Poem: "Paraphernalia" by Maya Stahler
Jun 7, 2023
Poetry
my good pantyhose over your head you are breathing inside of my house steam coils up cause tonight I’m boiling my safety razors in old white vinegar
Three Poems about a Brain Tumour by R.C. Thomas
Jun 1, 2023
Poetry
Canada; Vietnam; Papua New Guinea; straw canopy riddled with mosquitoes in Singapore; Peru; up all night circling on the back of a Paso to the
Dreams Are My Social Life by Rupert Wondolowski [Baltimore Book Release]
May 30, 2023
Poetry
Baltimore arts luminary Rupert Wondolowski's new book of poetry launches this week
Three Poems by Atsuhi Ikeda
May 26, 2023
Poetry
You bend, you bend crudity Low string, backbone The water rise and the Gore of it all, this rippling Score, frothing wind My nothing squall. Can
Poem: "Cool Blue-Tiled Pools" by Damon Hubbs
May 25, 2023
Poetry
the rippling boys in cool blue-tiled pools mark passages north to south dreaming of white cargo and goat’s horns. wind is a tuba, heat a brass
Poem: "To Be a God" by Brian Austin
May 24, 2023
Poetry
Push mud without mathematics Sludge, pus All holes overflown With humanity. We came here And brought music Told stories of gods To the rumbling
Three poems by Stacy Black
May 22, 2023
Poetry
I’m a sucker for small towns where something is amiss. Police smiling too much at the children. Parents who aren’t inattentive or self-obsessed do a
Poem: "The Parking Lot" by Travis Hoyles
May 15, 2023
Poetry
Cars with their side-mirrors marred like the ears of practiced grapplers oxidize on naked wheels. Some have been propped-up with bricks or smaller
"Poem, With Holes in It" by 月 Duhem
May 12, 2023
Poetry
When I think about how death might less darkly find its way, I think about the stippled glasses at my favorite café (into which the pertest
"A scribble, a letter, a thank you" by David Hay
May 10, 2023
Poetry
Breath devours breath and silence, the infinity eyed snake of long winters, girdles my throat, raw from so many imagined hangings. A Scarlett web
Poem: "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" by Juliette Sandoval
May 5, 2023
Poetry
She wages war on the human animal the dirt blessing industrial heaven the weather of utopia is mechanical and spreads my wings and pins me down I
Poem: "New Year Same Shit." by Eleanor Ball
May 1, 2023
Poetry
1 Even God said, Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. But Caesar and God both have a sketchy concept of ownership. What is more Caesar-like than
Poem: "The Badlands" by Juliette Sandoval
Apr 26, 2023
Poetry
The best of all possible worlds is caught in a war of ideas a maddening mantra a shuddering mantra of discontent The cages shrink between Gaiety and
Three poems by James Croal Jackson
Apr 19, 2023
Poetry
Went to Thursdays with a friend who quit boot camp but hates this bar so left. I am good at waiting in darkness, alone, drinking. Other friends come
Two poems by Nate Hoil
Apr 10, 2023
Poetry
Me and my friends all have places to be, but we all leave our homes at the same time. This traffic jam is made up of all of my friends. Late for the
Poetry: "don't waste flares" by Dave K.
Apr 5, 2023
Poetry
RST rating 1-2-2 i crack open a flare red light splashes across the sand nothing out here but sand and static we could build another ten feet of
Two industrial poems by Noam Hessler
Apr 3, 2023
Poetry
It was by the dock. A sailer, moldering ash, Split in two down the middle. They’d sailed it out across the channel from Essex. Hunting channel
Two poems by Stevie Belchak
Mar 29, 2023
Poetry
Or have I been worshiping suburban propane? Is there something to touching the great muscle of a lip? Will touching it repeatedly make me more
Two poems by Keegan Gore
Mar 27, 2023
Poetry
When you get a chance please reply to the email I sent you last week in which I confessed that I had feelings for your sister the whole time we were
Three poems by Francesca Kritikos
Mar 22, 2023
Poetry
I only search for what I know I won’t find Wash my hands then drink the water I used to watch my body beneath tires My meat wants so badly to be
Poem: "The Absorber" by Chadwick Beattie
Mar 15, 2023
Poetry
I just can’t seem to curb this depression, said my friend Jack. And I know it’s the root cause of the Absorber. The Absorber? You know, that little
Prose poem: "Birthdays" by Rob Kempton
Mar 13, 2023
Poetry
