Two Poems by Alicia Elkort and Jennifer Givhan
Two Poets Email on a Sunday Afternoon I used to think what happened to me / massive creature & putrid / pinned to the floor, ripped open,...
"Teething Borders"
Teething Borders “Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing...
"Sexting"
Sexting You say words work when hands can’t reach. So I try, send you messages that set a scene: the tool shed out back, windows steamed,...
Two Poems by Derrick Austin
The Devil's Book There’s no fun in witchery these days. Sure, I shudder cops with invisible needles, but magic’s no calling. I simply...
Fifty
Fifty He said if you keep punishing yourself like this you’ll be old by the time you’re fifty and right there in the instant of him...
Hells Bells
Hells Bells Wasn’t allowed to listen to secular music. Mother said it was the devil’s music. Church said Satan was made of music, glory...
The Tools We Used
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...
Two Poems by Hai-Dang Phan
Ballistics In a ballistics lab in Maryland three artists known as The Propeller Group aimed assault rifles at each other and fired them...
bloodnectar
Danez Smith's poem "bloodnectar" was originally published in The Southeast Review 34.2. bloodnectar brother our blood intersects in...
Two Poems by Justin Phillip Reed
Considering My Disallowance I lived. An absurdity. My body rose to stir in response to starshine, so much of me requiring its fire....
