Niggerlipping a cigarette was a no-no, I quickly learned when I had my first drag at 14, […]
TQ5 Poetry Contest
after A. Van Jordan through (→) prep. 1. In one […]
Through by Aaron Coleman
New Orleans, a Tuesday, 7:30 A.M. I’m sipping coffee at a McDonald’s on Canal when two young […]
Stars by John Warner Smith
Let’s aim for poppy seeds that are actually red. If we […]
Hike by Laura Cesarco Eglin
To let grief ride my blood like a school bus. To say tongue but mean staircase. To […]
Shadowboxing by Ruth Madievsky
It looks like any war monument in any U.S. town except it doesn’t commemorate a war and […]
At the United Mine Workers Monument to the Victims ...
1 rocks; river flood plain, washed over. tropical seashore and swamp, volcano. 2 […]
Cartography by Jennifer S. Cheng
My drink of choice is wrath, it goes down like fire, like medicinal wine, like moonshine. […]
Elegy for the Drowned by Crystal Condakes
we are long passed the days of the switch. the detective was thankful and heartbroken about this, […]
the boy detective undergoes corporeal punishment by sam sax
—so I called it, when I talked of reading and writing; of my doubt about assumed […]
Piety by Elizabeth Hutton
The trees, a madness of white & wind, we, a madness of sweat & rope, ropes of […]