Poetry

Shadow of the Colossus

Poetry by Michael Marberry April 18, 2019

We were made to suffer. Mostly, / the man you love doesn’t know you

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Poetry

Frieze

Poetry by Erin Elizabeth Smith April 11, 2019

And I don't know then / how to disappear enough / for neither of us to see me

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Poetry

Ontological

Poetry by Peter Cooley March 27, 2019

I am the name behind the names, remembering / my origins at the formation of the world.

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Poetry

Phantom

Poetry by Tomasz Różycki, translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal March 13, 2019

each of us still carries / a hole for you inside our hearts

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AudioPoetry

Auto-Immune

By Destiny Birdsong February 27, 2019

I am destined to infuse / survival with meaning, like honey clotting in syringes.

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Poetry

Swimming Pool

Poetry by Aleš Šteger, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry February 18, 2019

I accept everything. I renounce everything. / I sink into everything, clothed only in a wet beard.

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Poetry

The Hang-Up

By Justin Phillip Reed January 24, 2019

Waiting had also promised to end me,
 / but daily, and starting with the innermost parts.

Poetry

The Meal

Poetry by Gemma Gorga, translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin January 10, 2019

death reviews the menu for the umpteenth time, / repeats our names between its teeth

Bodies & Nature

Poetry

/ˈməT͟Hər/

Poetry by Tiana Nobile December 21, 2018

We tend to our roles like we tend to a fire, / poking the coals with the blazing tip of an iron.

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Poetry

Blind River

Poetry by Diane Mehta December 13, 2018

We have long ties to sunlight, / equations that always solve for equality.

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Poetry

The Weight of the Sun

Poetry by Charlotte Pence November 21, 2018

I like being / reminded that we all began in dark and stars

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