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Dear Caitlyn
Alison Taverna
Caitlyn, let me take that hair / in my own hands and curl it down your back.
New York Journal and Advertiser, 1898
Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
The Dinosaur of Wyoming
I was never born a hermaphrodite. But I tell this story where I am born a hermaphrodite. And anyone listening after I get to the part when the gynecologist asks if
Future Daughter
Sally Rodgers
Untitled One
Motherhood slept astonished as astronomers wept so-so-ago with this sort of blow. This sort of ovary, yo, the story being if thrown into something sombrous, spokes-of-light, it
Three Poems
Kerry Cullen
I know you toss out untouched leftovers, and miss them.
Facebook Friends
Fiona Helmsley
When you leave the comment that I am "such a good mom"
under a picture I have posted of my child online,
it freaks me out.
You haven't seen me in over twenty years,
and have never met
5 ways of throwing something into the boston public gardens swan pond
John Mortara
1. board the T heading downtown to get to the swan pond / check your phone absently / remember
how so many people needed your attention last month that it made you want to
Three Poems
Karen Skolfield
When we consume ourselves, of course / we think no one cares enough to watch.
Baseball Players I Remember...
Tao Lin
Baseball Players I Remember (I Watched Baseball 1-4 Years as a Child. I Collected Cards. My Favorite Team Was The Braves)
Ron Gant. I remember he bent his knees
in a weird, intriguing way
How to Pitch a Full Count
David Joseph
I trace the windup with my elbow, my arm like a wing
unfurling, red lace licking off my feathertips.
Baseball's Cruel Lexicon
Nicholas Mainieri
We’re speaking of salvation, god damn it,
And only the incurious break slumps.
from Nature Poem
Tommy Pico
Tommy “Teebs” Pico was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has poems in BOMB, Guernica, and [PANK]. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker. @heyteebs
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.
Her Lesser Work
Elizabeth Ellen
"[Her Lesser Work] is a collection of mordant and formally inventive stories circling themes of, let’s say, desire and escape within repressive structures."
-Walker Caplan, Literary Hub
"Her Lesser Work is full of power and it takes risks and it's alive and real and it fixes a very sharp eye on the shit humans do to each other and themselves."
-Lindsay Lerman, LitReactor
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks!