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March 11, 2021 | Poetry

Five Poems

Sophie Weil

crazy horse

half full heavy
whipping cream in their drywall construct
see me mob hammer ?
smack dab middle of july
i ask and clam up

that thunder is new to me
racking up the bill
instead

March 9, 2021 | Poetry

Britney's People

Lu Chekowsky

Britney’s People

Britney is a crystal swan born from a cave where they manufacture crystal swans. Britney’s People are her protectors. No people are as important as Britney’s People because it is

March 3, 2021 | Poetry

Four Poems 

McKenzie Toma

Fragrance

I never lost what I had out of eye    the piano minded surplus or acheless weather    what ever the
          night still oily with a personality is          there is no sense         

March 1, 2021 | Poetry

Three Poems

Sadie Dupuis

CRYSTAL THINKING

Dream logic gets my sober companion drunk
Vomiting silver in the private beehive of our wagon
I went to the cemetery and played you a too-fast solo
Mud seeped in the ass of my

February 26, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Shangyang Fang

"Utterance of a Folding Fan" and "Op. 64 in C#"

February 22, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Julia Edwards

"Peak Inertia" and "You don't know if you should laugh at my poems"

February 17, 2021 | Poetry

Soda Fountain

Janelle Cordero

On my first job I worked for a woman named Jeanie who owned a soda fountain, thrift store, and tavern. I worked at the soda fountain fixing milk shakes and simple sandwiches for the few customers that

February 15, 2021 | Poetry

Our relationship as embrace b/w Icarus & light

Samantha Fain

the sun sees Icarus & tries to shift...

February 10, 2021 | Poetry

Zoom Ballets

Ariana Kelly

I had someone once. He spoke the Queen’s English, lived in a house built by timber hewn from his property. We were layman lovers, easily able to make cracks about the poverty of the crescent moon but

February 8, 2021 | Poetry

Ode to Cigarettes

Brett Hanley

I know in heaven they are unlimited and free...

February 4, 2021 | Poetry

The Winter Shed

Samantha Samakande

"Tight coils come / up floating in / my husband's peppermint..."

February 2, 2021 | Poetry

Angel Costume

Audra Puchalski

We can't feel how fast we're falling...

January 26, 2021 | Poetry

Did NOT See That One Coming: Visual Poems

Nance Van Winckel

 

DID NOT SEE

 

NOT THAT ONE!

 

SEE? 

 

COMING! 

 

DIDN'T ONE? 

 

January 25, 2021 | Poetry

FOUR POEMS

Stephanie Kaylor

HOW DID YOU GET STARTED IN THIS WORK?

In this story I am meant to tell you of the men I met in parking lots. It is night and it is will be raining, though I do not know the science behind the

January 20, 2021 | Poetry

Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid

Danielle P. Williams

 

             after Ruby/Hilary 

 

For just 
fifteen seconds

out of my twenty-
six years living

I imagine 
myself 

a white woman

bones breaking
in a new way

my

January 19, 2021 | Poetry

Superstitious Asians

Shin Yu Pai

if it were untrue, I might have been
less mad; I am the best of drivers

tiger mother, paper tiger, full
of slant, piss and vinegar

that occasion of our first big fight,
he connoted with a

January 15, 2021 | Poetry

INTERNET GIRLFRIEND

Stephanie Athena Valente

 

two seasons of sabrina,
the teenage witch
under my belt
i’m feeling powerful

i sign on AIM after 9pm
dial up noises are wands
just a secret crush

it’s always nice,
talking to you,

January 14, 2021 | Poetry

TWO POEMS

Moni Brar

Cliché

I’m your favourite cliché.
Go ahead – 
  paint a red dot on my forehead,
    push it like a button,
      wrap me in a sari,
        round and round I go.
Make sure it’s
  – bright

December 24, 2020 | Poetry

My Daughter Has Never Heard of Home Alone or All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth 

Adam Hughes

 

She lives with her mom

two states away

and I wish this was all

I've failed to teach her. 

 

 

December 23, 2020 | Poetry

Two Poems

Rosie Stockton

rsvp

for sacha

you’re a bound cloud
mist locked down    skipped
across the lake, I can tell

I woosh your eye’s pallet
missing calls      flatten
hunger      a slow drawl
boy  with

December 22, 2020 | Poetry

Luxury

Emily Lake Hansen

Luxury

This September the cool
air has come quickly
and I’m in love with how
it crawls into my belly,
smooths its long creases
on the bones of my esophagus.
What a luxury — to feel
   

December 21, 2020 | Poetry

Two Poems

Angela Qian

daughter

Her mother sometimes talks in her sleep
while she, so it’s told, whimpers or stretches.
Her brother twitches restlessly through the night.
He’s got finer hair and stronger teeth,
their

December 18, 2020 | Poetry

Two Poems

M. Elizabeth Scott

CHIAROSCURO

-

Your hand and its physical touch
fuschia as you brush

The inside
of desire and nothing

I'll say it
on the skin of your tongue

Name and unname
your eyes and their

December 17, 2020 | Poetry

Four Poems

shy watson

sour

i wanted
in the way
that want follows

bedraggled
a half moon
of bites

it starts
like this
slowly

rara saw
FIRE FIRE
in my eyes

hard to describe
to you who
no longer

December 15, 2020 | Poetry

On Shaving My Legs for the First Time

Nandini Maharaj

On Shaving my Legs for the First Time

the offending hairs that sprout from dark skin
like unwelcome ants that toil through the night

hairs that signal virility on my father’s chin
draw taunts

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