She told me about her bee stings. How every sting was a microcosm of herself. I’d never seen her get stung once, and she’d never brought it up until
Prose poem: "beaver dam run or laurel hill" by nat raum
Mar 9, 2023
Poetry
imagine you are in the teal house in seven springs with the back deck and hot tub and the papered panels of gaudy floral print on off-white, the
Three poems by Alex Osman
Mar 6, 2023
Poetry
This is the site where he drowned Where geriatric paranoia manifested Where childhood boogeymen lurked under rafts Divers’ capillaries were jade
Poem: "The Tumbling of Time Like Weeds in the Body" by Logan Roberts
Mar 3, 2023
Poetry
A variety of fools bolt soup to judgment through a straw, beating a field as exercise. Sweat beads oxidize, a favorable ideology, contorted
Poem: "Rock My Laurels" by Carson Jordan
Mar 2, 2023
Poetry
put your breath back it’s perfectly good enough no big complaints close but no cigar god makes me a vessel for no trust no dents holy tights and a
Poem: "brand new super-fund site" by A. Redwood
Mar 1, 2023
Poetry
for East Palestine, OH driving past the new super-fund site, I note the signage— Pardon Our Dust, Under Review, Coming Soon, DO NOT ENTER— we are
Prose Poem: "Gazing at the Ground" by Fortune Amor
Feb 27, 2023
Poetry
The dagger-toothed moon had scavenged the sun and play-tired hungry children who I confused for ghosts traipsed towards obscure shadows. Distant
Three poems by Emily Van Ryn
Feb 24, 2023
Poetry
She tumble-clunks down the stairs of her rickety house and sits frozen at the bottom. She looks at me, locked and frazzled. Weary. Jaw tight but
Review: One Person Holds So Much Silence by David Greenspan
Feb 23, 2023
Poetry & Criticism
This debut collection by David Greenspan slowly but surely brings into view something — though one cannot say exactly what, at first — about the
Three poems by Hana Kobayashi Shapiro
Feb 22, 2023
Poetry
Step 1: Start with the word, in conversation, but beware, the narrowed branches of the decision tree stoops under some towering stone giant — a
Poem: "Zuma Beach (That Face When, That Feel When)" by Z.H. Gill
Feb 20, 2023
Poetry
HEY! It’s me again, your old sestina’d friend, electric still as always, me that Was the first to find the map to lead me out your eyes, your eyes
"Pink Sestina" by Giovanni
Feb 17, 2023
Poetry
It’s too bad our sun doesn’t go to sleep in Lake Michigan. I’d have reason to spend every evening on the beach. Yesterday, I watched the sunset with
Visual Poem: "Choreography for an Apocalypse" by curtis emery
Feb 16, 2023
Poetry & Video
a poetry performance visualizer written and composed by curtis emery IG: @prosodic_goo/@dthcltsnd
Four prose poems by Howie Good
Feb 13, 2023
Poetry
but find only a crew that parachuted into a Neverland after their plane was shot down last century during World War II…a couple arguing in the
Prose poem: "(The Dream Where) I Break His Teeth and He Pays For My Medical Bill" by E.M. Lark
Feb 8, 2023
Poetry
I am braver there. These bastards do not scare me. Their voices do not crack the foundations of a home I have fought to keep together. Their names
Two poems by Phoebe O'Dell
Feb 1, 2023
Poetry
The uneasiness of My indecisiveness Of rekindling This back and forthness As if the smooth ingest of a rail does sooth I take another shot That
Poem: "Simplification of a Dart Gun Tropical Gymnasium" by Joshua Martin
Jan 20, 2023
Poetry
You grave a conceded forcefield the stock market conceded in the yard of lighter fluid spider brushes spoken like a truly anticlerical autopsy
Five tarot poems by Arumandhira Howard
Jan 18, 2023
Poetry
variety looks like: lying :: :: to the uber driver about my :: :: blood. it’s never about the :: :: wigs matting under the
Three Poems by Noam Hessler
Jan 13, 2023
Poetry
5 mph 50 miles to anchorage, commute / tainted eyes running toxic / fat caterpillar, / Grub Trucker, / frito-lay logo blaring yellow / white winter
Poem: "Kuolema on lehmä (Oui, la mort est une vache), Part I" by Ron Riekki
Jan 12, 2023
Poetry
Death is a liquor store. What I mean by that is I have hemorrhoids. Is that how you pronounce it? My uncle told me about doing construction and
Four poems by Claire Rychlewski
Jan 11, 2023
Poetry
On honeymoon At the Mall of America Tropical paradise Twin City treasure Pink in the rearview Girlfriend experience Dizzy at the fragrance bar
Two Poems by Nate Hoil
Jan 9, 2023
Poetry
