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POETRYDecember 18, 2019

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By Samantha Abdy

direct experience enters the mind the way energy from the sun enters the belly through the form of a plant that photosynthesized…

POETRYDecember 11, 2019

By George Banach-Salas

I wanted to take off my personality like fake eyelashes and leave it, half glued, on a windowsill. He asked me if I…

POETRYDecember 6, 2019

By Emma Rose Smith

for Candy Royalle & those who loved her, in gratitude you’re absent from the lineup again Butch…

POETRYNovember 15, 2019

By Nikki Manzano Cabugao

Nikki Manzano Cabugao dabbles in poetry to overcome writer’s block. She is working on finishing her…

POETRYOctober 30, 2019

By David Ishaya Osu

David Ishaya Osu is a Nigerian poet, memoirist, and street photographer. His works have appeared in numerous publications,…

POETRYOctober 16, 2019

By Jerri Hines

En route to the loo train eyes to skirt those guns locked careful under poster blondes: tanned breasts cupped soft like war poetry allusion…

POETRYSeptember 30, 2019

By Nadia Rhook

by the fourth estrogen injection I look down to the needle, then look up pink flowers in the courtyard how can…

POETRYSeptember 19, 2019

By Lou Garcia-Dolnik

Lou Garcia-Dolnik is a writer, editor and harpist working on Gadigal land. They are a 2019…

POETRYAugust 12, 2019

By Gavin Yuan Gao

At last, the rain washes night’s script off the mind’s pages. There is no use holding out your palms— into morning, into…