“Onyx Egg”: Poetry from The Future by Caleb Nelson

someday things will be the worst they’ve ever been nothing will be all right essentially everything will suck the most … More

“all gorgeous objects found in the terror of your past”: A Poem from The Future by Jeff Pearson

1. Ongoing whispers in your head. 2. Your howls. 3. All memorials for something. 4. You do not succeed in … More

Mother’s Dance #1 Mother does not Want to dance alone Come child She’s trying to bring You into the music … More

Wendigo III Rasp of rawhide, knock of bone on hollow bone, clatter of loose broad teeth set in cervine … More

Personification: Extinction Chronicles Can we make more happen than burning to the ground and tears? Become a disappearing collection in … More

Vertical farming is coming The rain will grow your hair back Friends will be a dime-a-dozen Real ones will still … More

The Art of Dying We are all walking around, smelling like apocalypse— a fleshy earth musk not unlike summer squash. … More

my singularity injected wet wear makes me robotic hand flexing feel the mechanical brain feedback if I grab you tightly … More

I’m Tired of Men Telling Me They’re Afraid I’m Going to Write about Them It isn’t a dream when you … More

Matthew Thorburn’s new book of poems, The Grace of Distance, was published by LSU Press in August 2019. He’s also the author … More

Pareidolia In summer we make stories for the ungrowing seasons, the sweatspeckled back of the blue sky made real … More

In a Late Stage It’s not a question of outrunning the bear; it’s a question of perfectly seasoning the salmon. … More