

Eventually, people grew out of people.
................People crying into their porchetta.
People thinking their complexities
................into mush. People performing kind acts
in bad ...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Matthew Tuckner
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A Poem for Painters Conceptual Artists
—after John Wieners
The hand bereft.
How can the wall show it?
I look for grief, or mischief.
The floor is scratched with want of story.
Only in the ...
2 Poems by Eva Heisler
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Yaccaira Salvatierra’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, The Nation, Huizache, and Rattle among others. Her collection, Sons of Salt, is forthcoming with BOA Editions in 2024. ...
2 Poems by Yaccaira Salvatierra
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after Rick Barot
When any word is called for, say
that I am with. When weeds grow
taller than the grass, that is persistence.
An earthquake swings the house,
that is time’s pendulum. ...
If there be any virtue or any praise by Anna Gasaway
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i want a black bob and French fluencylike Anna Karina
i want to look melancholyin a seductive type of way
instead i have Bright Eyes lyricstangled in my hair
and dried bloodaround my ...
Self Portrait as an Anna Karina GIF at 17 by Cloud Delfina Cardona
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How awkward that nothing significant changes.
My lover lifts my shirt with every kindness
I’ve typically found inconsequential to sex.
The Texas breeze holds its hands in my face, says
Know how to name ...
If You Have a Minute to Spare, Tell Me Everything You Know by Gabrielle Grace Hogan
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Kathleen McGookey’s fourth book, Instructions for My Imposter, is now out from Press 53. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, December, Field, Glassworks, Miramar, Ploughshares, Prairie ...
How to Disappear by Kathleen McGookey
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Kissing Like There’s No Place Else
I lost my phone, location undisclosed.
It is not dislocation I'm after but being moved
the way a picture was for the very first time.
My first French kiss ...
2 poems by Patrycja Humienik
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Artist Statement
Covid-19 continues to disproportionately impact communities of color everywhere. For so many months, the virus was all I thought about. It infected my thoughts in my fear for my friends ...