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Apostasia

“Scramble the words you have been saving / for me”

by Emily Liushen on October 20, 2019October 20, 2019

Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Firestone Library Princeton, NJ

“When Women Look at Men / 8 Million Women Want / Women’s Rights”

by Nicolette D’Angelo on April 7, 2018April 8, 2018

15 March: La femme qui s’appelait Brute et savait observer les ambassadeurs

They say she wears a mask that could launch a thousand ships and that with the purse of her lips, the white-gloved hands she uses to light thin, pretty cigarettes and drink Manhattans that she would launch them.

by Scott Newman on March 11, 2018March 11, 2018

(A Poem)

An untitled work.

by Stephen Tyler on December 4, 2008March 17, 2013

The Other Woman is left in the cold

“Never dipped one toe into water, but sipped juice on a hilltop.”

by Somi Jun on March 5, 2017July 21, 2017

after mother

“the catching of blood / & buttercream pipes / around edges as the mattress coils / find a home in my ribcage.”

by Nicolas Gregory on November 15, 2020November 15, 2020

When Patton Threw Her Hat In

A prominent alumna by the name of Susan Patton / Sized up the campus dialogue and chose to throw her hat in.

by Jeremy Cohen on April 11, 2013April 13, 2013

Haikus for Friends

Love, in so many syllables.

by Scot Tasker on October 19, 2013October 20, 2013

Puppy Videos

I’m all about puppies during finals because I never feel like less of human than when I have written the phrase “sociopolitical framework” and wondered whether what I meant was actually “geopolitical,”

by Susannah Sharpless on February 14, 2015February 16, 2015

The Afterparty

“Bobby prays to God and
remembers to call the plumber”

by Christian Bischoff on October 15, 2017October 14, 2017

A Not-Sonnet

Chamomile tea gets me off More than getting me off does See also: girls laughing at my jokes & 90s video games   Can we go back to your place? Sure, but only if you’re down To smoke dope & … Read More

by Samuel Bollen on February 28, 2016February 28, 2016

Summer Survival Guide

“If you have ever had a mango, / Have another / And another.”

by Faith Emba on July 31, 2019July 31, 2019


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