2013 Features


2013
Jan 01
Darcie Dennigan, 
The Speechmaker
I have no conception of the amount of succor that is being constantly used up
Jan 08
Sally Delehant Haertl, 
Polling Report
we’ll sing & be counted— floorboard planks / in a November afternoon’s porch of flies.
Jan 15
Bill Carty, 
Experiment with Solids
Blue is the dictator inside every object. Only a bullet isn’t blue.
Jan 22
Michael Leong, 
Ghost Poems
The most frightening ghosts are the ones of inanimate objects—like that of a toy lawn mower
Jan 29
Amy Pickworth, 
Marriage poem
This is not the love hours. / Jackie Gleason is not / crooning at the foot of the bed.
Feb 05
Jenessa VanZutphen, 
See
its buzz / playing with depth and the image is / so literally inside her, then
Feb 12
Andy Stallings, 
Hallelujah
on my way through winter / or bright blue you burst / like strong Italian coffee / in me
Feb 19
Mathias Svalina, 
The Story
The woman out there with her finger on the trigger of her own bomb, she is one’s inner life.
Feb 26
Brandon Downing, 
Mellow Actions
The powerful family story becomes a shitty ride.
Mar 05
Emily Kendal Frey, 
MOST BEAUTIFUL WHEN LIT BY REFLECTIONS
It’s true: / A word gets inside, moves.
Mar 12
Alisa Heinzman, 
The Catcher
When the man leaps he leaps at the football and as he flies to it it slides in air away from him.
Mar 19
Zaccaria Fulton, 
Oddities & Propaganda
assessing the value of objects we have never seen, in some cases never imagined
Mar 26
Brenda Hillman, 
SMALL GALAXIES THINK OF OUR MOTHER
our mother’s hours              a blossom brain / spots in her hands           watering the vitex
Apr 02
joan naviyuk kane, 
Late Successional
The green part of me never leaves / however I find that it remains with you.
Apr 09
Kevin Sampsell, 
Voice
Your voice is stuck in an elevator / Your voice is locked inside someone else’s home
Apr 16
Laura Eve Engel, 
One Last Thing Before I Go
Psst, / I’m frightened, says the iron fence / whose rot moves in and grips / more slowly
Apr 23
C. F. Sibley, 
February
in the morning we awoke to a thin layer of glass over our bodies, like a river seduced to extinction
Apr 30
W.M. Butler, 
godzilla on the beach
i bruise up sunsets / break up train sets / eatin’ motherfuckers / on the news
May 07
Mathias Svalina, 
Thing
When you’re writing it’s speaking. / And that has made all the blifference.
May 14
Jeffrey Allen, 
Chicago
Those floating nests of light! They have no / eggs! In what built house could they be hatching?
May 21
Kelly Schirmann, 
MANY THINGS ARE STILL REAL
if I look at the child / and she drops her glass / I made this happen / with my mind
May 28
Farnoosh Fathi, 
Memory
Sadness undulates at their back. His lilt’s a cotillion of flies.
Jun 04
Kate Lebo, 
Jerusalem Artichoke
Most animals can be harvested / to make a spirit, / as earth / can be further refined / to make blood.
Jun 11
Zachary Scott Hamilton, 
TODAY I MET THE THING I’M GOING TO MARRY
A specimen is indicated, needed, a rose box, / yearning within the pear trees.
Jun 18
Maggie Smith, 
Forwarded
A bear can peel the skin from your skull / just like that, and a bear will go to the trouble
Jun 25
W. Vandoren Wheeler, 
HOW I STOPPED THE MASSACRE
I turned the children into fireworks / that specked the walls.
Jul 02
Sarah Bartlett, 
Bite
The face of certainty / is full of teeth
Jul 09
Sara Mumolo, 
Dreams, Laws
Willful, which will soon be overtaken / By dead trees, profitable death
Jul 16
Kevin Sampsell, 
Jesusbook
I am too old to play Jesus Christ in a movie.
Jul 23
anis shivani, 
Soraya
They fault me, Soraya, of being / pastoralist to arcadia’s archetypical angels of / honesty
Jul 30
Dena Rash Guzman, 
Not Enough Mildreds
Your love is large, like a department store. / There are many choices and a half-yearly sale.
Aug 06
Brenda Hillman, 
Smart Galaxies Work with Our Mother
she blooms aplenty       she sweeps with many / galaxies are work                con jeito she says pronto
Aug 13
Shanna Compton, 
Ghost Ship
When does the kid / next door stop photographing cracks in the pavement
Aug 20
Wendy Ellis, 
Flat-Footing
The floor sighed under his feet, / the house knew Bill was reeling and whistling
Aug 27
Jennifer Liberts Weinberg, 
WE WILL TAKE A MOMENT TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS
I can’t speak of grieving in a bus / Missing socks come back as blossoms
Sep 03
Emily Kendal Frey, 
I DO NOT KNOW IF I AM OWED
I am hard Waiting for the soggy carpet
Sep 10
Seth Abramson, 
from The Metamodernist
at least seventeen contemporaneous imitations, none of which achieved the critical or commercial heights
Sep 17
Eric Conroe, 
without filter,
mijo, he said, licking and then swallowing / his receipt, they are simulated to appear old.
Sep 24
Meg Hurtado, 
Bastille Day
The secondary message / is already here.
Oct 01
Ross Robbins, 
[Caterpillars dig up]
Caterpillars   dig         up / a        parking   garage             today
Oct 08
Sally Delehant Haertl, 
Flowers at Night
It’s raining in my room right now. / I mean outside my room it’s raining.
Oct 15
Evan White, 
THE TERRAIN IS A FUNCTION OF SOUND
in caves I find / I am a cave
Oct 22
Nick Sturm, 
The Whole Place is Dark
Today we decided whether to call it a creature or a monster / and I’m not sure we made the right decision.
Oct 29
Sarah Louise Garrido, 
Let’s try to explain how this terrible thing could have happened
A creature of the deep / Feeding on dazzle
Nov 05
joan naviyuk kane, 
Under Four Flags
the implication that we / would return together / in a future beyond the blue white churn / of the ocean
Nov 12
Mathias Svalina, 
Oren Silverman
I know how a person gets that way. It’s the stone the tongue is made of.
Nov 19
Rebecca Hazelton, 
FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTHUSIASM
Your enthusiasm for Ayn Rand / makes me want to push you down the stairs.
Nov 26
Stephen Danos, 
How to Give a Poetry Reading
Show up with drunk, but pilote, / inaudible slurring.
Dec 03
Kevin Sampsell, 
Strangers Freezers
I take off my shoes and slide / on the kitchen floor / with brown socks / to display my superiority
Dec 10
Sara Guest, 
Worthscipe
I am out-prayed by everyone / and still I am pray.
Dec 17
Jordan Stempleman, 
Relationships
When I yell at your children / it will only make me feel worse.
Dec 24
Jenny Drai, 
from THE YEAR OF HORRIBLE FEATHERS
Love drives us all at unseen primal levels but gets / funnier each day.
Dec 31
Lucas Gonzalez, 
Ghost Dance
never did the ghost dances see much summer ice in this place— / ice exists here only as madness.