meg johnson

I am my own planet by Meg Johnson

I don’t suffer from night terrors, but if I ever do, I hope I scream out, Neely O’Hara! I could scream this out while masturbating. I’m masturbating for Mormons. They [...]

March 22, 2019

Someday I’ll Love Meg Johnson and other poems by Meg Johnson

Even though she is a biological woman who wants to be a drag queen. Even though I read her diary and she confessed …………..Sometimes all you can do is [...]

September 11, 2017

Tight and other poems by Meg Johnson

I was not a child of product demonstrations. I would tie myself up in string. Each tug a prayer to be rescued from the midwest. I also wanted to be a villain, but no one knew [...]

March 4, 2017

New Place by Rebecca Guest

October 1, 2014

The promise of newly painted walls lining empty rooms, a kind of hubris that sings up your arms, popping goosepimples of [...]
Later now, but and other poems by Ed Higgins

June 13, 2017

I can still remember how we kissed then the buzz of bees in our head. Or was it the Zinfandel we had with Reuben sandwiches [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva

May 29, 2016

Music And Lyrics By I was there I was there I was There I was there I was there when The clouds were melting icebergs [...]
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 [...]
On The Lace Lichen Trail She Mourns A Tree After A Week Of Storms by Lisa Meckel

December 10, 2016

Off the trail, another great pine massacred by wind and rain. This great gray-chested body felled, no longer a giant against [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #17

December 10, 2016

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 17 are: Crying in Cars With Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy Three [...]
Six Poems by Daniel Burttram

November 1, 2015

Another Draw She waits for him in their car, out in the parking lot, hoping that a train won’t pass—cutting through [...]
Reconnecting with Mira by Prachi Jain

February 1, 2014

From: janya@yahoo.com To: miracares@yahoo.com Subject: I Am Sorry Mira, I have been thinking about you for a long time [...]
Two Poems by Sarah Sala

June 1, 2015

POEM AFTER MAN: KITCHEN TABLE 1. I thought here’s a man who owns who he is. Look how natural you move in your animal skin. [...]
On a Photograph Never Taken of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Friends, Manhattan, May 1, 1920 by Benjamin Goluboff

September 2, 2016

Fifth Avenue had been cleared and they drove Stanley Dell’s Buick twelve blocks down the parade route before a cop [...]
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... [...]
Two Poems by Lynne Potts

November 1, 2015

FACTS, CHICKENS, AND TRAIN TRACKS Acquisition in the lobby of the El Rancho Hotel, Gallup New Mexico where the waitress [...]