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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
SDA
,
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.