Liz Afton: Survival Instructions for Weirdos in Love

Liz Afton’s Survival Instructions for Weirdos in Love, preserved from the thirty-seventh installment, uses imperatives, playful compounds, bodies, bed-space, weather, and animal detail to shape an intimate survival manual.

Nathan Gamache: Coco before Chanel

Nathan Gamache’s Coco before Chanel, preserved from the forty-first installment, builds a compact sequence of rhymed comparisons around names, history, idiom, pause, treason, and the recurring word before.

Charles D. Tarlton: Simple Artistry

Charles D. Tarlton’s Simple Artistry, preserved from the fortieth installment, combines family memory, glassblowing, color, fracture, and found objects in a layered poetic structure.

Muesser Yeniay: The Meander

Muesser Yeniay’s The Meander, preserved from the twenty-third installment, moves through fractured syntax, river imagery, clocks, silence, commands, and recursive motion.

Cassandra Schiemann: stomp

Cassandra Schiemann’s stomp, preserved from the twenty-third installment, moves through four weekly sections of bodily metaphor, repetition, pressure, and recovery.

Kristen Yawitz: Litany

Kristen Yawitz’s Litany, preserved from the twenty-sixth installment, gathers family memory, repetition, domestic scenes, obligation, and omission into a long accumulating sentence.

Curt Anderson: Instructions on Building a Shadow

Curt Anderson’s Instructions on Building a Shadow, preserved from the twenty-sixth installment, uses compressed fragments, material nouns, bodily traces, dusk, and gray surfaces to construct an elusive poetic object.

Jessica Bozek: The Leaf Transport

Jessica Bozek’s The Leaf Transport, preserved from the twenty-seventh installment, turns leaf, leave, left, shedding, season, and bodily possession into a tightly compressed prose poem.

David Felix Sutcliffe: Four Poems

David Felix Sutcliffe’s four poems from the twenty-fifth installment explore place names, language, repetition, definition, and difference through compressed verbal structures.

Andrew Brenza: Three Poems

Andrew Brenza’s three preserved poems from the historical poetry archive trace failure, media, entertainment, memory, and social observation across multiple installments.

Mark Bibbins: Three Poems

Mark Bibbins’s three poems from the thirty-fifth installment move through neighborhood change, political satire, queer bar memory, cultural reference, and a deliberately abrasive conversational register.

Gale Acuff: Dynamic Duo

Gale Acuff’s Dynamic Duo, preserved from the twenty-ninth installment, remembers childhood friendship through comic-book trading, rain, hills, repetition, trust, and questions of creation and salvation.

Leora Fridman: Local Laundry

Leora Fridman’s Local Laundry, preserved from the thirty-eighth installment, moves through chores, vegetables, dust, color, clothing, water, soap, and unstable domestic surfaces.

John Erhardt: No Gift

John Erhardt’s No Gift, preserved from the eleventh installment, uses empty rooms, absurd gifts, a consultant, telemarketers, constellations, and direct address to God in a comic poem about failed consolation.

Suzanne Stein: Everything’s Fine

Suzanne Stein’s Everything’s Fine, preserved from the thirty-eighth installment, explores pavilions, layered space, unstable transitions, light, water, and the language of location.

Allison Elliott: Roommates

Allison Elliott’s Roommates, preserved from the thirty-ninth installment, moves through insomnia, cigarettes, late-night television, religious spectacle, friendship, and the fragile boundaries of shared space.

Joshua Edwards: Albion

Joshua Edwards’s Albion, preserved from the thirteenth installment, moves through distance, desire, ordinary urban debris, plant imagery, birth, and the physical bonds of attachment.

Will Burke: .eat.

Will Burke’s .eat., preserved from the thirty-sixth installment, uses fragmented grammar, soil, flesh, clothing, air, and dislocated syntax to create a compressed field of appetite and instability.

Matvei Yankelevich: Three Poems

Matvei Yankelevich’s three poems from the tenth installment explore memory, sculpture, repetition, erasure, visual focus, and compressed observation.

J. J. Blickstein: Night Shade

J. J. Blickstein’s Night Shade, preserved from the first installment, drives a long lyric sentence through touch, fireflies, animals, ritual, history, and images of transformation.

Kristin Abraham: Another Almost Poem

Kristin Abraham’s Another Almost Poem, preserved in the eighteenth installment of the historical poetry archive, with its exact title and publication placement documented.