Category: Poetry
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this american life, #556: same bed, different dreams by Maggie Cooper
things he wanted: good coffee someone to dance with poetry enough money to buy a plane ticket to Spain Read more
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Paul is Dead by Lenny DellaRocca
We scoured LPs like Sherlock Holmes with his spy glass and cocaine. And there they were, the lies: Barefoot Paul, 28 IF, Turn Me On Dead Man on the backward Revolution 9. Read more
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Madman Silencio by Ubaldimir Guerra
Madman Silencio Sometimes dem call me a madman but I see me self as sikarus as Kamau in him video style, Sycorax Read more
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The Artist’s Model by Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
When the heating lamp below the tub snuffs out, I float in my swollen dress like I have each afternoon for months. Read more
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Mildred’s Parents Accepted Her Marriage by Diamond Forde
Mildred’s Parents Accepted Her Marriage but my parents stress in secret. At the table in his single room apartment, dad serves us burritos hosed with ketchup, a mock on the salsa he can’t afford but won’t admit. Read more
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Three Lessons on the Adolescent Body by Diamond Forde
Diamond Forde Lit by hazy yellow noon sputtered through our grade school panes, we file into the gym. It squeaks awake, the sound of rubber shoes. What holy racket. Our voices—the hallowed harangue of small gods witnessing power. We skip rope, indifferent to our leaping legs. Our feet slam the lacquer and scuff little omens… Read more