What We Like
Our editors are different people who have different tastes.
Read through what we have already published in The Weight Journal, but here's a sample of other stuff we mess with.
Poetry
how to make yourself small or how to be black and survive ~ Porsha Olayiwola
not an elegy for Mike Brown ~ Danez Smith
Mid-Term Break ~ Seamus Heaney
Ceist na Teangan / The Language Issue ~ Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
A Meeting in A Part ~ Wendell Berry
Self-Pity’s Closet ~ Michelle Boisseau
Good Bones ~ Maggie Smith
"this is supposed to be the part" ~ Elisabeth Hewer
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Clasp ~ Sharon Olds
Hanging Fire ~ Audre Lorde
Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
~ Martin Espada
Loading a Boar ~ David Lee
why some people be mad at me sometimes ~ Lucille Clifton
Flash Fiction
Fear ~ Lydia Davis
The Mark of Cain ~ Roxanne Gay
Identity Crisis ~ Janine A. Southard
Taylor Swift ~ Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Miracles ~ Lucy Corin
I Use Commas like Ninja Stars ~ Sam Nam
Currents ~ Hannah Bottomy
Creative Non-Fiction
The Token Black Friend: An Owner’s Manual ~ Rose J Percy
Memory Laps ~ David Sedaris
The Chase ~ Annie Dillard
The God of Cake ~ Hyperbole and a Half
The Empty Set ~ Sam Bell
Anything in How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Educated ~ Tara Westover
Slam Poets
Fuck I Look Like ~ Kai Davis
Complainers ~ Rudy Francisco
White Boy Privilege ~ Royce Mann
What Kind of Asian Are You? ~ Alex Dang
Lost Voices~ Darius Simpson & Scout Bostley
Say No Olivia Gatwood & Megan Falley
Pause ~ Lincoln High Slam Poets
Fiction
John Redding Goes to Sea ~ Zora Neale Hurston
We Ate the Children Last ~ Yann Martel
The Comedian ~ Yoko Morgenstern
Brownies ~ ZZ Packer
Barbie Q ~ Sandra Cisneros
Girl ~ Jamaica Kincaid
Anything in The Things They Carried ~ Tim O'Brien
Hybrid
Student Essay ~ Justin Courter
The Fire Cycle ~ Zachary Schomburg
or ~ Jeannine Pitas
Metaphors ~ David shumate