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Jan 06
Kate Lebo
,
Quince
Most varieties are astringent and sour / unless softened by decay
Jan 13
Amy Pickworth
,
Chicken Sestina
countless times each mother named Amy / has also been a monster.
Jan 20
Emily Kendal Frey
,
DADS EAT RICE, TOO (a collaborative poem by the members of OPP: Other People’s Poems)
Dad looked great in his tank top / Dad said, “How are you, really?”
Jan 27
Andy Stallings
,
Geometry
The earth has a curving structure which permits / the roots of the jacaranda to sprout and blossom
Feb 03
Marielle Prince
,
Religion and the Ants
You yourselves have seen— / the whole earth is mine and only mine.
Feb 10
Kevin Sampsell
,
Full of More Air
And then I told you / I’m tired of birds / I want you to replace them with pianos
Feb 17
Dena Rash Guzman
,
A Monster & A Line Away
I was born to make men cry, / so here I go.
Feb 24
SDA
,
Mid-America
Post-internet is very New York. / Post-internet is very Los Angeles.
Mar 03
Travis Macdonald
,
If You Can’t Take the Heat, Get Out of the Lava
The volcano has a name you know, / written on the tag of its t-shirt.
Mar 10
Bill Carty
,
Mutual Flora
she wore / a festive red dress / in the snow appeared / like a cut flower
Mar 17
Ross Robbins
,
Psychosis
Words are prickling with potential. They can be anything, they might even be themselves.
Mar 24
Shannon Barber
,
Black Pussy
Black pussy ain’t good. Cry those tears for censored Black Pussy.
Mar 31
Leora Fridman
,
WHICH SNOWSTORM IS STILL ALIVE
Which snowstorm / can hear me. / Which human / alights.
Apr 07
Catherine Cafferty
,
Voyage
Your palm, seed to large for / any animal to carry off.
Apr 14
Zachary Scott Hamilton
,
enya
Minneapolis, Huffing amylnitrate / at an 8o’s disco, alone
Apr 21
Jaimie Gusman
,
Growing Up
At some point in our lives it is 1998 / and our dresses are wet.
Apr 28
Jordan Stempleman
,
Song 7583479
There’s a quality, that means to be / an endorsement, that’s speaking for us.
May 05
Ryan Collins
,
from A NEW AMERICAN FIELD GUIDE & SONG BOOK
You / Sing star spangled when the house lights go / Down & the pyrotechnics begin.
May 12
Rose Linke
,
Shocking
If you’re looking for trouble / try just looking.
May 19
Evan White
,
CLASSIC REGRESSION
I said Now / for my final masterpiece / and threw a spear into space.
May 26
Eileen G’Sell
,
Portrait of My Ex with Giant Burrito
Men have died for less, and I, for one, / never asked for more.
Jun 02
Luke Bloomfield
,
Warlord Subway Jam
plump men need love space and / time expressive red pants
Jun 09
Sara Renee Marshall
,
Letters for Others: HBM
Under one pleated cloud shelf, / threadbare clouds.
Jun 16
Ruth Ellen Kocher
,
#106LinesOnBlacknessForWhitePoetsAndPolicemen
I could take you in a fight / My white mother sang like Diana Ross
Jun 23
Brian Foley
,
Beside Myself
I saw Guy about to expand and was thankful / I saw Khaled’s hair salute hair and was thankful
Jun 30
Mathias Svalina
,
from THANK YOU TERROR
I swallowed / a dragonfly / & I don’t know / what comes next
Jul 07
Tracey Knapp
,
WEDDING POEM
The sun sutures this certain edge / and yes, here is where they will / put down their packs
Jul 14
Sarah Louise Garrido
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Human Forces
All the stars jittering / before a force of sound. / All the light rising within.
Jul 21
Shadab Z. Hashmi
,
The Smallest Drone
With a belly full of metal / and no neck / that turns to lock / you in a melting gaze
Jul 28
LM Rivera
,
THE BOOK OF DEVOTIONAL CINEMA AND REPETITION IN THE BLANK
—Where heads are taken for the electricity within. / —Where eyes are left in the woods.
Aug 04
Mary Zartman
,
For Your Approval
He tells us what to do with his body. / For his family he will not leave a mess.
Aug 11
Dena Rash Guzman
,
I Write My Own Stories, Joseph
“I drink more whiskey & more, / and pull at my lone chin hair.”
Aug 18
SDA
,
The Reason My Hair Looks So Neat All the Time
If Matt Lauer had my lifestyle, / he might not have changed his hair.
Aug 25
Lora Straub
,
Short Love Poem
Pollen paints our hands, our skin bakes, basted / with inchworm spittle and stems’ broken juices.
Sep 01
Jonas Kyle-Sidell
,
As Israeli Practice Runs Send Sonic Booms through the Night
Our egos silent alarms / meant to be tripped – / up. Over. On!
Sep 08
Michael Martin Shea
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from Studies in Apoplexy
there were many of us who wanted an end to it (the hair). This was before we knew its power
Sep 15
Lilly Beshore
,
Soursop
The fruits are so giving in their sweetness, / even the sour ones / give sugar.
Sep 22
Kevin Sampsell
,
Alone At Home At Night
I don’t care / What the radio says / It is not a beautiful night
Sep 29
Devi K. Lockwood
,
Shortage
But the birds? On that day / rain rose not fell.
Oct 06
Rebecca Hazelton
,
THE HITCH IN MY CHARACTER
In this image, my sadness / is a bird, and let’s assume / not blue.
Oct 13
Carrie Purcell Kahler
,
View from Street
There is a smell that geranium leaves leave, / just the rounded side of sharp
Oct 20
Emily Kendal Frey
,
LETTER FROM THE BACKSIDE OF MY MIND
The sun is afternoon’s death / Dude, dude, dude, dude
Oct 27
Michael Canavan
,
A Long Take Of What It Takes
we needed cowboys so I learned to smoke in the old way as I sat vined to my brooding oak
Nov 03
Seth Landman
,
Another World
Okay, I said, but I didn’t relax, / and it hurt to be connected so much.
Nov 10
Leora Fox
,
Packing up Nola
I want / to say ma’am, I understand anxiety: / it’s a baseline. But my mouth is full / of voodoo sugar
Nov 17
Sarah Koenig
,
Laundromat Owner: A To-Do List
open the washer lids / check for people inside
Nov 24
Meg Hurtado
,
TRUMP CARD
Baby’s born. Take care of the baby. Great. / A traitor. And we knew he was a traitor.
Dec 01
Stephen Danos
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Merry Equestrian
Dish ran away dopily. Hum- / ming doo-wop.
Dec 16
Jeffrey Allen
,
this is coyote’s dream 4
this must be what / looking-ups call fireside
Dec 23
Jaimie Gusman
,
I’m All Out Of Practice
The candy canes hurt. / I hurt them.
Dec 30
Sally Delehant Haertl
,
As a Model for Others
I kneel before a grade school drinking fountain / and think about Rosa Parks as I draw in water.