A Poem by Brad Trumpfheller
This week, a poem by Brad Trumpfheller
‘Rough Patch’ by Nicole Markotic
Keira is bisexual, and she lets you know it even if she hasn’t told anyone else. She is 15 years old with a lot to figure out, including meticulously planning the moment to come out to her best friend.
A Poem by James Cihlar
This week, a poem by James Cihlar
‘Kingdom Come: A Fantasia’ by Timothy Liu
The poems in Kingdom Come become progressively more luminous—even as they insist on their carnality
A Poem by Paige Lewis
This week, a poem by Paige Lewis
‘Babybel Wax Bodysuit’ by Eric Kostiuk Williams
All three stories in this collection deal with “peeling back the wax bodysuit” (an analogy to the wax covering of Babybel cheese), i.e. all the multiple layers we use to hide both our fears and our egos
A Poem by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
This week, a poem by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
‘Erased’ by Robbi McCoy
Erased opens with the quintessential
‘The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips’ by Raymond Luczak
Almost generous to a fault, Luczak’s poems salute Whitman and at the same time he respects him enough to question some of his underlying notions of love, community, and self