INSIDE OUT 2 by KIAN KERMANI
February 7 2025grinning viscera amused with lock shattered
spoiler for Avatar 2 Way of Water spills out
in laminar perfect stream every 0.71 seconds
interrupted by spleen, colon, kidney...
TWO POEMS by FIONA BRUCKMAN
February 4 2025He wears an orange leash
His mom wears heavy glasses
There’s ground bees on the side
OJ died when I was in the back
I’m hooded and the leaves
Move together away...
THE IDEAL JUNGLE GYM by STANDARDIZED POSTER
January 15 2025Picture the ideal jungle gym,
made according to the designs
of an Ivy-League architect. He
spent his formative years on
campus, of brick, grass, and
clocktower...
FOUR POEMS by CONOR HULTMAN
January 7 2025
soilwashed deteriorated burgundy leather jacketcoat black knitlining sweaterstriped longsleeved dressshirt
jockey underpants
thick woolen gray pants...
ALL THE BLOOD TAKEN AWAY by YATES CESSNA
January 3 2025There are black clots in the corners of every room in the house, black clots of cluster flies. When I turn on the light they nest into my hair to find their shadows. They circle as a collapsed racehorse around the haloed ceiling...
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAVE SEEN by STEVE GERGLEY
December 31 2024On Friday night, I eat a sixty-three ounce bag of assorted chocolates while watching a mediocre action movie from the 1990s. For the next nine hours, my stomach roars like a silverback gorilla. While lying on the cold bathroom floor in agony, I swear I will never commit this horrific and indulgent transgression again...
WHEAT FIELD AMBIENCE & FREQUENCIES | 528 HZ + 741 HZ CLEANSE by DREW MOSMAN
December 17 2024There are sigils painted on the I5 southbound on-ramp. They were covered a month ago but you can still see the outlines, the curves. If you time it right, at that spot, before the flow of the commute, a single prayer can change the course of your life...
WEEKENDER (WEEK ENDER) by MADELINE MILES
December 9 2024You confessed that your second beer
was your third and I was only pocket
watching once I felt your hands needed
forgiveness so I drank too and laughed
about it before asking what he did that was
so awful...
MOLES by CHRIS CARROLL
December 2 2024A HUMAN, high on human drugs, has been working on a POEM for months. Another HUMAN, high on human drugs, passes him a swishing red bottle of wine that he chugs, as they dance in a tunnel where they zip in and out of space, small points on a collapsing and reconstructing grid...
TRILOGY by CHLOE WHEELER
November 27 2024I. desenllaç (denouement)
three olive flies fighting
for their trite, tiny fly lives,
struggling against the slick ice
cubes in a glass of crimson sangria.
affirmations: i attract abundance...
STRIP CLUB by NICOLE SELLEW
November 22 2024I watched as one girl danced even when they cut her music. I watched the girls on their knees, scraping the money into bags. I watched a boy in a Patagonia puffer jacket try to take a Snapchat video of one of the dancers...
WHAT YOU’RE BUILT TO BE COMFORTABLE WITH by ALEX ROST
November 15 2024I’d been back too long, doing all the things I used to do and living with a girl who’d spent the past year in the psyche ward for killing her family cat and trying to kill the dog...
YOUR FAVORITE BAND by CHARLIE ZACKS
November 13 2024Your favorite band just killed a guy...
SNAKE FOOD by MYLES ZAVELO
November 6 2024Mice in the freezer. Next to the ice cream. This month last year. So tightly packed into each other. Translucently spooning.
This month last year, too: when that hoodlum came to bleed right in front of my house...
WRITING PROJECT by EMILY SLOTTA
October 21 2024I can guide you through the beats of this, it’s pretty simple.
First pretend you’re girl Hemingway in Bushwick. Take a sip of hot black coffee. Write the sun also rises in miniature, over and over again in small concentric circles, but do it without any war...
an atom is mostly empty by OWEN AVERY
October 7 2024I’m ten. We are at Momom and Popops’ house. Django and Luna are there. Me and Mom and Popop and Elias walk through East Rock Park. The dogs come with us. Luna loves to run. I think she could run forever. She jumps and she glides and she cuts and barks and she’s happy...
TWO POEMS by FARYAL RASHID
October 2 2024Facts are bigger in the dark! If you lie on the floor very straight the temperature(s) of all the pulses in the world coarse right through you
Suddenly the distinction between a loon and a regular becomes much less important...
REBECCA by LAMB
September 27 2024I come alive when she says her mom is dead. I stare at the green wine in my glass long enough to bead my eyes, then I meet hers and hit her with the perfect line...
ASPIRATIONAL by ADELINE SWARTZENDRUBER
September 23 2024My summer aspirational vibe is coming together quite nicely
on my Pinterest moodboard, but unfortunately I am running out of summer and running out of steam...
SCUT MONKEY MIDDLE by NICHOLAS WILDER FORMAN
September 19 2024
Everyone is three to ten years old but I’m the best at it. I think coyotes means grandma, I think coyotes are packs of grandmas that have grandkids that live out of state, so the coyotes that’s why...
ICE BREAKER by MADLEN STAFFORD
September 11 2024Every morning I drink water, from a glass jar, spiked with three spoonfuls of chia seeds. In bed, on the phone, soaking in the sunlight, my chia water spills on top of me...
I LOVE LIFE by SAM ROBINSON
September 9 2024I was the hottest guy in the office, and I burned it all to the ground.
Now already, if you know me, you’d be calling me a liar. “But Sam,” you’d say, “you’re bald, you’ve been smoking since you were 16 and avoiding sunblock...