<h1> The body is. The body is not. What is the body when it is not the body? What can a body be when it is not the body? Is the body ever just the body? What is the body even when we claim it is not the body? </h1> <h2> This is what I […]
Featured Poetry
New Media/Digital Poetry and the Body
Pure Deseo
Raquel Gutiérrez
There is a mountain afraid to lose its place in the landscape. One of the many lands to give back but I don’t know how. Inhale comfort into these contested terrains, extracting answer for a question unimaginable. I had a dream that José Muñoz showed up wearing a wine-town plaid sky, a blue windbreaker smiling […]
Kaddish
by Matthew Isaac Sobin
In “Kaddish”, Matthew Isaac Sobin considers language’s limits in both prayer and poetry as the speaker delves into the difficulties of myriad types of translating: not just meaning, but also spirituality, ritual, intimacy, grief. What suffices? When grief calls us, what language becomes enough?
“Let us bless transliteration
and chant
congregate right to left
to crest cold wind
[..]
Is one enough
to reach
the ear of God?”
How to Make Just about Anything
by Karen Holman
“It looked like a tater, it tasted like a tater, it grew like a tater,” Colin explained. “So I figured it’s a tater.” “They Thought They Unearthed the World’s Largest Potato,” Washington Post It always takes heat and moisture, starts with a coil: time compressed. An egg is a coil, onion, and rhizome. I carry, […]
Psalm with Static
by Connor Watkins-Xu
Lord of the broken lot as I used to hear on late night TV I can accept your baggage which we carry together you say I miss you in a new way this year I betray my […]
Montreal, 2016 by Emily Pinkerton
dusk: the air hot and full of dust. brutalist diplomatic buildings aged in that patina, dim as parking garages. our days were long and languid. heat pulled us like a leash, guiding our way to the water; no trees save for paltry saplings straining against the sun to put down roots. EMILY PINKERTON lives and […]
THE COAT
by Dani Janae
Like a black bag thrown over a prisoner’s head, the coat fits taut against his shoulders. He must have seen a tailor. He must have had the foresight to bargain like a knife: with teeth. A chirp sounds in the courtroom. What I think a bird is just the laugh in his throat. The coat, […]
Humpback
by Ben Kline
Cougar is the most searched type of porn, the clickbait claims, making it my lucky year to turn fifty, to turn away the young men who follow my crow’s feet across the room at fundraisers and wedding receptions, their arms jostling my lumbar saddlebags, their hellos mimicking the nod they offer their grandpas and sugar […]
this one goes out to the one-eyed love
by Ed Go
flesh of myflesh & blood of myblood bone of mybone & muscle of mymuscle brain of mybrain & heart of myheart lung of mylung & lung of mylung intestines of myintestines, large&small thigh of mythigh knee of myknee calf of mycalf & calf of mycalf […]
fag vows
by Andrew Ketcham
something like adultery something like a tire fire big hands the shape and scope of god blistering your body something new
