2018 Features


2018
Dec 18
Meg Hurtado, 
POEM MADE OF LIES ABOUT MY LIFE
I have never seen a ghost // I have just one husband, dead and alive / My…
Dec 05
Jack Christian, 
Let’s Collaborate
I was thinking maybe you’d write one for me / and give it to me and I could say…
Nov 28
Mallory Bass, 
19 First Lines
1. When we returned, gnats lingered in the air of our rooms / 2. I wrote it in…
Nov 21
Eric Ekstrand, 
Plumblossom
Rain, like scratches on metal, rains. John comes in drenched with tinsel and…
Nov 14
Thomas Gibney, 
Currywood. Running. Noon. Bright.
Around the apricots. Damascos. That’s Spanish for. / The breeze. Hissing in my....
Nov 07
Jonas Kyle-Sidell, 
Astronauts
I am wordless bound. / What is a poem, / but something / / floating…
Oct 31
Adam Fell, 
Dear Corporation(Precarious College Town Halloween, 2018 Mix),
I was about to smash my hand / through the shatterproof glass / of another…
Oct 22
Margaret McCarthy, 
Cecilia, or: most of what happens in a high school dance, happens…
Cecilia and everything undone. / Inadequate and worldly. / Smiling and smiling…
Oct 10
Amy Souza, 
Sweater Weather
The rain came and I wasn’t ready sweaters / Shoved in a crinkled blue bag in back…
Oct 03
Jess Burnquist, 
Freeform Affidavit
I will never regret the secrets I have kept. // Sometimes, though, they escape…
Sep 26
Jaimie Gusman, 
I Got Dressed This Morning For You
Birds, / seventeen / // red-crests / singing / // wear / the dress / …
Sep 19
Meg Hurtado, 
DEAR SKY
We were supposed to meet today; we decided this ten years ago, on a patio. We…
Sep 12
Mary Zartman, 
Husbandry
In September you were in the hospital again. / So I burned underbrush— / a…
Sep 04
Sara Guest, 
Third Anniversary
What’s lighter than now? / / Your shadow close to the lighthouse / the green…
Aug 28
C. Davidson, 
Tracks
I held the portrait of the train in my hands, / a shot from the tracks, the…
Aug 21
Evan White, 
“monsoon wedding” from HIS&HERS
You are in your cups again. I will go / mistake the rain for a natural grammar…
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.