The Milton Review

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Literary Magazine, publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction in the spirit of The Great English Poet.

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New from The Milton Review, a book review of Michael Cavanagh's Paradise Lost: A Primer by Sara McKinney! Read it now: https://www.themiltonreview.com/current-issue/polemics/book-review-michael-cavanaghs-paradise-lost-a-primer
NEW Poetry @ The Milton Review: "I Hoped for Just a Moment" by Dillon Clark
Read it now!
https://www.themiltonreview.com/current-issue/poems/i-hoped-for-just-a-moment
"I never believed / that Christ struck people down / like his old testament father / turning wives into salt."
Allison Carter's "Whore and Madonna"
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The Milton Review - Whore and Madonna

I never believed that Christ struck people down like his old testament father turning wives into salt. But then i grow curious. Wondering if he looks down his lovely hawk nose at a perspiring pastor in his pulpit. Spewing the song and dance of his wife being a whore. His first bride reduced to

"I want to gaze longingly into his eyes…
His eyes are a murky brown, not green like he wrote in his dating profile. The whites of his eyes are bloodshot. Is he stoned?"
New @ The Milton Review, "Want"
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The Milton Review - Want

I want to gaze longingly into his eyes… His eyes are a murky brown, not green like he wrote in his dating profile. The whites of his eyes are bloodshot. Is he stoned? Big chunks of sleep crust fill the corner of each eye. And dandruff dusts his eye lashes. His eyebrows look like the Brillo pad your

Fresh flash fiction from Danielle Connolly-Graham "The American Pinot"
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The Milton Review - The American Pinot

I’m making risotto. Lashings of butter and garlic sauteed. De-glazing the Carnaroli with a French white, he tells me, is made by a couple who are too young to make wine. It tastes like dry cider… aged, almondy like sherry. There is a shelf. High. Running the circumference of the kitchen. It's

Closing out #thesealeychallenge with Don't Call Us Dead by @danez_smif!
Last week's reads for the #SealeyChallenge!
"Even the moss between sidewalk cracks / longs for his body."
Read "Tinder Takes a Walk" from the Love & Sex Issue: https://buff.ly/3A9TZeP
The Milton Review - Tinder Takes a Walk

John Davis is the author of Gigs and The Reservist. His work has appeared in DMQ Review, Iron Horse Literary Review and Terrain.org. He lives on an island in the Salish Sea and performs in several bands.

"Tinder re-pencils his eyebrows /at the drag queen bar. He’s midway / to grubbing his arm around a sequined / shoulder"
NEW @ The Milton Review: "Tinder Escapes on St. Patrick's Day" by John Davis
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The Milton Review - Tinder Escapes on St. Patrick's Day

John Davis is the author of Gigs and The Reservist. His work has appeared in DMQ Review, Iron Horse Literary Review and Terrain.org. He lives on an island in the Salish Sea and performs in several bands.

From the Love & Sex Issue: "Apology to My Deceased Wife"
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The Milton Review - Apology to My Deceased Wife

Ed Ruzicka is a man who does a head stand most mornings. By 8 am he is in a small room off the patio that he framed and raised to be alone enough to work as he likes. The way that the ocular system flips the world upside down then sets it right again, is one way to see what he does. He likes to