It is good to be here!! And not there, wherever you are. I have alienated myself from civilization by launching myself up into the stars. Anyhoo…
Poem: "It Washes Away and then You Find You Are Happy" by Marie Landau
Jan 6, 2023
Poetry
It was nice to meet your boyfriend but I am unsure about the slope of the driveway it is not easy, requires an emergency break So different
Three poems by AN Grace
Jan 4, 2023
Poetry
Grumble grumble grumble, Grumble grumble grumble, Grumble grumble grumble, Grumble grumble grumble, Grumble grumble grumble, bang. ‘On my demise
Poem: "Ode to Storm, Goddess, Thief, Mutant, Queen" by Steven Leyva
Dec 19, 2022
Poetry
Ororo, Ororo is the palindrome that saved me Born among the misfits 80’s, the too poor to be punk 80’s, I read reprints of Giant Size X-men and
Two Prose Poems by Bobby Parrott
Dec 16, 2022
Poetry
What’s called skipping stones in the U.S. in Russia is called baking pancakes, in Sweden tossing sandwiches, and in the Czech Republic Throwing
Poem: "Deliver Us Undamned" by PJ Dominiski
Dec 14, 2022
Poetry
Another night of negotiation leaves the left-hand path gored clear, to where the willows laugh, where undead cadres wage people’s war on warm-bodied
Three prose poems by Howie Good
Dec 9, 2022
Poetry
No one I ask wants to talk about it or so much as acknowledge that it exists, advancing without letup in all directions, the whole heaving, seething
Four prose poems by David Hay
Dec 7, 2022
Poetry
There is a heaven in the tears of fruitful sins. Sunken dreams, so full of a living death, wash against my irises. The haloed trumpets sing of the
Three poems by Ian Stratton
Dec 2, 2022
Poetry
Whoever is on the mattress living or dead must not be addressed as such The body bears against the springs and the springs rebuff the body
Two poems by Italo Ferrante
Nov 30, 2022
Poetry
check / the crust of a hourglass planet / focus / an Hubble’s eye view of a hangnail / the sunspots on my back / you ogle mechanically / rather than
Three poems by Lindsay Raspi
Nov 28, 2022
Poetry
An animal not really yours wolf pawing I thought she sent you she sent me what it gnaws to be gone. We were mutilating expensive food tell me what’s
Poem: "Arcadia" by J.R. Barner
Nov 23, 2022
Poetry
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori - Virgil, Eclogues It was called Arcadia. At least that was what the voice on the other end of the phone
Three poems by Arumandhira Howard
Nov 18, 2022
Poetry
All that was and is and will be— I reject. I rebuke. To have my love follow you on a plane somewhere and have its body come back to me.
Poem: "Celebrate Your Transition Into A Lot" by Suzanne Doogan
Nov 10, 2022
Poetry
In my dream I was the wink That shot past you Just me and my gosh! Happy after our future Because I would also like 50 peaches Proudly endorse the
Three poems by Hayden Church
Nov 7, 2022
Poetry
There is a likeness of his birth as a bull in a China shop. Peking ducks flew from their conditions. If he would have thought of these
Three prose poems by William Doreski
Nov 4, 2022
Poetry
At the pneumatic zoo of synthesis, animals explode into other animals. Sometimes they exchange themselves one-to-one. Sometimes they form whole
Poem: "I CAN CONTROL THE WEATHER" by Kate Zeyger
Nov 3, 2022
Poetry
I CAN CONTROL THE WEATHER I scream into my space helmet. I’m not in space, of course But they’ll let you buy a spacesuit even if you’re Not an
Two Poems by Stephen Mead
Nov 1, 2022
Poetry
“Remain estranged,” advised the albino angel glowing in the dark with candle-perfection for the longest knight of knives yet, her beautifully
Poem: "Hanyatlásvég (The End of Decay)" by László Aranyi
Oct 27, 2022
Poetry
Fancsali pofával hanyatt dől. A merev, hűvös tapintású, örökké gyűrődő műanyagfólián. Viaszbábú, nyolc hústűt
Two Poems by Nicholas Barnes
Oct 24, 2022
Poetry
i can see san cristóbal through candles pleasing phosphor match broomsticks and clouds of champa, clear as blackboard shadows. whoa horsie, can’t
Two Poems by Gabriella Garofalo
Oct 19, 2022
Poetry
Let’s call it a day, shall we, as we’ve been traipsing From waves to clouds, from clouds to waves, Among weeds, and a fire fearing the waves, That
Three poems by Joshua Atticus Davis
Oct 12, 2022
Poetry
kickflip into my heart kiss the gap between us you are so brave you are an angel sent from heaven to shred to enlighten us all on earth a blessing
Three Prose Poems by Howie Good
Oct 7, 2022
Poetry
