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Jan 07
Lee Posna
,
A Late Sukkah
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
SDA
,
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