2013 Features


2013
May 21
Kelly Schirmann, 
MANY THINGS ARE STILL REAL
if I look at the child / and she drops her glass / I made this happen / with my mind
May 14
Jeffrey Allen, 
Chicago
Those floating nests of light! They have no / eggs! In what built house could they be hatching?
May 07
Mathias Svalina, 
Thing
When you’re writing it’s speaking. / And that has made all the blifference.
Apr 30
W.M. Butler, 
godzilla on the beach
i bruise up sunsets / break up train sets / eatin’ motherfuckers / on the news
Apr 23
C. F. Sibley, 
February
in the morning we awoke to a thin layer of glass over our bodies, like a river seduced to extinction
Apr 16
Laura Eve Engel, 
One Last Thing Before I Go
Psst, / I’m frightened, says the iron fence / whose rot moves in and grips / more slowly
Apr 09
Kevin Sampsell, 
Voice
Your voice is stuck in an elevator / Your voice is locked inside someone else’s home
Apr 02
joan naviyuk kane, 
Late Successional
The green part of me never leaves / however I find that it remains with you.
Mar 26
Brenda Hillman, 
SMALL GALAXIES THINK OF OUR MOTHER
our mother’s hours              a blossom brain / spots in her hands           watering the vitex
Mar 19
Zaccaria Fulton, 
Oddities & Propaganda
assessing the value of objects we have never seen, in some cases never imagined
Mar 12
Alisa Heinzman, 
The Catcher
When the man leaps he leaps at the football and as he flies to it it slides in air away from him.
Mar 05
Emily Kendal Frey, 
MOST BEAUTIFUL WHEN LIT BY REFLECTIONS
It’s true: / A word gets inside, moves.
Feb 26
Brandon Downing, 
Mellow Actions
The powerful family story becomes a shitty ride.
Feb 19
Mathias Svalina, 
The Story
The woman out there with her finger on the trigger of her own bomb, she is one’s inner life.
Feb 12
Andy Stallings, 
Hallelujah
on my way through winter / or bright blue you burst / like strong Italian coffee / in me
Feb 05
Jenessa VanZutphen, 
See
its buzz / playing with depth and the image is / so literally inside her, then
Jan 29
Amy Pickworth, 
Marriage poem
This is not the love hours. / Jackie Gleason is not / crooning at the foot of the bed.
Jan 22
Michael Leong, 
Ghost Poems
The most frightening ghosts are the ones of inanimate objects—like that of a toy lawn mower
Jan 15
Bill Carty, 
Experiment with Solids
Blue is the dictator inside every object. Only a bullet isn’t blue.
Jan 08
Sally Delehant, 
Polling Report
we’ll sing & be counted— floorboard planks / in a November afternoon’s porch of flies.
Jan 01
Darcie Dennigan, 
The Speechmaker
I have no conception of the amount of succor that is being constantly used up