K.A. Hays
K.A. Hays is the author of Dear Apocalypse (2009), Early Creatures, Native Gods (2012), and Windthrow (2017). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, [...]
Derek Mong—The Second Year
Derek Mong The Second Year Like the last house still lit within a cul-de-sac you draw the street’s sporadic light behind your glass and hold it. Your thoughts, I mean, [...]
Derek Mong—The Undecided Voter
Derek Mong The Undecided Voter Look for me in the stillness preceding your footsteps, in the hand hovering over a tray of desserts. My shadow angles at any given hour [...]
Clint Smith
Clint Smith How to Make a Cardboard Box Disappear in 10 Steps 1) Find the scissors 2) Cut the sides of the cube 3) Attend the rally of Trayvon Martin [...]
Clint Smith—For Charles
Clint Smith For Charles On January 8, 1811 three men gathered together and planned what would be the largest slave revolt in American [...]
Paige Sullivan—My Father as a Series of Biblical Characters
Paige Sullivan My Father as a Series of Biblical Characters I. Judas You will betray me on Thanksgiving weekend, after we are seated— a family by candlelight, toasting with [...]
Anna B. Sutton—A Family of Mice
Anna B. Sutton A Family of Mice A mouse fears the scent of cherry blossoms because a chain link fence of DNA tells her to be afraid. What she [...]
Vanessa Stauffer—The Age of Bronze
Vanessa Stauffer The Age of Bronze The Bronze Age, thought to have occurred between 3500 and 1000 BC, [...]
J. T. Ledbetter—I Would Tell You Now
J. T. Ledbetter I Would Tell You Now The yellow hat you wore is still on the peg in the summer house I built for your potting. The blue bowl [...]
Mark Irwin—Paint
Mark Irwin Paint He keeps painting the room white and remembers how they liked looking at one another but said little. —Once their hands touching in the pie filling, fresh [...]
Patrick James Errington—Theorette of Relativity
Patrick James Errington Theorette of Relativity ‘How sour sweet music is, When time is [...]
John Estes
John Estes It Must Be Abstract Everything quintessential like a tiny screwdriver Around the house or a coatrack or a contrail That appears just as you’re looking up Like [...]