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August 18, 2023 | Poetry

Original Obsession

SJ Alexander

I just thirst for barbed wire
 

August 17, 2023 | Poetry

4 Poems

Cash Compson

shadows cast like heaven’s
hands down over her eyes.

August 14, 2023 | Poetry

3 Poems

Liz Robbins

When I ran away at fourteen, I didn’t know
I was listening to an animal urge to find my own way, like all
teens

August 10, 2023 | Poetry

3 Poems

Willow Loveday Little

Motioning the stone girl over, she
deadpans, “It’s grenadine, not blood.”

August 8, 2023 | Poetry

3 Poems

Claire Scott

I can’t imagine anything better or worse than whole-hearted devotion.

 

August 7, 2023 | Poetry

3 Poems

Nidhi Agrawal

“I like the way how you wriggle when
Your mind doesn’t agree with your heart”

August 4, 2023 | Poetry

50 States

Lindsay Jarrett Smith

KS

Our translation of home.

August 2, 2023 | Poetry

Two Poems

Kai White

and now i teach street

kids from akron how to

use google docs, and

how to express themselves

August 1, 2023 | Poetry

Three Poems

John B. Oldenborg

What’s your name? Like an oak
I want to carve a heart
into our washing machine.

July 31, 2023 | Poetry

LIKE BUTTERFLIES THAT HAVE BEEN TRAPPED IN THE HOOD OF A CAR

Jaime Barash

as all my lovers
fly out of my chest

July 27, 2023 | Poetry

5 Poems

Devin McNerney

I do this because I need a hobby. Because hobbies are things you do when nobody loves you. I watch movies too.

July 26, 2023 | Poetry

UNDER PRESSURE

Willow Loveday Little

Mysterious beauty spot the farra on cheek.

July 25, 2023 | Poetry

5 Poems

Simone Menard-Irvine

You’ve heard of flightless fish that get flung out of
the water for wanting something special

July 24, 2023 | Poetry

TWO POEMS

Gabrielle Griot

Iron isn’t gold, but who cares? Pass me the luster, 
the hammered brass & the Perspex glitter.

July 7, 2023 | Poetry

Imagine You Were So Angry

Kat Kitay

It would clog up the bag and you would throw the whole thing into the sea

July 6, 2023 | Poetry

Poems from Estranged

Elizabeth Ellen

There’s no amount of $$$ you could offer me
            To shut my mouth

June 29, 2023 | Poetry

I’ve Started to Think

Kenzy El-Mohandes

Loud noises bother me. Crunching on chips. What did they do five hundred years ago when they didn’t have chips? They ate grapes. Quietly.

June 27, 2023 | Poetry

323 Freestyle

Marcus Scott Williams

i allow myself to feel joy listening to Anita Baker Same Ol Love and
when im prescient of the joy i rock a lil harder. 

June 21, 2023 | Poetry

6 SENRYU

Laughlin Cole

boyfriend has tourette's

dick ass ugh lick butt fuck slut

June 20, 2023 | Poetry

5 Poems

Lucas Restivo

You'll never raise an army 

How many t shirts is the ass model pushing
I'll never sell more books
than ice cream I've scooped
Everything is in its natural order

Is trying to want the same as

June 16, 2023 | Poetry

Two Poems

Hannah Nussbaum

Do I look erratic
in my Robert Cavalli jeans?

June 15, 2023 | Poetry

Three Poems

Šari Dale

Dexedrine,
obedient beauty,

a low-calorie
alternative

for excess.

June 15, 2023 | Poetry

3 Poems

Jill McDonough

I tell her I want some kissing, one
minute of mat kissing before lesson plans,
emails, dishes.

June 14, 2023 | Poetry

Four Poems

Anna Krivolapova

He’s feeding the gift horse / Paranoid discourse

June 12, 2023 | Poetry

2 Poems

Meghan Jusczak

I pull them apart like a harried cashier, rub the magenta-lined ones on my face, ink my cheeks with toxic blush.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

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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!