Welcome to Dodo Eraser Issue #1! For our launch, we’ve selected work from 21 excellent writers to showcase the imagistic diction, clever theming and emotional vulnerability that we appreciate in independent literature. We hope these poems and stories spark your imagination, make you laugh, or stab you in the gut: often two or three of those at once. Thank you to all of the writers who contributed. Submissions are open. Starting next week, we will aim to publish one author each weekday.
Additionally, we’d like to draw your attention to our virtual launch reading this evening, featuring issue #1 contributors Francesca Leader, Ben Niespodziany, and Tom Snarsky, alongside guests Cloud Delfina Cardona, Grant Ellsworth, Julian Martinez, and Alina Stefanescu.

If you would like to attend, please contact us on Twitter @dodo_eraser or email dodoerasermag@gmail.com to request the link with “Reading Request” in the subject. For those who can’t attend, an upload of the reading will be available next month. Similarly, recordings of our earlier readings will be made available in the coming days.
Also, we would like to announce next month’s reading, featuring Avee Chaudhuri, Amy DeBellis, Wade Harris, Tania Jaramillo, Michael McSweeney, Mallory Smart, and Gina Twardosz. Similarly, you may request the link for this event in advance.

Now, please enjoy the issue.
Poetry
“Mariposa” / Eva Alter
“Suicide as a lifeline” / Naa Asheley Ashitey
“[I’m thinking of how badly I want it]” / Madeline Blair
“SIGNS ABOUT FAITH KEEP POPULATING AROUND TOWN” / tommy wyatt blake
“I’m Naked On A Barn Floor Covered In Green Yogurt” / Justin Carter
“study of figure xii” / john compton
“The sitcom star maintains his laryngeal cancer is a result of holding in laughter during takes” / Ewen Glass
“Sasquatch Enchanted by British Post-boxes” / Ewen Glass
“His blood is Still” / David Hay
“Sparrow” / David Hay
“A Black Helicopter Hangs Over the City Like Mistletoe” / Justin Karcher
“Hungover Pilot” / Benjamin Niespodziany
“Pressure” / Benjamin Niespodziany
“garden suburb hermit” / nat raum
“Environmental Storytelling” / Leah Skay
“Black Metal” / Tom Snarsky
“we used to paint houses” / Ben Starr
“the cowardly lion after dorothy” / Ben Starr
“Before the Coup” / Eric Subpar
“I’M CUTE! I’M NORMAL! I’M GRAZING A JUMPER CABLE AGAINST MY LEFT VENTRICLE” / Steven C. Wright
“Minigolfing, or poem while mom lays in a hospital bed” / Steven C. Wright
Prose
Rogues / Macy Craig
Dr. PsychoSexSoda™ / Wade Harris
The Man with Adjectival Dysfunction / Francesca Leader
Cold Turkey / Johannah Simon
Call and Response / Dodge Zelko

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