WHEN THE WRITER TRIES TO MAKE NUMBNESS HUMANE by T.R.San
T.R.San (they/them) is a queer poet based in Yangon who writes horror without meaning to. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in...
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My Grandfather's Gardens by Richard Weaver
The author hopes to one day again volunteer with the Maryland Book Bank, and return as writer-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub. A few...
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The World I Can’t Remember is Now by Lauren Camp
🌵 New Mexico State Poet Laureate My friend has disappeared though he lives down the road between sweetgrass, updraft and evergreen in a...
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I Was Not a Tender Lover by Michelle Hulan
I swallowed air more than I breathed it. Took space more than I held it. He said I’d die ten times and still rise a woman made of bees...
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Carrie White Wonders What Difference it Would Have Made by Danielle Shorr
If she had been told about the blood before it came, or if it came an hour late, or earlier in the day, or in a time when Google could...
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Hoofprints by Lisa Raatikainen
Lisa Raatikainen is a poet and writer who holds degrees in religion and biology. Her poems and essays have found homes with Whale Road...
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Minecrafting in My Daughter's World by Daniel Flosi
Daniel J Flosi sometimes thinks they are an apparition living in a half-acre coffin within the V of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers....
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Wild Birds Unlimited by Nick Martino
Nick Martino was born along the ocean of Lake Michigan. An MFA candidate in poetry at the University of California Irvine and a 2021...
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Upside Down by Kathryn Kulpa
I got one of my dizzy spells climbing the stairs to the Upside Down House. There was a lady just inside the door, jiggling a baby in one...
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The Gibeon Sun by Joshua Thusat
"...and he said…Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,...
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Send Me a Word by Alice Kaltman
Who left the broken stroller on my front stoop? Once upon a time, bespoke for a well-born bundle of joy, with lambswool-encased memory...
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Or Else by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
The scream pierces the surrounding damp. Kainoa drops to the ground, trying to guess where it came from, his sweat-stained tank clinging...
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Glow Sticks by Barbara Westwood-Diehl
Gradually, the outlines of wineglasses appear on a table. A heap of shoes by a door. A black leather jacket crumpled on a chair. No sign...
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How to Capture Carbon by Cameron Walker
Parents start preparing their children for middle school early now. Even before they are old enough to read, there are tutors,...
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The Messenger by Shannon St. Hilaire
The young man’s head had been freshly severed when they put it on the spike. Blood turned the wood dark red and then pooled below,...
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The Leaving and the Left Behind by Jad Josey
The early summer day was both quiet and loud as Liam and I walked downtown toward the Shady Bean. The trees were frozen in place without...
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The First Time I Dug a Hole by Juliette Neil
It was a Saturday, early April, in the Shenandoah Valley, and our biology class was planting trees. We pulled on ill-fitting gloves and...
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You Can’t Sleep Here by Kathy Seifert
Cul-de-Sac Darkness is falling as you slip the car into park, safe in a cul-de-sac in the suburbs. The engine ticks and tacks dispelling...
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And Another Thing by L Mari Harris
My sister Tara says, “Tell me everything you know.” I do her one better and tell her to grab her keys. We park at the far edge of the lot...
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The Sympathy of Clocks by Cate McGowan
The sympathy of clocks is a phenomenon in which a pair of moving clock pendulums in close proximity synchronize movement. 1. The Ship...
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