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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
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2022
April 2022
Ilari Pass "Slough"
Allison Blevins and Joshua Davis "Audio Commentary to Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art"
Dana Knott "Goddess of Discord"
Mirabel "Illegible"
Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "The Poem Says"
Jacob Griffin Hall "Trance"
Irma K "Vancouver Postcard (Mother’s Day)"
Olivia Lee "under the covers"
Karen Paul Holmes "Lines Written Under Hartsfield-Jackson Airport"
Karo Ska "i am my father’s child"
2021
April 2021
Winniebell Xinyu Zong "Wrinkles As Oceans Trenches"
SK Grout "Dispatch"
Rachael Inciarte "boys on the rock"
Madeline Miele "Hedgehog"
Gabrielle Grace Hogan "Take Me In Your Tender Arms, Roll Me in the Dirt"
Alec Hershman "We All Have Different Ways of Getting There. Some are Drugs"
Dion O’Reilly "Hunt"
Aathma Nirmala Dious "Tattoo"
Tara Ballard "Swimming Late"
Amy Zhou "The Story Your Lungs Carry"
2020
November 2020: Poets Resist 2020 Elections Special Feature
E. J. Koh "Pledge of Allegiance"
Cortney Lamar Charleston "It’s Important I Remember That a Tank Has Never Stopped the Lyric—"
Jessica Abughattas "Anarchy"
Jonny Teklit "Walter Scott Visits Jacob Blake in the Hospital and They Spend the Whole Night Hugging"
Rachel Mennies "February 26, 2017"
Jason Koo "Everything We Look Upon is Blessed"
I.S. Jones "Self-Portrait as Itolia"
Kay Ulanday Barrett "When I’m trying not to jump like my brothers"
Malcolm Friend "When You Tell Me the Next Emperor Will Be Kinder, I Remember"
William Evans "Reverse Abecedarian Where Achilles Dies in the Middle"
Jamaica Baldwin "Unravel"
Leah Umansky "Of Tyrant"
Alyssa Arns "I executive order"
Chelsea Dingman "I’ll Be Gone in the Dark"
Su Hwang "Model Minority Myth"
Deshawn McKinney "Like Sand from a Beach"
Ariel Francisco "Reminder That Is No Longer Necessary Anywhere In The World Except Here In The United States of America"
Dujie Tahat "Veterans Day Assembly"
Hal Y. Zhang "free referral"
Hope Wabuke "Figure 1: Ruth After the War Still Dreams of Things Like Angels That Shield Men From the Firing"
Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Song For My Nation"
October 2020
Honora Ankong "My mother birthed me of dust"
Yejin Suh "To An Echo"
Daliah Angelique "this is femininity as taste test"
Phoebe Rusch "Heterosexuality"
Aaron Samuels "Vin Diesel has his birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese"
Snigdha Koirala "Nature Poem"
Paula Harris "we don’t have fireflies in New Zealand, but the idea has always intrigued me"
Caroline Shea "Julianna"
Amit Majmudar "COVID-19"
Marissa Davis "Psalm for the Unloved Body"
September 2020
Mamie Morgan "Everyone I’ve Danced With Is Dead."
Justin Groppuso-Cook "The Lighthouse"
Dai “Debby” Shi "It’s Too Early"
Roy White "Fables of the Enlightenment"
Abbie Kiefer "Tending"
Kathryn Petruccelli "Picking Late Season Blueberries Near the Rifle Range"
Carson Lee "In Retrograde"
Shannon Cuthbert "turnpike"
Rachel G Mussenden "The Mason"
Courtney Felle "do you want me to leave?"
August 2020
Aaron Samuels "Mario"
Rachel Ronquillo Gray "Girl as Full Moon"
Jessica Nirvana Ram "astral ashes"
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer "Self-Portrait as Plague"
Tan Tuck Ming "Genealogy of the Wet Market"
Claire Christoff "Cowardice Before the Flight of Time"
Phillip Watts Brown "Skyglow"
Jennifer K. Sweeney "Every morning we boarded our little ship"
Ronda Piszk Broatch "Let Me Be Breath"
Allison Blevins "The Silence of a Window"
July 2020
Tamer Sa’id Mostafa "I Haven't Been Keeping up on Pluto Much These Days"
Angela Maria Spring "Loss Is Not Meant for the Never-Haves"
Lauren Hilger and Dionissios Kollias "Plato's Republic"
Stephen Furlong "Most Days I Long to be An Ampersand"
Kyle Oh "Seven Essays In Response to Being Told "Coming Out Stories of Gay Teenagers With Unaccepting Parents is an Overdone Trope, Nobody's Really That Homophobic Anymore""
Bailey Grey "oxidation"
Katherine Hoerth "The Day Before Another Apocalypse"
Peter H. Michaels "The Self-Titled City"
Jennifer Wortman "Better Living"
June 2020
JinJin Xu "There is Still Singing in the Afterlife"
Chloe Hanson "Daughter Of The Air Regrets Bartering Away Her Voice For Nice Set Of Gams"
Margaret Ray "The Problem of Where to Put Things"
Emma Miao "Winter in Distillation"
Rachel Britton "Galaxy 3C 75 as Dependency"
Gretchen Rockwell "The Last of Us"
Aurelia Kessler "Genuflect"
Megan Neville "Our Lady Of The Safe Word"
Annie Christain "Ghostbusters (2016), Having Never Watched the Film"
Grace Q. Song "After The Attack"
May 2020
EJ Koh "Doom"
Lakshmi Mitra "somnolence"
Deon Robinson "A stampede of men's hands"
Meg Yardley "On Hold at the Unemployment Office"
E. Kristin Anderson "Will I Still Be Waiting"
Theadora Siranian "Tulpa"
Alex Howard "Uncle"
Weston Morrow "My Fair Lady (1964)"
AJ Wolff "Proper Dogma"
Crystal Ignatowski "Quiet Spaces"
April 2020
Grace Q. Song "False Elegy"
Michelle Menting "Pavement"
April Michelle Bratten "Quasar"
Madu Chisom Kingdavid "Survival, Surviving, Dying"
Helen Qian "map of a modern body"
Dominic Knowles "nocturne interrogative (for RD, who sleeptalks)"
Leah Umansky "Alternate Ending of the Tyrant"
Sarah Ghoshal "Singin' in the Rain"
J.J. Hernandez "We Will Remain, and Continue to Remain"
Adeeba Shahid Talukder "Rahguzar: The Path"
March 2020
Saddiq Dzukogi "Waterlog"
Jude Nguyen "Apis mellifera"
Rachel Peach Leonard "You Being Beige on a Mountain in Greece"
Anuel Rodriguez "Blue Parabolic"
Kristine Esser Slentz "my grunts burst into feathers"
Ray Ball "Concha"
Brennan Sprague "What Can I Say I Have A Lot To Say"
Stephanie Yue Duhem "break fast"
renée kay "let me write an ode to some thing"
February 2020
Patrick Tong "Osteology of Martyrdom"
Adina Kopinsky "Love Poem with Polenta"
Nicole Markert "The Quiz in the Grief Packet My Counselor Gave Me"
Andrew Villegas "I Won't Italicize Our Mexican Worms"
Duy Quang Mai "Ophelia"
Alexa Lemoine "On The Last Day Of April"
Danielle Rose "pretty in soft light"
William Fargason "Blood Poetry"
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett "Overwater"
Angela Qian "Dispatch from Hiroshima"
January 2020
Jess Rizkallah "luv poem 3 (with lines from jack’s mannequin & lauryn hill)"
Christina Veladota "An Obituary for 18-year-old Me"
Dani Putney "Milk"
Dāshaun Washington "How to Plant a Fairy"
Golden "When I was Seven I Captured a Honey Bee in a Poland Spring Bottle to Solve the Mystery of Economy"
Teo Mungaray "Jackhammer"
Jill Mceldowney "If the Dead Were in the Room I Would Say"
Schyler Butler "Bust Yoke"
Jen Stewart Fueston "On the morning of your anniversary"
Mary Sims "Counting Daughter Universes"
2019
December 2019
Eric Tran "Scenes"
Maya Jewell Zeller "Letter to Tori in December"
Urvi Kumbhat "Map of flowers"
Gardner Dorton "Inside the Steeple"
Gavin Yuan Gao "Queer Physics: First Principle"
Courtney LeBlanc "How Empty Those Roads Were"
James McKenna "For the Woman at the SuperAmerica Gas Station on Broadway & University Who Called Me a Pink-Haired Faggot"
Alec Prevett "Toward Some Meager Body"
Ronnie Nocella "Predictive Text Poem #2"
Emily Khilfeh "Lachrymose"
Sara J. Grossman "Peak"
Adrienne Novy "Portrait of billie eilish as judith beheading holofernes"
November 2019
Rachel Wiley "Femme, Fatale"
Samiah Haque "Mother’s Elbows"
M. Wilder "tromoß"
Gita Labrador "In the Heart of the City, a Softness"
Tara Skurtu "Guilt Eater"
Madeleine Barnes "Dreamscape with Embryo"
Maggie Woodward "Origin Story"
Quintin Collins "Delayed MBTA Train Home as Jimi Hendrix's Stratocaster"
Stephanie Lane Sutton "On the Dark Side of Oz"
Amy Pence "Cabinet of Obsessions"
Emma William-Margaret Rebholz "if a trans kid runs away from home & no one is around to stop them do they even make a sound?"
