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08/31
Eileen G'Sell, 
Simple Plans
"the memory of bonnets, thought bubbles floating / past unsold meats"
08/24
Matthew Kaler, 
Common Nights in the Incidence of Sympathy
"Habit fixes our mind’s entirely / slippery button."
08/17
Jay Steingold, 
A Man of Such Exquisite Emptiness is Ground for Fine Flowers
"hand over hand, to his core / where he found an antique engine"
08/10
Emily Pettit, 
BECAUSE YOU CAN HAVE THIS IDEA ABOUT BEING AFRAID OF SOMETHING
"We have no direction. We are damn serious about not changing direction. "
08/03
Andy Stallings, 
Autobiography
"sound as a protein swimming through salt water, dumb in my proper solvent."
07/27
Jordan Stempleman, 
from Back Room Poems
"not to call this place a living room, / haunt our children for the right word "
07/20
Stephen Danos, 
Place No Likelier Home
"a living exhibit poking the polished chests of visitors"
07/13
Bryan Coffelt, 
POSITIONING/CHARTING
"I want to fling hams off tall buildings to waiting beasts."
07/06
Emily Kendal Frey, 
from SORROW ARROW
"Sometimes I want fewer choices / Asparagus or a baby with wings"
06/22
Matthew Kaler, 
In Awe of Scavengers
"as you hold your first grandchild / in the soporific daylight of your arms"
06/15
Meg Hurtado, 
last night in the apartment.
"Now you are young; but give it a minute. / Accumulation is the easiest art."
06/08
Dot Devota, 
P. S . T h e B u r n i n g o f P a s t S p a c i o u s n e s s
"Grime and music, our new desires / trapped in their own extinct animals."
06/01
Brandon Shimoda, 
The Grave on the Wall
"His shoulders were the first steps, the tail that grew out of his neck"
05/25
Sara Guest, 
Love Story
"fitting like thin metal boots / against a thicker wind"
05/19
Andy Stallings, 
Raise the Flag
"What’s / half-conceived along / the fading hum I covet"
05/11
Ming Holden, 
carving
"Art is the axe. / The Emersonian eyeball."
05/04
Sally Delehant, 
A Confirmation of Hands
"Somewhere a child sings / his training in a cathedral"
04/27
S.M. Fattig, 
Retention
"I had this wedding / dress, in werewolf. / All day it slid / down / my ribs, a bath."
04/20
Jennifer Borges Foster, 
Cataclyst
"Light broke the window / by pretending to be Spanish"
04/13
Emily Pettit, 
HOW TO RECOGNIZE WHEN YOU HAVE BEHAVED BADLY AND BEHAVE BETTER
"It was the shaking sky and what I wanted to see below."
04/06
Caroline Manring, 
Proxima
"Whatever comes in that chariot / we must work to slow its progress"
03/30
Susan Denning, 
untitled
"Dear lost fragment of youthful / exuberance, you left your shoes by the river. "
03/23
Michael Comstock, 
2004
"A red don’t / walk hand cut // / the night in half / each time it clapped."
03/16
Emily Kendal Frey, 
TRESTLE
"A picture exists of almost everything In bed is where I realize people are dead"
03/12
Leora Fox, 
brandishing something
"the furthest of them, heart in throat behind a gun, imagines a child in her belly."
03/09
Rebecca Bridge, 
I Cannot Find My Tiny
"To keep their ponies safe, the people carried them deep inside of their chest cavities. "
03/05
William Camponovo, 
New York, New Amsterdam, Paris, Texas
"Leaning all over one another after / Another unreasonable night of being alive"
03/02
Jack Christian, 
Roseland
"We’ve four soups tonight, one with deer and shot in it. "
02/26
Andy Stallings, 
Horse
"My hiding-place vibrates like dinner’s in it."
02/23
Eileen G'Sell, 
I Love You Like a Good Game of Skee-Ball
"Second, if I drove a stick / I sure didn’t do it for Jesus."
02/19
Michael Comstock, 
I am an aging inventor. You are my trophy wife.
"I saw your face, but not before / I saw the face of every vacationer"
02/16
William Camponovo, 
The Great Physicist Tucks In His Children, 1944
"Feeling thinking measure and be measured. / Two chimes lowly ring of infinite chimes. "
02/12
Dora Malech, 
Relatively Long Arms
"steered clear of neon but stoked the fire / with a store-bought log."
02/09
Jordan Stempleman, 
Hammer Stuck
"It’s just a terrible bull, someone shouts / through the warehouse, it has no authority"
02/05
Lily Ladewig, 
Congratulations,
"Partial nudity means never / having to say you’re sorry."
