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Folie à Trois by Quinn White

Child is chill. Ghosts like she can kill. Stops rivers without a dam. Horses. Will I watch her cross-country show? Horses. Dressage? Some birthmothers are goals like the [...]

January 17, 2017

Three Poems by Sloane Eliot Mariem

December 10, 2016

Heresy for the Nonbeliever / Mistaking Real Things for Shadows No refuge here, not with you no room for my veiled language [...]
A Victory by Raphael Maurice

November 22, 2018

The ocean was black near the shore and farther out a storm was massing in the sky. He sat, looking out over the water, [...]
sometimes people ask me if i’m mad and i say no by Shy Watson

February 27, 2017

order me caviar you cheap fuck order me caviar my bones become dismantled in the rain what more could you want from me my [...]
False Narratives and other poems by Lauren Suchenski

March 20, 2017

False narratives this one was the one I concocted – news (though it was fake, it was new) or olds or things sold, [...]
ACQUA DI PARMA and other poems by Frank Rubino

October 23, 2017

Not that green afternoon, when walking by a taco truck near Montclair High School, I felt a bird drop a load on my forehead. [...]
Two Poems by Erin McIntosh

September 2, 2016

The wolves are at my heart Wolves are at my heart Again but I only continue To revolve around you like The earth to sun a [...]
Two Poems by Betsy Martin

September 2, 2016

The Biosphere This storm is strange for Tucson, the frigid rain sprayed down the way the gardener hoses bird excrement from [...]
Two Poems by Carly Weiser

February 1, 2015

Sea Legs He’s checking the consistency of streetlamps around Gates Circle. Making sure when night falls they click [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #5

August 1, 2014

Dear Readers, Welcome to the new issue of Vending Machine Press. The quality of the writers we have encountered so far [...]
The wine label as poetry 3 by Lindsey Thaden

February 18, 2019

The wine label as poetry, 3 Ingredients for fermentation: Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara Smashbox Halo Perfecting Powder [...]
Two Poems by Chelsea Eckert

December 1, 2014

THE ASEXUAL “I am sorry for your loss,” he said when I mentioned that after ten some- odd years of psychotropics, I was [...]
Colossal by Ruth Daniell

April 1, 2015

“Aren’t you going to say anything?” Paul ignores the question. Instead, he glances down at the coffee-table that Mel [...]