Vincent Toro "Latinxorcismos: Semiotic Study of the Gringo Horror Film (Required Reading)"
October 2019
Jody Chan "instructions for removing an IUD"
Catherine Esther Cowie "As a consequence of my father following a voice in his head"
Diana Clark "Girls’ Night"
Emily Tian "Hunting in November"
Jacqueline Boucher "in praise"
Robert Siek "Shoot the iPhone of the Deceased into Outer Space"
Kathleen Mitchell-Askar "Miscarried"
Uma Menon "Out"
Kimberly Ann Priest "my pedophile stays in the moment"
Christine Taylor "The Escort Files: A Zuihitsu"
Emily Robidoux "Thaw"
Lannie Stabile "What Do You Say About a Crime That Happened Before You Were Born?"
Sara Ryan "Growing Bone"
Emily Yin "Too Many Bridges To Burn"
September 2019
Santino DallaVecchia "Chimera"
Paula Harris "Genghis Khan caused the death of 10% of the world’s population, leading to forest regeneration and increased carbon absorption; I struggle to get out of bed in the morning but still recycle and in summer try to water my garden with grey water from the washing machine"
Trust Tonji "The deaths that killed your mother broke your wings"
M/Em Amory "Artemisia paints me and I ask her to describe what she sees"
Isabelle Jia "still life"
Emily Lake Hansen "My male professor asks haven’t women been writing about this for decades already?"
Alicia Winokur "const reminder = true;"
Katie Darby Mullins "Dr. Phil and I Watch My Husband Play Guitar in a Packed Bar"
Christina Yoseph "The Child Inside"
Rae Hoffman Jager "Postpartum Moon"
Charlotte Covey "goodnight moon"
Jeni De La O"Eight Stages of Someone Else’s Grief"
August 2019
Maria Esquinca "The U.S.–Mexico Border Replaces Itself"
Monica Lewis "Park Slope, Methodist Hospital, Psychiatric, 2019"
Mariah Bosch "[dream in which I know feminine]"
Ifeoluwa Ayandele "My Body is a City of Butterflies"
Emily Alexander "Meredith is Crying and I am Too"
Emma Cairns Watson "The smoke and what burned to make it"
E. Kristin Anderson "The Whole World Is a Church if You Can Start Another Fire"
Matt Mitchell "Ben gibbard composes a song for diebenkorn’s ocean horizon, oil on canvas, 1959"
Jennifer Whalen "The Heart That Loves Is Always Wrong"
Billie R. Tadros "Associations with acid:"
Mag Gabbert "Bleach"
Kelly Grace Thomas"Closer"
July 2019
Lip Manegio "selections & redactions from ‘100 Bible Verses About Teeth’"
Jen Town "Telephone, 1988"
Jimin Lee "Homeland Elegy"
Cindy Xin "Soundless in a Flower Vase"
Cameron Finch "Body in Recovery (cont.)"
Marcene Gandolfo "When She Leaves, I Think of Demeter in Autumn"
Jake Bailey "Schizo Man: Origins"
Sara Saab "A House of Reticence"
Lauren Saxon "An Ingrid Michaelson Cover Better Than The Original"
Kat Neis "Shrouds"
Marissa Coon Rose "Walt Whitman"
Santino DallaVecchia "Hell"
June 2019
Juleen Eun Sun Johnson "It was A Small Sudden City"
Gabrielle Spear "venerability study"
Marlin M. Jenkins "as kids we played super mario 64 and dropped baby penguins off of cliffs just because we could"
Caroline Earleywine "A Toast"
Stephanie Tom "Hologram"
Jill Khoury "chronic lyric ix"
Kaitlyn Wang "Silence Said"
Sarah Stockton "What I Have Done, and What I have Failed to Do"
Audrey Lee "My mother says I should write about Brett Kavanaugh & I take a breath and tell her:"
Marcus Clayton "Black Kids Dance with Sid Vicious Before the End Credits"
Jennifer Manthey "I Circle a City Lake and Converse with Nature Like a Real Poet"
May 2019
Orooj-e-Zafar "Have you seen God?"
Cory Hutchinson-Reuss "Humid Blues in the Streets,"
Francisco Henriquez Rosa trans. Ariel Francisco "Canción Y Palabra/Song And Word"
John Paul Martinez "Self-Portrait as Wind Turbine"
Caitlin Wolper "Earth-Mother in the Clearing"
Brittany Lee Frederick "Ash Wednesday"
Ellie Black "Ariel Redux"
Matthew DeMarco "Look Up, Look Up!"
Andrew Hahn "dad/dy & the bird"
Sreshtha Sen "The Sonneteer is Too Brown for This Town"
Rebecca Connors "He Has A Hatchet"
Amanda Moore "Confession"
Jane M. Fleming "[no one tells you how to birth spirits]"
Hajjar Baban "If My Father Gave Me the Words in His Language"
April 2019
Liana Fu "Leftovers"
Gervanna Stephens "Fornicating in the presence of god"
Emily O’Neill "Dear Andy"
Amy Kinsman "don’t leave me this way"
Kanika Lawton "After, He Tells Me to Get Up"
Thanh Bui "carnival dream"
Hannah Silverstein "Only the Birds"
Jamie Lyn Bruce "In the sky there are explosions, in your heart there is the sky"
Sam Rush "Sonnet for speech too soft & you who’ve yet to choose a name"
Ben Kline "Spell to Unbind Family Ties"
Rebekkah Leigh LaBlue "A Dream in Which Gravity Is Intensified to the Speed of Light"
Adam J. Gellings "Ars Poetica"
Andrea Blythe "Belatedly, The Refusal"
Preeti Vangani "I always got a C- in Drawing"
March 2019
Natalie Wee "White Men Call You a Dirty Immigrant but Comic Books Call You Vagabond"
Dennison Ty Schultz "Mountains Silent in Chechnya"
Felix Lecocq "ode, on lake shore drive"
Andy Powell "Legion of Mary"
Kristina Bicher "Isa’s Mannequins"
Jamie Zuckerman "untitled"
Milo R. Muise "from 'garden party'"
Joanna Cleary "After Pride"
E.B. Schnepp "You’re not supposed to pet the dogs of Chernobyl"
Morgan Blalock "Motherhood: Ceramic Plates, Unwashed"
Chloe Clark "Aphelion"
Jennifer Saunders "Wait a Second, Let Me Write It Down"
Nicole Callihan "Pushing Distance"
Brandon Melendez "Universe Ending (in Gratitude)"
Bailey Cohen "Self-Portrait as Yurico Atop a Freight Train"
Clair Dunlap "Abstraction Blue (1927)"
Sanna Wani "Moon gods are not born"
February 2019
Celia Hauw "In a Different Tongue"
Jennifer Givhan "Nightfishing"
Erin Slaughter "Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge"
Emma Bolden "Ending Eden"
Alexa Doran "Mother Darling Talks to God"
Jill Mceldowney "November"
Inam Kang "I guess my mother’s rude and it’s hereditary"
Genevieve DeGuzman "Topsy"
Amy Lee Heinlen "Only"
Jeremiah Moriarty "Galadriel"
Cameron Alexander Lawrence "Horizon"
Jihyun Yun "__________________ Found Dead in a Ditch"
Caroline Chavatel "Makeshift Animal"
Sarah Carey "What I Tell My Unborn Children When They Ask Me Where I Come From"
Lyd Havens "Notname"
January 2019
Faylita Hicks "whoever."
