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Feb 01
Aaron Balkan
,
Same Train
Hey, no piñata in that tree. / No tree drenched in flame.
Feb 08
Lindsey Baggette
,
Penelope: whoops.
For twenty years you suffered…wasting away the nights, weeping away the etc.
Feb 15
Heather McHugh
,
On Purpose Laid
Bitten hind and headquarters by Jove / I beat a blind retreat from love.
Feb 22
Anna Journey
,
Snipers in the Arrangement
Let thine tabby cat not vomit stigmata for the lord’s flowers.
Feb 25
Paul Otremba
,
Gorgias in Love
For example,
If you walk out
—I wish to discuss / the nature of things.
Mar 01
K. Silem Mohammad
,
I Only Have Eyes
a “thing” in the sky, which was a “place” for it contained a “thing”
Mar 04
Bernd Sauermann
,
Blue Report
Report to the people that I am failing blindly in the blue air.
Mar 10
Carrie Purcell Kahler
,
300.00: Anxiety State, Unspecified
and starfish to frolic on skyscraper windows–
Mar 13
Neil Fauerso
,
Bungeeing In
That sanguine furnace, bleeding in the basement, bungee in!
Mar 17
Kara Candito
,
Sweet Reader (There Is Much I Want to Accomplish Since My…
Hold still while I taser you with a heraldic / dwarf in a ring of fire
Mar 20
Nicole Burgund
,
Preludes
Later in moonfield thoughts would die / becoming root systems
Mar 24
Brandon Downing
,
from Lake Antiquity
outset / haste // The music stopped. / He hurled his bike at them
Mar 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.
Mar 31
Heather McHugh
,
Study Under Fire
shed the whole / shebang–next week, next month and half / of every life,
Apr 03
Evan Nagle
,
Winter: A Transcription
I’m talking, of course, of stars / Those things stuck on my God damn beard
Apr 07
Aaron Balkan
,
Imaginary Stanzas
The war was over because: no paper.
Apr 10
Jeff Downey
,
Withnail and I
I hope it’s not a coincidence oste- prefixes both osteoporosis and ostentation?
Apr 14
Zach Savich
,
Fossil, Snorkle, and Cold Blood
I wanted to write fauna impossibly / tender and necessary as a column of newsprint
Apr 17
Guy Pettit
,
Someone Must Live Here
And it formed clots in the sky / Between our eyeballs and theirs.
Apr 21
Brandon Shimoda
,
The Grave on the Wall
shimoda is a fleshpot of inferior rank / a man says, Idiot
Apr 24
Jordan Stempleman
,
Fixed
UPS driver who’s pounding / on his own front door with his forehead
Apr 28
Caitie Moore
,
Trans Manifesto
Have you ever been attacked by a wild boar?
Define wild.
May 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.
May 05
Emily Pettit
,
HOW TO RECOGNIZE A STRANGER
Like glowing in the dark. / Like twice the inventions in half the time.
May 08
Maurice Burford
,
Night Poem
tonight I left Madrid in a moment of shine / exactly as the chord hit the night
May 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…
May 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.
May 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
May 22
LM Rivera
,
Pre- proviso
The rabbi used the full weight of his shoulder and cracked the keyboards like crackers.
May 26
Leora Fox
,
ways to eat a grapefruit
screaming romantically: two fingers, frantic, scooping chunks of pink flesh
May 29
Tana Jean Welch
,
The Locusts Are Swarming
tell me why the pit of my stomach bleeds, why the front step stays loose
Jun 02
Matt Longabucco
,
The Today Show
fill the toilet bowl with sunshine / and stand naked at the window
Jun 05
Liz Countryman
,
Yoda Uvula
In the commercial for the anti-snore device, a man’s throat in scientific cartoon cross section (is)
Jun 09
Luke Woods
,
Outside the Walt Whitman Residences.
a meek pilgrim cowering under the height of stories stacked too high
Jun 12
Gabrielle Balkan
,
The Dumb Conversation
I made my way through med school forging copies of The Cliffs at Etretat
Jun 16
Carley Moore
,
Little Worry
In my movie called
The Mother
, I am always awake. I use the window shades as eyelids.
Jun 19
Aaron Balkan
,
Inauguration Day
the man in $7000 shirt woven from threads they call bullet-resistant
Jun 23
Gale Thompson
,
The Most Beautiful Bibles
We are in the future perfect and we are wearing hats.
Jun 26
Sasha Steensen
,
The Book of the Grotesque
The writer, a man with a hole in his heart, was almost always drunk.
Jun 30
Robert Mueller
,
Cannolies Over the Bridge
You can steal a crisp of chervil / on blankety-blank orbs on gossamer-pinks
Jul 03
Dean Gorman
,
[I heard a flawless country song once, understanding that]
a period of singing follows a period of singing.
Jul 07
Sara Guest
,
Anecdote of Heat
I set a jar of Peking Duck off the train in Nashville heat.
Jul 10
Alisa Heinzman
,
The She, The Sea, The Leaving
She walks to harbor where land grants dampness. The air thickens and is unordinary.
