Poetry

How to Survive a Hangover: Jeff Goldblum Describes How He Knows that Today is Going to be Worse than Yesterday by Alexander Stachniak

Leaving a little lather in my hair, I stare at a bowl of Cheerios, life preservers lapping against the gunwales,

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Two Poems by Derek N. Otsuji

THE WORK OF MEMORY

The clock repeats its stoic parable as Grandma talks. The seconds tick and fall tick, fall,

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I Know, I Know, But God I Miss Smoking by Debra Shirley

Listen to a reading of “I Know, I Know, But God I Miss Smoking” by Debra Shirley.

Fifteen years past

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Two Poems by Kenneth P. Gurney

Listen to a reading of “Enlightenment” by Kenneth P. Gurney.

Enlightenment

When I was twelve and a half the puberty

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The Hobbyists by Sarah Long

Listen to a reading of “The Hobbyists” by Sarah Long.

They send you sweating sacks of overripe fruit from gardens

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the sold violin by Heather Askeland

the A string keens, a notch flat, lost songbird carrying morning.

the sun is a steak knife slicing dust. you

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Two Poems by Jon-Michael Frank

I’ve Learned A Lot From Topography

Say, for instance, my father crosses the black line of stones

the marsh he

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Two Poems by Katherine Hoerth

Breakfast with Fur

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When Picasso remarked that anything could be

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Atomic Tiki Man by Karen Kelsay

He’s the one who looks like he came from Trader Vic’s, wearing a sideways rum punch smile. A cool dude

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Here Comes The Avalanche. by Joe Copplestone

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Death to bingo wings and retirement spent on fags

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