Your Own Heart, a Poem by Peter Kaczmarczyk
I grew up thinking My suburban life Filled with liberal minds And high-minded rhetoric Had taught me all I needed to know But you cannot...
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- Oct 6
- 2 min
After Coming Out of the Cocoon, a Poem by Sofiul Azam
if I started, “Once upon a time, not so long ago, lived a man with a habit of regretting his mistakes and making more in the process,”...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Since I Saw the Ocean, a Poem by Sarah-Kate Simons*
they ask me if i still think of death, i say i always have a shadow, like shafts of rain falling in sunlight. i don’t need monsters and...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
At the Professor’s Table, a Poem by Sarah-Kate Simons*
we are asleep inside ourselves. we know you when the dawn sneaks in on a sleeping forest and catches her unawares; we struggle to find...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
In Pursuit of the Things that Don’t Demand my Demise, a Poem by Chisom Charles Nnanna*
I’m not ungrateful to the days the sun was darker than the gathering of a thousand nights, and the nights the moon was as timid as a...
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- Oct 4
- 2 min
As Fate Uncuffs Another Dawn, a Poem by Chisom Charles Nnanna*
"Listen to me. There will be a day when the world will need you most — be alive on that day." - Michael Wasson. I don’t disagree that...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Scars, a Poem by Chris White*
cut from events and ensuing wounds, body helpless, intently attuned. fragile afflictions, tender and bruised, crouch and hide, any...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Firefly, a Poem by Katherine Gotthardt*
The world could use more fireflies. Not in a jar, but brightening that space – you know, the one between the space, the night we stare...
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- Oct 4
- 2 min
Hanamo, a Poem by Flo Au*
Cluster bombs of ashes and metals and petals of you and me and him and her suffocate the air in the blizzards of fears swiveling our...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Stay Till the Dawn, You Might Get the Sun, a Poem by Fatima Abdullahi*
I gave my country a home in my chest. With my first cry and my father's signature, I stamped my mark into its soil, & clothed myself with...
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- Sep 29
- 3 min
My New Father Has More and Better, a Short Story by Awara Fernandez
Our sons lived for five years in an orphanage in the rainforest of Puerto Maldonado, Peru after their biological parents died. When our...
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- Sep 15
- 2 min
The Strength You Draw from Regrets, a Poem by Sofiul Azam
Only those reluctant dullards who became wise at the expense of innocence can understand the inference that the sourness of mangrove...
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- Sep 8
- 6 min
Lost Boys, a Short Story by Ann van Wijgerden
Chaos. Wrenching at her. It will sweep her away if it can. Clari’s left hand grips the gummy steering wheel, her right the stubborn gear...
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- Sep 1
- 1 min
As the Crow Flies, a Prose Poem by Joe Bisicchia
Feather instead my wings. All the way home, over the streets, for here we are. In truth, none alone. Christ, O Truth, take my hand.
Ann Christine Tabaka
- Aug 11
- 1 min
I Will Take You with Me, a Poem by Ann Christine Tabaka
I will take you with me beyond dark
doorways propped open with slivers
of light. Along winding trails in a blackened forest
Gary Beck
- Jul 28
- 8 min
Landlord Attack, Short Story by Gary Beck
Jaime Perez crept up the fire escape as quietly as he could and stopped at the third floor. He leaned over the guard rail to the kitchen...
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- Jun 16
- 1 min
Make a Difference! a Poem by D.R. James
—a villanelle to commencement speakers everywhere Tonight, fatigue’s grim flower unfurls, but Gandhi, gunned down, had this to say: “Be...
Katie Annarino
- May 5
- 6 min
In Between and Far Away, an Essay by Katie Annarino
The large wall of windows on the fifth floor of the Stefanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center overlooks the corner of a congested...
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- Dec 9, 2022
- 1 min
Magnolia and Cherry, a Poem by Marjorie Maddox
-Spring 2021 Buds burnt by cold, they open anyway, both pink and blackened, facing the spring. Courage, not innocence: magnolia and...
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- Nov 18, 2022
- 1 min
Block, a Poem by Erin Covey-Smith
The blank slate where I want to write sorrow for the black bodies taken, where I want to write worry for the invisible vector tornadoeing...
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