Poets & Artists
Fatima Aamir: Ahora--Mexico City, 2020
Erica Abbott: King Hades Makes Orpheus a Magician This Time
Abdulkareem Abdulkareem: The thrednody of a boy
Odukoya Adeniyi: His Desired Epitaph
Iyanuoluwa Adenle: Practise
Samuel Adeyemi: Spectacle
Paul David Adkins: Official Michigan State Prison Inmate Details. . . ; Book Review
Hasheemah Afaneh: Military Occupations and Baton Rouge
Promise O. Agoyi: Birdsong
Ariyo Ahmad: The Last Wish of the Soul Is Death
Adam Ai: I Wonder How You Pray
Michael Akuchie: Dear Self
Muiz Opeyemi Ajayi: Natation
Olákìtán Aládésuyì: Sinner, lover, righteous
Miriam Alex: Planned Obsolescence
Nicholas Alti: Flotsam
M Amory: Love Is [. . .] 1 Corinthians 13:4-5:
E. Kristin Anderson: Look Closely and I Will Fold Myself into a Coat Pocket ; Every Twirl
Matthew J. Andrews: Another Failed Prophecy
Anonymous (1): HAND TO MOUTH
JK Anowe: A Musical Malady
Ayesha Asad: The Sun Never Pointed Out That Metal Piece
Trina Askin: Lost Nostalgia and How Your Voice Sounded in the Rain
Shannon Austin: Self-Portrait as the Wonder Twins
Anthony AW: boutique sad
Jane Ayres: childhood sweetheart/sender
Ray Ball: Tithe of Salt
Gustavo Barahona-López: Self Portrait as Blank Name Tag
Brian Michael Barbeito: Issue 12
Steve Barichko: in the time of quarantine
Susan Barry-Schulz: The Wong Baker Faces Pain Rating Sonnet
Amy Baskin: see saws and other perils
Jason Bates: Issue 10 ; PLAY IT AGAIN
Jennifer Battisti: Paraphernalia
Jack B. Bedell: Lines for Lake DeCade ; Tragic Heroes
Kendall A. Bell: How to slip away from the body
Haneefah Bello: The man
Clayre Benzadón: Category Theory
Hayley Bernier: wanting what you can't have
Bronte Billings: The Anthropocene Debate
Jane Murray Bird: Warrior Too
Benjamin Blackhurst: Out of the Mouth of Frankenstein's Monster I
Jess Blackledge: Gene Kelly
Hunter Blackwell: Foundations
Dana Blatte: Idolatry & Other Crimes
Chris Blexrud: Miami
Elizabeth Bluth: Chemotherapy ; Crossing Country
Amy Bobeda: belly curves low spine
Jean Bohuslav: Chicken Feet
Mark Bolsover: the fish. ...
Bobby Bolt: Looks Like They Haven't Discovered Time Travel Yet
Scout Bolton: PLAY IT AGAIN
William Bortz: October, and Everything Is Breathing
Despy Boutris: On Drowning
Mary Bowers: HAND TO MOUTH
Natalie Bradford: Issue 23
Norah Brady: carrion song
Moni Brar: Questions for the Bears
April Rose Brazowski: HAND TO MOUTH
Stephen Briseño: It's True, They Don't
Amee Broumand: Kitchen Work through the Centuries
Kristine Brown: Burn
Stuart Buck: HAND TO MOUTH ; Issue 11
Lynne Burnett: The Geography of Desire ; Zoo
Prince Bush: An Angry Poem
Schyler Butler: Where It May
Caroliena Cabada: I imagine turning to stare into the face
Hannah Cajandig-Taylor: When the Sky Fell onto Us, Indicating the Proximity of End Times
Diane Callahan: On a Whim
Leah Callen: Coligny Boutonnière
Rosa Canales: Birdsong for the Moon
Jill Bergantz Carley: Issue 5
Sasha Carney: Exoneration, Post-Exams
Keisha Cassel: On Subjugation
Marissa Castrigno: Inheritance
Oliver Cato: HAND TO MOUTH
Sarah Cavar: Downtown: Night Falls
Emma Chan: why i don't write anymore
Juliana Chang: In the summer, Chris and I go dancing in Taiwan
Michael Chang: black gold
Alan Chazaro: 16 Reasons Why. . .
Jerry Chiemeke: I'm Used to This Place
Jennifer Chiu: When night comes and hides your monsters
Chloe Clark: A Consolation of Stars
F. E. Clark: HAND TO MOUTH
Ashley Cline: . . .& other tricks to keep us warm ; yellow bruise in F# Major. . .
Cleo: My Grandmothers Tell Me to Stop Crying
Rob Colgate: Gay Wasteland
Chris Collins: Book Review
Quintin Collins: The Chicken Wing Speaks of Love
Savannah Cooper: Three and a Half Months After
mary cordisco: sometime, summer 2002
Alexandra Corinth: Language Barriers
Madeleine Corley: Subtext
Chella Courington: Paper Covers Rock
Jason B. Crawford: tell the ghost ; Mad Scientist
Libby Cudmore: PLAY IT AGAIN
Zoe Cunniffe: things that can't be seen
Sage Curtis: Root Flare—A History
Janet Dale: (it breaks)
Elle Danbury: Issue 14
Nolan Dannels: Bones
Satya Dash: The Geometry of Isolation
Jesica Davis: Substitute for a Lost Future
Martins Deep: Issue 26
Samantha DeFlitch: The Difficulty is Worthy of Such an Intervention
Wanda Deglane: I Thank God You Are Not My Daughter
Jeni De La O: The Weight of Lemons
Darren C. Demaree: Emily as We Put Paintings on the Floor
Esme DeVault: Death Wish
Elizabeth York Dickinson: HAND TO MOUTH ; Issue 9
Chiara Di Lello: footprint
Maggie Dove: HAND TO MOUTH
Jessica Dubey: The New Math
Samantha Duncan: Tidal
Aleah Dye: SERENITY
Auden Eagerton: Caroline
Gillian Ebersole: there are no more special occasions
Charlotte Edwards: Heart City
Rachel Egly: On dead fish
Ann Eleven: Someone Will Always Claim the Ear of God
Ashley Elizabeth: Hair Tales from a Black Babe
CD Eskilson: Dystychipaphobia, or Fear of Accidents
Sarah A. Etlinger: Entering (the world again)
Ebuka Evans: Path of Thunder. . .
