A Song I Made Up at 3 a.m. While Pricing Solar Generators in Preparation for the Inevitable Collapse of the Power Grid

Stephanie HashagenMay 27, 2026

The floor is hot lava the door is ajar it’s enjambed and the sky is alive with the sound of the angels it’s Saturday night up in heaven they’re bowling and...

Poetry0 Comments

An Epitaph

Justin KarcherMay 14, 2026

A party, a girl, it was raining. The details are blurry like those silent movies that disappeared from existence....

Poetry0 Comments

2026

Michael DegnanMay 12, 2026

We wanted to be Keanu and to know kung fu. We chose keystrokes over sequoias too large to put your arms around. We have forgotten the stories told from the...

Poetry1 Comment

PARANOIASTRIKE

tommy wyatt blakeMay 6, 2026

i watch BoJack Horseman when i’m in a deep refracting depression. when vodka in a plastic water bottle is a vessel of glitter-rotting space, and i want to go on...

Poetry0 Comments

Sonnet for a Chatbot

Elliott SchwebachApril 28, 2026

it’s been wagered that care will soften this crazing road. I met upon it, instead, a disgruntled, bloated reptile. I fled often since then, your messages on ...

Poetry1 Comment

Apology Tour

Nicole ShepherdApril 23, 2026

The presale is now live. For $0 you can watch me slowly replace meals with a can of tuna and instant mashed potatoes. Fruit to fight off scurvy like anyone...

Poetry0 Comments

An Easy Death

Graham CliffordMarch 31, 2026

‘Darkling I listen; and, for many a time/ I have been half in love with easeful Death’ Keats, Ode to a Nightingale I'd like to book an easy death, please....

Poetry4 Comments

Chuck Norris Meets Joe Black

Lina BuividavičiūtėMarch 25, 2026

In memory of my teenage hero When my son and I watch the anime "One-Punch Man", I always think of Chuck Norris. All those jokes about the invincible Texas Ran...

Poetry2 Comments

Homecoming

Ian liptakMarch 24, 2026

there’s a window/maybe it’s an opportunity/and maybe it’s just a window/beneath the grey sky/a maroon couch sits on hard wood/i sit on the hard wood/friends tal...

Poetry0 Comments

The Little Fish Dory Regains Her Memory

Lina BuividavičiūtėMarch 18, 2026

When my son was small, we watched a lot of Hollywood cartoons. Dory the fish’s memory became an important leitmotif. I can’t count how many times Dory ...

Poetry0 Comments

The Night Before Easter

Rosanne EnglishMarch 17, 2026

I watch an X-Files episode about a murderous doll, while slicing potatoes with a borrowed mandolin for potatoes au gratin.  I let the dog out onto the deck, dri...

Poetry0 Comments

jason x was right about the future

John SaraMarch 16, 2026

that david cronenberg will be there too. that we'll fuck and we'll die in a thousand inventive new ways and we’ll act as if the future hasn’...

Poetry0 Comments

My Boss Who Laid Me Off Keeps Sending Me Memes

Brian Francis O’DeaMarch 10, 2026

Which I think is kinda bullshit When I was an employee I had a slight professional inclination To pretend his brand of millennial male humor Was something...

Poetry2 Comments

I get Chinese food at the mall to doodle on the receipt

Tessa McHattieMarch 9, 2026

After My Fifteen-Year-Old Self the cab ride home the long way home the poem no one read the friend who wasn’t in the end the Plot? Suspense? God and gore...

Poetry1 Comment

Did you catch the clip of Jim Carrey receiving an honorary award yesterday in Paris?

Victoria NordlundMarch 5, 2026

Did you watch him humbly recite his acceptance speech in French? Did you happen to notice after the show, he acted so stoked & grateful to be chatting...

Poetry0 Comments

BAD HAIRCUT

Dalton DayMarch 2, 2026

My haircut wasn’t going well. I looked like how seashells feel when they are first sewn to the shore. The person cutting my hair explained that this was pa...

Poetry1 Comment

Photo Booth on Mars

Melissa FeuersteinFebruary 24, 2026

Last time I saw you, we were trapped in a photo booth on planet Mars. I traced the anatomy of your knife sheath, your kydex holsters. Although we were unlicense...

Poetry4 Comments

Smoke Break

Jason SchwartzFebruary 23, 2026

Loyalty is molecular, rasps the night, its throat scored with string lights. But sister-in-law— Klonopin sometimes unrhymes your DNA from my wife’s. ...

Poetry0 Comments

Twenty Questions

Jayrold TrasporteFebruary 19, 2026

Did I mistake the water again for forgiveness this morning? Washing the piled-up dishes, the horseflies in this sun-sticky mid-afternoon buzz their uncoded ...

Poetry1 Comment

Landscape with the Drowning of Jason Voorhees

John SaraFebruary 18, 2026

No one noticed when Icarus fell either, one leg kicking out of water, the ploughman too deep in his work to hear the splash, thinking about the next ...

Poetry1 Comment

I Want to Be Tabitha Stephens

Susan CossetteFebruary 17, 2026

Half mortal, half witch, a twitch of my pert freckled nose will bring tuxedoed warlock minions bearing strawberry ice cream with rainbow sprinkles, Malibu ...

Poetry1 Comment

Maladaptive Daydreaming

Ian liptakFebruary 16, 2026

I am 170lbs and hitting a dab pen in the parking lot of a Jewel-Osco. Home is the hospital in Naperville and the one in Lake County and another one in Racine....

Poetry0 Comments

Think of the bros

Ewen GlassFebruary 9, 2026

the bros and their podcasts, the bros and their hurt; consider their cherished FACTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS; think of their parents, steroid-ho...

Poetry0 Comments

owl

Ben StarrFebruary 5, 2026

Dysfunctional relationships aren’t nearly as fun as they seem in the movies. No wacky sidekicks cracking wise or hilarious hijinks begging to ensue. It’s jus...

Poetry0 Comments

The alien Ursa Major defends her dissertation

Lina BuividavičiūtėFebruary 2, 2026

Keanu Reeves plays a failed angel who wants to have a successful career – he is tasked with protecting drivers who use mobile phones on the road – Keanu Reeve...

Poetry1 Comment

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Matt ZambitoJanuary 30, 2026

—after the film by the same name A dying bloodwood tree in the backyard needs timbering, and my neighbor, Jimbo, the amateur butcher, bullies his cuniculture...

Poetry0 Comments

how many signals would it take to bring down a commercial boeing 747

ani anyaJanuary 20, 2026

I have to tell you something. I need to get this off my chest Back sometime in 2009, I kept my phone on the entire flight (by accident, of course) and nothi...

Poetry0 Comments

Ode to the RedBull

Karina TenDecember 26, 2025

A divine can in my hand teases me, all beckoning with its colours of blue and white. I am unable to resist, and so I’ll be inhaling its vital light. I’ve ...

Poetry0 Comments

Home Alone at the End of the Year

Sammi LaBueDecember 24, 2025

The candles are fake burning in the new old windows of my movie set house Like I have died and been reincarnated as Kevin Mcallister. Still, I chose to pick a...

Poetry1 Comment

In Defense of Popup Ads

Nicole ShepherdDecember 22, 2025

Algorithms may aggravate, but they never forget. They remember your needs: wedding guest dress, cheap meals, how to survive a recession, baby shower gif...

Poetry0 Comments