The Kids These Days Want to Be Happy

Susan L. LearyMarch 23, 2023

So I say, be happy, though the instinct in me doesn’t capture what I mean. I’d like to think I’d refuse an apology that stumbles drunk out of the bar, that I’d ...

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I still don’t have anything better to do

Victoria NordlundMarch 19, 2023

Tonight I drink merlot from the depression glasses Grandma collected from the EM Loew’s Theater. I wonder what her fave movies were in 1925. I worked a...

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La Reine Quotidienne

Ecem YucelMarch 17, 2023

Every day, she wakes up, goes to the bathroom, and wipes the remnants of the night mask from her face. She washes and curls her blonde hair, whose roots must be...

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Pissing My Grief Away

Devin TaylorMarch 16, 2023

I tinkle far too often, especially now: in coffee mugs, glass tumblers, beer cans, soda bottles, brandy snifters, red solo cups on my nightstand. Emptied eve...

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Things I Know About Patrick Swayze

Katherine ShehadehMarch 1, 2023

after Sandra Simonds   That the weather in the Catskills welcomes in the summer That we once mistook Ghost for a horror film with a hunky male lea...

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Could we have made it through the cold?

isabella clarkFebruary 21, 2023

We didn’t, all four seasons once around, but my unconditional love never stood a chance to keep your heart bound///   This pain, the wind brought ...

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The Shining

Lina BuividavičiūtėFebruary 15, 2023

Inspired by Stephen King’s novel The Shining   What will you find in the memory cutouts, Daddy? How will you explain the black dream mutations, the d...

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How to Fix Transistor Radios and Printed Circuits

Bryce JohleFebruary 15, 2023

He plops down a faded blue hardcover book and says when he dies, this has all we need to know. This will tell you about the electronics and engineering of...

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HADLEY IS SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS

Maya StaplesFebruary 13, 2023

I tell Becca’s boyfriend how when I was 9, I scratched my kneecaps much too hard, and ever since they have been bumpy and so sad. This will be our lil secret, t...

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finding that i am

Giovanna LomantoFebruary 12, 2023

it’s some weird dream that i know is a dream and the dream knows that i know that it’s a dream so the dream is like falling and it’s like saying to myself th...

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Carbon Pressure

Luke JohnsonFebruary 7, 2023

The thing you hate is hidden in the grass. Is groaning. Wants a boy to rub the urge be urge to suck it first then swallow. Every inch. Is snake in a box drum, ...

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What Are You Wearing Right Now? (An Outfit of Four Poems)

Benjamin DavisJanuary 29, 2023

Pant You only need one pair of pants. I know this because I’ve worn these pants for over seven hundred days; black sweatpants masquerading as jeans; flip up th...

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Inside the Waiting Room, I Put My Phone on Do Not Disturb

Hanna PachmanJanuary 26, 2023

I wait for my lover to text me. I wait for the doctor to see me. What am I able to build from his instructions? I wish you were seeing someone, because th...

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How a Scorpio loves (thoughts while you were sleeping)

Gretchen FilartJanuary 24, 2023

The rain thrummed on the rusty red roof while my mind wandered to the honeyed swaths of mountains in small town Ukiah where I will toil for the American drea...

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Tinder Bio

Carly Wheelehan GelsingerJanuary 22, 2023

my three daughters are forming & they watch. I have grown teeth inside me, spun feeding cords from my own blood & though each month I’ll s...

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Journalistic Integrity of Your Own Mind

Noah CiceroJanuary 19, 2023

Sitting with old retired men, men who have been very nice to me Men who donate to charity, men who spend time in soup kitchens But time has passed for them, a...

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Weekend alone

Lindsay HargraveJanuary 19, 2023

I feel like I have so many buried treasures in my name. They are all the names of kung fu movies you begged me to watch and I greedy watched without...

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I am a Planet

Michelle ErotasJanuary 11, 2023

Do not land All heroes spat back out into orbit Choking, my dust in their lungs I ask no man to come light up my caves Another boot on my cheek and I s...

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On Palimpsest and Pavers

Robert John MillerJanuary 9, 2023

i. There is a place in Spain she tells me a city built on top of itself and over again like a Borges story She tells me in excited confidence, like it's w...

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I WANT A PERFECT SOUL

Zoe Contros KearlJanuary 8, 2023

Mountain Dew poured over beautiful, crackling ice. Outside: fog fog fog. Rain, sleet for days. The valley is saturated, can take no more, and I forget wha...

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Winter walk ‘94 

Robyn SchelenzJanuary 5, 2023

Entertaining so you don’t cry. did you know every winter all the trees fall and grizzlies put them back up it’s true Grumpy and crunchy Through the snow...

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In a Dream I Watch UFC With You

Kaylee Young-Eun JeongDecember 26, 2022

When I look at you I think revolutionary thoughts like that people go home to their houses and are happy eating dinner with the family they've always want...

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Recurrent stress dreams in the style of F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode titles

Allison ThungDecember 7, 2022

The One Where I Miss the School Bus Because I Was Queuing for Food in a Poorly Run Convenient Store The One Where I Miss the School Bus Because I Was Queuein...

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Portrait with Bulls and Burritos

Mickie KennedyNovember 24, 2022

My mother had dreams of the tango in Barcelona. The closest she got was throwing up behind a Taco Bell, gripping a bottle of vodka by the neck. Bulls are c...

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Lone Star

Molly WalshOctober 26, 2022

a truck bed raised eighteen inches. a mini-Tahoma summit to the passenger seat. swallow my salted goodbyes. flashes of a blue merle’s howl echo out of the drive...

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How to Be Alive

Leticia Priebe RochaOctober 26, 2022

There is something delicious about witnessing flirtation. A hand extended beyond one bubble onto another, the brush of an arm. Laughter loud, too loud for any...

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Poem where I imagine myself as part of the Donner Party

Leigh ChadwickOctober 3, 2022

I’m scared to eat anyone’s eyes because I’m worried I’ll see their dreams & the sickness each of them carry, or that they will constantly be looking at my i...

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When Candy Becomes a Footnote

Karen CrawfordOctober 3, 2022

The dead girl won’t stop talking. She’s hanging in your room, scrolling through your phone, speaking in hidden hashtags. 1#Deb. 2#Mia. 3#Ana. 4#Sue. She isn’...

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Pamplemousse La Croix

Zoe ClarkSeptember 23, 2022

fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck fuck, fuck, fuck i type this over and over until it has no meaning your sad flat death tears me open as i look at my iPhone 6 dr...

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I’ve been waiting on you

Kelsey ListerSeptember 23, 2022

I became Clementine on a good day. Wearing a heavy jacket, I ran away to take a walk on the wintered beach. I stepped towards the pier, the cold wind moved me a...

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