Suedabeh Ewing: Issue 28
Samantha Fain: schrödinger's poetica
Meredith Faulkner: A Chiropractor. . .
Zoë Fay-Stindt: Painting in Bright Blues
April Frances Federico: Issue 7
Sandra Fees: Threshold
Joaquin Fernandez: HAND TO MOUTH
Alexandre Ferrere: (Hom)m(emade) Fragmentation
Sofia Fey: a letter from my hands to my heart
caliche fields: <<en que busque. . .>>
Marlin Figgins: [ ] Approaches Me in a Coffee Shop Asking "why did you leave?"
Lynn Finger: Loss is a magician's trick
Mark A. Fisher: dawn
Jane Fleming: HAND TO MOUTH
Catherine Fletcher: 1H (Hydrogen)
Ronny Ford: Look for Rain When the Crow Flies Low
Samuel J. Fox: HAND TO MOUTH
Aerik Francis: _Broken Bread_
Luciana Francis: Exiles
Sam Frost: A Poem for Someone Else's Pain ; Points of Geological Interest
Cory Funk: Issue 2
Sita Gaia: I Know It's Not Sexy
Robbie Gamble: Water Bearer
Kristin Garth: Muscle Memory
Kate Garrett: I am the poltergeist that haunts us both
Jeremy Gaulke: HAND TO MOUTH
Julia Gerhardt: A Poet You Might Like
Elizabeth Gibson: As we wait to find out why I am bleeding again
Joan Kwon Glass: Pantoum for My Father
Marissa Glover: The Worst Thing to Have is a Vagina
Marilee Goad: The Ways Our Languages Reveal Difference
Gabriela Gonzalez: On Making Hamburgers
Marvin Gonzalez: HAND TO MOUTH
Greg Gose: In This One, I'm the Dead Cosmonaut. . .
Chinedu Gospel: Season (. . ./. . .)
Robin Gow: the robots who suggest Facebook ads are just ghosts
Kevin Grauke: Captain America & Billy the Kid, Much too Deep in Louisiana
KJ Hannah Greenberg: Issue 27
Lily Greenberg: Is not this male poet. . .
Roppotucha Greenberg: HAND TO MOUTH
Shannon Frost Greenstein: My Body Is a Coffin. . . ; Relapse ; Purple
Bailey Grey: how to embody the face you track
Paxton Grey: The Drake Equation
SK Grout: Self Portrait as Sentimental Star
Ambika Gupta: body when horizontal
Laleh Gupta: my family and i learn how to communicate
Robert Guzikowski: Aphasia Poem 7
Vera Hadzic: Your Name on My Tongue
Danielle Hale: Blood Anxiety
Dane Hamann: Ennui
Jordan Hamel: Anxiety & Co.
Matthew A. Hamilton: Book Review
David Hanlon: On Blue
Emily Lake Hansen: Pharaoh's Daughter Keeps a Diary
Jason Harris: a body witnesses a body swallow itself
Paula Harris: the many ways in which our first date would be a disaster. . . ; living with the dead boyfriends
Kim Harvey: Salute of the Vale
Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon: Shipwrecked Anchor ; i risk all you less so ; Blown Skywards
Tim Heerdink: Sixty-Seven Days in Utqiagvik
Jeffrey Hermann: The Universe Is Almost Entirely Empty
Nicole Arocho Hernández: My Greed, My Feed
victoria mallorga hernandez: lover, summer girl
Aiden Heung: Every Map of the City
Ellen Higgins: I was, he was, we were
AE Hines: Almost Like Being Choked by a Lover
Bára Hladíková: Feedback Loops
Gabrielle Grace Hogan: As Night Draws Its Sad Face Across the Window
Elisabeth Horan: My best work is often maintenance
Kyla Houbolt: HAND TO MOUTH ; Not Yet—A Whimsical Meditation on Death
Tiffany Hsieh: I Spy
Ellen Huang: Snogging Frogs
Yong-Yu Huang: Elegy for Future Self
SG Huerta: When everything died,
Zebulon Huset: The NRA Edits Justin Trudeau's Speech. . .
Kerenn Irias: In a Time of Estrangement
Joey Isjwara: if an alien decides to research about humanity
James Croal Jackson: Another Drunken Summer
Lucas Jacob: Defense
Temidayo Jacob: Fresh Water
Christtie Jay: Love Poem
Matthew Johnson: When I Ran Away from Home and Only Took a Backpack of Rap
Samantha Johnson: My Grandfather
Dipe Jola: Red Nights, Candles and Moaning
Michal "MJ" Jones: Gone (A Golden Shovel)
Logan Kaye Jung: PLAY IT AGAIN
Leo Kang: Acts of Kindness
Jasmine Kapadia: my piano teacher's halloween party
Siham Karami: Issue 6
Justin Karcher: The Patron Saint of People Who Have Never Seen the Ocean
Jeremy T. Karn: This Is How You Know You're a Stutterer
Amanda Kay: post-dollhood wilderness
Aimée Keeble: Détente
Tiia Kelly: Ant Farm
Saba Keramati: American Sonnet for the New Democratic Administration. . .
