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September 12, 2018 | Poetry

Something I've Owned

Sam Herschel Wein

I was reading today how trees, though not touching directly,
talk to each other...

September 10, 2018 | Poetry

In a Shell Station

Corey Oglesby

I like to say I hate it when people say this,
but sometimes it really is what it is...

September 7, 2018 | Poetry

Empire Empire

Catherine Chen

To be led by the engine of empire...

August 31, 2018 | Poetry

Resigning from being messiah

Timothy Pilgrim

A two week notice.

August 31, 2018 | Poetry

Two Poems

nv baker

The streets are empty. The bars are less full. 

August 30, 2018 | Poetry

Travelogue 

Josh Weston

In 1644 John Weston, age thirteen or sixteen, depending on the source, stowed away.

August 29, 2018 | Poetry

minivan

Ivanna Baranova

On the road ... 

August 28, 2018 | Poetry

Creation Myth

Anum Sattar

Fill the latex body all the way through.

August 27, 2018 | Poetry

On Pussy

Anna Claire Hodge

Twice, my friend was flashed as a child.

August 24, 2018 | Poetry

Bix

Sara Anderson

For you who shone under the blue lights

August 23, 2018 | Poetry

How to Survive as a Single-Family Car*

Marne Wilson

Strike up a conversation with other cars you meet

August 22, 2018 | Poetry

Biography of a [     ] Girl 

Mackenzie Berry

Her guardian came from glory.

August 21, 2018 | Poetry

Omission

M. Drew Williams

The river, the river, the river. 

August 20, 2018 | Poetry

in style & so-and-so

Katherine Vondy

sentences are donuts bursting with believability custard

August 17, 2018 | Poetry

Two Poems (Eulogy & These Smart Glasses ...)

Jonas I. Tijerino

How grand it would be if Jedi Temples were Papaya Monuments.

August 16, 2018 | Poetry

Three Poems

Jon Ruseski

That place where mystery pukes

August 15, 2018 | Poetry

Mannequin

Alex Sniatkowski

The Great Swedish Store

August 14, 2018 | Poetry

russet

Cowboy Roland

i want to be made into french fries

August 13, 2018 | Poetry

2 Poems

Dan Mancilla

Many dust the dream, wait the time.
How important is motion?

August 10, 2018 | Poetry

superstitions

Jody Chan

getting a haircut in the year’s first month will cause the death
of an uncle eating fish will bring your family abundance
八 meaning eight sounds the same as 發 meaning wealth
& also hair eight

August 9, 2018 | Poetry

2 Poems (from The Gospel According to X)

Oliver Baez Bendorf

from
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO X

 

Prayer is what you do when you don’t know whether your animal will live through the night. Pink like Pepto-Bismol staining a goat’s chin. Everything lives and

August 8, 2018 | Poetry

2 Poems

catch business

how to wear a crop top to office depot

trying not to think of you

when i connect with someone

i start to fear rejection

because that’s what

i’m used to

not being famous

feels

August 7, 2018 | Poetry

The Mounting Evidence against Monotheism

Jeffrey Hermann

Because there’s a god for the water on your skin
when you’ve come from the lake. One for the absence
of flowers in a vase, for every pump and filter organ inside my dog

One god isn’t enough to

August 6, 2018 | Poetry

Heavy Metal Love Song

Lia Mastropolo

Heavy Metal Love Song

Street drafts off the two-tone carpet in my underworld            

Air so much wetter than the memory of it        sharpness of weather
spoiling for more life

Two buses

August 3, 2018 | Poetry

3 Poems

Jakob Maier

No Vision

Two teenagers set my state on fire
with a bottle rocket. We flee
between coasts like politics.
I work three jobs so I can buy
new brakes & a tattoo of a heart
shooting lightning.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

                      -Walker Caplan, Lithub