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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

At my sons concert and other poems by Justin Hyde

at my son’s concert on a little wooden chair next to my ex-wife in the auditorium. we don’t talk much outside of co-parenting. but i know she recently found out [...]

January 9, 2017

Four Poems by Sloane Eliot

December 1, 2014

oxytocin waste of time on the sonogram, our mistake looked like an eclipse it felt like staring at the sun i looked until i [...]
I’ve Been Interrupted Here Before by Jenya Doudareva

August 7, 2017

Crowd pours onto the pavement like a viscous liquid. Swallows yesterday’s residue – traces of discarded food, pocket [...]
Black Clot by Ashlie Allen

April 17, 2017

My hair did not like its saffron color, so it turned black and broke off. I tried to condition it with organic oils and [...]
How to Survive Heartbreak and other poems by Courtney LeBlanc

July 16, 2017

Acknowledge the wrecking ball in your chest, the slow heaving back and forth as it crashes against your heart. Brush your [...]
Untitled #3 by Mike Lafontaine

June 1, 2014

My father appeared to me in a dream last night. I was walking down the street in my old neighbourhood. I was looking at my [...]
End Times by Amy Saul-Zerby

March 2, 2017

I am a bridal registry at a sex shop. You are a plane crash. I am the dental records used to identify your corpse. Our teeth [...]
The Season Finale by Carly Berg

February 1, 2014

George, I realized as we turned onto our street, had ruined my life. His eagerness to play big provider made it too easy to just be a mother. Our daughter barely looked up from chatting with her new dorm mates when I waved good-bye. Now I was nothing. <a href=""> Read More... [...]
Unrecovered Poem by Samantha Madway

September 2, 2016

Rooms filthy from all the sorrow. Trashcans filled with tissues filled with snot. Dark circles dyed under every eye. Dead [...]
About The Universe by Eleanore Lee

September 2, 2016

Why worry? In five billion years our sun will become a spuming red giant. Will it matter then who got Mother’s Ming [...]
Two Poems by Cara Lorello

September 2, 2016

VIEW FROM A ROOM, OCEANSIDE Through a single window with vertical paneled curtains drawn back, I watched clouds cast off in [...]
Richmond Ennui by Christine Stoddard

January 30, 2017

You used to scour the rag shops in Southside, ………………..where black families lived in [...]
Coffee Stains by Christina Murphy

December 1, 2013

Carrying a Starbucks Venti with double cream down the steps, he trips, hits his head, and the coffee spills out into a small [...]

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