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May 16, 2025 | Poetry

Why I Pulled All the Reds from My Crayola Box

Patrick G. Roland

Before the internet had all the answers,
before Siri, before Alexa,
before TikTok teens with ring lights
explained the universe in under thirty seconds—
I had my dad.

Dad was my Wikipedia.
Dad

May 14, 2025 | Poetry

Playing House

Emily Sperber

Look longingly
out the window. Wait for myself to come home.

May 13, 2025 | Poetry

3 Poems

Olivia Cook

County Holding

In county holding, girls recite the future from memory.

Sleep is an escape. Blankets for those with perfect zeros.

In county holding, the girls, they’re always using the

May 7, 2025 | Poetry

A smoke caged kiss: 3 poems

Sami Ridge

I mean,
it’s only love.

May 1, 2025 | Poetry

True Love

Rhea Melina

It doesn’t have to hurt.

April 29, 2025 | Poetry

TWO POEMS

Eric T. Racher

but allwhite right unvexed real people-pleaser

April 24, 2025 | Poetry

FOURTEEN POEMS

Mike Topp

I think the interview went pretty well, although at one point I remember asking the interviewer to speak slower this time, using simpler words, words with no syllables if possible. 

April 24, 2025 | Poetry

the godhead

ry downey

Please dont forget to play. Can you remember 
the last time you danced?

April 22, 2025 | Poetry

Four Poems

Thom Waddill

Wind in the ears like / Water ungathering / In and out of baskets.

April 17, 2025 | Poetry

After boys become some kind of man: 3 poems

Simon Wolf

The door is broken, the home is not 
as we begin to compare our splinters 
before our squinting eyes.

April 15, 2025 | Poetry

3 Poems

Sheridan Wilbur

nature doesn't give a shit about what I want

March 27, 2025 | Poetry

2 Poems

Selen Ozturk

It was bad today.

I stood in Trader Joe’s two hours

March 24, 2025 | Poetry

Incest

Jan E. Mehmedović

written in the season of cattle mutilation

March 21, 2025 | Poetry

e-girls

anon

each morning i go online & look at pictures of pretty girls in new york city.

March 18, 2025 | Poetry

Making Out While the World Collapses

Hayden Church

I feel sexy / as a sheared sheep 

March 17, 2025 | Poetry

A Poem That Isn't a Poem but Rather an Essay About Women Who Love Patrick Bateman

Sofija Popovska

in the mirror the face you see yourself | I’m so fucking good at this | the eye is an aleph and every place is you

March 10, 2025 | Poetry

guys i'm just a poet

Chloe Wheeler

what to do with this boyfriend sized chasm?

March 3, 2025 | Poetry

Porn Poems

Cletus Crow

on a quest for boobs / i become evil

February 21, 2025 | Poetry

Four Poems

Bradley King

Sun on the creases of someone I love, shadows cut / our funny surface.

February 10, 2025 | Poetry

4 Poems

Natalie Eckl

Always those who wreak havoc having their way.

February 7, 2025 | Poetry

The Rock

Jack Ludkey

And the rubber women were melting / Like gum on the hot pool deck

February 6, 2025 | Poetry

You can build it

Andrew Rader Hanson

you can build the fist into a exclamation point

February 3, 2025 | Poetry

Two Poems

Aiden “A.J.” Brown

crumple my stupid heart / a thing of wire and feathers

January 31, 2025 | Poetry

You’re So Beautiful I Might

Jeffrey Hermann

You’re so beautiful I see that everything is beautiful. A mudslide. A wound. A dead raccoon.

January 29, 2025 | Poetry

Three Poems

Maria Giesbrecht

Best time to buy a bra / is right before the moon finishes / milking itself

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks! 

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