02/02
Adam Fell, 
HUMAN RESOURCES 1
"Not quite sure what the dawn / keeps shoveling over us"
01/29
Jack Christian, 
Another from the Live Creature Series
"There’s an account wherein a piano falls in on itself and a man inhabits a stoop"
01/26
Hannah Gamble, 
Everything That’s Alive Stays That Way
"One night I heard the war in the wall / behind my head—"
01/22
Jaimie Gusman, 
Furlough Friday, October 23, 2009
"babies flowering babies vanished babies / on ships made of monkey shrubs"
01/19
Kate Lebo, 
Asleep on Repeat
"I lit a fire and the hearth exploded. / Birds opened my windows to hunt for eggs. "
01/15
Sarah Greenleaf, 
Courier; Unclassified
"Unchained, uncouth, drank too much, grabbed at youth."
01/12
Bryan Coffelt, 
to fearful brothers
"where, uh, baste the landscape / with this stage of cancer."
01/08
Eileen G'Sell, 
Love Poem from Detroit
"to know that the grass sweats more than we do / that people wear perfume that smells like grass"
01/05
Jessica Fjeld, 
You can’t call it Tuesday
"You have this way of putting things so they’re true. / You have these gray skies. Open that mouth. "
01/01
Luke Bloomfield, 
The New Funambule
"The child with the unused expressions / Does not want to dance alone"
12/22
Emily Kendal Frey, 
[THE HISTORY OF KNIVES]
"I met you and you put me on ice and I froze in the corner of your first bed."
12/18
Jono Tosch, 
The Man I Am Today
"Computers are pencils you don’t need to sharpen."
12/15
Brittany Cavallaro, 
Aperture
"There is a flurried debate about you in fur, as you will be under the train."
12/11
Seth Abramson, 
Thursday With Borderline
"Yes. The fourteenth time already. I will sleep with you when you have ironed your shirt for work."
12/08
Ben Estes, 
Have Cold Hump and Bough
"“fffooorrr eeevvveeerrr mmmooorrreee” / Here’s to that risk of poignancy and gamble."
12/04
Maurice Burford, 
Industrial Poem
"tremolo of argyle metal in socks / rectangles plus eyes plus pretty speech"
12/01
Cynthia Arrieu-King, 
Poem Fighting Sleep
"A big black horse is very rude to me. / I know. It wasn’t. And then choke."
11/27
Seth Landman, 
All Year
"what’s in the violet / the shepherd from my neck ignited me"
11/24
J. Townsend, 
Ecliptic
"wait in the breath of / zeros / ludicrous waiting, unspent / hours at cold storage"
11/20
Lucy Ives, 
Poem
"She does not like that very nice man on wheels with the face of salt"
11/17
Lucas Farrell, 
We Are All of Us Nearly Home
"The earth is spinning the way children might / when a storm overhead / performs its invitational curtsy."
11/13
Lawrence Giffin, 
Presque vu
"Still, lacking / the word will not /star her consequence."
11/10
Jordan Stempleman, 
Agreed
"god used to just blurt out, I love it, / love it"
11/06
Bryan Coffelt, 
Oh.
"Oh, to jog with suicide eyes, / uh, with a light dangling in front."
11/03
Valerie Wetlaufer, 
Helpmate
"In the city library, we clutched knees, gazed at men whose moustaches came loose."
10/30
Macgregor Card, 
Contempt
"Now comes the mystery / I have no power / To move my arms"
10/27
Nicole Trigg, 
If You are the Danube, I am the Right Bank
"From the ruin I can see another ruin"
10/23
Austin Ellis, 
Ode to America, My Dead Cat, Etc.
"A tired man walks a bounding dog and thinks to hope, must I learn to think less?"
