Poem of the Month

No One Goes To Prince Arthur Anymore

Is it because they can’t tell the Casa Grecque from the Cabane Grecque? Because they drown in buckets of oversalted feta, or they have lost their ways through white tablecloths and folded napkins returning from the restrooms?

By Jason Freure

Archaic Torso

We cannot know his ordinary head except from photographs, eyes wholly terrified. And yet his torso, bent over ...

By Darren Bifford

#88 earth

you fill the water bottle you found in the trash with pondwater in the field at recess because it has been ...

By jasper avery

Blowing Grass Empire (i)

She took the child to the crest of a green hill overlooking an immense land, and swept her arm across the ...

By Mark Lavorato

Portrait of a Boy as Mist

A boy awoke to watch the wind blow his parents' weathervane relationship, leaving him in a fog. I changed ...

By Aidan Chafe

No Exit

I love your world, he said, just keep it to yourself —I love your mouth. In a Star ...

By Robin Richardson

I’m Dog. Who Are You?

People who thought differently were called worms, dogs, traitors. – from an article in The New York ...

By Greg Santos

Finishing Salt

This is our end of season in the food forest. Bitter apple. Fairytale fungus. Spores so dry they fly and ...

By Tanya Evanson

Iconoclast

the war is over and we are still ............here. if the good angel ...

By Benjamin Hertwig

Dead Raccoon on the Highway

I sit next to him on a park bench on a cool summer day. His smile is beautiful. He tells me I am gorgeous. I take ...

By Clementine Morrigan

Bond “Girls”

BOND “GIRLS” PT. 1: LUCIA

Everyone loves older men and even older cities. But women
must be girls, and preferably girls from out of town. But
I’ve lived here my whole life. And when you died, I fell

By Sennah Yee

Group Therapy

Each of us, in turn, has to answer, in one word,
the question: What are you feeling?

In December no less, when it gets dark at four
and this classroom’s been double-booked.

Another band of politicized marginals
prowls restless in the corridor

By Rebecca Pǎpucaru