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from a costco gas station in california

“but roots are live wires, and you never saw / that I’m more brick than concrete…”

by Mirabella Smith on August 6, 2022August 5, 2022

The Apotheosis of Washington

his brush-stroked / countenance / and plaster-backed / powder blue / dress coat / dragged down / into the crypt

by Alexandra Orbuch on August 6, 2022August 5, 2022

Light

“Unaided / my eyes can only see so much / Beauty.”

by Daniel Vergara on August 6, 2022August 5, 2022

Songs of the West

“…how will we escape when the sun meets its rise?”

by Chisom Nwadinobi on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

Please leave a voicemail, I’m out of the wheelhouse

“Mysticism twists herself in circles, gnawing at her purple train..”

by John Slaughter on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

highs and lows

“i swallowed your lies / and they came back up as tears”

by Andrew Somerville on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022

A Trilogy of Poems About English Mountain, Tennessee

“The cemetery pointed the old Dutch pharaohs / Toward their heaven.”

by Dylan Fox on April 3, 2022April 3, 2022

Review of DISIAC’s HEADLINES

A poetic assessment of a student dance group.

by John Slaughter on April 3, 2022April 3, 2022

Persimmons of another tree: a transfem’s song of love and rejuvenation

“When I say room I mean this space that contains me. / When I say this space that contains me I mean I fill this space. / When I say I fill this space I mean this space is my body.”

by Sophie Lockwood on March 27, 2022March 27, 2022

Contrasts

“stars and stripes / color the flag of my birth country / and I am found buried in the pages / of its history”

by Alexandra Orbuch on March 27, 2022March 27, 2022

Ex Post Facto

“…I’ve become a spy for mankind.”

by Kyle Singh on March 20, 2022March 25, 2022

To cleanse

“I consider cleaning it / But a marble pattern of the last remnants of you is reassuring to stare down at ”

by Hiba Siddiki on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022


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