Two Poems by Mark Cugini
A white man says we need to set a higher bar for / terrorism and then rides off my timeline on a police horse. There's nothing new / I… More
Mars(eillaise)
I died for Easter day and resurrected just / Like him for a week at the hospital I was high on morphine / And the nurses all laughed… More
from Weirde Sister
I have a ring that throws up when a cat dies / I have a ring where instead of a jewel it has one of God’s baby teeth /… More
from The Somnambulist
I touch the swollen skin / left of my right eye I ask Is this grace // is it violence is it black inside like inside / a black… More
The Rain Will Not Prepare You
Information doesn’t need to be true / to grow itself in your body like a peach / & be given as food to whoever, much later / What the… More
Two Poems by Amber Atiya
u daughter of geechee gods / u femme no longer loving / the butch on top of her, u queer / my nickel plated heaven: / boys with breasts… 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
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
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