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January 14, 2025 | Poetry

Obedience Training

Mickie Kennedy

Run to him,
it urged. Drop to your knees

January 9, 2025 | Poetry

3 Poems

Zara Lisbon

I AM NOT TAYLOR SWIFT

Today I almost caved and drank.
My new dog has an ulcer
He needs eye drops
Created with his own blood
administered twice daily
I will be in Mexico - Dia De Los

January 6, 2025 | Poetry

from: Vasectomajestic

Jacob Schepers

I am at such peace but I take a beat
to pause, that’s all, to feel so full, hearted, set.

January 3, 2025 | Poetry

3 Poems

Cash Compson

coyotes marauding in
waves of slaughter & i’m
jealous of the way

December 23, 2024 | Poetry

3 Cloud Poems

Madelyn Grace

I intimidate men

With my intensity

 

Please don’t be scared of me

December 20, 2024 | Poetry

2 Poems

wrath of persephone

remember when i ruined dinner by taking a bone saw to my sternum?

December 18, 2024 | Poetry

we remember what it's like to be in love: 3 poems

Tyler Dempsey

i turned out alright

December 17, 2024 | Poetry

ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT SUICIDE

Sam Cooke

Acne in my nose
Dust on my hands
Oil on my boots 
Sugar in my blood

December 13, 2024 | Poetry

Our last rodeo

Sheridan Wilbur

Passenger princess, king behind the wheel

December 11, 2024 | Poetry

i wear a suit of salt: 3 poems

john compton

the shape of earth

December 10, 2024 | Poetry

Sorry

Madi Bean

if I could talk to your friends they would dox my hinge prompts. I dream that I'm you and give birth to myself.

December 5, 2024 | Poetry

The World is Ending and So Are We: 5 poems

Ingrid M. Calderón-Collins

Love. That’s all I want. That’s all we want. These people. These dogs.

November 25, 2024 | Poetry

Care

Taylor Napolsky

you don’t want to 

come out

looking gauche

November 22, 2024 | Poetry

Smoke and Coercion

Ophelia Monet

you can convince someone of 
anything at all

November 21, 2024 | Poetry

self-care

Paige Johnson

Infidelity is fed to us as sexier when it’s female

November 19, 2024 | Poetry

POEMS AFTER THE OLD TESTAMENT

Cletus Crow

You are so smooth-skinned / I would send your husband / to war to die.

November 15, 2024 | Poetry

Self Portrait as Pluto in Aquarius

Isabelle Correa

I have let love demolish me.

November 13, 2024 | Poetry

Three poems on our precious context

The Neighbourhood Coward

Destroy something for my sake.

November 11, 2024 | Poetry

Five Poems

Selena Cotte

writing questions, like

why does he come over in the bad storms

and make excuses not to leave

November 8, 2024 | Poetry

Election

Elizabeth Ellen

“I’m just excited that my first time voting in a presidential election was for a woman,” my daughter said

“yeah,” I said

“that’s so exciting,” I said

November 8, 2024 | Poetry

Two Poems

Zachary Bond

On the back of his badge, he had a barcode with which he could change almost anything.

November 1, 2024 | Poetry

INCARNADINE

Paul Franz

I said, this, this. Call it what it is.

October 31, 2024 | Poetry

4 Poems

Kelly Erin Gray

I was a minor saint of empty time.

Strange men bought me piss poor

beer, spirit forward and blood red

October 25, 2024 | Poetry

3 Poems

HLR

I suspect that I’m a little bit in love with you
 

but that would be ridiculous because I don’t know

if your wrists sit snugly in my hip dips. Ridiculous

because I don’t know whether you’ll

October 23, 2024 | Poetry

Mademoiselle, 1966

Donna Morton

she keeps her secrets as easily as she takes off her white
gloves

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

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!