Featured Pieces

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POEM MADE OF LIES ABOUT MY LIFE
Meg Hurtado
(1)
311 views
I have never seen a ghost // I have just one husband, dead and alive / My childhood home was never struck by lightning / I wear red lipstick…
Let’s Collaborate
Jack Christian
(10)
2,201 views
I was thinking maybe you’d write one for me / and give it to me and I could say it’s mine / and never tell anyone, but always / give you credit…
19 First Lines
Mallory Bass
(1)
395 views
1. When we returned, gnats lingered in the air of our rooms / 2. I wrote it in smoke, we’re all descendants of someone / 3. Distance doesn’t…
Plumblossom
Eric Ekstrand
(1)
921 views
Rain, like scratches on metal, rains. John comes in drenched with tinsel and rains on the mat. While the door is open, Miles Davis, and everything…
Currywood. Running. Noon. Bright.
Thomas Gibney
(2)
1,069 views
Around the apricots. Damascos. That’s Spanish for. / The breeze. Hissing in my. Where did my breath. / I need it back. I’m running. The water....
Astronauts
Jonas Kyle-Sidell
(0)
310 views
I am wordless bound. / What is a poem, / but something / / floating through space? / I’ve begun thinking / maybe consciousness / / …
Dear Corporation(Precarious College Town…
Adam Fell
(1)
348 views
I was about to smash my hand / through the shatterproof glass / of another disheveled college town halloween, / but then this girl walked past…
Cecilia, or: most of what happens in a …
Margaret McCarthy
(0)
318 views
Cecilia and everything undone. / Inadequate and worldly. / Smiling and smiling and smiling / and thank you and everything else. / Their skin, their…