2011 Features


2011
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
L.M. Rivera, 
Shrunk Plot (or The Shade of Rodin)
Not today. No, not today. No sad inclinations.
Jan 25
Bryan Coffelt, 
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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.