Savannah Slone "mechanical horti(cult)ure"
Khalypso "Black & Shining & Tired"
Yujane Chen "paper daughter"
Brenda Venezia "Golondrinas"
Cameron Bynum "Cops and Robbers"
Salem Dockery "Who’s That Bible Woman Who Slept with a Man and Tore Her Breasts Off About It?"
Stephanie Chang "Nobody (2002)"
Alexis Rhone Fancher "My Body is a Map of Scars"
Chanel Brenner "The Morning Before the Pregnancy Test"
Sarah Ghoshal "‘Til the End"
Carolyn Oliver "The Horse I Would Have Chosen"
Avra Elliott "The Glory of the Smoke Tree is the Utter Failure"
Maya Owen "Diptych for the First and Last Women on Earth"
2018
December 2018
Davon Clark "Sunlight"
Hillary Martin "girl, this is how you;"
James A.H. White "Tuglines"
Emma Bolden "In the Springtime of Her Voodoo"
Hannah Rego "I’m On My Way to My Doppelganger’s Birthday Party,"
Lydia Brown "Hunger"
Tayo Omisore "National Geographic covers a College Park House Party"
Reigh "Of Small Power"
Tanya Singh "The Practitioner’s Guide to Self-Love"
Erika Goodrich "Fallen"
Sarah Carey "Exploring Roots in the Hair Salon"
Todd Dillard "In the Dream Where My Father Doesn’t Have Cancer He Makes Origami Animals"
Justin Davis "On a Quote by Jesse Jackson, Overheard in a Crowd"
Rax King "The conquering hero and the blushing damsel"
Sam Herschel Wein "All My Friends Are Dead: Non-Dinosaur Version"
November 2018: Poets Resist 2018 Midterm Elections Special Feature
Yanyi "Blessing"
Luther Hughes "There Will Be Mourning"
Sage "Cento For January 20th, 2017"
Sumita Chakraborty "Basic Questions"
Lynn Melnick "A Referendum"
Hazem Fahmy "At the Airport, Again"
Linette Reeman "The FBI Uses My Pronouns Correctly When They Search My Apartment For Evidence"
Melissa Crowe "Some Say the World"
Arielle Tipa "nestling"
Simone Person "Pill Cosby"
Rosebud Ben-Oni "Poet Wrestling with Bunnicula in the Challenger Deep"
Ally Ang "The Universe Drinks Me in like It’s Dying of Thirst"
Jesse Rice-Evans "[ Wild Interlude ]"
Dena Igusti "sunat: a recollection"
Stephen S. Mills "In Life We Want Answers About Death"
Chen Chen "& then a student stands up, says, Are you serious?"
Bailey Cohen "Self-Portrait as Yurico Floating in Space or en Río San Pedro"
Heather Derr-Smith "Joan"
Bryan Borland Sometimes I Try To Save The World Only To Find It’s Already Been Saved
Hyejung Kook "The Day Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Testifies Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I Teach My Daughter the Names of the Parts of Female Anatomy"
Zefyr Lisowski "A Woman Is Like A Thick Fog. Stranded Landmass. Tangled Waistband. Not To Be Trusted"
Allie Marini "Alternative Facts about Abattoirs"
Erika Walsh "No place but where god is"
Gemma Cooper-Novack "Oceanpurian"
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "Conversation I Seem to Have With Too Many People"
Hannah Cohen "Some Covenant"
Fargo Tbakhi "elegy, with lines from mitski"
Cassandra de Alba "paper crowns"
George Abraham "Errata with Divine Sacrifice"
October 2018
Tyler Friend "A Woman Leaves Vermont [comma] the World."
Iskandar Haggarty of loving a boy in a place you could be killed for it
Su Hwang "Duende Essays"
Ayla Maisey "[ the truth about ]"
Steve Bellin-Oka "Cri de Coeur in White"
Tarik Dobbs "Dogs"
Gretchen Primack "Knight (East Wing)"
Rachana Hegde "Objects"
Sam Herschel Wein "The Inside Job/Exit Strategy"
Christine Taylor "Open Wound"
Justin Rogers "Naming Me"
Marilyn Schotland "Sebastian Redux"
Jasmine An "Guanyin’s Lesson"
Laura Passin "The Last of Us"
Cass Lee "stella monet"
Hannah VanderHart "Signs"
Allison Casey "Mapping stars was once a way to prove the old gods were watching"
Special Feature: 100 Thousand Poets for Change — Birmingham
Anthony Frame "Rage. Engage.": An Introduction
Ashley M. Jones, Laura Secord, and Alina Stefanescu Editors’ Note
María Vargas "Without Protest"
Laura Núñez "8/9/18"
Emma Bolden "Christmas, 2016"
Che Justus "in that place where we don’t have to die to be remembered"
Alicia Cole "Visiting Him in Jail"
Sanovia Muhammad "You Will See"
Traniesa Caldwell "Align your message with actions."
Emma Bolden "Arlington"
Salaam Green "Hymn of Brown Daughters"
Lori Lasseter Hamilton "dance, skeleton, dance"
Ashley Hulsey Coutch "from Who the Mass Was Made of: For Victims of the Parkland Shooting"
María Vargas "No One"
Jessica Smith "11 June 2016 / Atlanta"
Alyx Chandler "Dissolution"
Che Justus "Recede"
Salaam Green "Ms. June’s 2nd Avenue Resistance"
Alicia Cole "Where Violence Comes From"
Traniesa Caldwell "You have the right to remain silent"
Emma Bolden "In America We Have Only the Present Tense"
September 2018
Amanda Galvan Huynh"Only One of Us Can Breathe in Space"
L.I. Henley "Everywhere is the Finding of Not Wings"
Lisa Mecham "Time As A Line"
Farah Ghafoor "Presenting a Garden with All My Teeth"
Roy White "Decorative Boulder"
Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad "Quick Question for a Palm Weevil"
Jessie Janeshek "We Bathe the World/Bathhouse Pageant"
Emily Pérez "Enough"
Daniel M. Shapiro "Dionne Warwick Records 'The Windows of the World'"
Tara Burke "In Defense"
Karisma Price "The Poet’s Conscience Speaks"
Alexander Lane "in prayer — 12:58am"
Rachel Bunting "I remember that incredible night with the maps"
Farrell Greenwald Brenner "The Temple of No"
Alison Palmer "Then It Became Another Night"
August 2018
Susan Nguyen "Most Noble, Heroic, and Virgin Lady"
Jenn Rouse "Anne Sexton Talks to God"
Umang Kalra "My Vagina Was Not an Orchid"
Kailey Tedesco "Lizzie / Lizzie"
Lindsay Remee Ahl "Vestiges"
Afua Ansong "#9"
Natalie Solmer "Place the Lightning Bolt in Your Hair"
Kyle Lopez "i’m like dropping hints that i’m manic"
Lauren Milici "The Patron Saint of Nothing in Particular"
Liz Marlow "Shayna Rubinowicz Sees Chaim Rumkowski, Judenälteste of the Łódź Ghetto, for the First Time, February 1941"
Amy Strauss Friedman "Rapunzel and Gloria Steinem Have a Baby"
Kimberly Ann Southwick "VENUS & MERCURY STATION DIRECT"
Cat Batsios "Jellyfish Lesson"
Melissa Leigh Gore "Drinking with Bernoulli in Wicker Park"
sally burnette "the baptismal dream"
July 2018
Leah Umansky "Millions of Perfect Crimes are Committed Every Day By No One"
syan jay "Shelter for a Wayward Polycephaly"
Kristin Garth "Preditor"
Anna Cabe "diptych with two girls"
Charika Swanepoel "16 Adult, 26 stillborn corpses stranded in open trailer on Joburg highway"
Teo Mungaray "Lengua"
Marlin Figgins "The Lost Boy is Quenched"
Cathleen Allyn Conway "Nothing"
Kelli Russell Agodon "I Don’t Own Anxiety, But I Borrow It Regularly"
Andrea Spofford & Stephanie Bryant Anderson "Dead Wagon"
Lois P. Jones "After the Sniper"
Adam Zhou "Reverse Oneirology"
Emily Robidoux "A Lifecycle for the Aquatic"
Sabine Holzman "Massachusetts"
Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Mother’s Full-On Soap Opera Fantasy"
Wanda Deglane "This Ending I Learn to Love"
June 2018
Kristin Chang "Climbing Xiangshan"
Kwame Opoku-Duku "afro-beat paradise with the disembodied spirit who now believes he can love"
Kimberly Ann Southwick "CUTLASS"
Kyle Lopez "Rorschach"
Nicholas Reiner "Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall, At 15"
Hope Wabuke "In This Body, You're Disappearing"
Sherine Gilmour "Falling Stars"
Amanda Hope "Manual on Building the Cathedral of the Solitary"
Chloe N. Clark "But Also This is Why the Robots Always Turn On Us"
Tiffany L. Thomas "Our Father | Jack Brown"
Carolee Bennett "Prettier When You Smile"
Ross White "Securities"
Jules Jacob "If Only, Ari"
Rachel Mindell "Insemination"
May 2018
Philip Matthews "All Parts of the Animal Used"
Samantha Duncan "Routines: 11.08.16"
Kelli Russell Agodon "SOS"
Shay Alexi "John Mayer's "Your Body is a Wonderland" is Kinda Gross But"
Monica Lewis "epigraph"
W. Todd Kaneko "Pledge of Allegiance"
Aleda Bliss "is the rope long enough?"
