Category: Poetry

The Rowan Berries of Winter

Phillip Crymble ——— for Robert Lowell   At Roosevelt, the orderlies were forced to break your wrists — the large brown-paper parcel  that you clutched against your breastbone heldin place...

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I am Creating a New Drug

J.C. Rodriguez By rolling together gray hairs, capers, nettles, & tuna in a page ripped from an old tabloid. A tube seared into existence from burnt dust & browned butter. It’s smokable,...

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clove hitch

p. hodges adams2023 Greg Gummer Prize Runner-Up come hear me, in my twenty-fifth yeari stopped having sex with gender i meanmy lovers all favored the vestibule of language outside the party i mean i...

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Thirst Trap For L’Inconnue De La Seine

RJ Equality Ingram           For Wesley Gibson Often I have imagined myself arguingSoftly w/ the wind & wake the way oarsSlip in & out of the murk barely a splashA quiet night on an...

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Lullaby for an Adult

Peter Vertacnik           –after Patric Dickinson All the doors are locked. The dog’s been walked.  Each tap, each burner off. No dome-light glows in the garage.  Through that...

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Virgil Suárez

“Swan Pieta” “Bird Singing” “Electric” Virgil Suárez...

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Pastoral Fragment

Rachel RothenbergWinner of the 2023 Greg Grummer Poetry Prize Somerset County, Pennsylvania Half a cow is disappeared from the farm in Berlin, a two-ton Holstein, it makes  the paper. Gone the...

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Inheritance

Rebecca Faulkner I am trying to remember —  corners of your newspaper curled  in a November breeze, mothballs  in your herringbone tweed. Stubborn  grief, my coat pulled tight....

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French Sardines

Rosa Lane After Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!” (249)              French sardines arrive from Boston, tin- plated. Maggie levers her can...

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when i think of quentin tarantino i think of revenge

Elizabeth J. Wenger when i think of quentin tarantino i think of revenge dressed in tight yellow leather carving a katana through the script. blood squirts like hershey’s syrup from the screen //...

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