Poetry 2/3

Oct 19, 20221 min read

"Constructed Grief" by Kavi Kshiraj

i pick my teeth out, fingers stained red and tongue skating over empty gaps; practice speech sitting cross-legged on a bathroom floor,...

Oct 19, 20221 min read

"Empty" by Rhiannon Mcgavin

Rhiannon McGavin has failed the driver’s license test three times so far. Her work has been published by The Believer, Teen Vogue, and...

Oct 19, 20221 min read

"Pith" by Rhiannon McGavin

Rhiannon McGavin has failed the driver’s license test three times so far. Her work has been published by The Believer, Teen Vogue, and...

Oct 19, 20222 min read

"Mac Miller & Georgia O’Keeffe COLLABORATION TRACK" by Alex Dang

Georgia O’Keeffe made at least 20 / different paintings or drawings / of the same / door / but it’s different every time / because a...

Oct 19, 20221 min read

"beowulf" by Norah Brady

my favorite part is when he holds his breath for a day, his body a bullet trying to tear the fabric of the world and succeeding, his body...

Oct 19, 20222 min read

"Ode to Desperate Housewives" by Charlie Blodnieks

“I once smuggled vodka into church in a “Jesus saves” sports bottle.” - Bree Van de Kamp I walk home with the fire hydrants raining for...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"Culture Vultures Bereft" by William Doreski

Look at how lowbrow the sky has become. The opera has closed, leaving tenors gasping. The museums have sold off their holdings, and the...

Oct 17, 20222 min read

"Strangers" by William Doreski

At the farm stand a woman is coughing, coughing, coughing, laying down a trail of fever that will track her for days until it kills her....

Oct 17, 20222 min read

"Fustian" by William Doreski

When I look hard at the light and shade of prismatic sunsets, I never catch the colors real poets detect. They describe puce, ecru,...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"Joan of Arc Invented the Bob" by Taylor Garrison

while standing in her father’s garden. God at her ear, billhook in her palm. The angels just wanting to watch. Bangs being far too...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"the age-old struggle of being a woman in love that still plagues the 21st century" by Poppy Rosales

let's take away my roots. let’s make me a generic girl with a generic flower name and maybe make a joke or two about that–– about how you...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"Prayer for Doomed Girls" by Gaia Rajan

The driver on the way here joked about Bundy, how he could be a serial killer with a little more eyebrow, and he laughed and laughed and...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"Poem Inside A Locker Room" by Gaia Rajan

Golden Shovel from the Access Hollywood tapes Girl, this is how you die the first time. Just ten minutes behind a locker. This kiss could...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"Notes on Anger" by Jonny Teklit

after Mary Ruefle ANGER AS STONE What do I do with all this resentment thrown like a stone into the lake of my body? It’s too deep to...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"Forgive Me If I Say" by Darnell "DeeSoul" Carson

I do not subscribe that strongly to astrology and still speak in the tongue of the truest believer. What I mean by this is, my sister and...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"Red Chair With Potential" by Alina Stefanescu

I stared at the red chair until it turned into a boulder in a chestnut grove where dolls remove their clothes and cry. But first, it was...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"The Krakow Nude" by Alina Stefanescu

The framed photo used to hang in the hall of my single-mom apartment: hair loose, lips lit by laughter, me naked but for a man's white...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

"Summer Heroes" by Heath Wooten

Heath Joseph Wooten is a 2020 Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets fellow, and he holds a BA in English from the University of...

Jul 21, 20203 min read

The Art of Ambivalence (or: Thoughts While Watching "My Life as a Zucchini")

Films successful in evoking childhood will give children the freedom to behave thoughtfully and intelligently. When a director incites nosta

Jun 11, 20202 min read

Review: The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng

A glimpse into the troubled history of an island and its residents. Tan Twan Eng’s historical fiction novel, The Gift of Rain, is one of...