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February 27, 2023 | Poetry

Holiday!

Cecilia Corrigan

a howl of anguish and a bolt from the, a bruise, and yes, even lurid strangulation on the— 

why it’s positively gothic darling, really!

February 23, 2023 | Poetry

I LOVE D-BOYZ

Christian Bodney

don’t say the truth                  

it’s presumptuous                               and tastes like an airhead           

February 21, 2023 | Poetry

5 Poems

Rose Knapp

Why can’t time be both? History repeating 

Itself but making progress too?

February 21, 2023 | Poetry

Koans for the Ugly

Chris R. Morgan

Now there is a skeleton outside my window. And skeletons on all the dating app profiles.

February 20, 2023 | Poetry

3 Poems

Lucia Duero

This marriage project
What a blast

February 20, 2023 | Poetry

A World of Silences

Noah Cicero

The face in my mirror keeps getting older –
Into the face of the man who beat me

February 15, 2023 | Poetry

2 Poems

David Kirby

Sometimes they say, You can’t really teach someone to write a poem, in which case you might answer, Well,
not you.

February 13, 2023 | Poetry

I’ll kill myself if you leave

John Doe

Our lovemaking is a demilitarized zone.

February 9, 2023 | Poetry

2 poems

anika jade levy

i don’t think there will be booze
for sale, the style writer says, 
because it’s a synagogue

February 8, 2023 | Poetry

fragments

Blake Middleton

in the midst of a historic crisis, i ride my bike to the river

February 3, 2023 | Poetry

Aftercare

Gabrielle Griot

There’s something unbearably endearing
about Pepto-Bismol in its retro European
packaging

February 1, 2023 | Poetry

Five Poems

Ashley D. Escobar

I vomited
up a prophecy in a dive bar,
inhaling hot dogs.

January 16, 2023 | Poetry

Two Poems

Uzodinma Okehi 

Drainage stains. Snow turns to shivering rain. The rear facing concrete walls.

January 16, 2023 | Poetry

Six Poems

Madison Langston

waylon in the kitchen
pancakes
the pain of a tattoo gun on ribs 

January 9, 2023 | Poetry

Wine-Induced Laughing Fit

Danielle Chelosky

“you’re bad at finishing beverages that aren’t alcoholic,” you told me

January 2, 2023 | Poetry

simone says

Anna Dorn

writing fiction in which people google things,
suffering in a very abstract way
trying very hard to shut the fuck up & failing

January 2, 2023 | Poetry

An Ordinary Hour

Stephanie Yue Duhem

You must stop dating
physicists, that sere barnacling across
the cold, leeward faces of rocks.

November 9, 2022 | Poetry

3 Poems

Natasha

I ask him if the smoke was from the engine fires
or the buildings collapsing — or both
of course it was both 
We pass Emily Ratajkowski and I try to run back to get a look at her face

October 10, 2022 | Poetry

Party Poems

Miss Unity

The other thing Belle did
Was burn three holes in my thigh
With her cigarette
Revenge for the chaos I’d caused

October 5, 2022 | Poetry

3 poems

Cash Compson

Mouth like the

moon. Until death,

be excited. Déjà vu

you’ve never had.

September 27, 2022 | Poetry

I Could Signal Dominance in Email Correspondence as Trained but the Concept Is Offensive and I’m Baby

Sarah Lyn Rogers

I, I, I, I, the angel speaks herself

September 23, 2022 | Poetry

Another Day at the Museum of Forgetfulness

Todd Campbell

I finger a ring of keys and wonder what doors they might unlock.

September 20, 2022 | Poetry

I knew a terrible man once

Jennifer E Brown

There I was on Clement Street in the morning, trying to grow another body.

September 15, 2022 | Poetry

Sonnet for the Physical Therapist Who Told Me This is Just the Way the Good Lord Made Me 

Billie R. Tadros

It’s a sin,
to desire different architecture, I’m told

September 14, 2022 | Poetry

my beloved forgets how to pray

Anthony Thomas Lombardi

in a cellar not far from here, wine waits years to peak
before a bottle is cracked open only to empty
a bruise.

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