About Augur: Augur is a literary magazine that believes we can better engage with our pasts, presents, and futures through stories that explore what-ifs and could-bes. We are excited by writing that is difficult to classify—whether speculative, surreal, or slightly strange. We’re interested in realist pieces that verge on the dreamlike; speculative stories that are almost realist;…

Dani Couture will be one of many amazing poets available to create custom, in-the-moment poems at the League’s Poetry In Union event on February 14, 2020. Find out more about Poetry In Union

Puneet Dutt will be one of many amazing poets available to create custom, in-the-moment poems at the League’s Poetry In Union event on February 14, 2020. Find out more about Poetry In Union

Lois Lorimer will be one of many amazing poets available to create custom, in-the-moment poems at the League’s Poetry In Union event on February 14, 2020. Find out more about Poetry In Union

Hey you!—this postcard, like every other, is just fragmentof a larger journey. Stepping over the thresholdof the plane, I entered this hot roomof a country. Seen entire the desert seems softbut the sand is sharp to touch, like turninghard snow with bare hands when I was a small girl. Old city, feet scalded, I gave…