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The Last Guest and other poems by Olivia Mardwig

It was for a birthday- around a table, flutes of wine and smoke. Laid out- dishes of shifting water for the ash, tapped into and eroding. Hours worth of talk, blowing on [...]

May 11, 2017

Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva

August 1, 2015

Single Malt Upward is where you look to find Unsatisfying answers to Somebody else’s dumb questions. Upward is the most [...]
Life Hack by Jessica Bonder

January 27, 2017

Denial, it ain’t just a river. This is what passes for psychoanalytical comedy, cross-stitched on a decorative accent [...]
Crushed Ice by Mark Belair

January 4, 2016

The old, downtown fish shop stands closed, and not just for the day, it seems: the rolled-paper dispenser empty, the shiny [...]
Six Poems by Benjamin Blake

January 6, 2017

Old Bones Weary, bleary-eyed distraction Forever trying to make it home Shuffling ‘round the living room, slipper-clad [...]
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 [...]
Two Poems by John Stupp

March 19, 2016

Colorado Sometimes it hits me the last time I saw my dad he was in a cardboard box at a crematorium in Colorado cold as [...]
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 [...]
True Blue by Sarah Vernetti

April 1, 2015

Amber had almost survived another day. The children scrambled to find their places in line. A whirlwind of backpacks and [...]
Fairy Tales and other poems by Jonathan Duckworth

May 21, 2017

Mediation. Shallow rill of air between our throats & the arrow that finds an artery. Our dreams boiled down, reduced to [...]
Sloppy Brain by Ashlie Allen

July 7, 2017

I’m not a ghost, but you touch me as if you can’t feel anything, expression absent of fascination, hands still like [...]
the sun shouts at us in tongues and other poems by William James

January 20, 2017

The sun shouts at us in tongues through the tower window. Calls us by name & we hide ourselves from its gaze. From the [...]
What Light Makes a Star? by Joanna C. Valente & Stephanie Valente

March 16, 2017

who i decide to take as a lover might be one of life’s great mysteries – listen lover, when you ask me if there are [...]