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​perhappened mag

issue 10: DAYDREAM

​april 2021

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cover art by aleah dye

meet our guest reader


Taylor Byas (she/her) is a Black poet and essayist.

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Originally from Chicago, she moved to Alabama for six years, where she received both her Bachelor’s degree in English and her Master’s degree in English (Creative Writing concentration) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Taylor currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio where she is a second year PhD student and Albert C. Yates Scholar at the University of Cincinnati studying poetry. She is also a reader for The Cincinnati Review, and an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. 

She has received four Pushcart and six Best of the Net nominations, and has won a Best Microfiction Award. She is also the 1st Place Winner of both the 2020 Poetry Super Highway Contest and the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets.

​Her chapbook, 
BLOODWARM, is forthcoming from Variant Lit (2021). She is represented by Rena Rossner of The Deborah Harris Agency.

​endless thanks to taylor for curating these lovely pieces & being a dream to work with! want a sweet dream of your own? then read on.
​

– isaura ren, editor-in-chief, perhappened mag ♡


i. the loving


– poetry –
The Heartstrings
​Taylor Brunson

– poetry –
Shenandoah
​Baylina Pu

– poetry –
I Have a Whole
Pinterest Board of Recipes

to Make with You

​Klein Voorhees

– poetry –
Getting Really Into
In Vitro
Fertilization

​Matt Mitchell


ii. the leaving


– creative nonfiction –
Phantom Pains
​Jessika Bouvier

– poetry –
My Father Used to Sleep in the
Binding of a Merriam Webster

Spanish-to-English Dictionary

​Téa Franco

– poetry –
Guilt Dream After
the Second Funeral

in Five Months

​Donna Vorreyer

– poetry –
Outside Eden, every
sweetness is the fruit

of disobedience

​Ọbáfẹ́mi Thanni


iii. the burning


– poetry –
​Alternates
​
Alice Wickenden

– microfiction –
​Being Morally Superior
to You in the Greenhouse

​
Pascale Potvin

– prose poetry –
​from my butt
at the rock gym

​
Sara Potocsny

– poetry –
​I could be dragons
​
Alexander Athanail


iv. the being


– prose –
​garden girl
​
Shyla Jones

– poetry –
​LADYBUGS / JADE BEETLES
​
Wanda Deglane

– prose –
​She Loves Me/
She Loves Me Not

​
Vincent Anioke

– poetry –
​ORIGINS
​
Heath Joseph Wooten

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