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September 1, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Rachel Stempel

"Hot Girl Manifesto" and "Blockbuster"

July 29, 2021 | Poetry

Steady State Phenomenon in Muharraq Before

Natasha Burge

Steady State Phenomenon in Muharraq Before

This is the invention of a spectacle. The verge of fungible wealth, dirigibles
of electricity. A thunder of dust and rickshaw sermons in Muharraq

July 27, 2021 | Poetry

Three Poems

Andy Tran

Playin’_The_Keys

i love to dance, sing, write, chill, read
and play the keys, but sometimes, life
doesn’t allow me to hang out
and do my thing, which means
i have to divide my time into many

July 23, 2021 | Poetry

Three Poems 

Lily Greenberg

The Census Taker Asks Me to Tell Her About Myself

Well Terri, I’m afraid
of catfish—not their tunneling mouths,
but the paradoxical combination
of predator and prey in cat/fish—

I’m afraid of

July 21, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Poornima Laxmeshwar

Useful tips for a woman

1.
When the drawstring comes off from the petticoat, you need to look at it as an opportunity to learn patience.

Pin a safety pin to the end of the drawstring and push

July 15, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Clayton Spencer

Snake Day

God is strange. He killed my father,
     and He is everywhere, all of the time.

He is spread across the twinkling shingles and the clean, white siding
     of this windowless

July 13, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Lizzy Gagne

I’m a mineralogist now,

I tell Jake, as I show him my crystals
all neatly displayed in boxes. It makes

me feel like a scientist. But I use
the crystals to cure the bad things in my

life, to

July 12, 2021 | Poetry

I’m Writing from the Other Side of the Universe to Ask You How the Weather Is

Jenny KangDi Li

I’m Writing from the Other Side of the Universe to Ask You How the Weather Is

This is a soft rain, my father says, his forehead a creased encyclopedia page. It is mao mao yu in Chinese, syllables

July 9, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Curtis D'Costa

Song for 2 Phones

     What is that?
The line outside
the Maria Bamford standup
we went to last year.
          Send it to me.
     What is that?
A sugar maple on the hill
shedding Gatorade

July 7, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Daniel Duffy

Traffic

It’s 60 degrees in January so the birds have decided to just stick it out because who can afford the time-share anyway and the flowers bloom completely off-key like the conductor is drunk

June 29, 2021 | Poetry

Still Life

Tawanda Mulalu

...I'm part of this thing where fish learned to walk...

June 25, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Kennedi Killips

"lucky" and "trophy"

June 22, 2021 | Poetry

The Tulips

Emily Brown

become translucent as they die...

June 21, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Spencer Silverthorne

"Silverado Crush" and "This Is How You Throw a Party in Mykonos, Bitch"

June 18, 2021 | Poetry

Three Poems

Laci Mosier

"Smile!," "The Finest," and "The Young"

June 17, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Khalisa Rae

"The First Time I Called Myself His Girl" and "You Google Drive-Thru Margaritas"

June 15, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Em Brill

"commandment" and "do i miss you? that's none of my business"

June 14, 2021 | Poetry

The Conversation

Delilah Silberman

There was a time I had a flower in my mouth...

June 11, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Will Mountain Cox

"Splendido Splendente" and "Salt and Pepper or Salt and Vinegar"

June 10, 2021 | Poetry

The Martian

Chester Wilson III

I've got the alien walk down...

June 9, 2021 | Poetry

Poetry

Joel Kim Booster

You make me want to write bad poetry...

June 8, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

KB

"Elon Musk Is Moving to Austin" and "Good Joy"

June 7, 2021 | Poetry

if you were my ex i’d simply rebound

Selena Cotte

"sorry to ping / i just want to know who was too good for who..."

June 4, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Jill McDonough

"High School Kids and Gonorrhea" and "Bearclaw Asshole"

May 28, 2021 | Poetry

Letter 

Corinne Leong

Anything I speak, I know to speak a second time: My brother 
is dying. My brother is dying. You are not my sister 

tearing through an Italian restaurant, blistering
with what I have given her

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?

Who Killed Mabel Frost?

Miss Unity

I thought I was unhappy as a man. Turns out I was just unhappy…

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!