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January House Literary Journal

January House Literary Journal

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  • October 29, 2025

    The Effects of an Erosion Lesson on a Public Educator and her Students

    by Ash Maielle T I T L Eis erosion a good thing?I N T R O D U C T I O N & B A C K G R O U N D● she tumbled into the question.● after tiny hands filled with recyclables and hope scurried with severity. ○ how we depend on… Continue reading

    Poetry
    Ash Maielle, January House, Literary Journal, Poem, Poetry
  • October 28, 2025

    Seen

    by Eugene Datta The olive grove next to Hotel Karavostási is full of fruit. I didn’t know how bitter fresh olives taste until I ate one the other day. It took the sharp sourness of a half-ripe mandarin to tame the riot of tannins on my tongue. Two mandarin trees in front of the hotel… Continue reading

    Poetry
    Eugene Datta, January House, Literary Journal, Poem, Poetry
  • October 27, 2025

    Untitled by Sabyasachi Roy

    Untitled by Sabyasachi Roy

    Sabyasachi Roy is an Academic writer, poet, artist, and photographer. He regularly contributes craft essays to Authors Publish as a guest writer. His poetry has been published in The Broken Spine, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review, Dicey Brown, The Potomac, and other print and online magazines. His photograph has appeared on the cover of Sanctuary Asia.… Continue reading

    Art
    Art, January House, Literary Journal, Sabyasachi Roy
  • October 26, 2025

    Gursha

    by JK Miller We played with our fingers over the surface of thespongy, moon-like sourdough, rovers dippinginto the Misir Wot, the Kik Wot, and the Shiro Wot,roaming around the teff mons, and it wasn’t longbefore, in Lalibela’s on Fairfax, sitting across from each other at the small, square table,with the moon in front of us,… Continue reading

    Poetry
    January House, JK Miller, Literary Journal, Poem, Poetry
  • October 17, 2025

    Ode to My New Fence

    by Cecil Morris Seven-foot high redwood, board-on-board, the usual gaps overlapped, every view blocked by new wood gloriously bright in shades of red and blond, the fine fur of splinters waiting on ungloved hands, for skin as bare as the boards and ready, the gentle open arcs of rings, giant fingerprints fragmented, divided, and the… Continue reading

    Poetry
    Cecil Morris, January House, Literary Journal, Poem, Poetry
  • October 13, 2025

    Notes From the Frontier

    by Benjamin Patterson The year was coming to a close, but it hadn’t closed, right at that moment when the scales shift and autumn begins to tip into winter (think grayscale images, shavings of frost sticking to spent grasses). Car ignitions sputtered. Every few months, a woman, or an occasional man, claimed to be a… Continue reading

    Ficton
  • October 12, 2025

    Sunrise, Inle Lake, Burma by Roger Camp

    Sunrise, Inle Lake, Burma by Roger Camp

    Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002. His documentary photography has been awarded the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence and published in The New England Review, New York Quarterly and Orion Magazine. He is represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NY. More… Continue reading

    Art
    Art, January House, Literary Journal, Roger Camp
  • October 10, 2025

    Against Overpopulation

    by Michael Blumenthal I’ve never liked novelswith too many characters in themjust as I’ve never liked partieswith too many guests. What I preferare intimate engagements between me and just one other person: Madame Bovary over War and Peace, The Metamorphosis over One Hundred Years of Solitude. Too many people between the same covers always confuses… Continue reading

    Poetry
    January House, Literary Journal, Michael Blumenthal, Poem, Poetry
  • October 10, 2025

    Artwork by S.C. Sharp

    Artwork by S.C. Sharp

    S.C. Sharp is an artist from Texas. Continue reading

    Art
    Art, January House, Literary Journal, S.C. Sharp
  • October 2, 2025

    Two Poems by Sara Eddy

    MonsterAt the end of the horror movie, when our person has killedthe monster-villain, she–and I’m thinking of heroines here,Sigourney or Jamie Lee–looks to the camera and we feel delight for her, we know she deserves this relief from all the hard work of killing and life.We relax a little, we undo some fears and let… Continue reading

    Poetry
    January House, Literary Journal, Poem, Poetry, Sara Eddy
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