The Triumph of Life
I thought each day / to be the hard and broken prayer of the only / God degenerate enough to mix his hands in the mash / and our… More
From while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
the white woman who said that we must take care of our people, spoke as an agent of the government she often claimed did not represent her. when she… More
Five Poems by Wendy Trevino
The largest prison strike in the history / Of the US is still going. “We want / [You] to understand the economics / Of the prison system...It’s not about… More
Two Poems by Monica Ferrell
Snowflakes falling on the beaten copper of nightwater, / Filling up the mouths of drowned soldiers, / Snowflakes filling the sidewalk cracks, / Edging the trees with a blue… More
To a Distant Country
By now for all I know / he could be writing a letter to his wife / on a grain of rice. Could be waiting in line / at… More
April sauna
we spoke about music and religion and sex and the worst things we’d ever done for money and the best things we’d ever done for free More
Three Poems by Maggie Millner
If I sense something is missing / then I miss it. Those first demented / hours of your absence, // I thought missing seemed a soft / denomination: miss, a word… More
from Positions of the Sun
Misanthropes and philanthropists alike wait for a green light. An old woman fumbles with her coin purse at a supermarket checkout counter. Two students, sheltered from the rain by… More
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