Meg Kerrigan: equinox note
Akif Kichloo: Salam. I Am Sorry for Yesterday ; Secretly I Am a Mathematician
Semilore Kilaso: The Making of Soot
Elane Kim: Chromatography
Judith Kingston: Object Permanence ; Diagnosis ; New Year's Eve
Amy Kinsman: immolations
Erin Kirsh: Conversations with My Grandmother
Nadine Klassen: Sixteen Songs for the Catbird
J. I. Kleinberg: hospital of darkness ; other
emilie kneifel: alternate timeline
Kara Knickerbocker: Etymology of a Middle Name
Paxton Knox: Ecdysis
Laurie Koensgen: HAND TO MOUTH ; SERENITY
Koss: A Dyke Cowgirl Takes Herself on a COVID Taco Bell Date; Ensnared/Discarded
Andrea Krause: Forage
Kavi Kshiraj: Car-crash Impulse
Elizabeth Kuelbs: Bloom
December Lace: Cremains
Sophie Laing: Cooling Off When You Live in the Country
Rafiat Lamidi: Dear Fear
Ellie Lamothe: alchemizing
Samantha Lamph/Len: Deafening
Jasmin Lankford: For Nice Guys Who Pick Flowers
Pouran Lashini: Issue 15
Juliet Lauren: Christmas lights to guide the LSD
Sarah Law: Moon
Courtney LeBlanc: Butcher ; PLAY IT AGAIN
Avalon Felice Lee: Aubade for San José
Youngseo Lee: someday i'll love youngseo lee
Kat Lehmann: SERENITY
Stella Lei: Inventory of an Empty Nest
André N. Lepine: Colonizer
Hege Jakobsen Lepri: Knife
Kara Lewis: Love, Too, Is a Kind of Imposter Syndrome
Amy Li: I Calculate Grief in Seconds
Ting Lin: A Purpose for Those Without
Naomi Ling: Self portrait as unborn chinese girl
Daniel Liu: Bombardier
Eric Lochridge: Jeff Bezos Shows Up on My Doorstep
Kristin Lueke: The last of the five good emperors
Quinn Lui: poem pinned out on the dissection table
Dana Hodge Lynch: Power of Blood
DS Maolalai: Cleared ground
Jennifer Mack-Watkins: Issue 1
Aaron Magloire: Not a Poem About Ahmaud Arbery
Tasneem Maher: At the Endocrinologist's Waiting Room with My Mother
Kathy Mak: To Moulton
Lauren Mallett: Caesura in the Thoracic Age
Shon Mapp: Bygones & Mixtapes
Allie Marini: HAND TO MOUTH
Natalie Marino: disappeared years
Nicole Markert: I Am Not Haunted
Sarah Marquez: Here's a Lie: We Were Rich Once
Jude Marr: I Tell Myself that Mammals May Give Birth to Birds ; Aftermath
Betsy Mars: In the Aftermath of a Rat Invasion ; In My Dream I Enter the Bistro
Aura Martin: She Tried to Hug Me (But I Pulled Away)
Sara Matson: <fresh tattoo>
Angelina Mazza: Poem for the Apocalypse
Elly McCarthy: theorizing without a sense of the ground
Jill Mceldowney: If I Don't Meet You in this Life, Let Me Feel the Lack
Collin McFadyen: Sparrows and Starlings
Elizabeth McGeown: Rosy-hued Post-lockdown Hug Scenario
Cate McGowan: Mother Courage
Jessie Lynn McMains: Lilac Palace, 1987
Bobby Miller: Issue 30
Caitlin Miller: A favourite dress
Kori Millhimes: SERENITY
Laura Minning: Issue 24
Bethany Mitchell: Postcards for the End of the World
Matt Mitchell: A Portrait
Suchoon Mo: Issue 9 ; Issue 11 ; Issue 17
Rita Mookerjee: Magnolia Striptease
Marjorie Moorhead: SERENITY
Elizabeth Morton: it will blow over
Meg Mulcahy: Come and collect your ma, she's gotten out again
Chad Musick: HAND TO MOUTH
Emily Nabnian: Red/Skater Boys
Christine Naprava: Friday Morning
Echezonachukwu Nduka: Stitching
Daniela Neira: Go and Stay
Megan Neville: Party Game
Aimee Nicole: New Traditions
Emitomo Tobi Nimisire: Porcelain
Rachel Nix: Owed nothing
Brandon Noel: Breakfast on the Weekends
Njoku Nonso: Pray the Dust
Michael Noonan: Issue 31
Robert Okaji: Self-Portrait as Wave ; Clandestine
Kaleigh O'Keefe: Golden Shovel for Desire
Victory O. Okoyomoh: of intangible things
Precious Okpechi: Hund's Rule of Degenerate Living
Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo: At Agadez
Fiyinfoluwa Olajesu: how i treat praise
James O'Leary: Fever Sestina ; Waiting
Lisa Marie Oliver: Maybe the Crows
Okeke Onyedika: The Secret Diary of a Man in Exile
Bola Opaleke: Testimony
Chikamobi Okoloeze Orjichukwu: say he died trapped in a body, in a room
Praise Osawaru: there's something missing & I know it
Christine Owens: Issue 20
Ottavia Paluch: Noah built an ark, but we still sank
Kunjana Parashar: Love in the Time of Climate Catastrophes
Ilari Pass: Air, Interrupted
Ami Patel: The multiverse collapses and I meet my selfish self
Nadia Patterson: dad, i don't remember
Mandira Pattnaik: fire in the rearview mirror
Holly Pelesky: Restaurant People
Ada Pelonia: HAND TO MOUTH
Simone Person: Lovebomb
Cara Peterhansel: Futile Feet
Karyn Peyton: Dad
Serena Piccoli: Issue 35
Maria S. Picone: How gaslighting is like a trip to the beach
Elliot Ping: devotional
Amy Poague: Kaleidoscope Repair, Since You're Awake
John C. Polles: Boy
Sarena Pollock: familial burdens
Misha R. Ponnuraju: PLAY IT AGAIN
Olúwádáre Pópóola: Recolouring Grief in the Posture of Skin
Lee Potts: The Finding of Names
Fabrice Poussin: Issue 4
Chris Prewitt: Book Review
Heather Quinn: inception
Charles Rafferty: Habits
Adithi Raghavan: An Evening Meal with Mother's Paranoia
Gaia Rajan: We Were Birds
Charles Rammelkamp: Book Review (1) ; Book Review (2) ; Book Review (3) ; Book Review (4) ; Book Review (5)
Susan Blackwell Ramsey: PLAY IT AGAIN
Vismai Rao: Ode to Period
Darby Ratliff: The Big Bang, a Redux
Linda Ravenswood: Issue 32
Isaura Ren: half-measure
Lettie Jane Rennekamp: HAND TO MOUTH
Juanita Rey: Man at the Door ; Opposites
Jada Reyes: Workdays
Ron Riekki: hot
Kevin A. Risner: Fireworks
Sandra Rivers-Gill: In the Throat of a Tree
Esteban Rodríguez: 10 El árbol
Evyan Roberts: As I Open Close
Deon Robinson: a monochrome boyhood
Lia Robles: SERENITY
Gretchen Rockwell: Everybody Remembers Neil and Buzz
Jonathan Roman: SERENITY
Daniel Romo: Issue 8
Danielle Rose: On the Creation of New Language from the Reading Lists of the Dead ; PLAY IT AGAIN
Shana Ross: Why I Should Be Allowed to Battle
Hannah Rousselot: SERENITY
Phil Rowan: Issue 18
Adrienne Rozells: what i'm thinking
Anne Rundle: Snow melts
Samia Saliba: i am no longer interested in writing poetry i am only here to dance
Holly Salvatore: St. Vrain Pantoum
Cliff Saunders: Tripping the Switch
Wendy Schmidt: Issue 16
Mirabai Scholz: HAND TO MOUTH
Constance Schultz: HAND TO MOUTH
Melissa Paschall Scott: Issue 17
Stephanie Seabrooke: Dual
Arianna Sebo: Aliens and the Mountains
Juliette Sebock: Standardised Testing
Tom Sepulveda: Every day a gift
J.E. Seuk: SPEAK ENGLISH LOUD
Shloka Shankar: A Metonym for Life
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz: Elegy in 4/4
Tara K. Shepersky: At the Beloved River
Evy Shen: Flight Instinct
Chi Sherman: we massive
John Short: Playing Soldiers
Lillian Sickler: it was Lilith who first ate grief as a spondee
Martha Silano: From the Car Stereo. . .
