READ SOME BULLSHIT

Oct 13, 2022
1 min

A POEM by NATASCHA GRAHAM

BETWEEN THE ACTS Influenced by David Bowie, Virginia Woolf and Sally Wainwright, Natascha Graham is a lesbian writer of stage, screen,...

Oct 7, 2022
1 min

A POEM by KAREN WALKER

I QUIT Wrote to the boss: "I quit this job as a cashier at Grocery Giant." Wrote to the bottle: "I quit this joint as a cashier at...

Oct 6, 2022
2 min

A POEM by OZZYKA FARAH

CASH COW in cold, bastard night blanket draped over my face like a veil I half-dreamt the world in a teacup in this chamomile dream money...

Oct 5, 2022
3 min

SIX POEMS by CATALINA BLAKE

ALONE AT THE TOP OF THE PLATEAU The fool is lost in the mountain new dawns, he is to find, do not always bring new meanings. But, for a...

Sep 29, 2022
2 min

TWO POEMS by MIA AMORE DEL BANDO

VISIONS I vision the future Dismal and deluded lights Blurry violet edges and stranger’s smiles My heart on a platter for cannibals to...

Sep 23, 2022
2 min

THREE POEMS by GLENN INGERSOLL

I GOT A COUNTRY found in the UC Berkeley library database I got a home in-a dat rock I got a marble and a star I got a right to sing the...

Sep 23, 2022
3 min

THREE THINGS by GENE GOLDFARB

101 PHOTOS OF MY DUMB CAT ELMONT This was a project I took on in grad school. It was a minor course I took on to fill out my course...

Sep 16, 2022
1 min

A POEM by ADAM BERLIN

1 WEEK BEFORE WE STOP On Monday, the first thing I do: walk to Whole Foods, steal fish. My adrenaline high’s higher. If I’m caught:...

Sep 15, 2022
1 min

A POEM by MICHAEL HALLER

PURPLE ORCHIDS I The field of purple orchids was her private garden. But the old people said, there’s no such thing as a field of purple...

Sep 14, 2022
1 min

A POEM by BARNEY OLDFIELD

THE UROLOGIST I let a man touch my balls today I didn’t know exactly what to say It has been a long time since one did that, you see, At...

Aug 31, 2022
1 min

A POEM by ALFRED STIFSIM

CONSTRUCTION HAIKUS Buck hoist radio, Operator’s voice crackles, “Take the stairs fucker!” through metal stud walls the sun glows gold...

Aug 19, 2022
1 min

A POEM by MATT HSU

CUP[CAK]K[E] (a found poem from cupcakke’s song, duck duck goose) box [c]ake, top of the vending machine. it’s high, can’t lock down that...

Aug 11, 2022
1 min

FOUR POEMS by SHONTAY LUNA

ONE SEAGULL I don’t know whether seagulls are lost, or are instead, a flock of geniuses. They were doing their usual arial dance above a...

Aug 10, 2022
3 min

TWO POEMS by KALEIGH JOHNSON

IN RESPONSE TO MY THERAPIST: How am I? Well, my normal depression has combined with my quarantine depression and is about to collide with...

Aug 4, 2022
5 min

THREE POEMS by SANFORD BLACK

FRENCH FOR THE WEEKEND a roof rack on a space shuttle a pilot, a mother and a third wheelin’ lover spittin’ out rocket fuel as if it was...

Jul 28, 2022
1 min

TWO POEMS by CHARLES J. MARCH III

THE COUNT OF CAPTAIN MORGAN 48yo M XXXXXXXXXXXX reports consuming XXXXXXXXXXXX Captain Morgan XXXXXXX during the weekday XXXXXXXXXXXX....

Jul 27, 2022
2 min

A POEM by KRISTEN REID

THE WINGED VICTORY OF (INSERT YOUR NAME) These are legs arms hands feet that move like stone, creating a marble statue of a...

Jul 21, 2022
5 min

THREE POEMS by RC deWINTER

COULEUR DE ROSE Swimming lazily, fins waving slowly in the murky deep, the fish lives its life – nothing entirely clear but that it’s ...

Jul 20, 2022
1 min

A POEM by CLEM FLOWERS

PREACHING TO THE QUAINT PACE OF THE GHOST OF FROSTBITE SUNSHINE Another kink in the chain of old mercantile & junk bond traders all...

Jul 15, 2022
2 min

THREE POEMS by EVELYN BAUER

IN DEFENSE OF QUEERING THE MAP But here queering means something different so when you place the little pin on the map it ends up a few...