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November 26, 2018 | Poetry

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November 23, 2018 | Poetry

Heart Sutra

Maria Genovese

The slow stacking of weight or the flinging down of a toe while the torso is already ahead. There are always new body parts to hit on sides of doors. I like to put my legs into pants in front of an open window, then stick my head out to see who’s around.

November 21, 2018 | Poetry

Man on Phone at Gas Station

Sarah Edwards

O Build-A-Bonfire, O
Blue Subaru

November 19, 2018 | Poetry

On Getting a Facial at the Strip Mall

Sarah Carson

My sister has been reading a lot about her pores lately. At the moderately priced tourist town spa where we've met for the weekend, a commercial for the dual action microdermabrasion brush comes on the television above the hot wax station, and she swears their blackhead diagram is incomplete.

November 14, 2018 | Poetry

Glitter Spill and Devil Bird

Britton Andrews

It was supposed to be
a joyous thing

November 12, 2018 | Poetry

Twenty Plays

Brittany Ackerman

1.  My ex-boyfriend got engaged to a girl less than a year after he broke up with me.  We had dinner with her once.  She was a family friend.  She wore hoop earrings and looked like a worst-case scenario Mila Kunis.  I hated her but I didn't know why yet.

November 9, 2018 | Poetry

In The Aftermath

William A. Greenfield

Via some prophecy, my son has
reached one half my chronological
age. And there are so many things

he can tell me: when The Macho Man
first claimed the heavyweight belt,
the year I bought him

October 30, 2018 | Poetry

spell for electron microscopes

Maya Jewell Zeller

spell for electron microscopes/ for silicate minerals & landfills

 

if my friends say you are a cell tower & I am a bird

 

if when I say I dream of archaeology what I mean is you

October 26, 2018 | Poetry

Driving Through Colorado, Listening to the Radio, Thinking of My Father Again

Sophie Klahr

Well look, the radio says ... 

October 22, 2018 | Poetry

Four poems

Lauren Stroh

TO LOUISIANA

I cry because of
how much time
we lost of my childhood
not singing in the front seat
of the white truck yelling
swing low
sweet chariot
coming forth
to carry me

October 18, 2018 | Poetry

Three Poems

Erika Walsh

Treat

I want to be rewarded for my good thoughts. My good purchase. I want free shipping. Gentle handling. I buy eyeliner. The felt tip, and pointed. I want someone to clap. I buy steel boots. I

October 16, 2018 | Poetry

three poems

Isaac Ginsberg Miller

Cosmogony

In January the birds awakened mid-
flight. In February the bats left
their cave and we called it abandoned.
In March a civilization arose
and fell. In April a ream of gauze
unfurled,

October 12, 2018 | Poetry

Five poems

Alyse Knorr

scare tactics

I grew hands by the dozen
I was a generalized reaching
clasping monster it was
not a dream shared or
otherwise it was neither
yours nor mine nor ours

the scariest

October 8, 2018 | Poetry

Three Poems 

Janice Majewski

air wants
to hold
flame down

October 5, 2018 | Poetry

Business Trip

Amy Oldfield

Did we go to Boston twice or did all this happen in one trip? I remember two different rooms but we used to change hotels all the time, just to feel like criminals. Once we stayed in an old converted

October 4, 2018 | Poetry

The Poet Debates with his Friend's Mistress, Death

Jason Reed-Mundell

The kettle boiled; I made the tea,

And when I turned around,

I saw she’d set the cups and placed

A third one for the skull.

October 4, 2018 | Poetry

Two Poems

Savannah Slone

unadorned

Lick me with your warm
honey tongue. Give me your port-wine
stain birthmark.

You are your pale
moonlit clavicles,
clanking against mine.
 

Pencil erasers for nipples.

You

October 3, 2018 | Poetry

Debris of a Bygone Era

Stephen Langlois

please believe me
            when i tell you this
            when i tell you of the high concentration of uranium and thorium 

October 2, 2018 | Poetry

Two Poems

Tommy Jarrell

DROUGHT

Flat water became rare in the house.
We loosened our jaws and drank
sparkling water from cans. For years
now, it seems the rain has gone off
to buy some cheese and bread. There
was

September 28, 2018 | Poetry

Two Poems

Thomas Renjilian

"Late Spring" and "Inconceivable"

September 25, 2018 | Poetry

Two Poems

Genevieve DeGuzman

"A Haunting" and "Shape Shift"

September 21, 2018 | Poetry

Four Poems

Lotte Mitchell Reford

"Eve Learns to Dominate," "Farmers' Market," "Small-Town Fuck Geometry," and "Religious Art"

September 17, 2018 | Poetry

Two Poems

Patrick Dundon

"A List of Men I Have Dated" and "Dear Diary"

September 15, 2018 | Poetry

band-aid

Ottavia Silvestri

on a plastic chair...

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...

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