You need nerve to spread your life out on the floor: mother’s handwriting, tombstones, mammoth bones, […]
TQ19 Poetry Prize
Only one way. The house. The body. What hisses, what gnaws—how to see what I’m meant […]
Arbor Vitae by Gary McDowell
The moon cracks itself over this city and probes the streets. I want to steal its […]
July Nocturne by Kathryn Haemmerle
I gathered shirtfuls of shells, pleated circle skirts of red plastic & copper, spent casings, the […]
Before the Sound Began to Vanish by torrin a. greathouse
Blessed are the stargazers, for I will multiply their light {as the krill in the sea […]
God the Mother Speaks of Cosmolatry by Dayna Patterson
Tie the body. In knots. Against itself. How to undress the horizon-line, the glint of after-fog […]
How to Settle by Gary McDowell
Sawnie Morris’ collection Her, Infinite was winner of the 2016 New Issues Press Poetry Award […]
Held by Water by Sawnie Morris
Do you remember time-outs in your room for flapping your trap, the copy of How to […]
Breaking the ring by Megan Merchant
I give you what I don’t have. Strawberries in the mouths of birds. Unopened pomegranate […]
In the Tradition of Women Who’ve Blessed Me to Transfer ...
A tall man wipes ashes from his lips. “I’ll pay you,” he says. “If you’re […]
Meditation on the Worth of Anything by Cynthia Dewi Oka
for my fellow Tulsa Artist Fellows Because a […]
A Noble Parting Gift: Rose Rock by Clemonce Heard
I. I tried to repair the fractured vase with a hairline of glue, but my […]