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June 6, 2023 | Poetry

Puncture Stories

Kalliopi Mathios

He said everyone is going to die except us
 

June 2, 2023 | Poetry

The Baby

Clayton Fox

Well, it’s happened
there is a baby
I just found out 
and he is precious

there is a baby now
and the father is handsome
he has a Sherpa-like
quality that gives me calm

I am comforted:
he

May 31, 2023 | Poetry

4 poems

Keko Prijatelj

To shut down and cool off like my laptop
All I need is wind and weed

May 19, 2023 | Poetry

3 poems

Michael Wayne Hampton

and Tahiti exists even if
I will never see it

May 12, 2023 | Poetry

3 poems

Rachel Custer

The only thing grows faster than corn here is despair.

May 11, 2023 | Poetry

9 tiny poems about gri*f

Irina Varina

i am on the bus
i think

May 9, 2023 | Poetry

three poems

Myles Zavelo

I was six years old.
He was a German Shepherd named Andy.

May 5, 2023 | Poetry

OPERATION WARP SPEED

Ben Jahn

crushes and snorts several thousand milligrams of sildenafil on a nsfw livestream and masturbates until his heart explodes

May 1, 2023 | Poetry

3 Poems

Tom Kelly

the sexiest quality in a partner was the ability to space out

April 18, 2023 | Poetry

2 Poems

Paul Jaskunas

where Mother had hung on the wall
our Hogarth prints and crucifix

April 17, 2023 | Poetry

Chad, the Golfer

Elizabeth Ellen

I had started doing aerobics and running in place in our townhouse living room when Chad was at the golf shop. I’d found a recipe for whole wheat banana bread and I made a loaf every Sunday and every

April 13, 2023 | Poetry

two poems

Margaret McGowan

after Charles Bukowski

April 12, 2023 | Poetry

5 Poems

Catherine Spino

Every orgasm I am not having is a poem in process.

April 11, 2023 | Poetry

Inscriptions from Ghislaine Maxwell's Prison Cell

René Bennett

The body rotates its symbols / like a stereoscope

April 7, 2023 | Poetry

Written on the Wall of an Invisible Temple While Brimming with Love

Patrick Kosiewicz

I’m flinging sparks at a desk 
in the cold cell of civilization’s midnight 
 

April 4, 2023 | Poetry

Takeout

Coleman Bomar

I'm sick...

March 31, 2023 | Poetry

Three Poems

Lauren Ireland

I am torn with longing for many unnameable things.

March 30, 2023 | Poetry

In Praise of Burning Books

Chris R. Morgan

there was nothing special in the Library of Alexandria

March 22, 2023 | Poetry

3 Poems

Tom Will

It does not make any noise but it works.

March 9, 2023 | Poetry

4 poems

Laine Derr

I fucked his heart, ruined the fitted sheets,
flamingos left erect in a pool of afternoons

March 7, 2023 | Poetry

4 Poems

gg roland

other byproducts are produced
sticky sweat, the stink of loneliness

March 1, 2023 | Poetry

Two Poems

Sama Ghaffari

But there's no blood
It's all gone, I'm dry

February 28, 2023 | Poetry

Hit something

Hayden Church

Do you ever get mad
and want to 
hit something?

February 27, 2023 | Poetry

Holiday!

Cecilia Corrigan

a howl of anguish and a bolt from the, a bruise, and yes, even lurid strangulation on the— 

why it’s positively gothic darling, really!

February 23, 2023 | Poetry

I LOVE D-BOYZ

Christian Bodney

don’t say the truth                  

it’s presumptuous                               and tastes like an airhead           

Recent Books

Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)

Elizabeth Ellen

 "It captures all the doubts, giddiness, confessional streaks, blabbiness, self-alarms, rationalizations, feigned equipoise, and instantly breakable resolves of a person freshly infatuated and likely in love."   -anonymous writer friend

Nudes

Elle Nash

“Transgressive and immediate: you feel these stories shoot through and wrap around you.” 

             - Kyle F. Williams, Full Stop Magazine

 

Worsted

Garielle Lutz

“Lutz’s work is a marvel of the possibilities of language.  Each of her sentences is an intricately crafted thing, deeply complex yet crystalline in its clarity . . . her command of each and every word remains supreme.”     

  --Mira Braneck, The Paris Review Daily

 

Garielle Lutz is the author of The Complete Gary Lutz, among other books.