cassandra grisdale

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 watch the rise and fall of the chest where my [...]

May 6, 2017

Patty Ahoy by Cezarija Abartis

Patty walked in stiffly and dropped her bookbag by the coffee table. Her eyes were red from crying. I put aside my [...]
Two Poems by Michelle Brooks

Three Mile Island at Night I am waiting for the disaster of my life to reveal itself. All the elements are present for an [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #17

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 17 are: Crying in Cars With Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy Three [...]
two poems by megan kemple

Thanks for the Christmas Present I’ve always preferred thunderstorms to sunny days, Rain on rusted tin roofs, steady as my [...]
Ready for Texas by Nicole Bennett

Digging into the sweet potatoes with the two knives held between his ﬁngers like chopsticks, he asked me, “Where are [...]
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, [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #2

We would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported Vending Machine Press since our inception last year. We have [...]
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 [...]
Stomped Full of the Great Because and other poems by Claire Kelly

Reasons followed her pretty-girl looks like the bows on a kite tail. Her dad taught her to shoot, showed her pictures of [...]
Another Word For ‘Birthday Hamster’ by Laura Pavlo

There were one thousand “e”’s in the “please” Lucia’s son sung into the pet store window as he furiously pressed [...]
two poems by carolyn elias

Animals in Winter A pale yellow sun observes brown trout undulating inside a frozen lake, the red swollen bellies of [...]
Sheboygan County, Wisconsin No.1 by John Dorsey

a kid jacking another kid in the face outside the elementary school an old man in a fur coat carrying a dollhouse [...]