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Monogamy and other poems by Nooks Krannie

is it ok to not like life but still like you? somewhat i’m proud of my breasts and my nipples are warriors like mountain tops mounted by dry skin you kiss them gently and [...]

April 11, 2017

With Feathers by Sheldon Lee Compton

What place is safe now, so we can say what our good logic leads us to understand? Saying we will create our own sunlight, gather and store our own fresh water, conjure up a [...]

April 10, 2017

Insurance Purposes by J.J. Krill

scrambling to figure out what to do after leaving the holding tank an actual clinic some where is looking like fifty-grand a month who’s got that kind of money the hospital [...]

April 10, 2017

Come for the stunning career opportunities by Jenya Doudareva

Ox was running late again. To get to work, he had to cut through thick cold darkness from his cluster of lights to the next. The walk was long. The freezing air would pierce [...]

April 3, 2017

Lush by Deniz Zeynep

……………………………………………………….lush Lux peach [...]

March 28, 2017

please leave a message and other poems by katie lewington

the echo of a call rings on voicemail left undeleted repeated until the words are a mantra in your head have to let go but then what harm is there in listening to an old [...]

March 27, 2017

A Modern Yiddish Dictionary by Mari Pack

I. The old Ashkenazim at my office say “nuu” when they want something like fucking Israeli teenagers they are restless, urgent – unrelenting. For the Goys, of which I [...]

March 23, 2017

False Narratives and other poems by Lauren Suchenski

False narratives this one was the one I concocted – news (though it was fake, it was new) or olds or things sold, re-sold, re-hashed, hashed-brown, mashed down, spoken [...]

March 20, 2017

What Light Makes a Star? by Joanna C. Valente & Stephanie Valente

who i decide to take as a lover might be one of life’s great mysteries – listen lover, when you ask me if there are spinning suns lodged in your throat I’ll say no, [...]

March 16, 2017

Facade by Ian Scott McCormick

Phil tried to remember what it was like when he went off to college, 25 years ago. He tried to remember what that state school looked like. Nothing like this campus, he [...]

March 16, 2017

June’s suspicious eyes by Raphael Maurice

You would say root and I saw it, the deep goodness of brittle earth. Blossom, you’d sing, as I licked my lips & fell against a hill of dirt, laughing at this, our good [...]

March 15, 2017

Charting Greatness by Laura Iodice

Like many baby boomers, I learned how to diagram sentences in grade school. As a kid who loved reading and writing, I actually looked forward to grammar lessons that required [...]

March 14, 2017

The Visitors by Sheldon Lee Compton

Uma made a habit of standing in front of a full mirror with a towel wrapped around her head. Always like this when she was fresh from the shower with ropes of her [...]

March 13, 2017

Pollen for the un-buried monster by Ashlie Allen

Grandma sat on the steps with me, not to spend time but to show me mercy. “You stink, little man.” she coughed. “Are there a lot of bugs on me?” I asked. “Yes, but [...]

March 12, 2017

this fish has no circadian rhythm (and it’s better off for it) by Chloe DeFilippis

the cicada in you sits on a rusted clothesline in the backyard a bird chased you into the sky once i had scarlet fever once i stopped eating once i tried bones for fun did i [...]

March 11, 2017

expletive exclamation comma by Lindsey Thäden

Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton First Presidential Debate, 2016 Broadcast by NBC at Hofstra University Hempstead, NY [...]

March 10, 2017

Crying in Cars with Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy

Footsteps follow me in the parking lot, looking back I see only dead leaves turning in the breeze —it must be the ghosts. See I’d just finished crying with them in the [...]

March 9, 2017

the day i stopped being a black hole and other poems by Linda M. Crate

“i bet you don’t remember me,” he said, flashing me a devil may cry smirk and eyes full of talons; i was a young girl when we first met and he broke up with [...]

March 7, 2017

A Call to the Stronger Sex by Christine Stoddard

Ancestors whisper hungrily from their cradles of stars They will haunt us until we women-folk feed their obsession for tradition At least those are the stories that creep [...]

March 6, 2017

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  • Two Poems by Chloe Clark

    All the Tea that My Creepy Heart Desires Lapsang souchong, oolong, or maybe pu-erh, tasting of hay, of smoke, of the sun [...]
  • Champ by Steph Post

    We go down to the water to find him. Black crabs scurry up trees like rioters dispersed and needle-beaked birds balancing on [...]
  • Some Nice Words by Jenya Doudareva

    “Something’s happened” I overheard As I noted the people were rushing away Trying not to look nervous (were they [...]
  • We are home here and other poems by Cassandra Justine Grisdale

    I watch as you stretch in your sleep, muscles flexing under skin whose scars I kissed moments earlier. You sigh deeply and I [...]
  • What Light Makes a Star? by Joanna C. Valente & Stephanie Valente

    who i decide to take as a lover might be one of life’s great mysteries – listen lover, when you ask me if there are [...]
  • Bitter Witness and other poems by Jerry McGinley

    The icy-eyed moon gnashes her razor teeth, shrieks like a wounded possum, glares at the starry-eyed lovers who pledge [...]
  • Flesh and Blood by Stuart Snelson

    They would only be staying one night, of that he had been assured. He didn’t begrudge them their visit, at such short [...]
  • the rainy part of the world by mark petterson

    After the rundown middle school where I tutor a thirteen-year-old who reads at a second-grade level, and really we just read [...]
  • Locked In, Locked Out by Claire Polders

    Minnie pushes her shopping cart down the aisles and thinks about getting a car. Not to drive it, for she has nowhere to go, [...]
  • How to Survive Heartbreak and other poems by Courtney LeBlanc

    Acknowledge the wrecking ball in your chest, the slow heaving back and forth as it crashes against your heart. Brush your [...]
  • Vending Machine Press Issue #4

    Dear Readers, Although it is summer in the northern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere we are preparing for winter. [...]
  • Fourth of July 2016 by Kristine Brown

    Celebrate USA. Free gallon of tea with every family meal. Every marquee in front of each local restaurant peddled the same [...]
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