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Jan 03
Sally Delehant Haertl
,
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree …
These structures were not built to bend through Black Friday.
Jan 10
Sarah Greenleaf
,
“You Know You’re There”
You can’t tell the difference between numb and empty until (finally!) you find yourself face-down on the ground
Jan 18
Seth Abramson
,
Speed Will Win
no one will be excused from this scene / until the question has been recovered
Jan 25
Jono Tosch
,
You Know How It Is when You Go into a Room?
more than barf had changed–my attitude had changed.
Jan 31
Michael Canavan
,
Just Bodies
How a fire spooks a field out of its hallows, / prone raccoons trapped within
Feb 07
Nick Sturm
,
I WENT OUTSIDE AND THEN I DON’T KNOW
Many different things have the ability to glimmer / and that is as much a reason for joy as for terror
Feb 14
Meg Hurtado
,
Clear & Present
slow as Love, uninterruptible, there slurs the Edict
Feb 21
W. Vandoren Wheeler
,
WHY SAINTS KNIT HAIR SHIRTS
It is difficult to take a cold shower. / It is difficult to remain very alive.
Feb 28
Emily Kendal Frey
,
WE MIGHT HERE CONSIDER WHETHER ALL HUMAN FORMS ARE NOT EQUALLY…
Mediocre and holy we loved each other
Mar 13
Evan White
,
A Light For Someone Else
I like a darkness I can fill up with what / lamps & sun & white curtains made in it
Mar 20
Andy Stallings
,
Freeway
Faceted seaside mornings / A man could wake up dead
Mar 28
Eileen G’Sell
,
Whitney Houston Pronounced Dead at 48
Body as bureaucracy, body as scandal, / stay in our arms if you dare.
Apr 03
Sara Guest
,
Koan Two
Forethought heaps up inside me until a leather strap sets it free.
Apr 10
Jaimie Gusman
,
Disaster [General]
I donate my heart to the nearest emergency cooler. I can feel my heart missing its cadaver.
Apr 17
Dena Rash Guzman
,
Bad Had Good
angels watching you struggle / to reach the itch where soon a tattoo
Apr 24
Leora Fridman
,
WHERE DID YOU LIKE IT
so busy calling out / names for ways to move / when luscious
May 01
Ryan Walsh
,
The Field
thinking about the way summer / has already made a ghost of itself
May 08
Evan White
,
[ritual]
He transformed himself into one arduous task / and out of the hills into the fresh blue
May 15
Seth Abramson
,
Fighters
Who is this became a frozen garden. Who is it, also.
May 22
Shenandoah Sowash
,
Discord
all ink erasable, noose loose enough / to polka
Jun 05
Devin Gmyrek
,
For Love of No One
If I had the power to glare at the meadow / Until snow fell and iron poured into a tress
Jun 13
Michael Canavan
,
Social Media
Like a silver trumpet, I’m beautiful / but bad at my job.
Jun 26
Sara Mumolo
,
NEAR BOUNDARY PEAK
A sense of vigor then confusion to the mustard plants / It’s easy to be the daughter of a terrible man
Jul 03
Jay Snodgrass
,
Birds, Whatever
Hey! I am eating my skin, / whatever.
Jul 10
Avni Vyas
,
Village Women Explain Hubris to Me After I Fall Down a Flight of…
Maybe hubris is the female fig wasp married to the fig, / afraid to die in its vesicles, but too smitten / to escape.
Jul 17
Samantha Nataro
,
Talking To Girls
As a peculiar machine / Squeezes you like a wrist, you standardize.
Jul 24
Wendy Xu
,
AND THEN IT WAS LESS BLEAK BECAUSE WE SAID SO
Romance is a grotto of eager stones / anticipating light, or a girl whose teeth / you can always see.
Jul 31
Noah Siela
,
Dead Room
I’m waiting for attitude to pop / like champagne bottles off the hulls of new boats
Aug 07
Lilly Beshore
,
Carrie
Catching dragonflies down the creek, / she’d skip Sunday service, rippling / squalid water with pebbles.
Aug 14
Caitie Moore
,
It Didn’t Rain! It Didn’t Rain! It Did Not Rain!
River formed by interlocking bodies of color from the body / to the loom I will give.
Aug 21
Michael Leong
,
from MICHAEL PALMER VS. MICHAEL PALMER
Her mind was behind a dent in the rectum of light. For almost a week, minutes turned into months until she decided.
Aug 28
Matthew Olzmann
,
Photograph of a Boy and a Dead Dog
Difficult to say how the boy feels, standing / in the road, the dead at his feet…
Sep 04
Ross White
,
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
I / hid my tail / in this tuxedo, / made nice, / shaking hands / with mayors / until my / pocketwatch / stopped.
Sep 11
Emily Kendal Frey
,
MY DEFINITION OF RAPE
Hooray! Let the despicable / Dark fear / Of me / Be a moth / We can eat, white powder / I am not surprised
Sep 18
J. Townsend
,
Responsible Care
straight candor or even baby talk a / tinge of gallows humor given breath / & insistence to the point of fealty
Sep 25
Evan Nagle
,
The Duos Project
Repeat thus this: / Vanity is space / Is nothing… // Oh baby, show toxic Jo his / Oops!
Oct 02
Justin Rigamonti
,
Dead Candyland
Nestor is a round third-grade kid, with wild eyes that / quiver in their sockets…
Oct 09
Travis Macdonald
,
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To doubt the validity of this principle, / two wives, the name / I am assured by two eminently / of electrodynamics and optics…
Oct 16
Gillian Hamel
,
bonding moment part two
a perfect air and thickness in between of gently punched arms and clumsy cheers…
Oct 23
Catherine Wing
,
How It All Fell Out
they were unfastened, unbuttoned, unhinged, undone (his fly was down!), but open most of all
Oct 30
Adam Fell
,
Dear Corporation (For Precarious College Town Halloweens),
Please, do not hesitate to call us if you need a ride or a washcloth or a space heater or blanket or band-aids and disinfectant
Nov 06
Anne Keefe
,
The Stone Baby
Spasm of floor, torso, palms open to bring out / the new thing, throat against the cries / that do not come
Nov 13
Jenny Drai
,
from “Visitors, Cavaliers”
This had resulted in a mild flower between them— / a glamour row, in fact, where they both wore a red headdress / & stamped their feet
Nov 20
Stephen Danos
,
Brood
See the twin integers of shared genetics, tulips / hemorrhaging new sounds
Nov 27
Dena Rash Guzman
,
To Tim Who Nearly Died Today
Each light, each blue, / every leaf I’ve seen / comes on, barely green, / to burn away its new
Dec 04
Travis Cebula
,
In the Neighborhood of Burning Trees
not because Palestine is [still] / burning did the poet / shuffle into the park.
Dec 11
Christopher Robinson
,
Teargas
You learn not to cry and to make love // a hard stone at the center
Dec 18
Nick Sturm
,
FAKE WHITE COUCH
Very human things / Anchors & pieces of toast / Anything to make you / empathize with me in a poncho
Dec 25
Shenandoah Sowash
,
Pretty Spider
Your mouth opens with sleep, / snores like another’s. / The window wonders.