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…
Theme for Fall 2019 Issue! IN TRANSIT
How are you in transit? How are we in transit? We a campus. We a city. We a society. Submit your creative works to issue 10.1 of our journal for Fall 2019!
“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…