08 Jun Why Is This Room The Size of Mountains and So Empty by Robin Lee Jordan

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I need you to be
flames now please

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01 Jun since blood is dark by Diego Espíritu Chávez

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the body aches and words say
exactly what I don’t want
: not everything in language is ours or belongs to us

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25 May Excerpts from Stock Pond by Justin Cox

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dirt helmet a
historical helmet an
artifact metal met with
smooth dirt

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18 May My Name by Irene Sipos

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My name means peace,
after Irene, the Greek goddess.

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11 May Taking Dictation​ by Brandel France de Bravo

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I’m Berlusconi minus the pomade, Putin’s twenty bottles
of vodka and birthday mash note. You’re one of my five
real friends. Just as a poet always writes for other poets,

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04 May Two poems by Peter Siedlecki

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Arrested,
Apprehended,
Disappeared,
Severed from those he loves.

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27 Apr Wounded by George Howell

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I take things too seriously,
take things to heart,
a cliché, yes

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20 Apr Origin Story by Steven Duong

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In the Year of the Hare I saw in your face
an invasive species of love which said
If this is how you live your life

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13 Apr A sonnet by David Hadbawnik

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The ice on the lake is melting in broad
pockmarked sections aesthetically it’s
pleasing to imagine stepping out on

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06 Apr Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones by Hoa Nguyen

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When I feel moved and then say I am touched,
it’s another presence inside me I sense,
the dip of an oar, a canoe being launched.

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