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More Overly Accommodating Poetry Written to Answer a Question I've Tried to Imply That You Asked
Chelsea Martin
This poem is about death and, to some extent, life.
Portrait in the Mirror Behind the Bar
Rich Smith
Anyone who loves Tim loves him for the same reason.
He hit one home run. "Did you ever hit one?"
He'll ask, as the day begins to wash over his face
and he leans back to stare at the baseball
Explaining An Affinity for R.A. Dickey
Lauri Anderson Alford
after A.E. Stallings
That his fingernails are immaculate, shaped
into thin arches of moon. That he files them
in the locker room before games, between innings in the
Three Poems
Hannah Stephenson
Self-portrait as fogged up car. / Self-portrait as Home Depot // parking lot at 3 AM, no cars, / no people. Self-portrait with // grocery cart with someone else’s / left behind list.
Two Short Pieces
Anne Germanacos
Looking for the right angle
He poo-poo’s my relationship to nature, even when I tell him about touching the dead goat.
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An intimacy that can hold the world?
An intimacy that
Dear Money Shot
Steve Davenport
It’s the new plan, Shooter. Poetry for broken systems. Insurance rider attached.
4 Jeff Bridges poems
Donora Hillard
You tell Jeff Bridges you fear
your dying breath will be just like
the whimper you make when trying
to remove glitter polish from your
toenails. He sets his guitar down on
the fur
Three Poems
Chris Mink
Because sharks mate / by just passing for a moment / before separating forever and / because his dog died...
Four Poems
Matthew Gavin Frank
At a certain point, / no sex becomes a little Branch Davidian
Kathy Acker and the Cuttlefish
Emma Sovich
Kathy Acker was sick of shaving her legs. Every time she shaved them she cut herself. It didn’t matter if the blade was dull or sharp. Inevitably the blade would steal pieces of her knee.
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!