M Wright "We lived on a mantel (2001)"
Lisa Fay Coutley "Late Praise for the Heart"
Kyle Laws "Sea Solo"
E. Kristin Anderson "The Worn Places Gone"
Larisa Svirsky "Will"
Kolleen Carney Hoepfner "Convenience Store Cigar, Four Times"
Sage Curtis "We Think Differently (At Night)"
Emily Vizzo "Her terrible tongue, the imperfections"
Ruth Foley "Poem After the End of the World"
April 2018
Andrés Cerpa "At the Water"
Emily Paige Wilson "Hypochondria, Least Powerful of the Greek Gods, and Her Estranged Half-Brother Sisyphus"
Sara Hovda "this man suit"
Kristin Chang "Nomenclature"
Naoko Fujimoto "From an Apartment"
Duncan Slagle "Funeral Moodboard"
Hussain Ahmed "Self-portrait as Beach"
Nicole McCarthy "Eating Later"
Jade Hurter "Of the Way whereby a Formal Pact with Evil is Made"
Julie Brooks Barbour "I Waste Everything but Words"
Martha Webster "Samsara"
Sally J. Johnson "Management, Not Cure"
Alycia Pirmohamed "Endearments"
Sarah Fawn Montgomery "Glutton"
March 2018:
Ohio Poets
Ohio Poets
Maggie Smith "Ohio Cento"
Amit Majmudar "Night Sky over the Perkins Observatory, Delaware County, Ohio"
Hanif Abdurraqib "I Would Ask You To Reconsider The Idea That Things Are As Bad As They've Ever Been"
Ron Mohring "The Surrogate"
Erin Adair-Hodges "Can't Someone Just Shut Up"
Ruth Awad "The Sleepwalker"
Kyle Marbut "Octopolis"
Alison Stine "Buying Emergency Contraception in Elkhart"
Noor Hindi "Filthy Woman Writes a Letter"
Emily Rose Cole "How Grandmother Tells It"
Siaara Freeman "Upon Being Told It's Not A Real Job Or The Siren Sees A Tiger Aboard A Ship & Makes A Metaphor"
Rochelle Hurt "Mimi"
Hannah Schneider "hunger"
Dameion Wagner "Bedtime routine"
Kathy Fagan "Disobedience"
E.B. Schnepp "Heavenly Bodies"
Maggie Smith "Maps"
Marcus Jackson "Separation"
Roseanne Alice Boswell "Bones I Get From My Mother"
Remi Recchia "I'm Sandcastled Sometimes, But Mostly Just Hungover"
Barbara Costas-Biggs "Justin Timberlake Sings During My First Mammogram"
R.M. Haines "Rilke's Sappho"
Sara Moore Wagner "Penelope Complex"
Juliet Cook "Not Settling Down"
Sean Thomas Dougherty "Somewhere Far From Any Classroom"
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood "Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning"
Babette Cieskowski "To My Mother"
Lois Marie Harrod "The Song of the Albino Alligator"
Darren C. Demaree "Emily As Written By Carlos Drummond De Andrade"
Lisa Favicchia "The Origin of Kneecaps"
Hannah Stephenson "'Abraham Lincoln,' a Poem by Abraham Lincoln"
Les Kay "If Certain Physicists Are Correct, There Are Infinite Universes, and We Must Assume That We Are Transcendently Happy in at Least One, and, Perhaps, Together"
February 2018
Yves Olade "In Which The Black Boy Falls in Love & Learns to Start Running"
Naoko Fujimoto "How to Choke Myself in the Ugly Kitchen"
Faisal Mohyuddin "Ghazal for the Lost"
Lisa Fay Coutley "Astronaut: On Forget"
Sally J. Johnson "Imago"
Sonja Greenfield "What Chemistry Should be Used For"
Nicole Connolly "Dx: Comorbid"
Olatunde Osinaike "there is a flower shop next door to the church"
Jeff Whitney "Dear Phil"
Audrey T. Carroll "Witchcraft is a Sin (And So Am I)"
Anika Prakash "Basil"
Danie Shokoohi "Letters to Shadow Men"
Elisa Karbin "Hypnagogia"
Jenn Stein "It was library quiet"
January 2018
Julie Brooks Barbour "January"
Scherezade Siobhan "from Left of Azule"
Nicole McCarthy "Ribs"
Philip Matthews "The Priest and Warrior"
Emily Paige Wilson "Love Poem for a Dry Spell"
Nicole Burney "Bobby McFerrin"
Erin Marie Hall "The Ghost of a Massacre (Cancer Song 1)"
Sarah Feng "Painting of my Old Apartment in Union City, CA"
Alycia Pirmohamed "Faded"
Krystal Languell "Poem for my Friend in Providence"
Zoe Stoller "If the Sun Comes Up"
Anuja Ghimire "The Summer of Endless Rain"
2017
December 2017
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick "The Brain Like An Orchestra That Can Play Many Tunes"
Olivia Hu "Recollection of Animalism"
Joanna C. Valente "To the Harvey Weinsteins of the World"
Hannah Schneider "Dating Takes Courage"
Khalypso "What I Am Hoping My Children Look Like"
Maya Jewell Zeller "Spell Begging to Be Your Gerry Lindgren/ Spell Lying Down on the Job"
Anne Champion "Saint Hermione"
Sarah Nichols "The Monkey on My Back"
Hassain Ahmed "Love Story"
Sage "How To Deal With Distance"
Sara Hovda "Faggot Regrets Not Coming Out Sooner"
Dariana Guerrero "Body Worship"
Eileen Chong "Pulau Ujong"
Jennifer E. Hudgens "Second"
Jennifer Saunders "Note Pinned to My Lips"
Justin Hamm "First Lesson in The Dead"
Maria Martin "Event Horizon"
Ace Boggess "My Condolences"
Patricia Clark "Self Portrait in a Pew with Sisters"
Daniel Bourne "One of My Students, Upon Completing His Reading of Walden"
November 2017
Tundras
Guest Edited by Rosebud Ben-Oni
Tundras
Guest Edited by Rosebud Ben-Oni
Rosebud Ben-Oni "Editor's Note"
Vivian Faith Prescott "Ukiuq — Become Winter"
Lupe Mendez "Prayer of a Workhorse"
Lupe Mendez "Cryogenic Kids"
Claire Wahmanholm "The Last Animals"
Madeleine Wattenberg "An Inventory of Margaret Cavendish's Laboratory"
Margaryta Golovchenko "Associations"
Noah Cain "top of the east end bridge"
Hanna Andrews "For the Break"
Kathleen Hellen "Inside the Eye of the Narcissus"
Tara Betts "High Fidelity"
Tara Betts "Count Eggs"
Elisa Gonzalez "After the Ice Storm"
Sam Pittman "Mostly Water"
Sam Pittman "Gallery"
Hila Ratzabi "Imaginary Arctic"
Hila Ratzabi "But now the stark dignity of entrance"
Devin Kelly "Running from House to Yard & Back"
Erin Lyndal Martin "Pickering Wharf"
October 2017
Stephanie Cui and Jasmine Cui "嫦娥 Explains Her Origin Story"
Emily Paige Wilson "Etymology of a Body"
Topaz Winters "Trigger"
Jessica Lynn Suchon "Thaw"
Brynn Downing "Koo-Koo, The Bird Girl"
Jesse Rice-Evans "Cyclobenzaprine"
Courtney LeBlanc "Honey"
Taylor Fedorchak "Steering"
Kate Bucca "Plainfield, Vermont"
Mariel Fechik "Gifted Bodies"
Mary Leauna Christensen "Two Poems"
George Moore "Surge"
Anwer Ghani "The Blue Dreams"
Sally Zakariya "The Iranian Artist Explains"
Annah Browning "Two Poems"
Donna Vorreyer "Detente"
September 2017
Anita Olivia Koester "Constellation with False Moon"
Kevin McLellan "Repetition"
Alexis Bates "Casual Body Comp."
