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Tag: Poetry
James R. Gapinski: “The Fourth Attic,” new fiction
We buy an old house in some up-and-coming Portland neighborhood (see: gentrification; also see: we are the problem, not … More
“eraser,” new poetry by Tariq Shah
They erased me yesterday. After they took up the gavel, hammered the sound block, the wheels set into motion. … More
Three Prose Poems by Grant Kittrell
There’s a Man with a Hemingway Inside His chair is shrinking beneath him on the coffee shop patio. I should … More
Three Princess Poems by Frances Donovan
What Snow White Swallows ginger snaps / a matchstick square pizza in the school cafeteria her body spreading in the … More
Em Mingus: “Confession,” new poetry
I don’t know where to start Or where you want me to start But I’m here And I’m trying … More
Two Poems by Julia Cohen
Passover Lullaby for Elijah, April 19 2019 / Elegy for Chabad of Poway Synagogue April 27 2019 A sinkhole of … More
Poetry: “The world in which I open up google earth and my dead mother is feeding the horses.” by Megan Merchant
I imagined it differently. The paddock flooded. The donkey and sheep a fence over, cuddled under the mare. I … More
“Out Goes the Blot,” new poetry by David Kruger
I sit at the free clinic like a tailor stitching a hidden nest in a jacket. After the hat … More
Original Fiction: “A Hunger Boy” by Blake Planty
Simon weasels his way out of every trap I set. I dirtied my paws a long time ago, getting … More
Three Poems by Clare Hogan
Going, Going It was an act of love to go for the throat, blood slipping out, making of the … More
Katie Willingham: Two Poems
What we eat in my dreams is always the forbidden: bread and more bread, a failure of imagination. We … More
