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April 12, 2022 | Poetry

Balk/Change Up/Intentional Walk/Rehab Assignment/The Off Day

John Walser

Just that instant
when thinking becomes
too much

April 6, 2022 | Poetry

Nostalgia Sells

Chris Pellizzari

 

Drive-in movie theater, Merrillville, Indiana, 1989

Field of Dreams on a screen bigger than every building in Merrillville,  

my brother and I eating chocolate sundaes from mini Dairy Queen

April 1, 2022 | Poetry

2 Poems

Devin Kelly

In Praise of Hands

I miss hands. I miss their flimsy, awkward quality –

the way one looks when offered while still searching

for a reason. I miss being young, lining up after the

March 31, 2022 | Poetry

Two Poems

Katelin Kelly

"[ / ]" and "[ / / ]"

March 25, 2022 | Poetry

Amiss

Ian U Lockaby

In the middle of
the street is everyone
you know.

March 21, 2022 | Poetry

In a New York Summer

David Ehmcke

Two men smoking cigarettes on Bleecker could mean anything
to each other.

March 17, 2022 | Poetry

I Laugh at My Great-Grandmother’s Funeral

Josephine Wu

All the time I don’t know what I’ve lost. 

March 11, 2022 | Poetry

Josephine, or Alter Ego

Joseph O. Legaspi

Is this how a woman
Disappears, water-tap and soil

March 9, 2022 | Poetry

The Stay of Grief

Elizabeth Crowell

There is one boat out every day.
We are never packed in time to take it.

March 7, 2022 | Poetry

Outside the VIP Room of Club Private Grief

Nick Martino

She flips a stool on the bar like a lamb
 

March 4, 2022 | Poetry

Little Prayer for a Snail

Ben Seanor

There’s so much advice
in the world, such as: if you’re feeling
very low, put on a suit

February 28, 2022 | Poetry

Jen Frantz

Jen Frantz

I made a call
and I lived. 
It was the longest
life of my life.

February 25, 2022 | Poetry

Question for the Rio Grande

Saúl Hernández

Do you remember the names of everyone you swallow

February 23, 2022 | Poetry

Three Poems

Rebecca Hawkes

One of your axolotls has eaten the other
and every week you clean its twenty-litre tank
of cannibal excrement.

February 21, 2022 | Poetry

End of an Empire

Nikki Blazek

i look like eurotrash
in your red sweatshirt
and blue sweat shorts but

February 18, 2022 | Poetry

A Drawing of My First Tattoo

Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

tree tree tree tree calvin calv hobbes

February 16, 2022 | Poetry

Do Not Ask God For The Way To Heaven; He Will Show You The Hardest One

David Wojciechowski

A man was arrested for creating a labyrinth in an IKEA.

February 14, 2022 | Poetry

Red Aphrodite

Andie Sheridan

doesn’t know how to give a PROPER blowjob
The spittle
of the sea
                        otherwise known as Jamaica Pond
dries hard on her eros:erring:elbow still deeper
resonating
in her

February 10, 2022 | Poetry

God as Nero

Megan Waring

there was no fiddle, but let’s say there was.

February 4, 2022 | Poetry

Two Poems

Tom Snarsky

Most planets are probably so
much quieter than ours.

February 2, 2022 | Poetry

horse girl

Andrew Ketcham

I'm waiting for influenza in Virginia. Or the taste of something metal.

January 31, 2022 | Poetry

Tracey, what am I meant to do with all this shit?

Zoë Ranson

Tracey, what am I meant to do with all this shit?

Party snacks
platters of them
orange and puffed up
Moloko rasping from a corner

          there’s an awareness of space, of bug spray

   

January 28, 2022 | Poetry

Girls with blue hands

Sophie Ruth

Girls with blue hands

I
Psychopathology
in the woods
Naked snow
Cold, bare thighs
keep the snow white.
Tie around a tree
Hide your ruby
ring in the dirt
Rub your hair
against the

January 24, 2022 | Poetry

Why Everything is Everything

Brian Simoneau

Why Everything Is Everything

          for my daughter

Because earth is spinning
     and spinning and circles
a yellow star. Because
     gases burning, flaring
above the poles we spin
   

January 21, 2022 | Poetry

Three Poems

Liv Fleet

BIG TIME

okay i’ll be doing my best to     explain myself, to     say i did the best i could with what i
had and you     did the same      my mom will be bringing home ice cream soon
     she

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