WELCOME! Cayce Tiedemann, here— your Editor in Chief for the upcoming 2019-2020 year. Underground Journal is GSU’s only art and literary journal featuring our students, by our students. We publish art, prose, and poetry from undergrads twice a year via our Fall and Spring issues. Our website, social media, and entire organization will be undergoing some…
“Southland Growing” / Gage Williams
Dogwoods and peach trees will bloom soon, Patching white-pink beauty across highways And state lines where rusted kudzu- covered Signs spread lies that bite like sand flies. Voices rise over backseat bus rides and echo Through the Alabama green grass hills: We Dare Defend our Rights as long as we are white. Charleston-white paint…
“Soul Food” / Gage Williams
[Gage is a senior English student at Georgia State University. Originally from Zebulon, GA, he has been living and writing in Atlanta since 2014.]
“Hiding in the Dryer” / Flannery McAleer
My heart goes like a fat bird. I want you to find me. My body curves limply like someone falling through air but I am caught and cradled, rolled inside a metal ball. I am the little breathing pupil in a mechanical eye. The ocean moves in my ear like when mom showed me how…