Medusa as Cassandra

Kara DorrisMay 21, 2025

Goddess, you will be so cute in Clueless. Will play clueless so well everyone overlooks you, dazzled by Cher’s silky hair & keen knee-highs. You won’t k...

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NOT THE BEES

Brandon DiehlMay 20, 2025

When my therapist asks me what’s wrong today, I start to regret even attending this video meeting. She wants to know if it’s the depression or the anxiety or...

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Hemispherical Torsion with Jumprope

Sara FitzpatrickMay 12, 2025

When I was a very small spool I sparked a trigger and became a doll house. I couldn’t see the apple and when it rotted I couldn’t see it even more. I was racked...

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Sorry, but the T. Rex Doesn’t Look Anything Like What You Think It Does 

Abigail RaleyApril 30, 2025

She’s actually skinny. She’s on Ozempic, enduring her small apocalypse: too many jokes about her tiny arms. She’s had a bad day. If you knew anything about...

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It’s only a music video

Dayna TroisiApril 16, 2025

I set the strip mall on fire The nail salon was the first to go Up in smoke Acetone and gel, powdered blood It rained Lincoln Park After Dark nail polish F...

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notes app apology but i wrote the shit in wingdings so you know i am fr fr (translated)

Travis ShosaApril 15, 2025

What do you mean you’re deferring the Palestinian rapper feature because it’s not the right time?   I’m sorry for thinking you had a backbone &nbs...

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Anthropomorphism

Lina BuividavičiūtėApril 10, 2025

My Facebook page is flooded with animated Cat paintings – mother cats walking on The two legs. Their bulging bellies are reminiscent of womanhood. Moth...

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Marvel movies weren’t meant to inspire martyrs but—

Maia Brown-JacksonApril 9, 2025

I'm looking for dynamite, I think. When I go, I'm not drowning; no long, slow pulls of oxygen out of me— just a quick boom! and it’s done. That’s how I’...

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Oh god oh fuck

Lucas RestivoApril 8, 2025

Lately I've been thinking of getting into humiliation rituals. Most of what I say amounts to sharpie on a QR code. I just can’t help that Cyber Trucks look ki...

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Garish Decorations in the Graveyard

Ewen GlassApril 7, 2025

Ron&Esther complained to the council; just look at all the balloons and tacky teddy-bears! They didn’t know it was the children’s section, and when they wer...

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Twitter DM Death Threat I Sent to Jesus Christ Last Night

Grant FrazierApril 5, 2025

YOU prince of cold, of peace, of stones and lobbing long-thrown venom writhing wriggling: I am rumbling raging brush and you are my animal sibling grunting &a...

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Fade into You

David ColodneyApril 3, 2025

          Ok, readers, between us, I joined & canceled Columbia House record club memberships & picked 12 CDs...

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A Buffy revival series is in the works at Hulu & you have so many questions

Victoria NordlundApril 2, 2025

like, how can it be 22 years since Buffy last aired? If you claim this is your favorite show, why haven’t you seen it since 2003? Was it really as good as yo...

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The Second Dumbing

Mike ItayaMarch 18, 2025

(After “The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats and Dumb & Dumber To) Churning and Churning inside a Dumb & Dumber spinoff The Zamboni cannot hear the Z...

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Northport, August 17

Lily TobiasMarch 17, 2025

We drank the summer air. It was thick and nourished the winter in us that wanted to be known....

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Spiraling Back to You Villanelle

Dustin Brookshire and Beth GylysMarch 14, 2025

A contoured villanelle using “Teacher” by Elizabeth Alexander When you don’t answer, I swear then count to ten, remind myself I’m not a teen, no driving by to...

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Wolf in Hipster Clothes

Patrick G. RolandMarch 13, 2025

At the bus stop, the kid beside me hides death, like a wolf in silk, he shoots me a sly grin. I toss him a gentle smile and a quick nod, let him know we’re c...

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Passenger

Eva AlterMarch 11, 2025

At fourteen, acutely and newly voiceless I became preoccupied with the basking shark. From an animal family typecast as vicious and soulless and yet itself...

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Undelivered Mixtapes

Gina ApavMarch 10, 2025

Rainy Nights & Pillow Fights: The road trip we took upstate when you spilled coffee on my sneakers…that was one of the last messes we made that we could blo...

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5 Poems After the Palisades Fire

Kyle KouriMarch 6, 2025

Pizza Pies When your whole life is set on fire, 10-year plan tossed around like an off- brand soda can, it’s nice to break your diet and pick up a pizza...

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CUT LIKE A WIFE

Rebecca SingerFebruary 27, 2025

I.  I gave myself away because I wasn’t my father’s to give.  My bone tulle train snagged on the splintered steps descending from the sweeping veranda of ...

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Behind the Scenes, I Wrote a Poem While We Shared Photographs Soaked with the Memory of a Mannequin Store

Israel OkonjiFebruary 26, 2025

In the first photograph, I stood opinionless: like a ballpoint waiting for an instruction to scratch the bare chest of a parchment. Fazed by a magenta shadin...

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Intimacy

Tim FrankFebruary 17, 2025

I need a hug. You give me a mannequin with no arms....

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Playing Fortnite with Victor

Robert AnnisFebruary 12, 2025

How a squandered moment sets its anchor to the shole of memory. Shallow sunk jetsam wriggles loose—washes upon shore and by some accident equally dumb and j...

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The gift of emptiness

Lina BuividavičiūtėFebruary 3, 2025

All the gifts seem to have been distributed.  The excitement passed like a rain cloud, blown away by Summer wind. It's a long way off, I'm counting the li...

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A Cosmic Ode To Us

Alexandra NimmoJanuary 28, 2025

I think I’ve loved him since the day my soul burst into existence But as for this lifetime, I had no big epiphany. All the fairy tales and silver screens ...

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Three Poems After Movies

Jon DoughboyJanuary 27, 2025

Three Days of the Condor The condor’s collar is up. Cold war winds sweep the city streets. Christmas is here and all America wants under the tree is cheap...

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Joshua LovinsJanuary 23, 2025

hollower than an engine or whittled upstart fiction a geyser is a fissure a flame a wasting fluid cruder than an ordering an orphan want, an early stain...

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Last night there were drones spotted in NJ

Victoria NordlundJanuary 20, 2025

& two weeks ago the sky was all purple & I thought of quoting the Prince song as I posted the pic on my Instagram story but I settled on: I didn’t h...

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Canonization at the Mall of America

Michaella SangioloJanuary 13, 2025

When I kneel and take the body it’s in the form of free samples of Dior no 37 swiped across the mouth pretend it’s someone else’s thumb. I am never going...

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