POETRY
Poetry
Poetry by established and emerging voices from around the world.
SANGUINELLO
"Good evening to you / who would have me murdered"
by Molly Boyle
APOPHRADES
“Freud says when you go to bed with someone / you are really going to bed with their parents"
by V. Joshua Adams
KEATS WOULD FREAK
“Twin vases carved in eroding / lace and twine I am Hammered"
by Ellen Boyette
ETIOLOGY
“That AME graveyard in Backwater, Md. / inhabits an eighty-foot by eighty-foot"
by Spencer Short
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"LOVE" AND OTHER POEMS
"If you forget your friends, even if you forget them all / And insult poets"
by Jake Fournier
"AGAINST DUST" AND "KAZE NO DENWA"
“On a hillside outside of Tokyo, / a man has built a glass booth"
by James Crews
FLOWER FLOWER
“O I could fill a cinema. / Bent road of jade / birds' loft bed"
by Spencer Short
"HELP DESK" AND "MECHANIC"
“All is not lost, in my opinion. / Something in the way of how anything"
by Adam Edelman
"JANUARY" AND OTHER POEMS
"Love is patient, love is kind / of like when an aquarium octopus escapes to find another"
by Alicia Rebecca Myers
DOG STAR
“In the ghost capsule / Laika the cosmonaut dog / was still alive."
by August Huerta
IN MY SISTER'S HOUSE
“They're taking him in. Gently / put: helping him die. Gently / put: killing him"
by c3 Crew
"REBREAKING A BONE" AND OTHER POEMS
“Before means chronology has logic; / means outpaced prior-faced enmity"
by Katy Chrisler
"THE PASSING" AND OTHER POEMS
"After what had gone before was gone, it was afternoon"
by Becky Kennedy
"NIRVANA" AND OTHER POEMS
“When I was young the fucked up kids / slammed in the pits, raging"
by Mark Neely
FROM "STOCK POND"
“Stand on top of one bison skull. Float on a pallet in a lake until your face is half ate by an emergent (preternatural) tar"
by Justin Cox
"LOUD LAUGHTER" AND "UP THE DEPTHS"
“It wafts out of the same demented hallway monsters march out of also: / the vampire sings, laughter follows."
by Daniel Ruiz
A SWAN
"a swan a swan / a silver swan automaton articulates"
by Alyssa Perry
OMAGH
"Aiden, filler and a mixer bond I've been leaning into and learning someway:"
by Jodi Johnson
"SNOW PHASE" AND OTHER POEMS
"Curlicued stallion torsos hum vinegar / Tears at the anatomy lesson."
by Mitchell Glazier
SESTINA ON SEGANTINI'S "THE PUNISHMENT OF LUST"
"Alpswise in its white ruin, when the workers had the lead carbonate / perfected at Rhodes"
by Jodi Johnson