The Tools We Used 1 My father gripping the lawnmower's handle on Saturdays to pummel twigs was how we measured time. His pulse beating in...

Ballistics In a ballistics lab in Maryland three artists known as The Propeller Group aimed assault rifles at each other and fired them...

Danez Smith's poem "bloodnectar" was originally published in The Southeast Review 34.2. bloodnectar brother our blood intersects in...

Considering My Disallowance I lived. An absurdity. My body rose to stir in response to starshine, so much of me requiring its fire....

Quiñones's poem "Ode to Desire" was originally published in The Southeast Review 35.2. Ode to Desire Oh perfect engine you craft me into...

Infinity Plus One after Terry Boyd This day allotted red sun. Control background, a son borne the shivers. Remember I replaced the river...

Parthenogenesis Envy these female hammerheads: how they swim in purified fields, pregnant by salt or ocean without contact with males....

The Clearing What if this time instead of crumbs the girl drops teeth, her own, what else does she have, and the prince or woodcutter or...

Hesitation Waltz Maybe now that Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz has a biopic on Netflix, it’s easier to date a woman who likes talking about...

The following appears in Yukon's chapbook, ATOA: A Meditative Poem Through the Alphabet, forthcoming from The Southeast Review. Make a...

Funding the Arts and Sciences Don’t be a baby about the bugs behind the leaves Oh no I am thinking about the bugs behind the leaves at...

"Hourglass" is featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 36.2. Subscribe here to receive your copy in the Fall with the release of 36.2!...

"To the Editor Who Asked I Send Poems Without the Word Cunt " is featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 36.2. Subscribe here to receive...

This selection from In the Circus is an SER TWO exclusive. Please look forward to seeing another of Gabrielle Bates's poetry comics...

"Yet No Less Grateful" is one of two poems by Carl Phillips to be featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 36.2. Subscribe here to receive...

PORNOMISERIA (for Ziggy) To fetishize our suffering: pornomiseria. Each earthquake and wildfire, pornomiseria. Wolf Blitzer pleads, “How...

Jed Myers lives in Seattle. He is author of Watching the Perseids (Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), The Marriage of Space and Time...