Chance Dibben "Invasive Species"
Alain Ginsberg "Shedding"
Devon Balwit "We Call It That"
Jennifer A. Reimer "Café Bien—Ankara"
Kathleen Hart "The Architecture of Joy"
Shannon Winward "Support Group"
Krista Cox "Homecoming"
David Anthony Sam "Anticipating Blindness"
Chelsea Dingman "When You are Born Missing"
Steve Knepper "Two Poems"
Chloe N. Clark "These Dreams Your Children Grow"
August 2017
Hyejung Kook "Death Meditations"
Bernard Ferguson "for the call to comcast"
Andrea Blancas Beltran "(Un)Tangle"
Micah Goodrich "nox"
Rochelle Harris "tracking (love)"
Liz Flint-Somerville "I (Heart) Roadkill Drones"
Natalie Solmer "Floral Lady: Winter"
Donna Vorreyer "The Lost Art of Giving Up"
Nikoletta Nousiopoulos "the daisy boat"
Kristina Mottla "All These Homes along the Roads"
Emari DiGiorgio "When a Fetus Turns to Stone"
Kristen Rouisse "Kalopsia"
Stephen Wardell "How to Get New Parents and Not Die"
Geoff Anderson "Five"
Lori Lamothe "Three Poems"
July 2017
Chelsea Dingman "Prayer After Migration & Miscarriage"
Saquina Karla Guiam "Mythology"
Kate O'Donoghue "A Little Girl Wakes Up on a Conveyor Belt"
Talia Flores "efímero"
Wendy Wisner "First Love"
Krista Cox "Fisher of Women"
Lauren Camp "Such Bowers of Surrender"
Jennifer Lynn Krohn "Miss Pond's Etiquette for the Absurd "
Maggie Fern "Trousseau"
JM Miller "how death holds a form, a beholding"
Jennifer Jackson Berry "I Can't Imagine Her Window"
Nicholas Fuenzalida "Two Poems"
Sandra Kolankiewicz "Quick Study"
Catherine Chambers "Hush Hush"
Katherine Hoerth "Pecos Bill, Awaiting Sue's Return"
June 2017
heather hughes "Atlantis"
Allyson Ang "Portrait of a Modern Woman"
Yasmin Saudi "some girls"
Jessica Lynn Suchon "Undressing for a Personal Apocalypse"
Kristin Ryan "Dissociative Amnesia"
Allie Long "How Obsession is Born"
Angie Macri "Graeae, What We Share"
Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller "O Night I Left You "
torrin a greathouse "The Preacher Screaming 'Yoga Pants are Sin'"
Alison Prine "True"
Grace Qing "Aria"
Farah Ali "Endgame"
Larisa Svirsky "Belonging"
Tara Channtelle Hill "Sleepwalking"
Jenn Strife Gibbs "May I Live as the Lotus"
Hannah Warren "The Woman to the Doctor"
Tammy Robacker "Bitch"
Sandra Marchetti "Are you my angel?"
Levi Todd "Upon Finding A Photo App That Lets You Set A Filter Before You Take the Picture"
Ashley Mares "Undressing"
Special Feature: Moms Respond
An interview with Mary Jo Frame
Sarah Ghoshal "Instructions for How to be (Mostly) Happy"
jacklyn janeksela "carpenter: the female body"
Saba Husain "The Artificial Lake"
Brendan Walsh "Manatee and Her Mating Herd"
Kirsten Hemmy "Still Life: Mother with Alzheimer's"
David Koehn "$10,000 Pyramid Sonnet"
Danèlle Lejeune "Crack of Kuu"
Stephen Furlong "Nostalgia"
Martha Silano "Yes, of course"
Hannah Cohen "like someone driving away from her problems"
Michael Kocinski "Sacrament of Baptism"
Andrea England "Winter, First Loss"
Jessica L. Walsh "I'm Pretty Much Done Here"
Leah Umansky "Stranger Is"
Anna Szilagyi "Chronic Bored Face"
Megan Merchant "Making Soap"
May 2017
Saddiq Dzukogi "What The Poem Said"
M. Wright "Before Quiet"
Sonja Johanson "Pigeon, Birth"
Avery M. Guess "How to Be a Survivor"
j/j hastain & Juliet Cook "Hexagonal Approach to Horticulture"
Maggie Glover "Aubade in Green"
Lena Tuffaha "Miss Sahar Breaks Her Fast"
Bob Sykora "Visiting Utopia #4"
Julia Alter "The Freedom Peddler"
Willie L. Kinard III "Friction"
Daniel Edward Moore "Practice Impermanence"
Alexandra Smyth "Against Forgetting"
Kristene Brown "Upon hearing cancer treatments increase the risk for secondary types of cancer"
Susan Milchman "Her Aperture"
Tricia Knoll "The River Stone You Call A Wishing Stone"
April 29, 2017: Ernesto L. Abeytia "My Lover is a Robot"
April 2017
Hazem Fahmey "Autopsy of an Arab"
Chloe N. Clark "Other Words for Wanting"
Hannah Craig "Baptism"
Kaity Gee "Ghosts"
Linette Reeman "Prayer For Everyone Who's Ever Cut My Hair, Including Myself"
Catherine Chambers "Visibility"
Jennifer Martelli "They Found the Gallows Behind Walgreens"
Ariel Francisco "Upon Encountering A Street Mural Of Super Mario, I Think Of My Mother"
Mary Biddinger "Bone Concept"
Jim Daniels "Test Bomb Fallout"
Ashley Miranda "wicked wicker women"
Bernard Ferguson "and Batman never came back to my island"
Alexis Klemetson "The Other Queen of Tejano"
Tom Holmes "Imagined Scenario 22 of My Birth Mother"
Margaret Zhang "Latitude"
Logan February "The Bodies Of Dead Boys"
Melissa Eleftherion "that time a tree grew out of my mouth and i had armor"
Amy Kotthaus "The Goddess Weds"
Chelsea Dingman "How to Build a Reliquary From the Earth"
Jessica L. Walsh "Reading Plath with No Glasses"
Steve Klepetar "When Leopard Frogs Go Still"
Stephanie Kaylor "Pinstripes"
Alexis Rhone Fancher "I Was Hovering Just Below the Hospital Ceiling, Contemplating My Death"
Rico Craig "Goodbye, a premonition"
Ashley Mares "Vanishing"
Ojo Taiye "how to spell schizophrenia"
Farryl Last "to the woman I tried to draw"
Alicia Elkort "Lilith"
Roberta Senechal de la Roche "Timepiece"
Hannah Cohen "Resurrection"
March 18, 2017: Rachel Feder "Tweet Storm"
March 2017
Tasha Fouts "This Life"
Sarah Frances Moran "23 La luna ("the moon")"
Thomas March "My Mother Knew How"
Taylor Fang "Lightning"
Candace Howze "This Gift is Not Mine"
torrin a. greathouse "Self-portrait as Daedalus, Writing the First Draft of His Autobiography"
María Isabel Álvarez "What the Oceans Carry"
Brandon Thurman "The Language of Birds"
Devin Kelly "New Interpretations of Faith"
Pablo Otavalo "Un-Lullaby"
February 2017
José Angel Araguz "Speaking Spanish on the Streets of NYC"
Rachel Bunting "Manifest"
Megan Merchant "Ossuary"
Andrew Kozma "Necessary"
Caseyrenée Lopez "let me name the ways to objectify women"
Lisa Ludden "Remaindered"
Carol Berg "The Johnson Girls in Bud"
Kristen Brida "naturalhistory"
Rebecca Valley "Scenery in a dream"
Emari DiGiorgio "On the Cave Wall, the Great Black Bird Carries a Girl Into the Sky"
January 2017
Zaina Alsous "On Longing"
Leslie Contreras Schwartz "Azaleos"
Seema Yasmin "Ishra'aq"
