2014 Features

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Lee Posna,

Listen the little letters click like / silver balls of a Newton’s cradle…

Jan 14

A.M. O’Malley,

My Mother’s Second Husband

His nose and ears were raw with cold when he laid the dog in the ground.

Jan 21

Andy Stallings,

Alex Chilton

Realized I needed to rob a convenience store / Like the first time anyone chased me with a knife

Jan 28

Evelyn Spear,

Collection, 2

I am not the prey, broken rabbit / that broke your teeth

Feb 04

Avni Vyas,

Online Dating Profile

A user called Assfork writes, How are you, / I’m Billy. I don’t reply.

Feb 11

Samantha Nataro,

If You Should Have Come Over

I could’ve hugged you, sugar-shirt, given you a lucid round lollipop

Feb 18

Evan Nagle,

Fourish Poems

I like hairy dudes but ick / he was like fiber optics, man

Feb 25

Mathias Svalina,

Seth Landman

And though I know it occurred, I do not recall my life before having seen the film Road House.

Mar 04

C. F. Sibley,

xi (See parer)

the silver divided me / into neat triangles, your willowy fingers parting me / like color from a fruit

Mar 11

Jenessa VanZutphen,

For Maggie

I want her heart to beat / its peril with a small switch / the cannon, let loose / on fatality’s bare ass.

Mar 18

Noah Eli Gordon,

Against Erasure

either way you’ll wake up in static / which is like falling asleep in snow

Mar 25

Wendy Chin-Tanner,

Dead of Winter

the jar of / honey on / the window- / sill catches / nothing

Apr 01

Dena Rash Guzman,

Back the Hell Away from My Blood Hut, Joseph

the Cosmic Wheel / makes me to flower, and through / cold & through heat I menstruate.

Apr 08

Tiah Lindner Raphael,

The Inheritance of Daughters

There with the prairie thumbed open / like a Bible’s thick pages, her skin was my skin

Apr 15

Jesse Damiani,

Lou ThReed: The Obituary Lives On

we lose one / of the true acting grates here.

Apr 22

Broc Rossell,

Artificial Day

All the children bleed. / Their mouths are juicy wolves.

Apr 29

Saif Alsaegh,

Poets who Choked Themselves with Plastic Bags

A bullet in the night that touched my childhood face / and never came back.

May 06

Emily Kendal Frey,

YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING

The myth of a sparrow in a bucket / rotting in ecstasy

May 13

Robert Duncan Gray,

FOUR UNINTERRUPTED MINUTES STARING AT BIRDS

This morning I am a young man / bleeding from the mouth

May 20

Nathan Wade Carter,

Please Love Your Aging Face

Please delete the shitting things that want to come out of your mouth.

May 27

Seth Landman,

It Was a Long Night, But I Did Not Build a Fire

Sitting on a rock, I considered having an idea. / The moon did a quick move through the sky

Jun 03

Khadijah Queen,

________________ de rigeur

Mouth open, she stuffs herself into shadow, masking the unstable.

Jun 10

Jane Lewty,

The body in its hyperthemesia

Body the / mix of its own order alert. Me / drawing you the body off / in this direction.

Jun 17

Sally Delehant Haertl,

Paul Cézanne

sure I thought of me. / immunized, / collared, / we colored the apple.

Jun 24

John Craun,

One Witness

We have been locked in an airtight canister / and shot into space.

Jul 01

Shanna Compton,

Porous Borders

Name everything in your mystic bestiary / Elusive as palaces, each of these blond kids in hoodies.

Jul 08

Carol Ellis,

Turkey Sandwich

She bites into her sandwich that does not bite back but drops a glop of mayonnaise

Jul 15

Kyle John Crawford,

Sinew

Seeing for us touchers / in the dark makes do. I love / momentarily.

Jul 22

Jonas Kyle-Sidell,

The Sunset Wheels Hot Highway

it’s got me rockin – / wheels tearing up the cosmic / tunnel burnt cotton stuck clouds

Jul 29

Seth Abramson,

The History of Dairy Queen

1939: Hitler invades Poland. / 1940: First Dairy Queen® store opens in Joliet, Illinois.

Aug 05

Julia Jackson,

adolf

i wondered if i could smell risk maybe it smelled like old marmalade.

Aug 12

W.M. Butler,

the tall grass

in the dark night i shoot coyotes with northern lights from my eyes in 8mm film clips

Aug 19

Casey Thayer,

Inside Amy Schumer, Episode 103: A Porn Star is Born

Date night: restaurant, chitchat, cork service, / deal breaker—boyfriend: I have AIDS

Aug 26

joan naviyuk kane,

Update on Joan

On a journey away she meets no hindrance / save a discontinuous thicket of alders

Sep 02

William Stobb,

Wunderkammer

Rocks came alive / when McGaferty applied / a tiny magnet to the blood.

Sep 09

Dena Rash Guzman,

Am I a Barbarian, Joseph?

Before humans, what did moths / harass at night?

Sep 16

Mathias Svalina,

Scott La Rock

I jump from an airplane with only a sample-sized shampoo bottle of Pert Plus.

Sep 23

Kaeli,

Paint up my body in grease.

Do you want to be her or do you want to be with her. I want to go back and hibernate inside her.

Sep 30

Travis Brown,

WELL’S WELL

Let’s touch / our playthings / & fly to / the incurable

Oct 07

Leah Umansky,

Lie Long

Be all of one day without divisions.

Oct 14

Trace William Cowen,

Exteriors

You’re writing for the / wrong side / A lawn chair on the / front lines

Oct 21

Amy Souza,

Driving to Fred Meyer

Trees on fire make / me homesick / for myself

Oct 28

Jess Burnquist,

I Take You Where I Find You

I hope it means / Everything when I describe / My core by your gradation–an orange / Bruised sky.

Nov 04

Cecilia Llompart,

Protest Poem

Because we slipped off the steep / margin of hope, and took a brief ride in the / ambulance of superstition.

Nov 11

Heather Derr-Smith,

Traitor

Maybe you were born with skin / that stung with the rain.

Nov 18

Adam Day,

A Polite History

It was not that the badger, with his / small breakable nose, tolerated the cruelty / of such a struggle

Nov 25

Wendy Xu,

IF IT TURNS OUT YOU FORGET TO SAY ANYTHING

It is the best thing that has ever happened. It is not / like a tiny gold monkey-wrench thrown / down a hallway.

Dec 02

Noah Siela,

Guano-Bowed

The cave begs you to yell the right things into it / and the dentist’s chair of the mind doesn’t oblige

Dec 09

Noah Eli Gordon,

A Poem for White Policemen (and White Poets)

and when to you the moon / sitting there just so just so / stunningly quiet knocks and knocks

Dec 16

Jenny Drai,

[ YOU AND I ] / [ THE BALLAD OF ROLLO AND EINAR ]

Light shines from a peach and that is pure sugar light.

Dec 23

Sarah Heady,

Burning Sugar Cane–Honolulu

I bring my friends, / we ride and douse cane. Do a second / loop through, this time throwing flame.

Dec 30

W.M. Butler,

hyena love in the animal kingdom

you are a hyena in my hut in the dark crushing bones crushing me into a fine powder for women to wear upon their faces