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"Second generation" "Portrait of a Woman in Bed" "Hokku Written at a Food Market" & "Hokku Spoken Before a Winter Sleep" by Tim Thiện Nguyễn

Tim Thiện Nguyễn (he/him) is a Vietnamese American scientist whose Ph.D. research interrogates how genes shape our face in the womb. He...

"on what a negroni could taste like", "it’s a terrible life!" & "Michael, I—" by Erica Leslie Weidner

3 days ago3 min read

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"on what a negroni could taste like", "it’s a terrible life!" & "Michael, I—" by Erica Leslie Weidner

on what a negroni could taste like i think a negroni tastes like sweat / i think a negroni tastes like blood i mean come on it looks like...

"I ask half a bivalve shell some questions but end up answering the questions myself" by Jane Burn

3 days ago2 min read

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"I ask half a bivalve shell some questions but end up answering the questions myself" by Jane Burn

Do you crave your other half? Yes, when the storms come and the animals have spread themselves far from the croft, out across the dark...

3 days ago2 min read

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"The cost of living…" by Poetic Dad

What’s it cost? The cost of living, that is. How many of us are struggling? Why is my life considered valueless? No matter what we do,...

"famous monsters of film-land" by DJ Wolfinsohn

3 days ago1 min read

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"famous monsters of film-land" by DJ Wolfinsohn

the last time anyone saw her she was smoking Pall Malls in the back of a town car and ashing into a green glass brick. now, rising from...

3 days ago2 min read

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"Driven" & "Absurd Ode" by John Repp

Driven What a strange word “driven” is, none the stranger for being hummed in a dream of driving a DeSoto with three on the column, the...

"The first time Audrey flies a kite", “Last night”, & "The first time your first child bleeds" by Brian Baker

Dec 22 min read

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"The first time Audrey flies a kite", “Last night”, & "The first time your first child bleeds" by Brian Baker

The first time Audrey flies a kite from a tweet by Audrey Burges Across a tract of wireless sky ...

"Waiting on the train" & "Saudade" by Arlo Arctia

Dec 23 min read

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"Waiting on the train" & "Saudade" by Arlo Arctia

waiting on the train. i missed my stop on the metro about five exits ago, somewhere between Pentagon City and King St., but i have no...

Nov 171 min read

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"The Choreographer" by Anne Whitehouse

for Ohad Naharin You can listen to music with your eyes closed, but you cannot watch dance with your eyes closed. When I was young, I...

"I, Too, Am the Face of Humanity" by Andrew Buckner

Nov 172 min read

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"I, Too, Am the Face of Humanity" by Andrew Buckner

I saw the true face of humanity– Masses gathering, phones alight, Recording, photographing the scene, Loudly, excitedly chattering about...

"Rochester", "The Mass Marketing Email Says We Will Miss You After I Smash That Unsubscribe Link" & "Home" by James Croal Jackson

Nov 92 min read

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"Rochester", "The Mass Marketing Email Says We Will Miss You After I Smash That Unsubscribe Link" & "Home" by James Croal Jackson

Rochester We walked across the bridge to Genesee but didn’t walk into the brewery. Then we walked further, a little later, a mile...

"To Fill Their Glasses Once Again" & "The Poem Escapes Me" by April Ridge

Nov 92 min read

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"To Fill Their Glasses Once Again" & "The Poem Escapes Me" by April Ridge

To Fill Their Glasses Once Again Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman and Frederico Garcia Lorca walk into a bar. That’s all. No joke. Just one...

"Lady Liberty arrives belting Bruce Springsteen" by Julianna Reidell

Oct 132 min read

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"Lady Liberty arrives belting Bruce Springsteen" by Julianna Reidell

and by the time we order drinks she’s lit two cigarettes. She says, (while breathing in smoke from harbor fires), Glo-ree days! Says,...

Oct 132 min read

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"Into the Land of Nod" by Alex Stolis

Into the Land of Nod Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them Her...

"Snowscape", "White on White", and "The Bronze Bust" by Mark Belair

Oct 132 min read

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"Snowscape", "White on White", and "The Bronze Bust" by Mark Belair

SNOWSCAPE Flakes gathered on a stone, on a leaf, on the arm of a lawn chair left out. A coating of snow, I suppose I could say. Yet ...

Oct 131 min read

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Five Haikus by J. R. Wilkerson

birthday toads children laugh singing sapo verde to you, some green jumped-up gringo from the top rope hit with a steel chair when the...

Oct 132 min read

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"non-BINARY" by Maxine Moriwaki

my body [01100010 01101111 01100100 01111001] is only 2 states of being a 1 or 0 follow my line of symmetry & it becomes [01100010...

"Hallowed Be Thy Shape" & "tomorrow, please" by Terri Gower

Sep 302 min read

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"Hallowed Be Thy Shape" & "tomorrow, please" by Terri Gower

Hallowed Be Thy Shape After the Lord’s Prayer My body, which art on earth, Hallowed be thy shape; Thy touch come; Thy body be loved In...

"Like a hair-tie or a gas station receipt" by Kit Steitz

Sep 301 min read

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"Like a hair-tie or a gas station receipt" by Kit Steitz

Make me a bookmark. You can leave me folded in, forgotten, because one woman’s trash is another woman’s bookmark. And I will spread ...

"rebirth of eve" & "moth girl dreaming" by Hannah Gumpert

Sep 302 min read

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"rebirth of eve" & "moth girl dreaming" by Hannah Gumpert

rebirth of eve Grow your own ribs this time. Your heart isn’t meant to be caged by anything but your own bones. When your being is borne...