Fox Frazier-Foley "When Former Libertine St. Mary of Egypt Was Buried Wearing the Threadbare Robe of a Virginal Monk Named Zosimas, After Living in the Desert Like a Man for Forty-Seven Years, A Lion Dug Her Grave"
Alyse Bensel "Your Eye Is A Red Dwarf Planet"
Elizabeth Onusko "The Point at Which the Laws of Physics Break Down"
Jackson Holbert "Summer, 1910"
Kaiya Gordon "The Fish"
Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena "The magnum opus persists in the evening"
Robert Okaji "What We Say When We Say Nothing"
2016
December 28, 2016: Jasmine Cui "Karyotype"
December 28, 2016: Karen An-huei Lee "Epithalamium on Peau de Soie"
December 21, 2016: Linette Reeman "After Donald Trump is Elected President, Alan Turing Calls Me Crying"
December 21, 2016: Catharine Kyle "Ode to a Parallel Universe in Which I Ignite Care"
December 14, 2016: Kristin Distel "Inside my father's stopped heart"
December 7, 2016: Jenna Kelly "Forward to Injecting Chicks with Meth on Easter Sunday"
November 30, 2016: Gabe Montesanti "Here Come the Boys"
November 30, 2016: Karin Wraley Barbee "Girls"
November 23, 2016: M J Arlett "Accomplice"
November 16, 2016: Chris Campanioni "donald trump shakes"
November 16, 2016: Amy Jo Trier-Walker "bury our names"
November 9, 2016: Amorak Huey "The Kudzu, Everywhere"
November 2, 2016: Shara McCallum "Ten Things You Might Like to Know About Madwoman"
October 26, 2016: Nicole Scott "X"
October 19, 2016: E. Kristin Anderson "This is how I am a monster"
October 12, 2016: sam sax "Easy Fast"
October 12, 2016: Matthew Landrum "To My Second Daughter"
October 5, 2016: Ucke Ogbuji "Grey Erie"
October 5, 2016: Kristie Letter "Algebraic"
September 28, 2016: AP "Taking the Unfinished Apart"
September 21, 2016: Joannie Stageland "Sketch in Blue with Darker Water"
September 14, 2016: Katie Manning "Baby Dream #22: The Stranger"
September 7, 2016: Rebecca Macijeski "When I was Six My Mother Set Out Sleeping Bags in a Blue Plastic Pool in the Yard So WeCould Watch the Lights in the Sky"
August 31,2016: Sarah Escue "The Ungardening"
August 24, 2016: Jonathan Duckworth "Three Knowings"
August 10, 2016: Rachel Girty "Purity"
August 3, 2016: Pulsamos: LGBTQ Poets Respond to the Pulse Nightclub Shooting:
Gabe Montesanti Cover
Luis Lopez-Maldonado "#PrayForOrlando"
Christina Quintana "Historia (For Orlando)"
Alexis Smithers "A Nightmare After Pulse"
Jonathan May "jockstraps/gunfire"
Siaara Freeman "Urban Girl & The Answer-less Hearts"
Guillermo Filice Castro "Can We Get Home in One Piece Please"
torrin a. greathouse "On the Midnight Sky, Fireworks Calling to Us Like a Mother in the Distance"
Ella Ann Weaver "sunday, june 12th 2016"
Remi Recchia "Orlando, Florida, 2016"
Ami Maxine Irmen "Before Bodies were Battlefields"
Sofia Rose Smith "Dance Floor"
Amal Rana "Janazah for Pulse"
Robert Américo Esnard "On Deciding Whether to Go Out"
Mat Wenzel "Sissy Blood"
Rachel Schmieder-Gropen "when America's queer pulse stopped beating"
Mitelia Tribbitt "different"
Kathryn Mueller "Brittle Stars"
Douglas Ray "Ground Rules After Orlando"
Emily Rose Cole "Definitions"
Jennifer Morales "Ours"
David B. Prather "One Nation"
Gemma Cooper-Novack "Endings"
Darrel Alejandro Holnes "All Legs Lead to Naomi Campbell"
Kat Tan "Lights for Orlando"
Steven Sanchez "The Gunman"
J Phoenix "Simple Things"
Don Cellini "Ringing"
Dean Atta "Pulse"
Sandra Yannone "Requiem for Orlando"
Luis Lopez-Maldonado "Sour Taste In My Mouth"
Siaara Freeman "Urban Girl Writes A Poem After She Hears About The Pulse OR Her Heart Breaks & The Poem Splits In 2"
Justice Ameer "night divine"
Katlyn Kurtz "Island Beat"
Kenneth Pobo "Quiet Life"
Oswaldo Vargas "The Orchard"
Sage "Orlando, FL — June 12, 2016"
Veronica Haunani Fitzhugh "Where Brown Once Lived: A Tribute to Orlando's Queer People of Color"
Zachariah Spurrier "In Response to the Storm"
Allison Paster-Torres "My Forty-Nine"
Kit Kennedy "A Queer Elder Recites 50 Names to Nasturtium"
Leslie Contreras Schwartz "Lullaby for My Son After the Orlando Massacre"
Balley Workman "For Orlando"
Mariama J. Lockington "June 12, 2016"
Joanna Hoffman "After Orlando"
Marina Montenegro "Pride"
Michael Perez "6/12/16 (Flying Stone Poem)"
July 27, 2016: Gretchen Primack "Knowledge (East Wing)"
July 20, 2016: Ira Sukrungruang "The Lusciousness"
July 13, 2016: Candice Iloh "spin."
July 6, 2016: Elijah Matthew Tubbs "Cairn"
June 29, 2016: Danèlle Lejeune "Every Delicate Step"
June 22, 2016: Anna Meister "Conditional"
June 15, 2016: Saquina Karla C. Guiam "Tapestry"
June 8, 2016: Adeeba Shahid Talukder "On Lightning and Rest"
June 1, 2016: Khaty Xiong "After We Hid Your Body I Climbed into Rain"
Volume Six Issue Two
(January 2014)
Editor's Note
Monica Rose Burchfield "Quitting Ohio"
Lisa Bickmore "All Souls"
Athena Nilssen "Cardinal"
Monique Gagnon German "Two Faced Moon"
Brian Clifton "The River's Petition"
Charles O'Hay "Mother"
Faith S. Holsaert "The Last Day"
Jacqeline Jules "Ostrich Behavior"
Christopher Kuhl "Three Moments"
Michelle Disler "when the flesh falls"
Christine Guarino "The Swallowers"
Christopher Kuhl "I Must Be Mad"
Jesse Minkert "Certain Future"
C. Wade Bentley "Afterbirth"
Monica Rose Burchfield "The Bathers"
Jamie Bruce "Seven Years of Smoke"
Laura Sheahen "Mojave"
Christopher Prewitt "A Male and Female Cardinal"
Charles Schubert "Cedar Waxwing Lament"
Stephen Mead "Halcyon"
Volume Six Issue Two Featured Theme: Great Lakes Poets
(January 2014)
Janneen Pergrin Rastall "Deerton, Michigan"
Sandra Joy Russell "Homage"
Martin Ott "Mystery Spot"
Rae Gouirand "Vermilion Border"
Steven Gibb "Pressure Gradient"
Tricia Knoll "Paper Money and Snake Eyes"
Atalissa Dean "Do You Even Know What Honey Is?"
Joshua Gage "On Gray Erie's Shores"
Diane Lee Moomey "Fireflies"
Sandra Joy Russell "Cemetery in Kraków"
Volume Six Issue One
(June 2013)
Shannon K. Winston "Becoming Dalí"
José Angel Araguz "Theology at Work"
Louis Gallo "Sleep in the Hemisphere"
Steve Plewnarz "Shadows of Oak"
Sara Baker "Cooking Lessons"
Nic Sebastian "decision at twilight"
Lawrence Eby "#13"
Dan Ivec "Autumn Courage, 1932"
Caroline Klocksiem "Why must the blackness of nighttime collect in our mouths?"
