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Two-Party System

November 7, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2025 / Harry Bauld

A sky full of starless city yellow

poison tonight while the moon decides

whether to push or pull. These open streets

were lighter once, because no one left them.

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You have to run open mouthed

October 18, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2025 / Allison Field Bell

to winter. Your body is Indiana

strung between better states.

You found a man who thought

everything worthy was broken,

wanted to fix roofs and engines

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Ars Poetica at the Bar Formerly Known as The Wall

September 9, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2025 / Jacob R. Benavides

haute couture, touch parade, codex of refusal, faux doughnut, authentic glaze, fat white, flat cat

hair, stick & poke baby, poetry is willing the infection out the page, a strain of silk like a virus up

the esophagus & into another’s mouth—

rust hanky, not the cowboy but his horse, femme gays, t-girls & t-boys, stone butch lesbians,

genderfuckers, anarcho-queers, those who have yet to be, those who wear poetry like a tear in the

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On I-80 West

August 7, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2025 / Elisa Carlsen

there is life here…

if you look hard / drink hard

an intrinsic brightness of being

to the gas-station dreamers

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Dedication for the Academic Filipina (Circa 1930s)

July 18, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2025 / Angela Gabrielle Fabunan

You wash your hair with the soap Perla. You get dressed in a long-skirted baro’t saya. You have a

red typewriter, one you borrowed from your Lola. You arrive at school, one of three women in a

class of ten. You raise your hand for your American teacher in recitation. You think your

seatmate is muy guapo.

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Nocturne: Remi, I Love You

June 9, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2025 / Remi Recchia

I love your crusty right earlobe, pressed into a suitcase of sleep,
rinsed clean like a dumpling under steaming shower to stave

away arthritis nerves & wanting; Remi, I love your micro-penis, curled
& dangling like a secret in thrush & thicket, engorged from years

of hormone creationism; Remi, I love your flat chest sprinkled with hairs

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Soon Jones Headshot

Walnut Hill

May 20, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2024 / Soon Jones

these aren’t my woods anymore / the trees I knew were cut down / and replanted by something / domesticated / malleable / for the paper factory / down the way / the wild tangle / of snarling underbrush / tilted saplings strong enough / to survive hurricane season / creeks rising from the rocks / then sinking into the marsh / sloppy roots crisscrossing over / exposed limestone / in the soil

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Jen Siraganian

On accidentally getting pregnant at age 45 in America in 2024

May 10, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2025 / Jen Siraganian

One mother gave her child to the sea //
another gave it to her 24-year-old
daughter // one swallowed witch hazel

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The Pink Note God Pinned to My Shirt

May 3, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2024 / Mickie Kennedy

My mother tossed me into Boy Scouts,
where I scouted the boys,
eager to rub sticks and start a fire.
I hated balls (sports balls),
but she wouldn’t give me Barbies.

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Two Poems

May 1, 2024/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2024 / Rachel Walker

A drop of blood in the river fades,

red dusk falling beyond the water.

Remember how the moon threw silver

at our tongues? I loved you for the way

you cared for speckled things: our dappled

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Danny, with the bad neck

November 23, 2023/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2024 / Christine Byrne

First a tarmac, strangers deicing plane wings

my father at arrivals, a worker yelling sir

as he leaves the car to come hug me

then we’re driving & he’s telling me

Danny’s not really alright, how he fell into a literal hole

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Joseph Hardy Headshot

Heaven, Perhaps

November 16, 2023/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2024 / Joseph Hardy

I think now of leaving something 

behind without my name. 

This house, with windows just replaced 

to last another twenty years 

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The Scrub Jay

May 28, 2023/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2023 / Aaron Caycedo-Kimura

It was loud, almost a crack,
like a shot—not a gunshot
but a shot-put shot dropped
on a stage. My mother’s forehead
hitting the bathroom floor.

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Cancer In The Duplex

May 27, 2023/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2023 / Rocío Franco

Each word of my eulogy lingers.
Punctuation carries the most weight.

Punctuation holds most weight in the mouth.
My tongue untangles from its sentences.

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Joy Arbor Headshot

Occupation Experiments

December 4, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2023 / Joy Arbor

Is t

his a b

it of w

hat it means to be occu

pied? Beauty elsewhere.

