2025 Leaflet • “Whale Song,” Alex Dawson • “Someday my mother will die,” Jenny Chu • “Strawberry Fanta,” Alex Mason • “SELFISH GIRL,” Suze Kay • “on dealing with grief,” a.d. • “Geometry of Silence,” Sam Aureli – The Turning Leaf Journal • “To Water,” Tanya Nikiforova • Autumn 2025 Leaflet • “Un/a/muse,” Kale Hensley • “All Apologies,” Isobel Bradshaw – The Turning Leaf Journal • Book Review: A History of Holding, Allison Mei-Li • “I Can’t Find God,” Sukriti Patny – The Turning Leaf Journal • “Everything I Remember About St. Norbert School, September 2001,” Kate Kadleck – The Turning Leaf Journal • “Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday Party,” Orli Baumgart – The Turning Leaf Journal • “St. Peter’s Bones,” Brandy E. Wyant – The Turning Leaf Journal • “There Is A Space That Exists Between Helplessness and Anger,” Kevin Krein • “New Directions,” Grace Guerrero • “HONEY,” Liza Rose • “A Tender End,” LaDonna Witmer • Pigeon Songs I & II, Hannah Wyatt • “On Conservation Conversation,” Faith Palermo • “To Pray,” Luke Janicki • “Understanding Birdsong,” Eleni Vlachos • “I heard on a podcast that if the sun explodes, I won’t know for eight minutes.” Amy Buechler