The Hammer of Justice
O Justice! Bring down your Hammer / Smash the system built on slavery / Let your thunder bring wonder / Let our country be the place it wants to… More
Strange Wind of Starlessness
I’m not trying to reach some divine / ear. Imagine. Where once / was mercy trash now crunches / like leaves under stars / if only there were still… More
Two Poems by Christopher Salerno
something’s about to be sawed / in the narrow stone alley between / the church convent and our bordering bed / of Double Late tulips opening / now too… More
Bon Voyage to Guest Editors Robert Fernandez, Heather Christle, and Cathy Park Hong
Tearfully, we bid farewell to poetry series guest editors Robert Fernandez, Heather Christle, and Cathy Park Hong, who have worked tirelessly over the past year to feature work from… More
Selfie in a Pixelated Mirror
Not too many jokes, and even worse, / the ones that do come up won’t be so funny, more like / saltines, welcome when there’s nothing else around. /… More
Three Poems by Sean Dalpiaz
We / blown away, like sawdust / into an enlightened enlistment of love, / a love needless of reason, / transcending / race & personality & education. More
Two Poems by Rashidah Ismaili
The dead sleep nude. / Centuries have robbed coats. / Dresses have been discarded / for non-essential yardage. / Here and there a hand reaches More
Four Poems by Seungja Choi
Mother, I am darkness. / Since the morning of the old / when Adam and Eve rose from grass, / I have been the long body’s sorrow. // Children… More
Two Poems by Jericho Brown
I was smaller then / One road went through me / No airport / I drove him home / There had been a wreck / On the interstate /… More
Trance Notebook #15
fell into a reverie about / asking the interviewer / to pose nude for me or / somehow making it / clear that he could / invite himself to… More