Elliott Niblock
Elliott Niblock Prayer to the Reader I want to tell you that the world has changed, that the search for a settling soul is over, that daylight does not darken [...]
Martin Rock
Martin Rock On Forgetting My Tongue in Japan I. Not that I left it in someone else’s mouth or severed like a shelled mollusk but when the words of [...]
Alexandra Teague
Alexandra Teague Baba Yaga Appears in Intro to Feminist Theory and Gives an Impromptu Lecture "And has Baba Yaga really got iron teeth?" asked Vanya. "Iron, like the poker and [...]
Felicia Zamora
Felicia Zamora Let let Let us ride dusk; let us witness sun burn orange into granular strokes of blue, strokes of black; let us feed our pupils & our porous [...]
Meghan McClure
Meghan McClure Sketches of Everything Except You He leans against the wall outside my daughters’ school. His camo pants worn soft and thin at the knee and hem. His camo [...]
Edmund Sandoval
Edmund Sandoval As to Who We Are We are friends now. Yes. Sort of. Kind of we are friends. It is like acting. If we were actors. But we are [...]
Phillip Snyder
Phillip A. Snyder Chew the Coca, Take the Valium My sister Tracey never tires of telling the story of Aunt Maurine and Uncle Wilson going to Peru with a tourist [...]
Kim Winter Mako
Kim Winter Mako Right-dog Vs. Left-dog Eight lines lit up and Tracey reached for the phone. Aurelio pushed her hand away. “Watch me,” he said. He started with the top [...]
Josh Myers
Josh Myers What Fascism Means to Me By the shrinking border of the forest there’s a bird that’s learned to imitate a chainsaw. In a language I’ve forgotten, power is [...]
Hema Padhu
Hema Padhu Silent Downpour It’s been raining for three days straight. It’s monsoon season, and the streets of Mumbai are flooded but mercifully empty as I walk to work this [...]
Carol Duran Quinn
Carol Duran Quinn Darién The tracks began to curve, and there was a cry in the curve of them, but it was not the sound of brakes. Steel bore down [...]
Sam Sax
sam sax - Winner, 2016 Poetry Contest From contest judge, Melissa Kwasny: "It is the poem's immediacy that strikes me each time I read it, a north-wind immediacy that is [...]