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My Other Harry Styles Poem
Andy Powell
My Harry Styles poem has gotten very good at glass of Lambrusco
on the arm of the sofa not crashing & purpling the floor,
used to play the saxophone
and doesn’t love sexophone jokes
but also
How It Was When We Were
Noah Stetzer
Jeff O told us that he and Brian H split after watching Chasing Amy...
I'm Going to Butcher This
Farah Ghafoor
a man stands on stage his cue cards flashing...
UNTITLED IN A WORLD CALLED MONEY, LOVE, AND FAME
Chris Hutchinson
On Day One, Larry-the-Lizard quits smoking
and eating saturated crap.
Day Two: he buys a hard pack of Dunhill King Size
on his way to Fatty Patty’s Burger Palace. Why?
Because the purplish
girl/rampant
A. Prevett
“But beauty wasn’t enough.”
– Gretchen Marquette
Nurturing as a kestrel checking your sheets for mice I am a woman designed. Because I was designed
it follows that I was
Three Poems
Anis Gisele
young girls walk alone
at night and
laugh from their bellies, sing
in jungle gym voices
to cradled stars
Memento Mori, or in Other Words
Stephanie Tom
Canada Goose — the age-old adage of
whether or not a ton of bricks or a ton
of feathers is heavier & the fact that it’s
always the feathers because you have to live
with the guilt on
Siege Liturgy
Nandini Dhar
On the tip of my tongue, the shadow of your incomplete rebellion
a riverine blister ; a city-street broken into brick-brats,
glued together again to fashion a ceramic gnome, its
rickety
my lover and I lose our bodies and become parts of speech
Paula Harris
adjective /
fuck yes
Desire/Excellence
Sean Cho A.
i came to America too young
to be foreign, so all my dreams
are American and contemporary,
present and blinding as morning-hunger:
a fat gull scavenges for loose plastic bags
and their
in the year 2148, our only nakba
Fargo Tbakhi
is the egg yolk, broken when it was meant to be fried,
the sobbing of a child who’s just found
that their favorite character does not survive,
the scraped knee, the store out of cigarettes
My Grandpa Didn’t Immigrate, He Fled Japanese Occupation
Troy Osaki
–After José Olivarez
When Carly’s body
isn’t a body but ash
they wish to be poured
into Lake Washington
below a sun becoming half
a sun,
Hey, Down There, I Am a Middle Aged Idiot with Questionable Eyesight and Plenty of Advice
David Wright
I'm up here along the photograph and its shore, calling to you. Dive off your custom watercraft and swim to the beach. No one of us standing here blames you for being seduced by the once constant tingle of skin we've followed all our lives.
Tip Top Vacation Performance
Jordan Clark
TIP TOP VACATION PERFORMANCE
Two women velcroed a husky, mesh tank top
in order to separate the men from the boys.
Then, 20 aisles apart, mimed the crucifixion.
Words I’m akin to grasp start in
Three Poems
Alex Bernstein
"Today I Promise," "Rubric for Asparagus," and "My Life"
Recent Books
PERSON/A
Elizabeth Ellen
"If Elizabeth Ellen exists, I would tell her it was like she channeled the anthemic scorn of Alanis Morrisette’s “You Outta Know” through Anais Nin, in her own inimitable way. And if Elizabeth Ellen doesn’t exist, at least she can invent herself.
currently ON SALE for $11!
Legs Get Led Astray
Chloe Caldwell
“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”
—Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD
currently ON SALE for $9!