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Poets & Artists

Fatima Aamir:  Ahora--Mexico City, 2020
Odukoya Adeniyi:  His Desired Epitaph
Iyanuoluwa Adenle:  Practise
Paul David Adkins:  Official Michigan State Prison Inmate Details. . . ; Book Review
Hasheemah Afaneh:  Military Occupations and Baton Rouge
Michael Akuchie:  Dear Self
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
Trina Askin:  Lost Nostalgia and How Your Voice Sounded in the Rain
Shannon Austin:  Self-Portrait as the Wonder Twins
Anthony AW:  boutique sad
Ray Ball:  Tithe of Salt
Brian Michael Barbeito:  Issue 12
Steve Barichko:  in the time of quarantine
​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
Hunter Blackwell:  Foundations
Dana Blatte:  Idolatry & Other Crimes
Chris Blexrud:  Miami
Elizabeth Bluth:  Chemotherapy
Jean Bohuslav:  Chicken Feet
Mark Bolsover:  the fish. ...
Scout Bolton:  PLAY IT AGAIN
William Bortz:  October, and Everything Is Breathing
Despy Boutris:  On Drowning
Mary Bowers:  HAND TO MOUTH
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
Hannah Cajandig-Taylor:  When the Sky Fell onto Us, Indicating the Proximity of End Times
Diane Callahan:  On a Whim
Leah Callen:  Coligny Boutonnière​
Jill Bergantz Carley:  Issue 5
Sasha Carney:  Exoneration, Post-Exams
Oliver Cato:  HAND TO MOUTH
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
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
Jason B. Crawford:  tell the ghost ; Mad Scientist
Libby Cudmore:  PLAY IT AGAIN
Janet Dale:  (it breaks)
Elle Danbury:  Issue 14
Satya Dash:  The Geometry of Isolation
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
Charlotte Edwards:  Heart City
Rachel Egly:  On dead fish
Ann Eleven:  Someone Will Always Claim the Ear of God
CD Eskilson:  Dystychipaphobia, or Fear of Accidents
Ebuka Evans:  Path of Thunder. . .
Meredith Faulkner:  A Chiropractor. . .
April Frances Federico:  Issue 7
Sandra Fees:  Threshold
Joaquin Fernandez:  HAND TO MOUTH
Alexandre Ferrere:  (Hom)m(emade) Fragmentation
Marlin Figgins:  [          ] Approaches Me in a Coffee Shop Asking "why did you leave?"
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_
Sam Frost:  A Poem for Someone Else's Pain
​Cory Funk:  Issue 2
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
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. . .
Robin Gow:  the robots who suggest Facebook ads are just ghosts
Roppotucha Greenberg:  HAND TO MOUTH
Shannon Frost Greenstein:  My Body Is a Coffin. . . ; Relapse
Bailey Grey:  how to embody the face you track
SK Grout:  Self Portrait as Sentimental Star
Ambika Gupta:  body when horizontal
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
victoria mallorga hernandez:  lover, summer girl
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
Ellen Huang:  Snogging Frogs
Yong-Yu Huang:  Elegy for Future Self
Zebulon Huset:  The NRA Edits Justin Trudeau's Speech. . .