Pamela Yve Simon: Issue 34
Annette Sisson: Instinct for Touch
Anna Teresa Slater: SERENITY
Savannah Slone: HAND TO MOUTH
Rachel Small: Rideau Canal
Barnaby Smith: HAND TO MOUTH
Krystal A. Smith: Extinction
Robin Anna Smith: Father Figure
Tom Snarsky: Bitter Orange
Miguel Soto: Sun in Aquarius: A Poem at Eighteen
Corey Sparks: Psithurism
Ankh Spice: Have mercy
Richard Spilman: The Horror
Lannie Stabile: When Depression Talks Over Me ; And you unearth a photograph of your past and a stranger. . .
George L. Stein: Issue 22
Rachel Stempel: A GREIMAS SQUARE FOR SPRINGTIME
Travis Stephens: Name of Names
Lindsay Stewart: Maybe Medusa was my eleventh grade English teacher
Sarah Stockton: Damage Control
J. B. Stone: Maybe One Day We Will Be Lions
Brett Stout: Issue 19
Olivia Stowell: Keep, Meaning
Joanna Streetly: Even So
Eden Julia Sugay: I promise you, Tomorrow
Melissa Sussens: Spell for Time
Ellora Sutton: Big Mary ; PLAY IT AGAIN
Maxwell Suzuki: Burn, Tan, Peel
Lou Swan: Issue 13
Heather Sweeney: Silver
Kate Sweeney: August in Scituate
Prem Sylvester: We Have Lost All We Found
Jeremy Szuder: Issue 29
Carly Madison Taylor: Tonight I shave precise. . .
Christine Taylor: HAND TO MOUTH
Chuck Taylor: Issue 21
Claire Taylor: Group Texts with Fellow Thirtysomethings
c m taylor: Cotton
Ọbáfẹ́mi Thanni: Alternate ending with bloodless dress
Sophie Furlong Tighe: (Nothing but) Flowers
Sher Ting: I Wage a Question Against the Night
Stephanie Tom: Self-Portrait as Bird in the Hand
Lazarus Trubman: Camp in Northern Russia
Faye Turner-Johnson: Mother. . .Crying Out in the Wilderness
Oma Umehea: I am a woman in my family
Iheoma Uzomba: When your Body outruns a Country
Juliette van der Molen: i'm supposed to love you
Sydney Vogl: Somewhere in a Suburb
Lexi Vranick: last times.
Sunny Vuong: insects & windows into the future
D. S. Waldman: On Ego ; red delicious
Ann E. Wallace: This Small Protection
Amy Wang: before the funeral
Eric Wang: DAE remember dating the boy with his own basketball hoop?
