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On a Fast

My stomach is parched from having just peed into the muddled ground. And it hurts from having nothing to eat, no ring pops, no soda, no sunflower seeds. It’s an empty hole, a cosmic hole— it could collapse now into … Read More

by Joel Newberger on May 4, 2011March 22, 2013

If Poems Were Children

The Great Drying-Up is coming.
I can feel it in
the way I’m beginning…

by Margaret Sullivan on October 22, 2009March 17, 2013

After a Certain Number of Leagues

“You’ve said I remind you of those deep water high stress fish: cakey eyes, headlights that make sense in pitch nothing but when taken to surface explode.”

by Nicolette D’Angelo on July 23, 2017July 29, 2017

Mars.

“Make all due haste through airless waste,” say Terrans who’ve not been.

“Work quickly with your regolith,” say Lunies in their bin.

But those who moil in blood-red soil to their own ends indulge

Oft meet their doom gasping vacuum crawling the Tharsis bulge.

by Charles Swanson on September 28, 2013September 28, 2013

In Princeton with You

“Your clothes are spilling from their drawers / It seems I’d rather stay indoors / When I’m in Princeton with you.”

by Peter Taylor on October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

California

An elegy.

by Arthur Imperatore on March 12, 2017March 12, 2017

With Teeth

You can go suck a fuck.

by Saph Ho on March 7, 2015

Song of My Studio

“Most days I whack my shinbone on the coffee table /
When friends come over we drink whiskey and forget the rules of chess”

by Juju Lane on April 25, 2021April 26, 2021

Effect of Fog

“I can’t wake up from the things I wanted– / I can’t ever bring myself to come clean.”

by Hope Perry on November 7, 2021November 6, 2021

Because We Were Girls Together

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room.                So how should I presume?   (from The Love … Read More

by Jemima Smith on November 22, 2025

How a Rock Is Cut

“So long as nothing blocks your persistence, / you arrive one day at solution caves and gaping gullies.”

by Gavin Keasler on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

Rothko

i remember the anguish of space— standing half a step too close to you under the copper light of streetlamps,   with every word and gesture, feeling surprised by how my hands would strain against their own skin to touch … Read More

by Crystal Liu on April 3, 2016April 2, 2016


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