Poem

Kelly’s Love for Waltzes

  • Reuben Jackson

Undelivered Message to the Sky: November 9, 2016

  • Kemi Alabi

Three Poems

  • K. Iver

My cat paints her fur on with her tongue

Brother when I die
my ashes go to your house.
Confusion where to scatter
is all I’ll leave.
  • Craig Sullender

Abdel Halim Performs a Private Concert for My Mother

  • Hazem Fahmy

Just Grab

I decided to buy a banana.
It seemed like a good idea.
At the café, a banana.
A good idea, it seemed, so I couldn’t resist.

  • Cate Lycurgus

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November 5, 1980

I have called, in my wasted youth, the concrete slabs
Of prison home. Awakened to guards keeping tabs
On my breath.
  • Reginald Dwayne Betts

Flannery’s Peacocks

  • Laren McClung

Supervising the Woods

  • Calvin Bedient

Polar Bodies

  • Katy Lederer

Two Poems

  • Khaled Mattawa

Two Poems

  • Virginia Konchan

Rum & Rice

  • Vi Khi Nao

Shelter

  • Yusef Komunyakaa

’tween my gone people & me

this earth but in my ancestor’s tongue
this earth full of ravens’ calls
  • Tyree Daye

Illuminated

  • Erinn Batykefer

My Receipt

  • Mike Lala

Two Poems

  • Oriana Tang

All In

  • Chris Nealon

Three Poems

When you beat my brother’s face with a sack of potatoes, when he bruised & you drew the burlap back for blood, did you smell lilac?

  • Felicia Zamora

Two Poems

  • Jacques J. Rancourt

Two Poems

  • Devon Miller-Duggan

Two Poems

  • C. Russell Price

Two Poems

  • Michael Wasson
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