Sean Wang: 20 years later
Ryleigh Wann: Elegy with Spanish Moss
Lindsey Warren: Sentence, Forest
Katrina Washington: Instructions for My Funeral Too
Julie Weiss: This Morning
Kory Wells: My Zinnias Grow Like Good Intentions
Clare Welsh: PLAY IT AGAIN
Tyson West: American Legion Silent Night ; Youngstown Motel
Rodd Whelpley: Mesa at New Year ; SERENITY
Ellie White: There is no version of this story in which you are okay
Lucy Whitehead: Sun Dance
Angelica Whitehorne: To Survive the Summer
Megan Wildhood: A/B Testing
Danielle P. Williams: Bear in mind that death is a drum
Paula Willie-Okafor: Before fire, her lips were not sunken
Brian Wiora: Séance
Bill Wolak: Issue 25
Carson Wolfe: i rack up lines of a poem with the drugs are gone
Nadia Wolnisty: Possums
Salam Wosu: Elegy for the Need to Sway ; Asylum in Your Bosom
Christina Xiong: HAND TO MOUTH
Jeffrey Yamaguchi: Horizon
Mathew Yates: heliotrope ; HAND TO MOUTH ; when the sky goes twister-green ; articulate your bones ; sonnet in no-time ; Issue 33
Jade Yeung: Hippocampus Split
Sarah Yost: Transubstantiation
Trina Young: A Sort of Horror
Emma Younger: 4 AM Vitals
Iris Yu: Home Remedies
Lucy Zhang: Break In
Issam Zineh: Letters to Go Unmailed Until After the Upcoming Exhibition
Jim Zola: Issue 3
Hafsa Zulfiqar: Abecedarian on Inheritance
Erica Abbott: King Hades Makes Orpheus a Magician This Time
Abdulkareem Abdulkareem: The thrednody of a boy
Odukoya Adeniyi: His Desired Epitaph
Iyanuoluwa Adenle: Practise
Samuel Adeyemi: Spectacle
Paul David Adkins: Official Michigan State Prison Inmate Details. . . ; Book Review
Hasheemah Afaneh: Military Occupations and Baton Rouge
Promise O. Agoyi: Birdsong
Ariyo Ahmad: The Last Wish of the Soul Is Death
Adam Ai: I Wonder How You Pray
Michael Akuchie: Dear Self
Muiz Opeyemi Ajayi: Natation
Olákìtán Aládésuyì: Sinner, lover, righteous
Miriam Alex: Planned Obsolescence
Nicholas Alti: Flotsam
M Amory: Love Is [. . .] 1 Corinthians 13:4-5:
E. Kristin Anderson: Look Closely and I Will Fold Myself into a Coat Pocket ; Every Twirl
Matthew J. Andrews: Another Failed Prophecy
Anonymous (1): HAND TO MOUTH
JK Anowe: A Musical Malady
Ayesha Asad: The Sun Never Pointed Out That Metal Piece
Trina Askin: Lost Nostalgia and How Your Voice Sounded in the Rain
Shannon Austin: Self-Portrait as the Wonder Twins
Anthony AW: boutique sad
Jane Ayres: childhood sweetheart/sender
Ray Ball: Tithe of Salt
Gustavo Barahona-López: Self Portrait as Blank Name Tag
Brian Michael Barbeito: Issue 12
Steve Barichko: in the time of quarantine
Susan Barry-Schulz: The Wong Baker Faces Pain Rating Sonnet
Amy Baskin: see saws and other perils
Jason Bates: Issue 10 ; PLAY IT AGAIN
Jennifer Battisti: Paraphernalia
Jack B. Bedell: Lines for Lake DeCade ; Tragic Heroes
Kendall A. Bell: How to slip away from the body
Haneefah Bello: The man
Clayre Benzadón: Category Theory
Hayley Bernier: wanting what you can't have
Bronte Billings: The Anthropocene Debate
Jane Murray Bird: Warrior Too
Benjamin Blackhurst: Out of the Mouth of Frankenstein's Monster I
Jess Blackledge: Gene Kelly
Hunter Blackwell: Foundations
Dana Blatte: Idolatry & Other Crimes
Chris Blexrud: Miami
Elizabeth Bluth: Chemotherapy ; Crossing Country
Amy Bobeda: belly curves low spine
Jean Bohuslav: Chicken Feet
Mark Bolsover: the fish. ...
Bobby Bolt: Looks Like They Haven't Discovered Time Travel Yet
Scout Bolton: PLAY IT AGAIN
William Bortz: October, and Everything Is Breathing
Despy Boutris: On Drowning
Mary Bowers: HAND TO MOUTH
Natalie Bradford: Issue 23
Norah Brady: carrion song
Moni Brar: Questions for the Bears
April Rose Brazowski: HAND TO MOUTH
Stephen Briseño: It's True, They Don't
Amee Broumand: Kitchen Work through the Centuries
Kristine Brown: Burn
Stuart Buck: HAND TO MOUTH ; Issue 11
Lynne Burnett: The Geography of Desire ; Zoo
Prince Bush: An Angry Poem
Schyler Butler: Where It May
Caroliena Cabada: I imagine turning to stare into the face
Hannah Cajandig-Taylor: When the Sky Fell onto Us, Indicating the Proximity of End Times
Diane Callahan: On a Whim
Leah Callen: Coligny Boutonnière
Rosa Canales: Birdsong for the Moon
Jill Bergantz Carley: Issue 5
Sasha Carney: Exoneration, Post-Exams
Keisha Cassel: On Subjugation
Marissa Castrigno: Inheritance
Oliver Cato: HAND TO MOUTH
Sarah Cavar: Downtown: Night Falls
Emma Chan: why i don't write anymore
Juliana Chang: In the summer, Chris and I go dancing in Taiwan
Michael Chang: black gold
Alan Chazaro: 16 Reasons Why. . .
Jerry Chiemeke: I'm Used to This Place
Jennifer Chiu: When night comes and hides your monsters
Chloe Clark: A Consolation of Stars
F. E. Clark: HAND TO MOUTH
Ashley Cline: . . .& other tricks to keep us warm ; yellow bruise in F# Major. . .
Cleo: My Grandmothers Tell Me to Stop Crying
Rob Colgate: Gay Wasteland
Chris Collins: Book Review
Quintin Collins: The Chicken Wing Speaks of Love
Savannah Cooper: Three and a Half Months After
mary cordisco: sometime, summer 2002
Alexandra Corinth: Language Barriers
Madeleine Corley: Subtext
Chella Courington: Paper Covers Rock
Jason B. Crawford: tell the ghost ; Mad Scientist
Libby Cudmore: PLAY IT AGAIN
Zoe Cunniffe: things that can't be seen
Sage Curtis: Root Flare—A History
Janet Dale: (it breaks)
Elle Danbury: Issue 14
Nolan Dannels: Bones
Satya Dash: The Geometry of Isolation
Jesica Davis: Substitute for a Lost Future
Martins Deep: Issue 26
Samantha DeFlitch: The Difficulty is Worthy of Such an Intervention
Wanda Deglane: I Thank God You Are Not My Daughter
Jeni De La O: The Weight of Lemons
Darren C. Demaree: Emily as We Put Paintings on the Floor
Esme DeVault: Death Wish
Elizabeth York Dickinson: HAND TO MOUTH ; Issue 9
Chiara Di Lello: footprint
Maggie Dove: HAND TO MOUTH
Jessica Dubey: The New Math
Samantha Duncan: Tidal
Aleah Dye: SERENITY
Auden Eagerton: Caroline
Gillian Ebersole: there are no more special occasions
Charlotte Edwards: Heart City
Rachel Egly: On dead fish
Ann Eleven: Someone Will Always Claim the Ear of God
Ashley Elizabeth: Hair Tales from a Black Babe
CD Eskilson: Dystychipaphobia, or Fear of Accidents
Sarah A. Etlinger: Entering (the world again)
Ebuka Evans: Path of Thunder. . .
