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Jun 232 min read

"The Café is Real" by Ryan Keating

Ten Gibraltar monkeys shoved their way into the busy cafe at the top of the Rock where the cable car stops. The sliding window...

"Work Ethic" & "Hell is for Girls" by Angel Rosen

Jun 232 min read

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"Work Ethic" & "Hell is for Girls" by Angel Rosen

Work Ethic is about capitalism and suicide. My pieces often focus on mental illness. Read with care. WORK ETHIC My mother will tell me...

"ghosted" & "Here’s How Gods Die" by Vicky MacDonald Harris

Jun 231 min read

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"ghosted" & "Here’s How Gods Die" by Vicky MacDonald Harris

ghosted “You all live once,” the app screamed, like Munch. Filled bodies, slick and brickly on the outside, hardened by days of burbled...

"Conception", "Jade and Other Jewels", "Stillborn Yolk", "Taking Coyotes Seriously" & "Silver Spoons" by Will Falk

Jun 233 min read

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"Conception", "Jade and Other Jewels", "Stillborn Yolk", "Taking Coyotes Seriously" & "Silver Spoons" by Will Falk

Conception Things got too hot, you couldn’t stop your dams from breaking. Your swollen rivers, thick and thawed washed over me in white...

Jun 231 min read

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"messiah" by John Sweet

had this addiction, was shooting pure gold into washed-out veins while i kissed his wife in the back seat, and he kept driving down the...

Jun 231 min read

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"Alliterations" by Lisa Sultani

There is the grind of grief and there is also the rising. Yes he had a mother too, as everyone does. What can it mean to have a mother,...

Jun 91 min read

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"So Masculine" by Claire L. Frankel

So masculine, I could stare at you all evening. Rude me - probably because I missed seeing you the past 32 years. I gave up straight men...

Jun 92 min read

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"Entangled" by Afra Ahmad

I hate that I am kind. I get entangled every year in a new game of a new hunter. People weave dulcet tales to lure me into their...

"On Midlife: A Self-Portrait" & "Neither Here" by Mary Dittrich Orth

May 272 min read

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"On Midlife: A Self-Portrait" & "Neither Here" by Mary Dittrich Orth

On Midlife: A Self-Portrait A new gulley, a deep, unbending arroyo runs alongside what has always been, an expected line in an unmapped...

"Sustainable", "Did You Know?" & "Loop" by Allison Whittenberg

May 271 min read

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"Sustainable", "Did You Know?" & "Loop" by Allison Whittenberg

Sustainable eating eggshells for calcium – crushed to mush, watered down is this the future, we pray for? wanting not to waste as waste...

May 122 min read

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"A Debt of Bone" by Wesley Zurovec

Hunting boots all wet and muddy, Following the trail, most bloody, Found some tracks, now stop and study. There’s my quarry, freshly...

"From one heap to another" by Maura Hehir

May 121 min read

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"From one heap to another" by Maura Hehir

From one heap to another after Brian Eno In the spring, I scatter normal instruments in secret locations. The road home is formless,...

"The Day" & "Waiting Room" by G. Murray Thomas

May 122 min read

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"The Day" & "Waiting Room" by G. Murray Thomas

THE DAY The day his doctor told my father he shouldn't drive anymore there were suddenly so many errands to run. I ran into the mailbox,...

"Wind", "Now You See It, Now You Don't" & "A Man Stops the Clocks" by Audrey Howitt

May 122 min read

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"Wind", "Now You See It, Now You Don't" & "A Man Stops the Clocks" by Audrey Howitt

)))wind unravels fingers— tones pores which gasp as sudden cold sneaks up on you like an icicle down your back, between your breasts...

"How to Kill a Country Girl’s Ego" by Ash(ley) Michelle C.

May 122 min read

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"How to Kill a Country Girl’s Ego" by Ash(ley) Michelle C.

I pointed at that deer in the brush with my finger held out like a gun. It was just standing there after all it’s white-tailed friends...

"Newspaper & Father’s Beard" by Amit Parmessur

May 121 min read

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"Newspaper & Father’s Beard" by Amit Parmessur

“You could have spread a newspaper,” she says. Mother, the dogs leave their fur everywhere in the house, how can father’s white beard...

"Again, I see the Dawn", "Victoriana", & "Ways of Entering a Dream" by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

May 123 min read

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"Again, I see the Dawn", "Victoriana", & "Ways of Entering a Dream" by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

AGAIN, I SEE THE DAWN of my childhood when women stood lonely in Edward Hopper windows, still in their full slips, or already in flowered...

"Bingo", Mansion", "The Red Line", & "There is Yet Time" by Lynn Glicklich Cohen

May 124 min read

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"Bingo", Mansion", "The Red Line", & "There is Yet Time" by Lynn Glicklich Cohen

BINGO I find her in back, mid-game around the table, playing two cards at once. O-9, N-17, G-46… Mini packets of Cracker Jack are today’s...

May 121 min read

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"All Times by Self" by Lawrence Moore

Still stung, still staggering streets at night, sometimes with feet, most times with mind, where smoke from chimneys twists and turns,...

"Poem where I mention Michigan because Bob Hicok is from Michigan..." & "Sutures Is a Pretty Word to Hum; Or a Living Room Is; Or Every Held Breath Is a Missile Shot at the Moon" by Leigh Chadwick

May 124 min read

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"Poem where I mention Michigan because Bob Hicok is from Michigan..." & "Sutures Is a Pretty Word to Hum; Or a Living Room Is; Or Every Held Breath Is a Missile Shot at the Moon" by Leigh Chadwick

Poem where I mention Michigan because Bob Hicok is from Michigan and I am doing a reading with Bob Hicok, who is from Michigan, so it...