Austin Thornton (they/them) is a diviner of refined sentimentalism, a modern metaphysical, a possible human, and the winner of several scholarships as well as Oregon State University’s 2023 WIC Award and 2025 Provost Prize. Poetry, nonfiction, and fiction from this author is featured or forthcoming in About Place, Apocalypse Confidential, PRISM Magazine, The Daily Barometer, and *82 Review. A novel is in progress, but more short stories and poems will be procrastinated with.
Content warning: violence, references to explicit material
“I lie back against the sheets &
Charybdis both this body’s hungry mouths, let
my finger feel what wet wreckage, what good
and...
3 and 1
Austin Thornton
These polyester pants, I relearn,
were once oil, and before that, living—waving
grass-trees in the wind.
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Even the plaster I
wrap...
Letter from Iowa
On July 23, 2020 I read the only letter that you sent.
In it, you said you couldn't think of what
to get your friends to show you cared
without us thinking you were crazy,
so...
Since the introduction of generative artificial intelligence models, newly-released books can be and have been plagiarized with AI-generated copies within a day of their release. Students are increasingly...