Suedabeh Ewing: Issue 28
Samantha Fain: schrödinger's poetica
Meredith Faulkner: A Chiropractor. . .
Zoë Fay-Stindt: Painting in Bright Blues
April Frances Federico: Issue 7
Sandra Fees: Threshold
Joaquin Fernandez: HAND TO MOUTH
Alexandre Ferrere: (Hom)m(emade) Fragmentation
Sofia Fey: a letter from my hands to my heart
caliche fields: <<en que busque. . .>>
Marlin Figgins: [ ] Approaches Me in a Coffee Shop Asking "why did you leave?"
Lynn Finger: Loss is a magician's trick
Mark A. Fisher: dawn
Jane Fleming: HAND TO MOUTH
Catherine Fletcher: 1H (Hydrogen)
Ronny Ford: Look for Rain When the Crow Flies Low
Samuel J. Fox: HAND TO MOUTH
Aerik Francis: _Broken Bread_
Luciana Francis: Exiles
Sam Frost: A Poem for Someone Else's Pain ; Points of Geological Interest
Cory Funk: Issue 2
Sita Gaia: I Know It's Not Sexy
Robbie Gamble: Water Bearer
Kristin Garth: Muscle Memory
Kate Garrett: I am the poltergeist that haunts us both
Jeremy Gaulke: HAND TO MOUTH
Julia Gerhardt: A Poet You Might Like
Elizabeth Gibson: As we wait to find out why I am bleeding again
Joan Kwon Glass: Pantoum for My Father
Marissa Glover: The Worst Thing to Have is a Vagina
Marilee Goad: The Ways Our Languages Reveal Difference
Gabriela Gonzalez: On Making Hamburgers
Marvin Gonzalez: HAND TO MOUTH
Greg Gose: In This One, I'm the Dead Cosmonaut. . .
Chinedu Gospel: Season (. . ./. . .)
Robin Gow: the robots who suggest Facebook ads are just ghosts
Kevin Grauke: Captain America & Billy the Kid, Much too Deep in Louisiana
KJ Hannah Greenberg: Issue 27
Lily Greenberg: Is not this male poet. . .
Roppotucha Greenberg: HAND TO MOUTH
Shannon Frost Greenstein: My Body Is a Coffin. . . ; Relapse ; Purple
Bailey Grey: how to embody the face you track
Paxton Grey: The Drake Equation
SK Grout: Self Portrait as Sentimental Star
Ambika Gupta: body when horizontal
Laleh Gupta: my family and i learn how to communicate
Robert Guzikowski: Aphasia Poem 7
Vera Hadzic: Your Name on My Tongue
Danielle Hale: Blood Anxiety
Dane Hamann: Ennui
Jordan Hamel: Anxiety & Co.
Matthew A. Hamilton: Book Review
David Hanlon: On Blue
Emily Lake Hansen: Pharaoh's Daughter Keeps a Diary
Jason Harris: a body witnesses a body swallow itself
Paula Harris: the many ways in which our first date would be a disaster. . . ; living with the dead boyfriends
Kim Harvey: Salute of the Vale
Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon: Shipwrecked Anchor ; i risk all you less so ; Blown Skywards
Tim Heerdink: Sixty-Seven Days in Utqiagvik
Jeffrey Hermann: The Universe Is Almost Entirely Empty
Nicole Arocho Hernández: My Greed, My Feed
victoria mallorga hernandez: lover, summer girl
Aiden Heung: Every Map of the City
Ellen Higgins: I was, he was, we were
AE Hines: Almost Like Being Choked by a Lover
Bára Hladíková: Feedback Loops
Gabrielle Grace Hogan: As Night Draws Its Sad Face Across the Window
Elisabeth Horan: My best work is often maintenance
Kyla Houbolt: HAND TO MOUTH ; Not Yet—A Whimsical Meditation on Death
Tiffany Hsieh: I Spy
Ellen Huang: Snogging Frogs
Yong-Yu Huang: Elegy for Future Self
SG Huerta: When everything died,
Zebulon Huset: The NRA Edits Justin Trudeau's Speech. . .
Kerenn Irias: In a Time of Estrangement
Joey Isjwara: if an alien decides to research about humanity
James Croal Jackson: Another Drunken Summer
Lucas Jacob: Defense
Temidayo Jacob: Fresh Water
Christtie Jay: Love Poem
Matthew Johnson: When I Ran Away from Home and Only Took a Backpack of Rap
Samantha Johnson: My Grandfather
Dipe Jola: Red Nights, Candles and Moaning
Michal "MJ" Jones: Gone (A Golden Shovel)
Logan Kaye Jung: PLAY IT AGAIN
Leo Kang: Acts of Kindness
Jasmine Kapadia: my piano teacher's halloween party
Siham Karami: Issue 6
Justin Karcher: The Patron Saint of People Who Have Never Seen the Ocean
Jeremy T. Karn: This Is How You Know You're a Stutterer
Amanda Kay: post-dollhood wilderness
Aimée Keeble: Détente
Tiia Kelly: Ant Farm
Saba Keramati: American Sonnet for the New Democratic Administration. . .