Ken Massicotte "We Are Sorry for Your Loss"
Lawrence Eby "#16"
Louie Crew "Near Plato's Cave"
Leah Miranda Hughes "Chin Up, Buttercup"
Denise M. Rogers "Reading Owl Moon to My Niece at Night"
Shannon K. Winston "Herringbone Comb"
Amanda Schoen "Children of the Burgess Shale"
Emily Palmisano "Strange Dog Says Hello"
Lee Slominsky "Current Drifting West"
William Reichard "Vertigo"
Gerry Grubbs "Found"
Volume Six Issue One Featured Theme: Rebirth
(June 2013)
Trina Gaynon "Storm Coast"
Sylvia Ashby "Re-Psychling"
Arthur Plotnik "Horse-Chestnut in Rut"
Skaidrite Stelzer "Black Sparows"
Patricia Belote "Winter Doves and Phantoms on State Road 85"
Erin York "Not Famous. But Forever"
Danny Nettleton "When Lazarus Died"
Jackie K. White "Voice Lessons: de la Casa Azul"
Cindy Maresic "This Living Garden"
Nancy Priff "And I Am Born to the Sunlit World"
Volume Six Issue One Special Feature: The Poetry of Aurora House
(June 2013)
Editor's Note
About Aurora House
Kari Krise "A Look in the Mirror"
Denise Price "Something I Will Never Forget"
Jennifer Downes "My Little Girl"
Diana Horn "Being Invisible"
Stephanie McVicker "Friendship"
"Starr" Sharra Lehman "Afraid"
Jennifer McElvain "Homesick"
Peggy Arnold "I Did It"
Kristi Frazier "The Most Beautiful Place on Earth"
Jessica Cousino "Lois"
Kristi Frazier "My Mirror"
Jennifer McElvain "Prayers on the Bus"
"Starr" Sharra Lehman "Take a Look in the Mirror"
Diana Horn "Holding Your Breath"
Kari Krise "Afraid/I Wish"
Jessica Cousino "The Chamber"
Peggy Arnold "Judge Me"
Diana Horn "Vital Signs"
Jennifer Downes "When I Look in the Mirror"
Jennifer McElvain "Wish for Redemption"
Volume Five Issue Two
(January 2013)
Amy Schulz "Moth to Flame Theories"
Danielle Hanson "How I came to find you were unfaithful"
Lisa C. Krueger "Secured Cushions, Beer and Olives"
Anatoly Kudryavitsky "The Lakeside Wind"
Laurie Barton "Word Over the World"
John Calavitta "Sense is Suction Fountains"
Jnana Hodson "Liquid Cartography"
Anne Britting Oleson "Where We Leapt From"
Fred Longworth "suddenly, you realize you're trapped in a movie"
Lizzi Vignali "Hands I've Held (II)"
Steve Klepetar "Speaking to the Field Mice"
Laurie Barton "Love Note to Notre Dame"
John Grey "Untimely"
Kristina Popiel "Elegy on My Mother's Breast"
Amy Schulz "Listening to Koi"
William Wright Harris "Dejected Ode on Coffee"
Stephen Williams "Discovering Fire"
Paul Nelson "December 21st"
Nathan Prince "Brother"
Gail DiMaggio "My Dead Husband Drops By"
Volume Five Issue One
(June 2012)
William Page "How the Dead Fish"
Jenny Morse "February 24th"
Donald Illich "The Door Marked Emergency"
Sarah Yasin "The Emperor's Traveling Shoes"
Garth Pavell "Don't Just See the Tree in the Broccoli"
Kathleen Geyer "Prosphora"
Brian J. Hobbs "Fat Boy and the Age of Progress"
Marc Nair "Glass"
Joan McNerney "Rendezvous"
Peycho Kanev "And tomorrow"
Ryan Ragan "roadtrip"
Brian J. Hobbs "Anne Sexton, You and Me and This — (A Poem in Which Sex Ends in Death)"
Dave Fraundorfer "Drinking in the New Zealand Rain"
Joan McNerney "Neptune's Coquette"
Christine Reilly "Seven Sacraments"
Sandy Longhorn "Autobiography as Muscle Memory"
Kathleen Kirk "The Human Community"
Jenny Morse "May 2nd"
Austin McCarron "Landscape of Reason"
Zoe Dzunko "Honeysuckle"
Volume Four Issue Two
(December 2011)
Marcus Jackson "Woman in Secret"
Jessica Patapoff "Waiting"
Laura Sobbott Ross "Florida: The Final Frontier"
Teneice Durrant Delgado "Remnants"
James Owens "At Last Apollo Becomes Marsyas"
Sandra S. McRae "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
Abigail Carroll "The Way a Fish"
Nathan Pillman "August in Illinois"
Sarah Creech "The Last Butcher of Lynchburg"
George Moore "The Language School"
Sandra S. McRae "all the way to just about there"
Stacia M. Fleegal "Clarification"
Antonia Clark "The Antonym of Rain"
Marcus Jackson "Crack Cook"
Laura Sobbott Ross "At Age Twelve"
Christopher Lee Miles "Learning Farther from Father"
John Dorsey "Iron City Independence Day Poem"
Teneice Durrant Delgado "Suburb Diva"
Bill Shelton "October Burning"
Michael Sandler "Rainwater"
Volume Four Issue One
(June 2011)
Terry Mulert "Innocence"
Andrea O'Rourke "Driving in the Rain in Atlanta"
Heather Derr-Smith "The Chase"
David Sullivan "George Bush Eats Shoe (In My Dreams)"
Laurie Barton "Contact High"
Maureen Kingston "First Love, Age 8"
Alan King "Vacant"
Margaret Walther "On the Way to Your Funeral"
Laura Merzig Fabrycky "Almonds"
Anne Barngrover "Hail Annie"
Louis Gallo "Mercy"
Karen J. Weyant "The Summer I Stopped Catching Bees"
Laura Merzig Fabrycky "Finished"
Kristin Roedell "Exorcism at Half Time"
Heather Derr-Smith "Three Wolves, December Storm, Boundary Waters"
Susan Alkaitis "Undone"
Terry Mulert "Inside Walls"
Jennifer Yeatts "Hip Poem"
Brenda Paro "I Keep Having This Dream"
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder "We Are Learning to Be Silent Together —"
Volume Three Issue Two
(January 2011)
Sara Henning "Adolescence"
Edward Byrne "Fishing Boats in Afternoon Light"
Laura E. Davis "Missing"
M.J. Iuppa "Eavesdropping"
Davide Trame "Gout"
Chas Hoppe "Coda"
Jennifer Wong "The Last Monologues"
Sharlene W.N. Teo "End Games"
Lois Marie Harrod "Marlene Mae Likens Her Mother to Omega"
Michael James Gossett "The Pensacola Beach Pier"
Grace Marie Grafton "Vivid"
Justin Dodd "The Accident"
John C. Mannone "The Pines of Maunabo"
Sara Henning "Little Match Girl"
Glenn Ashley Paterson "Inside Elizabeth"
Luanne Castle "Focus"
Jessica Barrog "Pedophile"
Robert Hastings "The Meaning of It"
Caitlin Mackenzie "The Dive"
Cyndle Plasted Rials "Out of Water Fashioned"
Volume Three Issue One
(June 2010)
In Memoriam: Rane Arroyo
Byron Beynon "Blue"
Kit Kennedy "It's Never What You Think"
Elizabeth Ashe "At Uncle Suzzie's"
Barry Spacks "Strawberries"
Michael Estabrook "whispering their lines"
Linwood Rumney "A Child's Tyranny"
Byron Beynon "Caravanserai"
Nancy Rampson "Weed Field"
Lisa J. Cihlar "A New Year's Diet Resolution"
Katie Fesuk "Pilgrim Wife"
Sandy Longhorn "Flood Plain"
Ravi Shankar Rajan "Lion"
Michael Lee Johnson "South Chicago Night and Day"
Brianna Noll "Because Audrey Hepburn Movie Marathons Give Me Ideas"
Paul Handley "Alaska Fish Boat"
Michael Morical "Vermont"
Adam Tavel "Camp Loss"
Fernando Pérez "Oleander"
Melissa Dickson Blackburn "Yellow Jackets"
J. P. Dancing Bear "Assumpta Canaveral"
Volume Two Issue Three
(December 2009)
Nanette Rayman Rivera "hope"
Lois Marie Harrod "The sunlight has never heard of trees"
