james blevins

Green Mountain Coffee and other poems by James Blevins

the café nearly empty— scent of burnt brew wafting through our shared morning. and you turned me on, talking of Verlaine’s passion for Rimbaud, stirring your drink. [...]

June 2, 2017

Snippet from Soft Opening by Alexandra Naughton

October 11, 2017

Playing with this power because I can and because it’s been done to me and it’s something I’ve always had and never [...]
2KBK by Cara Lorello

August 1, 2015

He left a note for me on the cardboard back cover of a notepad hung by a magnate on the fridge, all its paper gone from [...]
Poetry Quintet by Jessica Mehta

December 28, 2016

Ma’am, I Am Tonight Rare are the great moments recognized in the making. That night in Nashville, the rooftop, the five of [...]
The King of Hearts is the Loneliest of Kings and other poems by Steve Passey

February 18, 2019

The King of Hearts is the Loneliest of Kings Scars and Tattoos: Every scar is a story; a tattoo is just someone else’s [...]
Confessions of a Lunch Thief by Allie Marini Batts

December 1, 2013

I’m just like any other kind of criminal. I started small. In kindergarten. My life of crime can be traced back to a [...]
Champ by Steph Post

June 1, 2015

We go down to the water to find him. Black crabs scurry up trees like rioters dispersed and needle-beaked birds balancing on [...]
In Which All of My White Ex-Boyfriends Simultaneously Run For President by Khaya Osbourne

May 29, 2017

the careless whisper, soft pair of lips, hushed ‘i love you’ that you threw into the night comes back to your [...]
This Isn’t a Funeral by K. Barber

August 1, 2015

It is a sticky August afternoon, and flies keep landing on me like I’m a corpse. “Emily,” my mother [...]
here is a list of things you left behind by Alison Leigh Znamierowski

January 4, 2016

10) purple clovers plucked & siphoned by hungry mouths on summer walks, discarded into roadside fields 9) a missing [...]
Shake Loose by Claire Stamler-Goody

August 2, 2017

Adam used to love his phone. He carried it everywhere and every time it buzzed, he melted. He fidgeted whenever the battery [...]
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 [...]
Family Reunion In Three Parts by Jessica Adams

March 19, 2016

1. It had been my aunt’s room when she lived at home. And after that, when she moved back to teach at the elementary [...]