THREE POEMS by ANDRÉS SALAS
May 13 2025
My father is
‘by far the best announcer
in the district’
of high school soccer...
TWO PODCAST STORIES by STEVE GERGLEY
May 6 2025
After I won eighty-seven million dollars in the New York State Lottery, my wife and I abandoned our repugnant house in the suburbs and rented an expensive apartment in Brooklyn...
PERSONAL LIFE #3 by ULYSES RAZO
April 29 2025I purchased a ship in Las Palmas and founded the "Sea Org," a private navy of elite scientists. I set out to take command of the ship. En route, I wrote OT III, the esoteric story of Xenu...
THE INTERVIEW by SHAE SENNETT
April 22 2025Are you forged in fire? Do you want to know what it’s like? Is there anything else after? What is the worst thing that happened? When does the worst thing stop happening? What was your major in college...
SPECTRAL LIGHT by UZODINMA OKEHI
April 18 2025Tiny. Torn-up, sleepy. Trembling. That ash-grey kitten. And it depends on how you see yourself! Technically this is still me drawing comics. Still fighting it! Lozenges, the gum, keep from smoking, drawing board, the same four walls...
THE EMPATH V. NARCISSIST DISHWASHER CLEANSING CYCLE
by BRITTANY DEITCH
April 15 2025DL met SB at the peanut free table on the first day of elementary. They were both allergic to cashews, and this gave them a ton in common. If they'd eat one, their throats would swell up and they'd need Mrs. Wise to chew up their Lunchables pizza and spit it back into their mouths...
THE MOM WHO HOMESCHOOLS HER KIDS by DIZZY TUREK
April 7 2025Not everyone is like her. She may teach her kids Latin, Math, & Roman history. She may make a whole mess of chili or spaghetti. That type of meal where the whole family & a few friends get their fill of the exact same thing...
SONG by TAYLOR NAPOLSKY
April 2 2025I would never go to Mars
Why is this?
The world needs me...
A FALSE AWAKENING by ADELINE SWARTZENDRUBER
March 25 2025Sometimes life rubs up too close against the fantasy; I dream
I am in bed next to you and wake up in bed next to you...
I GOT by KAT THANOPOULOS
March 21 2025I got existential, I got gross
I got left there alone
I got one big injury of twenty small stones thrown
I got bored and I prayed...
THE SURRENDER OF MAN (EXCERPT) by NAOMI FALK
March 18 2025You should know that we bring our baggage to any interpretation of a work of art; any interpretation that matters, anyway. You recall your exaltations and sufferings, once-shapeless memories are kicked from the silt...
5,000 FOLLOWERS by JOHN DOE
March 14 2025So I say these fucking prayers
When each day brings its challenges
For a new experience
And to see the truth...
BREAKTHROUGH LESSONS by MAXFIELD FRANCIS GOLDMAN
March 7 2025The sunrise from my fire escape is alright. The bunsen burner sun wedged between two rows of buildings. A backlit murmuration of starlings mid-migration. The slow drip of yellow sedans creeping up 7th avenue. Tepid winds blow my hair. Clouds roll in from Jersey...
CHOKING ON CHRYSANTHEMUM by MELISSA VIOLETTE ALIZ
March 4 2025choking on chrysanthemum merciless chamber fragrant descent promise rigid decree command forsworn lovers fragrance tidings holy lament scathed knots inharmonious lark vaulty heavens dismissed from thee harsh grey iris grey pearlescent spheres...
KMS by DANIELLE CHELOSKY
February 28 2025We were on a date and I made a joke about wanting to kill myself. “You really shouldn’t talk like that,” he said. “I’ve had friends commit suicide. It’s a terrible thing.” We were smoking cigarettes on the back patio of an art gallery that hosted live music shows...
APPLE (PLEASE CONSIDER) by SAMUEL PLATTEN
February 24 2025OK here is the timeline of apple
-----Ipod-----ipod (with camera)-----ipod
touch (just like iphone
without the phone part)-----iphone-----
ipad(iphone except
larger)...
MAUI BABE BROWNING LOTION by RYAN PETERSEN
February 20 2025I admired the hairs on my chest. Gathered together in a small tuft. Made flaxen with applied bronzer. And from a small slit in the blinds—my Dad watched me. I saw my half-naked image in the lens of his Oakleys...
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...