Kerenn Irias: In a Time of Estrangement
James Croal Jackson:  Another Drunken Summer
Lucas Jacob:  Defense​
Temidayo Jacob:  Fresh Water
Dipe Jola:  Red Nights, Candles and Moaning
Michal "MJ" Jones:  Gone (A Golden Shovel)
Logan Kaye Jung:  PLAY IT AGAIN
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
Aimée Keeble:  Détente
Tiia Kelly:  Ant Farm
Akif Kichloo:  Salam. I Am Sorry for Yesterday ; Secretly I Am a Mathematician
Judith Kingston:  Object Permanence ; Diagnosis
Amy Kinsman:  immolations
Erin Kirsh:  Conversations with My Grandmother
J. I. Kleinberg:  hospital of darkness ; other
emilie kneifel:  alternate timeline
Paxton Knox:  Ecdysis
Laurie Koensgen:  HAND TO MOUTH ; SERENITY
Kavi Kshiraj:  Car-crash Impulse
December Lace:  Cremains
Sophie Laing:  Cooling Off When You Live in the Country
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
Kat Lehmann:  SERENITY
André N. Lepine:  Colonizer
Hege Jakobsen Lepri:  Knife
Kara Lewis:  Love, Too, Is a Kind of Imposter Syndrome
Ting Lin:  A Purpose for Those Without
Eric Lochridge:  Jeff Bezos Shows Up on My Doorstep
Quinn Lui:  poem pinned out on the dissection table
DS Maolalai:  Cleared ground
Jennifer Mack-Watkins:  
Issue 1​​
Aaron Magloire:  Not a Poem About Ahmaud Arbery
Kathy Mak:  To Moulton
Lauren Mallett:  Caesura in the Thoracic Age
Shon Mapp:  Bygones & Mixtapes
Allie Marini:  HAND TO MOUTH
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
Jill Mceldowney:  If I Don't Meet You in this Life, Let Me Feel the Lack
Collin McFadyen:  Sparrows and Starlings
Cate McGowan:  Mother Courage
Jessie Lynn McMains:  Lilac Palace, 1987
Caitlin Miller:  A favourite dress
Kori Millhimes:  SERENITY
Bethany Mitchell:  Postcards for the End of the World
Matt Mitchell:  A Portrait
Suchoon Mo:  Issue 9 ; Issue 11 ; Issue 17
Marjorie Moorhead:  SERENITY
Meg Mulcahy:  Come and collect your ma, she's gotten out again
Chad Musick:  HAND TO MOUTH
Emily Nabnian:  Red/Skater Boys
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
Robert Okaji:  Self-Portrait as Wave ; Clandestine
Precious Okpechi:  Hund's Rule of Degenerate Living
Fiyinfoluwa Olajesu:  how i treat praise
James O'Leary:  Fever Sestina​
Okeke Onyedika:  The Secret Diary of a Man in Exile
Bola Opaleke:  Testimony
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
Holly Pelesky:  Restaurant People
Ada Pelonia:  HAND TO MOUTH
Cara Peterhansel:  Futile Feet
Maria S. Picone:  How gaslighting is like a trip to the beach
Elliot Ping:  devotional
Amy Poague:  Kaleidoscope Repair, Since You're Awake
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 Rammelkamp:  Book Review (1) ; Book Review (2) ; Book Review (3) ; Book Review (4) ; Book Review (5)
Adithi Raghavan:  An Evening Meal with Mother's Paranoia
Gayatri Rajan:  We Were Birds
Susan Blackwell Ramsey:  PLAY IT AGAIN
Vismai Rao:  Ode to Period
Darby Ratliff:  The Big Bang, a Redux
Isaura Ren:  half-measure
Lettie Jane Rennekamp:  HAND TO MOUTH
Juanita Rey:  Man at the Door ; Opposites
Jada Reyes:  Workdays
Ron Riekki:  hot
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
Anne Rundle:  Snow melts
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
Shloka Shankar:  A Metonym for Life
​Tiffany Shaw-Diaz:  Elegy in 4/4
Tara K. Shepersky:  At the Beloved River
Chi Sherman:  we massive
John Short:  Playing Soldiers
Martha Silano:  From the Car Stereo. . .
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
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
Ellora Sutton:  Big Mary ; PLAY IT AGAIN
Lou Swan:  Issue 13
​Heather Sweeney:  Silver
Prem Sylvester:  We Have Lost All We Found
Carly Madison Taylor:  Tonight I shave precise. . .
Christine Taylor:  HAND TO MOUTH
Chuck Taylor:  Issue 21
Claire Taylor:  Group Texts with Fellow Thirtysomethings
Sophie Furlong Tighe:  (Nothing but) Flowers
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
Lexi Vranick:  last times.
D. S. Waldman:  On Ego ; red delicious
Ann E. Wallace:  This Small Protection
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
Megan Wildhood:  A/B Testing
Paula Willie-Okafor:  Before fire, her lips were not sunken
Brian Wiora:  Séance
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
Trina Young:  A Sort of Horror​​
Lucy Zhang:  Break In
Jim Zola:  
Issue 3
Quintin Collins
Sarena Pollock
Holly Pelesky
Kory Wells
Satya Dash
Emitomo Nimisire
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