jacqueline markowski

Three Poems by Jacqueline Markowski

Mania Pulls six figures living paycheck to paycheck, a dry tongue away from homelessness. It takes out steel window loans sticky with mafia points. Mania minimizes its [...]

February 1, 2015

Turtle and Hare by Chloe Clark

April 1, 2014

If loss were a mathematical concept— a subtraction, a division, a formula for invisible numbers, then how does one [...]
POKÉMON MOON and other poems by Graham W. Henderson

February 8, 2017

POKÉMON MOON the defiant day moon overpowered by the sun who lights it anyway the deferent day moon tries to touch its host [...]
expletive exclamation comma by Lindsey Thäden

March 10, 2017

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

May 17, 2017

You had spent most of your years gazing at the moon like a thick haired child on a Christmas advert but the orange plane to [...]
Two Poems by Helen Picard

February 1, 2015

Rusty Rood From the second floor window, the red roof of the house next door reflected A strange, rusty glow at twilight. In [...]
post-inauguration poem by Shy Watson

February 6, 2017

it is a saturday night i am at a strip mall dunkin donuts in south philadelphia in my pajamas i am Irrationally Mad about [...]
Sharing Music by Emily Alexander

September 2, 2016

Dark morning reaches through windows until the sky is smudged silver like the teakettle on the back burner. Here is the slip [...]
Witness by Leigh Fisher

January 19, 2017

There’s a small, quiet person Hanging in the doorway just a little too afraid to sleep Lingering at the top of the stairs [...]
Two Poems by Raphael Maurice

May 29, 2016

UTOPIA This is the hard land of miracles. Land of arias over the fields, land of music made by the god at morning. Land of [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #3

April 1, 2014

This issue we are proud to present, stories and poems from writers across the globe that explore the morbid longings and [...]
Two Poems by Michelle Brooks

November 1, 2015

Three Mile Island at Night I am waiting for the disaster of my life to reveal itself. All the elements are present for an [...]
Sounds of Home by John Talbird

June 20, 2017

He’ll never go back. John’s twenty-four and independent and has no desire to speak to his parents ever again. There’s [...]