There was nothing I could do. I was under a car, sheltering from the debris raining down, bricks and glass and chunks of concrete. Until that
Poems: Macabre 1-3 by N. Flaherty Kimball
Sep 30, 2022
Poetry
A dark, surreal series
Poem: "Dream Journal of the Arctic Fox" by Damon Hubbs
Sep 29, 2022
Poetry
Above, the flying machine / wing tracks span between rowan and birch / maintaining territory / new expansion / the steel-trap beak a golden ratio
Poem: "Ball[r]oom(n)" by Damon Hubbs
Sep 27, 2022
Poetry
The palazzo features a balloon room with a thirty-foot high frescoed ceiling. The interplay of mass and void due to a lack of balloons or because of
Poem: "professional gastropod" by Leah Mueller
Sep 26, 2022
Poetry
the slug won the half-marathon by a hair’s breadth. his muscles pumped like pistons, as he escaped each hoe and boot heel. nearing the finish line
Poem: "Each voice The tenth [of a] $" by Joshua Martin
Sep 8, 2022
Poetry
maintain photomontage fingernail clippings. until SALTY structure to maintain ruined wavelength / [in] righteous [of hampers] monocle [accoutrement]
Poem: "Mind Muscle and The Two Romance System." by Lish Ciambrone
Sep 7, 2022
Poetry
Sisyphus isn’t happy he isn’t feeling anything at all not at the moment. Over the years he’s turned his thoughts to marriage each neuron tied one to
Poem: "Regardless of an ode,,to whistle diagonally [parachute]" by Joshua Martin
Sep 6, 2022
Poetry
(shower) , , , , , , , , , , , , , , balloon CONNECTING forms obscure sometimes furniture jelly anarchist luck/lost . . . . fOUnD , , , , TV
Poem: "Stuck in a White Spotlight Gallery, Deserted, the Raging Plague outside a Wasteland" by Gram Hummell
Sep 1, 2022
Poetry
Dream arose out of void Vantablack Sounds arise out of vibrating silence, from where it shivers and slowly picks up The orange dusked air carries
Poem: "Monolith made of black paper mâché" by Gram Hummell
Aug 30, 2022
Poetry
Fanged salts stretch endlessly and forever Pierced veil, no it was rent— (You and I tore it) Crystaline gypsum white, the indigo shrouded Sky hangs
Poem: "Bunny Rabbit" by Hayden Church
Aug 23, 2022
Poetry
Finger split down to my bone My bone juts irresponsible Wrong colors, my bones out Try telling a nurse all about it She’ll tell me, “Why can’t the
Poem: "Sacred Vibes" by Aniket Sanyal
Aug 23, 2022
Poetry
Too hard a heart, for the profundity of a prolonged lightning rod Of darkness-drenched bestial blessings Take two Tuesday evenings, for the pain,
Poem: Untitled by Jeremy Boyd
Aug 19, 2022
Poetry
build that uselessness big and intricate so fine and deep that scale of witness is broken by balance there will be concrete for thee end inbedded
Poem: "Knowing the Mouse Might One Day Leave Its Hole and Get the Cheese...It Fills You with Determination" by J. Bailey Hutchinson
Aug 19, 2022
Poetry
I think I wanted it to be weirder than the sun wouldn’t look at me & so I dreaded every dark morning. Hoped for a goat bone, ichor-whorled; or
Poem: "Passes to His Reward" by William Fargason
Aug 19, 2022
Poetry
Erasure of my third-great grandfather’s obituary, published in the Henry County Weekly on November 27, 1903 he breathed his
Poem: "Deception" by Jeremy Boyd
Aug 17, 2022
Poetry
second guessing illusion is learning weird is good but descriptive is better Twitter: @sp1it Instagram: @sp1it
Poem: "Playfully Crinkling through the Leaves Fills You with Determination" by J. Bailey Hutchinson
Aug 17, 2022
Poetry
Out on that not-acre-or-so, we build a fire & answer no calls save the goose, the owl, the scarlet tanager. Me thumbing a beertab, you echoing an
Poem: "Deep End Sonnet" by William Fargason
Aug 17, 2022
Poetry
I do not know how to say this any way other than I do not enjoy being alive each time I dove from the high dive into the deep end
Poem: "Going 30" by Jeremy Boyd
Aug 15, 2022
Poetry
you are always talking to someone even if they’re not present or a chrome-faced apparition assembled in your digital living room for the sake of
Poem: "The Shadow of the Ruins Looms above, Filling You with Determination" by J. Bailey Hutchinson
Aug 15, 2022
Poetry
My sister ’s stonecrop pales into its neighbor ’s trough, which means it wants more than I ’ve given it, or enough of what I have. Softrot in the
Poem: "When the Telemarketer Calls" by William Fargason
Aug 15, 2022
Poetry
I tell them the person they’re trying to reach has died and this person of course is me and I’m much to my own dismay not dead but I lie to the