It’s the sound of Issue 5 sizzling, hot off the presses.

This time around we have the amazing corn-head-checkered-flag-gypsy-woman cover art. We can’t tell you exactly what it means,  but Rio Trenaman really surprised us with it and we couldn’t say no.

Inside you’ll find some poetry–and poetry-like stuff–from returning contributors (such as the incomparable Leaf Kotasek), as well as some pieces by exciting new writers including Ryan Pratt and Laura MacDonald.

We hope you enjoy this issue and think about us next time you eat a head of corn.

As always, you can submit your pieces for consideration in the next issue at textlitmag.com/submit and/or tweet us your random musings on Twitter @textlitmag using #poetryeverywhere