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Feb 26, 2022
1 min

A POEM by JANNAH YUSUF AL-JAMIL

LOVING IS LIKE TRYING TO THINK OF A TITLE FOR A POEM (DIFFICULT) Here's the truth, alright? Loving people is fucking hard. You know...

Feb 24, 2022
1 min

A POEM by PENNY SARMADA

YOU BECAME NOTHING I talk to myself the same way I used to talk to you it makes no difference to me now if you can hear me or not it...

Feb 23, 2022
1 min

A POEM by GAIL BELLO

MY CATHARSIS AS DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN I had a rough go of it last spring. I was forced to take on too many projects I had no heart in for a...

Feb 18, 2022
3 min

TWO POEMS by SAM ZIMMERMAN

GOD COMPLEX I see your cracked corona dead above your empty head. It reigns dim, dark, lacking the light of angelic truth, swarming over...

Feb 17, 2022
1 min

'DARK MIRACLE' by EADY H

To read "DARK MIRACLE," please view this PDF. Emily is writing as Eady H and finding she's really good at bullshit. She couldn't think of...

Feb 16, 2022
2 min

THREE POEMS by LUCIA GALLIPOLI

MY NERVOUS SYSTEM? SHE SURE IS! I am gross. I know this because upon sharing my OCD diagnosis with my loved ones, they were unanimously...

Feb 11, 2022
1 min

A POEM by JAECYN BONE

CAPITALISM the sterile monotony of papers in and out myriad trays of interminable to-do lists whiskered workers scurry, intent on their...

Feb 10, 2022
3 min

TWO POEMS by CASEY LAW

OUT OF THE DEEP Rain came crashing down on the lid of her white Honda Like missiles shot from heaven Like tiny fallen angels, blessing my...

Feb 9, 2022
5 min

'COCKSUCK ME, TOM CRUISE' by COLIN GEE

I met Geoff Kueen for the first time in a meeting of his peers, after he had been rather unceremoniously dethroned from the language...

Feb 4, 2022
1 min

A POEM by ROBERT ALLEN

UGOLANO, PRINCE OF MISFITS WHEREIN WE MEET OUR CAST OF CHARACTERS Ugolano yawned. Misfits have no idea what to do. Sitting on uncomfort...

Feb 4, 2022
2 min

TWO POEMS by BRIAR RIPLEY PAGE

NOT QUITE HUMAN, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT Day gaunts haunt the parking lot; robotripping makes the future look dim. Annihilating sunshine’s...

Feb 3, 2022
1 min

TWO THINGS by MARK BLICKLEY

CARLA (MONOLOGUE) Eric! Eric! Where is my Eric? Everything that man ever played, he played for me! You hear me! DO--YOU--HEAR--ME!? Eric...

Feb 2, 2022
1 min

A POEM by DOROTHY LUNE

TRAVELING OCEANS I could taste the possibility in the rain but now I'm in the Manhattan apartment. Plain beige walls, unfurnished, so I...

Jan 28, 2022
1 min

A POEM by MATT SCHULTZ

WRITTEN ON THE BATHROOM WALL Just below a roll of toilet paper cascading white toward the tile floor and a pool of dried piss where an...

Jan 27, 2022
1 min

THREE POEMS by ASHLEY VARELA

RETURN TO SENDER don't believe everything the postcard says i don’t wish you were here FEVER DREAM on the top floor of my favorite mall...

Jan 26, 2022
4 min

FIVE POEMS by HATTIE JEAN HAYES

I HONESTLY LOVE YOU, OR, THE OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN POEM Mine is not the first heart broken. I never claimed otherwise. You’d think, though,...

Jan 25, 2022
1 min

A CROSSWORD PUZZLE by LEE BECKWITH

Here is the link to this puzzle. And, for the crossword traditionalists, a printable PDF: Lee Beckwith is an undergraduate studying...

Jan 21, 2022
16 min

'AVERAGE SECRETS' by RICHARD LEISE

Jude lifted his glass of apple juice and drank slowly. Steadily. Most foods, if you vomited not long after eating, did not taste...

Jan 20, 2022
2 min

TWO POEMS by JESSICA DALY

HE LIKES POEMS ABOUT NOTHING i’m so apprehensive today i think the world might end. it’s raining hard enough. i’m shaking with veins of...

Jan 19, 2022
4 min

'AUGUST RAIN' by MISBAH AHMED

“Did you hear,” someone giggled in the corridor, palm shelling around their mouth, covert, “August Chaudry has gone missing.” August...

Jan 14, 2022
1 min

A POEM by SARAH MALINI

THE CRYPTID OF ASSEMBLY - FOR SEPH AND KELLY skulking through the stacks and aisles hunched into halves while the assembled burner boxes...

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