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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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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 A Transfer, 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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Lamp lit bookstore

Antigone in NYC

May 2, 2022/in A Transfer, 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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Maya Lewis, Headshot

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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Abhijit Sarmah, Author Headshot

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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Ellen June Wright, Author Headshot

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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childhood dogs

May 22, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Hyun-Joo Kim

no one can remember who
bought this mug, or if it belonged
to a larger set, which got lost along
some move or broken in some forgotten
box—maybe in the basement or the attic? [. . .]

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hospitable / nebula / night shift

May 15, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Kolbe Riney

I meet a girl who is an alien for Halloween, which is the secret queer costume of the decade; she wears it in green sparkles and two antennae launching from her hair. I am trying to tell if she is straight, and also, to be sexy, so I ask,
what is your favorite emoji? . . .

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I found a stack of letters you wrote to me from Bethlehem / Some people recognize physical acts of courage

May 14, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Kate Sweeney

I get home and my kids ask me to explain simple things: Why don’t humans lay eggs? Will it ever snow? Do people stop loving you because you’re far away? They’ve taped a sheet of paper to the wall, to keep a tally of all the mosquitos they killed since we arrived. . .

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Transplant

May 13, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Judith Terzi

There he was carrying a tray of bygone at a San Francisco Hilton. Surrogate for husband #1. Food services manager, not engineer. . .

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Flower Moon in Quarantine

December 7, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2021 / Marina Carreira

Astrologers say this moon in Scorpio is where we welcome the death of an old life, an old identity, old ways of being. It’s letting ourselves be reborn […]

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Just This

December 6, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2021 / Michael Favala Goldman

My father did not fight in Vietnam, as he was a young scholar with a family Until he left home one day without explanation, exiled himself from doing harm.[…]

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Google Searches

December 6, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2021 / Aimee Lowenstern

How to let people know I love them without reminding them I’m real. Am I real? Would it be better if I was real? How many times can a real person say “I love you” before someone gets annoyed and straight-up murders them?[…]

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ON CATHOLIC SCHOOL

December 5, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2021 / Ayesha Shibli

In Theology, I learned Jesus called his father Abba, and passed because it’s the name I call my own—who feared that I would leave Friday Mass half-faithful, forgetful of the place where I learned how to be hated.[…]

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still want to be here / impressions / dissonance

December 4, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2021 / Aneska Tan

trust me when I say I am not you. I do not know who you are, your likes & dislikes, why you care about this-that, him-her, why you cried or hours on end over at Krakow, burying yourself in the chest of a room I can’t recall[…]

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Neighbor

December 3, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2021 / Matt Vekakis

the dying Italian mother of seven
raps the ceiling with a wood cane
as we make love in silence—no
less eager than a mother scolding

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The Pain Scale / Must Be Nice

December 2, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2021 / Jessica L. Walsh

I knew for a decade just one way to die the one that took my uncle, my cousin, all the kids from my high school who didn’t leave town.[…]

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Recipe for Dream Deferred Jambalaya after Langston Hughes / Swimming Lessons

June 13, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Ariana Benson
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A PAIR OF PARROTS COME IN FOR SURGERY

June 12, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Ian Cappelli

not subtlety, and at sundown begin moaning. The veterinarians act more veterinarianly. It must be internal damage. It must be the liver rupturing. Yes, the liver. And that is how these prognoses tend. Diagnosis being […]

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Proclamación de Amores

June 10, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Cesar Galan

Poets are just whisperers, whispering the rose verse, Weaving words as a curse. They wander the groves In order to find doves. They wander the meadows, So they find adagios. They wander the streams, To find the crowns of queens. Poets are just whisperers, Who their lament makes ornate.[…]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

Today’s course:

The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Confessions of a Birthday Person

November 4, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Meghan McGuire
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Tonight’s bites:

Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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Abyssinia

August 26, 2022/in Midnight Snack / JP Goggin
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

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Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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Litdish: Writing About Grief: An Interview with Jenn Koiter

October 24, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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Dawn from Buffy Learns About Climate Change

October 10, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
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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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