Meg Kerrigan: equinox note
Akif Kichloo: Salam. I Am Sorry for Yesterday ; Secretly I Am a Mathematician
Semilore Kilaso: The Making of Soot
Elane Kim: Chromatography
Judith Kingston: Object Permanence ; Diagnosis ; New Year's Eve
Amy Kinsman: immolations
Erin Kirsh: Conversations with My Grandmother
Nadine Klassen: Sixteen Songs for the Catbird
J. I. Kleinberg: hospital of darkness ; other
emilie kneifel: alternate timeline
Kara Knickerbocker: Etymology of a Middle Name
Paxton Knox: Ecdysis
Laurie Koensgen: HAND TO MOUTH ; SERENITY
Koss: A Dyke Cowgirl Takes Herself on a COVID Taco Bell Date; Ensnared/Discarded
Andrea Krause: Forage
Kavi Kshiraj: Car-crash Impulse
Elizabeth Kuelbs: Bloom
December Lace: Cremains
Sophie Laing: Cooling Off When You Live in the Country
Rafiat Lamidi: Dear Fear
Ellie Lamothe: alchemizing
Samantha Lamph/Len: Deafening
Jasmin Lankford: For Nice Guys Who Pick Flowers
Pouran Lashini: Issue 15
Juliet Lauren: Christmas lights to guide the LSD
Sarah Law: Moon
Courtney LeBlanc: Butcher ; PLAY IT AGAIN
Avalon Felice Lee: Aubade for San José
Youngseo Lee: someday i'll love youngseo lee
Kat Lehmann: SERENITY
Stella Lei: Inventory of an Empty Nest
André N. Lepine: Colonizer
Hege Jakobsen Lepri: Knife
Kara Lewis: Love, Too, Is a Kind of Imposter Syndrome
Amy Li: I Calculate Grief in Seconds
Ting Lin: A Purpose for Those Without
Naomi Ling: Self portrait as unborn chinese girl
Daniel Liu: Bombardier
Eric Lochridge: Jeff Bezos Shows Up on My Doorstep
Kristin Lueke: The last of the five good emperors
Quinn Lui: poem pinned out on the dissection table
Dana Hodge Lynch: Power of Blood
DS Maolalai: Cleared ground
Jennifer Mack-Watkins: Issue 1
Aaron Magloire: Not a Poem About Ahmaud Arbery
Tasneem Maher: At the Endocrinologist's Waiting Room with My Mother
Kathy Mak: To Moulton
Lauren Mallett: Caesura in the Thoracic Age
Shon Mapp: Bygones & Mixtapes
Allie Marini: HAND TO MOUTH
Natalie Marino: disappeared years
Nicole Markert: I Am Not Haunted
Sarah Marquez: Here's a Lie: We Were Rich Once
Jude Marr: I Tell Myself that Mammals May Give Birth to Birds ; Aftermath
Betsy Mars: In the Aftermath of a Rat Invasion ; In My Dream I Enter the Bistro
Aura Martin: She Tried to Hug Me (But I Pulled Away)
Sara Matson: <fresh tattoo>
Angelina Mazza: Poem for the Apocalypse
Elly McCarthy: theorizing without a sense of the ground
Jill Mceldowney: If I Don't Meet You in this Life, Let Me Feel the Lack
Collin McFadyen: Sparrows and Starlings
Elizabeth McGeown: Rosy-hued Post-lockdown Hug Scenario
Cate McGowan: Mother Courage
Jessie Lynn McMains: Lilac Palace, 1987
Bobby Miller: Issue 30
Caitlin Miller: A favourite dress
Kori Millhimes: SERENITY
Laura Minning: Issue 24
Bethany Mitchell: Postcards for the End of the World
Matt Mitchell: A Portrait
Suchoon Mo: Issue 9 ; Issue 11 ; Issue 17
Rita Mookerjee: Magnolia Striptease
Marjorie Moorhead: SERENITY
Elizabeth Morton: it will blow over
Meg Mulcahy: Come and collect your ma, she's gotten out again
Chad Musick: HAND TO MOUTH
Emily Nabnian: Red/Skater Boys
Christine Naprava: Friday Morning
Echezonachukwu Nduka: Stitching
Daniela Neira: Go and Stay
Megan Neville: Party Game
Aimee Nicole: New Traditions
Emitomo Tobi Nimisire: Porcelain
Rachel Nix: Owed nothing
Brandon Noel: Breakfast on the Weekends
Njoku Nonso: Pray the Dust
Michael Noonan: Issue 31
Robert Okaji: Self-Portrait as Wave ; Clandestine
Kaleigh O'Keefe: Golden Shovel for Desire
Victory O. Okoyomoh: of intangible things
Precious Okpechi: Hund's Rule of Degenerate Living
Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo: At Agadez
Fiyinfoluwa Olajesu: how i treat praise
James O'Leary: Fever Sestina ; Waiting
Lisa Marie Oliver: Maybe the Crows
Okeke Onyedika: The Secret Diary of a Man in Exile
Bola Opaleke: Testimony
Chikamobi Okoloeze Orjichukwu: say he died trapped in a body, in a room
Praise Osawaru: there's something missing & I know it
Christine Owens: Issue 20
Ottavia Paluch: Noah built an ark, but we still sank
Kunjana Parashar: Love in the Time of Climate Catastrophes
Ilari Pass: Air, Interrupted
Ami Patel: The multiverse collapses and I meet my selfish self
Nadia Patterson: dad, i don't remember
Mandira Pattnaik: fire in the rearview mirror
Holly Pelesky: Restaurant People
Ada Pelonia: HAND TO MOUTH
Simone Person: Lovebomb
Cara Peterhansel: Futile Feet
Karyn Peyton: Dad
Serena Piccoli: Issue 35
Maria S. Picone: How gaslighting is like a trip to the beach
Elliot Ping: devotional
Amy Poague: Kaleidoscope Repair, Since You're Awake
John C. Polles: Boy
Sarena Pollock: familial burdens
Misha R. Ponnuraju: PLAY IT AGAIN
Olúwádáre Pópóola: Recolouring Grief in the Posture of Skin
Lee Potts: The Finding of Names
Fabrice Poussin: Issue 4
Chris Prewitt: Book Review
Heather Quinn: inception
Charles Rafferty: Habits
Adithi Raghavan: An Evening Meal with Mother's Paranoia
Gaia Rajan: We Were Birds
Charles Rammelkamp: Book Review (1) ; Book Review (2) ; Book Review (3) ; Book Review (4) ; Book Review (5)
Susan Blackwell Ramsey: PLAY IT AGAIN
Vismai Rao: Ode to Period
Darby Ratliff: The Big Bang, a Redux
Linda Ravenswood: Issue 32
Isaura Ren: half-measure
Lettie Jane Rennekamp: HAND TO MOUTH
Juanita Rey: Man at the Door ; Opposites
Jada Reyes: Workdays
Ron Riekki: hot
Kevin A. Risner: Fireworks
Sandra Rivers-Gill: In the Throat of a Tree
Esteban Rodríguez: 10 El árbol
Evyan Roberts: As I Open Close
Deon Robinson: a monochrome boyhood
Lia Robles: SERENITY
Gretchen Rockwell: Everybody Remembers Neil and Buzz
Jonathan Roman: SERENITY
Daniel Romo: Issue 8
Danielle Rose: On the Creation of New Language from the Reading Lists of the Dead ; PLAY IT AGAIN
Shana Ross: Why I Should Be Allowed to Battle
Hannah Rousselot: SERENITY
Phil Rowan: Issue 18
Adrienne Rozells: what i'm thinking
Anne Rundle: Snow melts
Samia Saliba: i am no longer interested in writing poetry i am only here to dance
Holly Salvatore: St. Vrain Pantoum
Cliff Saunders: Tripping the Switch
Wendy Schmidt: Issue 16
Mirabai Scholz: HAND TO MOUTH
Constance Schultz: HAND TO MOUTH
Melissa Paschall Scott: Issue 17
Stephanie Seabrooke: Dual
Arianna Sebo: Aliens and the Mountains
Juliette Sebock: Standardised Testing
Tom Sepulveda: Every day a gift
J.E. Seuk: SPEAK ENGLISH LOUD
Shloka Shankar: A Metonym for Life
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz: Elegy in 4/4
Tara K. Shepersky: At the Beloved River
Evy Shen: Flight Instinct
Chi Sherman: we massive
John Short: Playing Soldiers
Lillian Sickler: it was Lilith who first ate grief as a spondee
Martha Silano: From the Car Stereo. . .
