2019 Features


2019
Aug 13
Noah Eli Gordon, 
In Praise of Ambrosia and Nectar
I don’t feel safe in Walmart / / I don’t feel safe inside the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado / / I don’t feel safe protesting at Kent State the bombings in Cambodia…
Jul 02
Meg Hurtado, 
HEAVEN IS FULL OF GARBAGE DISPOSALS: PRAYER FOR LORENA BOBBITT
It all began with cherry blossoms, // cake, a swimming pool. / // It began…
Jun 19
Devin Gmyrek, 
Personality Test
Do you suffer from sleeplessness? / Are the stars’ bellies full of lead? / …
Jun 06
Jonas Kyle-Sidell, 
The Weight of the Sky
Let yourself / go into midnight – // stride into starlight // there is plenty of time…
May 30
ryan scariano, 
The Worst Winter Since 1989
Then a strange miracle rises / from beneath this rented house, / from beneath winter…
May 16
A.M. O’Malley, 
DOOMED WASP
I doomed a wasp, / closed her up / in between two / window panes. / She is…
May 01
Jono Tosch, 
Dinner Plans
You will cook a space needle. / / You will cook the longest grain of rice. / …
Apr 17
Jenny Drai, 
A Family of Birds
Dear You, I have inherited // the Bizarre Owl of Bizarreness…
Apr 10
April Loman, 
Discount Birth Control
I just want to get this over with. / Fine, / just sign your life away on the dotted line…
Apr 03
Shadab Z. Hashmi, 
Tongue
The tongue in the Dictionary // does all the defining…
Mar 27
Jessica Fjeld, 
Who died and made you
I’m sorry that the pencil I gave you // to write out the list of how the day…
Mar 13
Ryan Walsh, 
Blind Lemon Something
Once I lived a whole summer / inside a lemon. Bright bitter skies / and the…
Mar 06
Becca Yenser, 
Dinner
I boil the bruised artichoke / and later watch him suck / the tender leaves…
Feb 26
Dena Rash Guzman, 
To Be Healed
sometimes, under the rain is light / no common cloud can defeat // we drink…
Feb 13
Shannon Barber, 
A Diss Track to my Body
This- / Trifling ass / Hurting ass / Malfunctioning ass / Limping ass / No…
Feb 01
Aaron Balkan, 
Same Train
No velocity. / No mechanical voice or human sleep. / When I got to the top of…
Jan 23
Seth Coffman, 
Lone Pronghorn Antelope
Standing on a dusty dirt rise / staring off into silence / there’s solace / in…
Jan 16
Patrick Lucy, 
WORKING PLANS FOR A TINY ANIMAL
For a tiny animal prone to overheating, the illuminated antler is a critical way to maintain body temperature…
Jan 09
Shadab Z. Hashmi, 
A Game of Six, Deuce and Ace
// / It’s the old / quarrel between faith and reason / / One in a faded…
Jan 02
SDA, 
What the Metamodernist Manifesto Means to Me
I. / We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world. We must…