Kimberly E. Ruth "The Art of Clamming"
Jee Leong Koh "I see I am the last man drinking in the bar"
Kerry Trautman "Candi's Pontiac"
Stewart Florsheim "The Turning"
Jenn Blair "Town Skirts"
Roberta Feins "Taking Leave"
Carolee Sherwood "the ferocity of temporary things"
Jee Leong Koh "In the cloister, in the Temple of the Sacred Fountain"
Derek Pollard "Once Ago"
Jenn Blair "When a Syracuse Winter Ends"
Anne Champion "Lepidoptery"
Shivani Sivagurunathan "World"
Laurie Barton "Traveling in America"
Volume Two Issue Two
(August 2009)
Cameron Mount "How to Achieve Immortality"
Shannon Walsh "Narcissus pseudonarcissus"
Brent Newsom "Adjustment"
Iris Gribble-Neal "Pay Phones and Other Archaic Artifacts like Love"
Ansley Moon "From Belgrade to Sofiya"
Stephen A. Rozwenc "now that a nonviolent revolution is truly needed"
James H. Duncan "Sláinte"
Peggy Douglas "Swinging"
Fred Longworth "Last Tree"
Kirsten Hemmy "Hawai'i Ne"
Judith Skillman "The Blackberry Hedge in Autumn"
Chris Girman "Love Poem to My Son"
Ashok Niyogi "Jim Corbett Periphery"
Gale Acuff "Amazed"
Iris Gribble-Neal "One Good Thing About Pain"
Doug Ramspeck "Snake Goddess"
Lauren Scharhag "Ash, Tallow, Candle, Flame, Soap"
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo "Fear of Dying a Virgin"
John Sibley Williams "from And Then Like a Saber"
Linda Leedy Schneider "Conversations: Emergency Room"
Kirsten Hemmy "Dear Now"
Michael Cherry "Re-Incarnation"
Louie Crew "Animal Magnetism"
Alice Wong "My Palm Frond"
Charlotte Seley "super-continent"
Lenore Weiss "First Light Love"
Lauren Scharhag "O, Bury Me Not"
Tetman Callis "the compleat gentleman"
Jeff Streeby "River: Soliloquy 1"
Jennifer Mooney "After his death"
Christopher Barnes "The Minute"
Paul Howarth "White"
Clyde Kessler "Parole"
Julie R. Enszer "Jade Ring"
Clare L. Martin "Winter"
Tom Gribble "The Train's Twist of Light"
Gail Rudd Entrekin "Figure-Ground Exercise"
Stephen Garbarini "I Overcome Physics"
Sheila Black "Plaster"
Tim Hunt "Car Radio When It Seemed Late at Night (Gunsmoke)"
Volume Two Issue One
(April 2009)
Jim Daniels "Moving to Miami"
Glenn Sheldon "Perpetual Holiday"
Carolynn Kingyens "Remains of a Crime Scene"
David McLean "the rocks on the hill"
Iain Macdonald "Absent"
Gina Ferrara "Etched in Graphite"
Michael Kocinski "In the Still of the Night"
Charles Rafferty "Arizona"
Glenn Sheldon "Dumping a Lover, Seeking Another"
Anastasia Clark "Epitaphs in the Alley"
Zuzanna Nitecka "untitled"
Luigi Monteferrante "Motherhood"
Jim Daniels "Blue Light"
Carolynn Kingyens "Vacation Bible School"
Zuzanna Nitecka "Christmas Day"
Volume One Issue Three
(December 2008)
Irene Latham "The house on Baltimore street was not built for battle"
Anuja Ghimire "Saffron"
Gene Fox "Beach Glass"
William Doreski "In the Name of Some Endowment"
Phoebe Reeves "Commute"
Radames Ortiz "August Trance"
Christopher Flakus "Streetlight Mantra"
Leslie Contreras "Survival in Bucharest"
Pamela Coren "Phases of the Moon"
Tim Hunt "Canned Tuna"
Jason C. Venner "BloodMusic"
Dawn Schout "Hooked"
Christopher Flakus "It was somewhere in Mexico"
Phoebe Reeves "Absences"
Radames Ortiz "Mateo"
Caleb Parkin "Blood Groups"
Mary C. O'Malley "Moon Shining Through Bedroom Window"
Peter D. Goodwin "A Poem Written While Watching Children Study Art In A Museum Instead Of Playing Outside"
Robert Hastings "Those Weekday Nights When I Am Truly Lucky"
Irene Latham "In my mother's dream"
Caroline Misner "Trilliums in May"
Weam Namou "American and Iraqi Soldiers Unite in a Dance"
Ashley Capes "rotary"
Jessica Colley "The Reason Picasso Hangs Over My Bed"
Martin Ott "Mercy"
Donal Mahoney "Meeting Dad Again"
Chris Crittenden "Halloween"
Ryder Collins "How to apologize to ----, a Manual in progress"
Kim Triedman "Pink toenails change everything"
Weam Namou "My Brother's Wife"
Volume One Issue Two
(June 2008)
Susan Deer Cloud "Playing Marbles"
Dan Nowak "A Return to the Past After History Failed Me"
Katie Hartsock "The Sun Does Not Rise, We Turn To It"
Naomi Glassman "Miles until Michigan"
Michael Keshigian "Landlord"
Andrew Terhune "The Rabbits of Chicago Wait Only for Me"
Mel Sarnese "Family Reunion"
David W. Landrum "Jugville, USA"
Todd Heldt "The Problem with Memory"
Tad Richards "Mittens"
Benjamin Russell "Picasso's Loaves, 1952 (a photograph by Robert Doisneau)"
Richard Lighthouse "activities during meetings"
Ryan A. Bunch "At the Graveyard"
Samuel S. Vargo "Just a Rainy Night in Georgia"
Caitlin Ramsey "Handy"
Kyi May Kaung "Geese"
Steve Klepetar "Kids Today"
Steve Trebellas "Sweet Dimes"
Dan Nowak "Through a Snow Storm is Like Waiting to Call Yourself"
Kathleen Boyle "O Nonni"
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer "Stones"
Susan Deer Cloud "Asthma"
Patty Paine "salt; or the night you left"
Kyi May Kaung "I come from …"
Allan Peterson "My Math"
Maw Shein Win "throwing sparklers at the green mezzanine"
Kim Roberts "Summer Rain"
Samuel S. Vargo "Fotophone"
Janice D. Rubin "Interstate 5"
Patrick Loafman "An Idiot's Guide to the Blue Cat"
Saeed Jones "Eve on Top"
Jean Tupper "Gisela, my friend …"
Michael Spring "Leaving Belfast"
Ryan A. Bunch "Annual Toads"
Katie Hartsock "Leaving the Forest"
Volume One Issue One
(March 2008)
Rane Arroyo "Brokeback Mountain"
Frederick Lord "Diving Bell"
Allison Tobey "The Wedding Photo"
Frederick Lord "Cupping My Car Keys like a Bird I Want to Keep Quiet"
Tom Carson "Breakfast plate portraits"
Ryan McLellan "Too much life"
Peter Gunn "Tate Modern"
Tom Carson "The beach"
Sally O'Quinn "October View"
Jeff Crouch "thermostat"
JR Walsh "Maybe he'll adopt our children"
Carine Topal "Eating Apples"
David B. McCoy "Skylight"
Lightsey Darst "Don't"
Amanda McQuade "At the Shore"
Lenore Weiss "U.S. Soldier With Traumatic Stress Disorder Syndrome, Post Iraq"
Adam Houle "How I Imagine the Seasons on a Walk with My Dog"
Daria Tavana "Bunkered Up!"
Martin Willitts, Jr. "Forest Haiku"
Joseph Reich "from Twelve Odd Stanzas Involving Culture"
Lisa Fay Coutley "In Love, Fridays are Best Spent Watching the Discovery Channel"
Ray Succre "Seedless Blackberry Jam"
Davide Trame "The Threshold"
John Grey "Glassy"
Ryan McLellan "Exploratory"
Kenneth Pobo "Leave it to Buble"
Joseph Hutchison "Poplar"
Amanda McQuade "Happy Hour 3"
Adam Penna "from Lyrics to Genji"
Lisa Fay Coutley "In e-Harmony"
Anne Baldo "jenny hanniver"
Jackson Lassiter "Instant Oatmeal Instructions"
Taylor Graham "Erinys Erinys"
Celeste Snowber "water litany"
Davide Trame "Moth"