Jul 14
Dan Boehl
,
Self-Improvement
I wish someone would bake me snickerdoodles. / I wish someone would feel me inside of them…
Jul 17
Heather Green
,
The Apology that Drooped Like a Tree
The trees were basically pregnant / You in the mouth // God in the mind
Jul 21
Sasha Steensen
,
The Insemination
the tightly woven knit of his pajamas and the sperm-like tails of a thousand stars
Jul 24
Eric Ekstrand
,
Plumblossom
The comet is hitched to its petering. / There is no way to change my mind.
Jul 28
Merton Lee
,
Birdsong
Is it that bird means girl, or that a bird’s shrill voice will repeat its surprise in song?
Jul 31
Patrick Lucy
,
PITCH BLACK
This was the eighties, that was the eighties, or this is the eighties, depending.
Aug 04
Sarah Louise Garrido
,
My periodic darlings
I love you when I mistake your moan for a loon, stitching up the gasp in dawn.
Aug 07
Stephen S. Mills
,
My Midwest Knight
everything was true, as true as anyone’s life, anyone’s growing up
Aug 11
Jordan Stempleman
,
Something Nearby
enough with training, / give me my carapace
Aug 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
Aug 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.
Aug 21
Dora Malech
,
Copy That
Don’t give us that
it’s sunrise somewhere
. Try a prayer: Almighty please bother to jiggle
Aug 25
Meg Hurtado
,
the vampire speaks to the receptionist
just as the evensong gave out, just as the traffic dropped her clothes
Aug 28
Sarah Louise Garrido
,
Familiar Deserts
this is where God comes in (apparently) / scooping out the fun from infinity
Sep 01
Macgregor Card
,
Le Soleil et le Police Dog
through the curtain of burning geese / I hope they will not catch fire
Sep 04
Lawrence Giffin
,
In Loco Parentis
Often, without any consent and from / out of its arcane architecture
Sep 08
Lucy Ives
,
from Blue Flowers
It is spring again in January and leaves dangle We are ourselves and I imagine
Sep 11
Eugene Ostashevsky
,
Carl the Craven Raven
He never would pronounce / that fatal “Nevermore”
Sep 15
Macgregor Card
,
The Libertine’s Punishment
another red photographed birthday / lost at low lighting
Sep 18
Lawrence Giffin
,
Protocol
The example will pass unharmed / in the equipment of equipment.
Sep 22
Lacey Hunter
,
from The Stranger
the sea flashing not a quiet darkness but a set of teeth lost inside the mouth
Sep 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
Sep 29
Adam J. Maynard
,
Stoned (ii)
In the evening you become tired and sad / Watching a robot making an omelette
Oct 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.
Oct 06
Eileen G’Sell
,
Nobody’s Winter
There were grape leaves we couldn’t / get to, an attic without a home
Oct 09
Sean Bishop
,
Sonnet for Sweetypies
Sometimes a sweetypie has nothing to lose / when the black crags crack and muscle
Oct 13
Dan Boehl
,
Self-Improvement
13-year-old girls with sex growing in them, babies in light up shoes
Oct 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
Oct 20
Lucy Ives
,
View (Red Flowers)
Oct 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?
Oct 27
Nicole Trigg
,
If You are the Danube, I am the Right Bank
From the ruin I can see another ruin
Oct 30
Macgregor Card
,
Contempt
Now comes the mystery / I have no power / To move my arms
Nov 03
Valerie Wetlaufer
,
Helpmate
In the city library, we clutched knees, gazed at men whose moustaches came loose.
Nov 06
Bryan Coffelt
,
Oh.
Oh, to jog with suicide eyes, / uh, with a light dangling in front.
Nov 10
Jordan Stempleman
,
Agreed
god used to just blurt out, I love it, / love it
Nov 13
Lawrence Giffin
,
Presque vu
Still, lacking / the word will not /star her consequence.
Nov 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.
Nov 20
Lucy Ives
,
Poem
She does not like that very nice man on wheels with the face of salt
Nov 24
J. Townsend
,
Ecliptic
wait in the breath of / zeros / ludicrous waiting, unspent / hours at cold storage
Nov 27
Seth Landman
,
All Year
what’s in the violet / the shepherd from my neck ignited me
Dec 01
Cynthia Arrieu-King
,
Poem Fighting Sleep
A big black horse is very rude to me. / I know. It wasn’t. And then choke.
Dec 04
Maurice Burford
,
Industrial Poem
tremolo of argyle metal in socks / rectangles plus eyes plus pretty speech
Dec 08
Ben Estes
,
Have Cold Hump and Bough
“fffooorrr eeevvveeerrr mmmooorrreee”
/ Here’s to that risk of poignancy and gamble.
Dec 11
Seth Abramson
,
Thursday With Borderline
Yes. The fourteenth time already. I will sleep with you when you have ironed your shirt for work.
Dec 15
Brittany Cavallaro
,
Aperture
There is a flurried debate about you in fur, as you will be under the train.
Dec 18
Jono Tosch
,
The Man I Am Today
Computers are pencils you don’t need to sharpen.
Dec 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.