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Jan 04
Emily Kendal Frey
,
from SORROW ARROW
You’re in love in your chair / Tethered so hard you make a groove in the landscape
Jan 12
LM Rivera
,
Shrunk Plot (or The Shade of Rodin)
Not today. No, not today. No sad inclinations.
Jan 25
Bryan Coffelt
,
.
Today there is nothing / but what can you do.
Feb 03
Matthew Kaler
,
False Paintbrush
face adopted by stitches, / pockets leaden with disorders
Feb 22
Noah Falck
,
from Wine In A Coke Can
Out of the shapeless, eroding roadkill elevated thousands / of dandelion seeds
Mar 15
Matt McBride
,
Before the Common Era
“ssssszzzzzhhhhhaaaaa” / and that’d be your name
Mar 31
Sarah Heady
,
Yes, Virginia,
When the parish releases a song, spheres of slightest blue collide with not-there Indians.
Apr 07
Catherine Cafferty
,
Coupling constellations
By night mice in a dish, when the torch / is on. And squirrels want fireside.
Apr 19
Jay Steingold
,
All Irises In Their Own Ivory Oceans
When the sky is flooded incandescent / and the pinhole pricks / for breath give way
Apr 26
Sara Guest
,
Critic as Spinning Jenny
Gingerly I’ve been altered by what’s been said to me.
May 10
Jaimie Gusman
,
Explode, expunge, but hold on tight
All I remember is our rocking was in sync, like a hagfish’s five hearts.
May 17
Sally Delehant Haertl
,
Oubliette
Words / for a while wandered, / came back to dance at us / winded–
May 24
Bryan Coffelt
,
the operation
you’re back in bed / gripping for a brick to / throw at whoever
May 31
Adam Fell
,
TO MY BROTHER SAVING THE COMPUTERS OF SACRAMENTO HOSPITALS AT 4:17AM
You can do nothing for them / but make their agonies paperless.
Jun 07
Meg Hurtado
,
Game 1
St. Brigid, without a moon, draped only in residual street-light, is losing her edges
Jun 14
Sarah Louise Garrido
,
Severe
In my face there is a sandwich but I liked it better when it was you
Jun 22
Sarah Bartlett
,
(X sits through hours of PowerPoint slides then leaves)
It performs frog in a blender, trees on fire in the dark seen from an airplane
Jun 29
Lance Rollins
,
Medicine
he would quietly corner an old wooden piano, / waiting for a single dusty thought
Jul 06
Susan Denning
,
For The Newly Cinematic
five notes and a little soul, a theme / on all your blurred entanglements
Jul 13
Sarah Heady
,
Catenary
When the skeleton came, it was not what we’d imagined.
Jul 21
Ming Holden
,
under the larches
sop within the skull, every last branchlet of ash rendered diamond
Jul 28
Robert Moura
,
1937
The old days. / Grandma has the skirt on.
Aug 09
John Bowman
,
Hour Duet
Letters could like larvae grow / in lath beneath a plaster page.
Aug 16
Broc Rossell
,
MODERN LIVING
Everyone knows me / Say my name and stop my motion
Aug 25
Jaimie Gusman
,
Sonnet for the Search Party
In a thousand mirrored pores / Sits a handful of feral stars
Sep 01
Debrah Morkun
,
from THE IDA PINGALA
the moist sweat of the turn-coat landscape as it spoils
Sep 08
Nick Sturm
,
A BASIC GUIDE TO AUTOBIOGRAPHY
47. A good thing to do would be to have fun. / 48. New new new new new new sincerity.
Sep 15
Emily Kendal Frey
,
from SORROW ARROW
Even though I have this giant problem in my pants / I am not going to do anything
Sep 22
Adam Day
,
Badger’s Speech to the Audience
the glimpse of a particularly / sordid wallpaper unaccountably chokes one
Sep 29
Sara Guest
,
Song for Valedictorians
I want to name myself. I am a winged-ornament.
Oct 13
Andy Stallings
,
Harvest Fair
the dust of formulas a skywriter copied out (for the weather is fine) disintegrate
Oct 20
Sarah Louise Garrido
,
Lake Merritt
To be one of the geese. / Unhindered and not-suffering by the Lake.
Oct 27
Sheera Talpaz
,
COMMENT ON MIRACLES
The overcast sky is inept, / rainless. That’s fine—we don’t ask for much.
Nov 08
Rebecca Hazelton
,
You Make Me Touch Your Hands for Stupid Reasons
might be people, might be ruptured protein in the eyes’ reversed image
Nov 16
Robert Moura
,
No Tombstone
Ephemeral and unkept / As the breath that cripples her
Nov 22
John Bowman
,
Inscription
by lovers’ pen-knives – / by sun-beam on Birch
Nov 30
Cecilia Llompart
,
Considerations
Consider, O Lord, how You sit atop the sky; like a man / in a glass bottom boat
Dec 06
Ted Powers
,
from PLEASE LIGHT UP
Because we are in love / I can know five or six things.
Dec 13
Evan Nagle
,
sex
Sex is looking stupidly / Into the traffic of another
Dec 20
Evan White
,
filum terminale
In the man a garden was waiting. / Ever since, a genius for accidental finds.