1760-1832 The name of a spy is commodity. The name of a slave was ephemera. Our lineage […]
Wendy Chen
dulce et decorum est pro pecuniamea mori They know the cost and play it every month, performing glory, […]
The Re-Enactors by Matthew Moniz
for Kenneth Copeland Rope scrapes numb on his rough hands as he sits on temple stoop plaiting frayed […]
Jesus and the Whip by Matthew Moniz
I lose my footing on the blue trail. A snow is coming. Your gut goes mute. A dark […]
STACKARS LILLA BASSE by Julia Anna Morrison
Where you sleep, dark snow lashes down. Your glasses are ice-cold;your eyesight astigmatic Your sleep, spondaic—a dream of […]
FOOTNOTE TO A BLIZZARD by Julia Anna Morrison
(with a debt owed, formally, to Tyehimba Jess’s Olio) debt means […]
debt ritual: class by Katie Naughton
What a jolt, no polished stone nor summersleeping by the sea, but like a hingepointed loosely from its […]
Diamond Shoals by Michael Robins
Once, I turned into my mother’s sundress, yellowand dashed with red and white daisies, a trim midishape that […]
Magic by Stephen Scott Whitaker
Once I took a man and swallowed himup. Woods did not watch. No witnesses,only birds, stewards of forest […]
Queer the Woods by Stephen Scott Whitaker
Born and raised on the east side of Oʻahu, Charity Yoro now resides on the traditional territory […]
A Folio of Poetry by Charity Yoro
My long body. This length a love poem. Distance between us a seething river, bound and easily scratched, […]
SOUNDING IS NAMING THE GAP BETWEEN US AND THEN TRAVELING ...
Everywhere, god in parcels the land outstretched on which he has cast his eyes— speculating a love of […]