Category: Poems

Ashley VanDoorn The Blue Otherwise Known as Stolen Fire We are not sense-senseless when we are sentences. When the shoplifter stops litter, the shapeshifter’s a …

Ellen Welcker The Botanical Garden (excerpt) I found myself in “Australia”; the Australian trees had skin like me. In “Papua New Guinea” I saw a …

Sarah Wetzel Two Poems Normal Obsessions with Horses MEAT I never encounter horses except in dreams and circuses when a horse without rider, a transparent …

Cyril Wong Two Poems Clouds Those clouds are not Baudelaire’s clouds. They believe in long-distance relationships. Clouds give back the images by which we know …

Sharon Zetter Two Poems Donna Reed Let’s move to the movies, darling. Make sure our seats recline. Saturday night and I’m left home. Fuck your …

Doug Ramspeck Cigar Box A girl I knew in college shaved her pubis, placed the clippings in a wooden cigar box, and left them outside …

Jessy Randall and Daniel M. Shapiro Weather Report There should be a name for snow in April or the moment when sports fans cheer sunshine. …

Sam Rasnake Two Poems from Four Colors             – after Krzysztof Kieślowski Gold It’s a river of dead leaves in …

Ryan B. Richey and Chris Lin from Hannis Pannis Pannis Pannis was born on an island. His birth name is unpronounceable by most.  He grew …

Matthew Rotando Two Poems Story of Learning After I learned the language, I learned it well.  Then went down to the lake.  I said, “Hey, …

Tomaž Šalamun (with translations from the Slovenian by Thomas Kane, Michael Thomas Taren, and Tomaž Šalamun) Three Poems Mute and Time C major in the …