10/20
Lucy Ives, 
View (Red Flowers)
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10/16
Patrick Lucy, 
JUST BORN, A TWILIGHT OF DOORKNOBS, THREE BULBS
"the dragon held a quartz crystal in its jaws / moonlight saddled my caboose till morning"
10/13
Dan Boehl, 
Self-Improvement
"13-year-old girls with sex growing in them, babies in light up shoes"
10/09
Sean Bishop, 
Sonnet for Sweetypies
"Sometimes a sweetypie has nothing to lose / when the black crags crack and muscle"
10/06
Eileen G'Sell, 
Nobody’s Winter
"There were grape leaves we couldn’t / get to, an attic without a home"
10/02
Dept. of Posthumous Letters, 
SELVES DIMINISH A SOUNDLESS HALL IN FURIOUS FURY ONCE MADE
"you fear the floorboards / raising up to be your new master. "
09/29
Adam J. Maynard, 
Stoned (ii)
"In the evening you become tired and sad / Watching a robot making an omelette"
09/25
Daniel Bailey, 
Some Short Poems I’d Write if I Were in Love Right Now
"push me out the second story window / I’ll look up and laugh"
09/22
Lacey Hunter, 
from The Stranger
"the sea flashing not a quiet darkness but a set of teeth lost inside the mouth"
09/18
Lawrence Giffin, 
Protocol
"The example will pass unharmed / in the equipment of equipment."
09/15
Macgregor Card, 
The Libertine’s Punishment
"another red photographed birthday / lost at low lighting"
09/11
Eugene Ostashevsky, 
Carl the Craven Raven
"He never would pronounce / that fatal “Nevermore”"
09/08
Lucy Ives, 
from Blue Flowers
"It is spring again in January and leaves dangle We are ourselves and I imagine"
09/04
Lawrence Giffin, 
In Loco Parentis
"Often, without any consent and from / out of its arcane architecture"
09/01
Macgregor Card, 
Le Soleil et le Police Dog
"through the curtain of burning geese / I hope they will not catch fire"
08/28
Sarah Louise Green, 
familiar deserts
"this is where God comes in (apparently) / scooping out the fun from infinity"
08/25
Meg Hurtado, 
the vampire speaks to the receptionist
"just as the evensong gave out, just as the traffic dropped her clothes"
08/21
Dora Malech, 
Copy That
"Don’t give us that it’s sunrise somewhere. Try a prayer: Almighty please bother to jiggle"
08/18
Sarah V. Schweig, 
Meanwhile in Our City of Abandon
"The bay has begun its slow evaporation. The only citizen is awaiting a glass of wine."
08/14
Sandra Simonds, 
Also Included in this Poem is a Real Life Astronaut
"She Lost So Much Blood She Needed an Emergency Transfusion...lost so much blood she needed an emergency transfusion"
08/11
Jordan Stempleman, 
Something Nearby
"enough with training, / give me my carapace"
08/07
Stephen S. Mills, 
My Midwest Knight
"everything was true, as true as anyone’s life, anyone’s growing up"
08/04
Sarah Louise Green, 
My periodic darlings
"I love you when I mistake your moan for a loon, stitching up the gasp in dawn."
07/31
Patrick Lucy, 
PITCH BLACK
"This was the eighties, that was the eighties, or this is the eighties, depending."
07/28
Merton Lee, 
Birdsong
"Is it that bird means girl, or that a bird’s shrill voice will repeat its surprise in song?"
07/24
Eric Ekstrand, 
Plumblossom
"The comet is hitched to its petering. / There is no way to change my mind."
07/21
Sasha Steensen, 
The Insemination
"the tightly woven knit of his pajamas and the sperm-like tails of a thousand stars"
07/17
Heather Green, 
The Apology that Drooped Like a Tree
"The trees were basically pregnant / You in the mouth // God in the mind"
07/14
Dan Boehl, 
Self-Improvement
"I wish someone would bake me snickerdoodles. / I wish someone would feel me inside of them..."
07/10
Alisa Heinzman, 
The She, The Sea, The Leaving
"She walks to harbor where land grants dampness. The air thickens and is unordinary."
07/07
Sara Guest, 
Anecdote of Heat
"I set a jar of Peking Duck off the train in Nashville heat."
07/03
Dean Gorman, 
[I heard a flawless country song once, understanding that]
"a period of singing follows a period of singing."
06/30
Robert Mueller, 
Cannolies Over the Bridge
"You can steal a crisp of chervil / on blankety-blank orbs on gossamer-pinks"
06/26
Sasha Steensen, 
The Book of the Grotesque
"The writer, a man with a hole in his heart, was almost always drunk."
06/23
Gale Thompson, 
The Most Beautiful Bibles
"We are in the future perfect and we are wearing hats. "
06/19
Aaron Balkan, 
Inauguration Day
"the man in $7000 shirt woven from threads they call bullet-resistant "
06/16
Carley Moore, 
Little Worry
"In my movie called The Mother, I am always awake. I use the window shades as eyelids."
06/12
Gabrielle Balkan, 
The Dumb Conversation
"I made my way through med school forging copies of The Cliffs at Etretat"
06/09
Luke Woods, 
Outside the Walt Whitman Residences.
