Author: Phoebe Literature

The Pistol & the Pack

Ginger Ayla He was a two-pack-a-day smoker, on bad days three, and once on a smoke break explained    how he first discovered cigarettes   when he was 10, with his friend, sticking a clothes...

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Acorns in the City

Gregory Calabro after Marianne Moore   drop from treetops          onto the harsh sidewalk in turn—                      tens,                     ...

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Mens Rea

Kurt David Due respect to the Weather Girls, but raining men would be the worst possible forecast. I’m not saying I don’t eat peaches with aplomb, I’m just saying I’m sick of alt-right...

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Snow

Jen Frantz after Mary Ruefle   Let’s go to church, I said. My lover didn’t want to go to church. It smells like a hospice in there, he said. So we walked together in the direction of the train...

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THIS POEM IS ABOUT

Lauren Saxon bones. about kneecaps. how easily they dimple the earth’s wet surface. this poem is about kneeling. consider the body’s position. the way our limbs fold into one another. the way...

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All You Need Is Love

Luis Lopez-Maldonado I   am   made   of   water   Soy agua   fresca agua   caliente ardiente   agua  that ...

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Stray Bullets

Lacy Arnett Mayberry Once a year, a bus appeared at school in the middle of the day—alien and out of place, larger than we remembered from even just that morning—for a safety training exercise....

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Kateryna Bortsova

“Girls Portraits” Marker, felt tip pen on paper “Look” Oil on canvas Kateryna Bortsova is a painter and graphic artist with a BFA in graphic arts and an MFA. Works of...

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Permission to Obsess: An Interview with Tyler Mills

By Susan Muth and Tori Reynolds I was lucky to get the chance to sit down with Tyler Mills to discuss her chapbook City Scattered: Cabaret for Four Voices (winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award) and...

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Reckoning with Systems and Running Slowly: An Interview with Lacy Crawford

By Ashlen Renner Coming from a journalism background, I always enjoy reading books that use research to unravel powerful systems that shape our society — and perhaps wrong us. It gives me hope to...

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