Bree Jo’Ann’s new poetry collection Black Glitter was published in August by Monster House Press. With exciting, vivid imagery and powerful emotions at play...
i love how everything is too-cool black
too-cool preemptively-stained room
memory pinching time til it fits between
your tooth and the half-wound
of the cheek
n...
The apocalypse told me it loved me and swabbed me a piece of its heart
so I made us some lemonade from scratch with some lemon zest for fiber
and we drank it ...
This museum has the following exhibits:
Gallery of school functions. The fifth grade play is 1776. Benjamin Franklin is played by a girl, his wife by me, day...
It was cloudy today in Montreal / overcast and cool for July
When I realized / the space between
An ending and a beginning / is endless &
Never enough / ...
the homeless yuki-onna sells her matchsticks.
everybody already has matches
and she makes very little money.
at night she sits in her backyard and burns them...
he’s asking to see me again
he’s asking to see me again
he’s asking to see me again
he’s asking to see me again
he’s asking to see me again
he’s asking to ...
Well, we went to the harbor for Italian ice after work and sat on the pier where the kids do wheelies. One of them asked where we were riding and we said north....
Frog is change
Frog is transformation, renewal, rebirth
Frog is menstruation
Frog is puberty
Frog is sex
Frog is male genitalia
Frog is a bedtime story
F...
Somewhere in Russia, other me is shaving his head with his friends, hoisting barrels of rusted ball bearings overhead for sport, loitering in concrete courtyard...
Like a monk without a habit,
I steal down bike lanes in snow,
bridge the gap between was and where,
thread the needle through growing hair.
I take country...
blowing smoke like mushroom clouds and i can't help it!! it just keeps coming out that way any time i smoke a cigareeeeeeeeeeette out comes a plume of camel smo...
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of The Man on High: Essays on Skateboarding, Hip-Hop, Poetry and The Notorious B.I.G (2017), This Last Time Will Be the Fi...
Shy Watson’s Cheap Yellow was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in January of 2018. Recently I chatted with Shy about how the book came together, why...
1. your name crawls arrogantly over both itself
& half-finished stacks of half-assed art amassing
in the narrow hallways of your father’s home.
2. your p...
the life & death of an arborist
a nectarine hyperaware of its pit
worried that the bites i’ve taken
have already been much too big
that my jaw is sti...
How are you today?
How’s your self care?
Shut the fuck up you fucking bureaucrat
Even if you did give a shit I wouldn’t give a shit that you give a shit
Don...
After two weeks of thinking minimalist,
talking minimalist, breathing
minimalist(!)
I dream of buying groceries
in a superstore,
cart loaded beyond c...