"a meek pilgrim cowering under the height of stories stacked too high"
06/05
Liz Countryman, 
Yoda Uvula
"In the commercial for the anti-snore device, a man’s throat in scientific cartoon cross section (is)"
06/02
Matt Longabucco, 
The Today Show
"fill the toilet bowl with sunshine / and stand naked at the window"
05/29
Tana Jean Welch, 
The Locusts Are Swarming
"tell me why the pit of my stomach bleeds, why the front step stays loose"
05/26
Leora Fox, 
ways to eat a grapefruit
"screaming romantically: two fingers, frantic, scooping chunks of pink flesh"
05/22
Lucas M. Rivera, 
Pre- proviso
"The rabbi used the full weight of his shoulder and cracked the keyboards like crackers."
05/19
Pablo Lopez, 
A man is what he thinks about all day
"All things / for love—all things for dying / for a direction words / direct"
05/15
Evan Nagle, 
Climb Up My Genitals; Put On My Coat
"Isn’t is but an ice-clod, / Is but a jaw in the law of lost shuts."
05/12
Lucas Farrell, 
I Apologize For Nearly Everything Since My Heart Hurts
"I don’t know how long I’ve been missing. / I’ve become sad and dusty like a garden hose..."
05/08
Maurice Burford, 
Night Poem
"tonight I left Madrid in a moment of shine / exactly as the chord hit the night"
05/05
Emily Pettit, 
HOW TO RECOGNIZE A STRANGER
"Like glowing in the dark. / Like twice the inventions in half the time."
05/01
Brandon Downing, 
from Lake Antiquity (4)
"You glide easily from place to place within it / and you can have it the way you want it."
04/28
Caitie Moore, 
Trans Manifesto
"Have you ever been attacked by a wild boar? Define wild."
04/24
Jordan Stempleman, 
Fixed
"UPS driver who’s pounding / on his own front door with his forehead"
04/21
Brandon Shimoda, 
The Grave on the Wall
"shimoda is a fleshpot of inferior rank / a man says, Idiot"
04/17
Guy Pettit, 
Someone Must Live Here
"And it formed clots in the sky / Between our eyeballs and theirs."
04/14
Zach Savich, 
Fossil, Snorkle, and Cold Blood
"I wanted to write fauna impossibly / tender and necessary as a column of newsprint"
04/10
Jeff Downey, 
Withnail and I
"I hope it’s not a coincidence oste- prefixes both osteoporosis and ostentation?"
04/07
Aaron Balkan, 
Imaginary Stanzas
"The war was over because: no paper. "
04/03
Evan Nagle, 
Winter: A Transcription
"I’m talking, of course, of stars / Those things stuck on my God damn beard"
03/31
Heather McHugh, 
Study Under Fire
"shed the whole / shebang—next week, next month and half / of every life,"
03/27
Zachary Schomburg, 
This Is What You Need to Know About the World, Pretend Son
"When I cupped my hand a broken hummingbird fell into it."
03/24
Brandon Downing, 
from Lake Antiquity
"outset / haste // The music stopped. / He hurled his bike at them"
03/20
Nicole Burgund, 
Preludes
"Later in moonfield thoughts would die / becoming root systems"
03/17
Kara Candito, 
Sweet Reader (There Is Much I Want to Accomplish Since My Month-Long...
"Hold still while I taser you with a heraldic / dwarf in a ring of fire"
03/13
Neil Fauerso, 
Bungeeing In
"That sanguine furnace, bleeding in the basement, bungee in!"
03/10
Carrie A. Purcell, 
300.00: Anxiety State, Unspecified
"and starfish to frolic on skyscraper windows—"
03/04
Bernd Sauermann, 
Blue Report
"Report to the people that I am failing blindly in the blue air."
03/01
K. Silem Mohammad, 
I Only Have Eyes
"a “thing” in the sky, which was a “place” for it contained a “thing”"
02/25
Paul Otremba, 
Gorgias in Love
"For example, If you walk out—I wish to discuss / the nature of things."
02/22
Anna Journey, 
Snipers in the Arrangement
"Let thine tabby cat not vomit stigmata for the lord’s flowers."
02/15
Heather McHugh, 
On Purpose Laid
"Bitten hind and headquarters by Jove / I beat a blind retreat from love."
02/08
Lindsey Baggette, 
Penelope: whoops.
"For twenty years you suffered...wasting away the nights, weeping away the etc."
02/01
Aaron Balkan, 
Same Train
"Hey, no piñata in that tree. / No tree drenched in flame."