Pamela Yve Simon: Issue 34
Annette Sisson: Instinct for Touch
Anna Teresa Slater: SERENITY
Savannah Slone: HAND TO MOUTH
Rachel Small: Rideau Canal
Barnaby Smith: HAND TO MOUTH
Krystal A. Smith: Extinction
Robin Anna Smith: Father Figure
Tom Snarsky: Bitter Orange
Miguel Soto: Sun in Aquarius: A Poem at Eighteen
Corey Sparks: Psithurism
Ankh Spice: Have mercy
Richard Spilman: The Horror
Lannie Stabile: When Depression Talks Over Me ; And you unearth a photograph of your past and a stranger. . .
George L. Stein: Issue 22
Rachel Stempel: A GREIMAS SQUARE FOR SPRINGTIME
Travis Stephens: Name of Names
Lindsay Stewart: Maybe Medusa was my eleventh grade English teacher
Sarah Stockton: Damage Control
J. B. Stone: Maybe One Day We Will Be Lions
Brett Stout: Issue 19
Olivia Stowell: Keep, Meaning
Joanna Streetly: Even So
Eden Julia Sugay: I promise you, Tomorrow
Melissa Sussens: Spell for Time
Ellora Sutton: Big Mary ; PLAY IT AGAIN
Maxwell Suzuki: Burn, Tan, Peel
Lou Swan: Issue 13
Heather Sweeney: Silver
Kate Sweeney: August in Scituate
Prem Sylvester: We Have Lost All We Found
Jeremy Szuder: Issue 29
Carly Madison Taylor: Tonight I shave precise. . .
Christine Taylor: HAND TO MOUTH
Chuck Taylor: Issue 21
Claire Taylor: Group Texts with Fellow Thirtysomethings
c m taylor: Cotton
Ọbáfẹ́mi Thanni: Alternate ending with bloodless dress
Sophie Furlong Tighe: (Nothing but) Flowers
Sher Ting: I Wage a Question Against the Night
Stephanie Tom: Self-Portrait as Bird in the Hand
Lazarus Trubman: Camp in Northern Russia
Faye Turner-Johnson: Mother. . .Crying Out in the Wilderness
Oma Umehea: I am a woman in my family
Iheoma Uzomba: When your Body outruns a Country
Juliette van der Molen: i'm supposed to love you
Sydney Vogl: Somewhere in a Suburb
Lexi Vranick: last times.
Sunny Vuong: insects & windows into the future
D. S. Waldman: On Ego ; red delicious
Ann E. Wallace: This Small Protection
Amy Wang: before the funeral
Eric Wang: DAE remember dating the boy with his own basketball hoop?
Sean Wang: 20 years later
Ryleigh Wann: Elegy with Spanish Moss
Lindsey Warren: Sentence, Forest
Katrina Washington: Instructions for My Funeral Too
Julie Weiss: This Morning
Kory Wells: My Zinnias Grow Like Good Intentions
Clare Welsh: PLAY IT AGAIN
Tyson West: American Legion Silent Night ; Youngstown Motel
Rodd Whelpley: Mesa at New Year ; SERENITY
Ellie White: There is no version of this story in which you are okay
Lucy Whitehead: Sun Dance
Angelica Whitehorne: To Survive the Summer
Megan Wildhood: A/B Testing
Danielle P. Williams: Bear in mind that death is a drum
Paula Willie-Okafor: Before fire, her lips were not sunken
Brian Wiora: Séance
Bill Wolak: Issue 25
Carson Wolfe: i rack up lines of a poem with the drugs are gone
Nadia Wolnisty: Possums
Salam Wosu: Elegy for the Need to Sway ; Asylum in Your Bosom
Christina Xiong: HAND TO MOUTH
Jeffrey Yamaguchi: Horizon
Mathew Yates: heliotrope ; HAND TO MOUTH ; when the sky goes twister-green ; articulate your bones ; sonnet in no-time ; Issue 33
Jade Yeung: Hippocampus Split
Sarah Yost: Transubstantiation
Trina Young: A Sort of Horror
Emma Younger: 4 AM Vitals
Iris Yu: Home Remedies
Lucy Zhang: Break In
Issam Zineh: Letters to Go Unmailed Until After the Upcoming Exhibition
Jim Zola: Issue 3
Hafsa Zulfiqar: Abecedarian on Inheritance
