2018 Features


2018
Aug 14
Travis Cebula, 
from After the Fox
After the fox, see / the chase. Feel the theater. / A grasp at something / …
Aug 07
A.M. O’Malley, 
I Want to Be Your Best (Facebook) Friend
Ice is my favorite luxury. / Paper towels are my most frequent vice. / I used to…
Jul 31
Nicole Trigg, 
Untitled
Walking around today the dream / a fist at the base of my spine labored to…
Jul 18
Shawna Harch, 
That Word
It surprises you like pulled weeds, the mailbox, level, and garbage taken out to…
Jul 11
Jono Tosch, 
Hey There
The idea behind it was simple: / / they would be able to remember everything…
Jul 04
Sarah Bartlett, 
from Freud Blah Blah Blah
Dear Crab: sorry about that time I accidentally / knocked your…
Jun 27
William Stobb, 
Poem for the Very Beginning
I hadn’t remembered the black screen, the first minutes of 2001. It sounds like…
Jun 20
Susan Lewis, 
& Yet More
1. / Nor aught storied / though intrepid / / you pad through mud, / …
Jun 13
Leora Fox, 
Wanting with her
I want a stupid / healthy spaniel, who / will love me for the food / I give it…
Jun 05
Lea Marshall, 
Ergo Sum
I used to set pennies on the train tracks past my grandmother’s / house even…
May 29
Seth Landman, 
I am Having a Flashback
I am having a flashback; / people don’t have flashbacks. / If you have…
May 22
Travis Cebula, 
Conventionally
the shriveled balloons / bounced along the floor / in front of push-brooms,…
May 15
Jessica Fjeld, 
Famous flower print
This life is the kind where we’re vine-climbing / Pointing out our very favorite things
May 08
Andy Stallings, 
A lion is in everything
A lion is in everything. / A beautiful lion, sure, / of many colors and / times of day.
May 01
Ross Robbins, 
It’s Wednesday morning. I have something to tell you.
It is so easy to lose track of a limb // when you live outside your body,…
Apr 24
Emily Kendal Frey, 
from SORROW ARROW
You’re immature / / You go downtown / / You exist on the top layer,…
Apr 17
Michael Leong, 
April 17, 2013
What difference would it make / if you were always working / your flimsy…
Apr 10
Sara Guest, 
Canyon as Chimney
Sing me the lullaby of a tether. A gorilla comes out of the cheat grass with his…
Apr 03
Jaimie Gusman, 
Little Theories
Little theories / arranged by bones: / can you hear them? / The canary in…
Mar 27
Kyle John Crawford, 
2/21/18
It was pretty much just color covered with no / color. Snow. It was like having…
Mar 20
Jeff Alessandrelli, 
Climate Reply
Sky Lake is filled // with ash and tar. / / Later, the moon / is…
Mar 13
Alan Ireland, 
Cellphone Tower
A lone magpie / auditions for / tomorrow’s ringtone, / lifts the lid of his beak…
Mar 06
Maggie Smith, 
Let’s Not Have a Corporate Retreat
There is not enough trust between us. / Let’s not have a corporate retreat to prove it.
Feb 27
Mallory Bass, 
Elsewhere: Desert
Desert, a place that is a verb, / a going, a nothingness, a can’t / believe…
Jan 10
Kenyatta JP Garcia, 
Rain
We know this sound Jibaro, / this and / the goat’s toes / and the splashing / castanets.