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stumbled

December 3, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2023 / Laura Brun

thought my glass smelled like puke
or maybe the whole bar or maybe
the guy leaning over me no he
smelled like cologne smelled like
this other time at a bar smelled

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Eleanor Crews Headshot

Two Poems by Eleanor Crews

December 3, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2023 / Eleanor Crews

i hope it follows you, circling like a bird of prey. i hope it sticks to your shoe like dog shit. i’m not doing well, and i think you should know. i hope this email slithers over the tile on your kitchen floor and sinks its teeth into your ankle.

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Martin Shapiro Headshot

Halogen Nocturne

November 24, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2023 / Martin Shapiro

I pull my curtains open, lean on the sill,

sweating. Headlights bob uphill toward me.

Randy’s car, rattling tin an hour late,

swerves to park across the road: flicker

through the windshield, thumps of rock radio.

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On Grief / Walking Through Costco I Feel Like a Woman

June 5, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2022 / Anna Girgenti

When you died, the grooves
in your back turned to rivers

on which I set sail everything I stole from you:

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Janus Vacations in the Second Circle of Hell

June 4, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2022 / Shelby Pinkham

trope is unhinged femme / prevents me from writing / Annie Wilkes hobbles a man because bipolar, because obsessive / Dr. Robert Elliott murders because transgender, because toxic masculinity, because self-hatred

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I Move in Light

June 3, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2022 / Sanvitti Sahdev

dawn at the train station:
hushed voices scatter last night’s news

into the air like goldfish the
morning light plucks it pours

it over pillars & swims at your feet.

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The Quilted Multiverse / Still Alive / Bitters

May 30, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2022 / Stephanie Staab

One way, you pass a house with chickens in the yard and you think, “Ah, I’ve always wanted chickens. I’d be better with chickens.”

One way, you go everywhere by bike and live in a flap tent alone. Your thighs are sculpted like marble.

One way is full of bubbles: bathtubs, gum, champagne, Jacuzzis.

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Which Half

May 18, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Claire Scott

Twenty three from you, my mother

half my body/mind

for sure my blue eyes

but not my right-handedness

which has made my life easier

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Antigone in NYC

May 2, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Ann Pedone

I have always hated writing about myself

I’m not photogenic

And I am afraid that my horniness

Would get in the way

But this is where we’re at

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Christmas lights in snowy branches

there are christmas lights across the street

February 28, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / JoAnna Brooker

my neighbor drapes the strings the first weekday in december,
neon gold cords for inflatable mickey, santa, & snowman

melted simulacra until sunset when the front lawn descends
into a madness of bright blue         icicles,   rainbow garland

across the garage, pink orbs of love encircle a glittering present,

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An Observation from 300 Hours on Zoom

December 1, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2022 / Joanne Durham

Faces fixed in separate
boxes, lips stiff,
eyes flat with fatigue,
I am so often smiling.

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The Suburbs

November 30, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2022 / Maya Lewis

A lot of black people live [here]
And they – got big houses
And the houses all look kind of
the same

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In Memoriam Sam Stafford*

November 4, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2022 / Abhijit Sarmah

The minute the bullet pierced his face
the sky so moon-flooded collapsed into a rhapsody
and the city swales swelled with lilac wildflowers—
it was a winter of untameable fire
and bitter nostalgia, brother. . .

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To My Poet Sister

November 2, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2022 / Ellen June Wright

As of this hour, the sun has been up some time and is bright as August begins
and an invisible hand moves among leaves, tickles them in their deeply green
luster. I’m thinking of you, the look in your eyes—weary. I want to fill this house . . .

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Sweet Blue

May 23, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Robbie Gamble

On this tepid day
while the COVID clock ticks past
one-hundred-eighty-thousand casualties
we are digging shallow holes
into a Vermont hillside to lay down a line
of low-bush blueberries [. . .]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov
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Mother-to-Mother: An Open Letter about White Privilege and Fragility

November 22, 2024/in Blog / Dr. Valerie Nyberg
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Disappear Where? A Meditation on the Lost and Getting Lost

November 1, 2024/in Midnight Snack / Reid Delehanty
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes
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Fourberie

May 2, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Terese Coe
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Vernacular

April 18, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Mary Morris
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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The managers of Lunch Ticket all agreed that issue 26 needed to have a theme, and that theme had a responsibility to call for work relating to what we are seeing in society. We wanted a theme that resonated with Antioch University MFA’s mission of advancing “racial, social, economic, disability, gender, and environmental justice,” and we felt it was time to take a stand…

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