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    won’t you celebrate my blood transfusion: a poem by Vogue M. Robinson

    Aug 19, 2020

    "I will celebrate / you, in your own skin / ashy, powder-dusted / textured, fragile skin"

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    Song for the Shade of Elvis on Juneteenth, 2020: A Poem by Gregory Crosby

    Jul 01, 2020

    " ... whose voices were singing / in the back of your mind, far & away /

    on a sweltering late summer night in / Tupelo?"

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    "Here's That Thing I Owe You, Las Vegas": a poem by Dayvid Figler

    May 20, 2020

    "Wait! Where was I? / (Distracted) / Right. / About to give you what I owe you."

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    "Quarantining with You": a poem by Elizabeth Quiñones-Zaldaña

    May 13, 2020

    "I’m afraid of what you will say, what days succeeding / without number will reveal"

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    "Week One": A Poem by Jennifer Battisti

    Mar 25, 2020

    "On the second day, I got laid off from work and dreamt of pounding my fist on the pump of a Purrell bottle."

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    "Quiet Moments": a poem by Heather Lang-Cassera

    Sep 04, 2019

    "She swishes sand, leaving wing-shaped tracks, /  & on her back, carries a detailed /  topographic map ..."

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    "An Arrangement of Deck Chairs," a poem by Gregory Crosby

    Jul 05, 2019

    Fear anew the heat of the sun; it burns / the air like high noon in a prison yard.

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    When I say everything in the world can look beautiful,

    Dec 05, 2018

    "Maybe we’re cut too deep / for mending. Maybe we should try imploding like the Stardust"

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    "Dear Cadmos": a poem by Zachary Zheng

    Jun 13, 2018

    "Beside you great rolls of yet more foliage / Their vibrancy is a reminder of your inadequacy."

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    "Stoicism": a poem by Jarret Keene

    Mar 28, 2018

    Little librarian lady, last time I saw you / You stamped my book at circulation: / The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca. 

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    "Silvered Slipper" — a poem by Jennifer Battisti

    Dec 20, 2017

    "I would watch her weep sparks for Vegas Vic / who was seduced by Sassy Sally’s mechanical hips ..."

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    "Bristlecone in Blue" — a poem by Jennifer Battisti

    Dec 07, 2017

    " ... gnarled trunks support branches, poised / petrified lightening, limbs / held up in terror / and surrender"

     

     

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    A poem by Gregory Crosby

    Oct 04, 2017

    "Gregory Crosby Marked Himself Safe During the Violent Incident in Las Vegas, Nevada"

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    "A Volta" — a poem by Gregory Crosby

    Jul 12, 2017

    “Can God make a prison so / secure even He can’t break out of it?” / Well, what do you think the universe is?

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    "Sonnet (Come Undone): No. 7" — a poem by Heather Lang

    Jul 05, 2017

    "In Utah, the dotted lines seem to pull / the moving van up the incline not far / from Enoch."

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    Michele, the Time Has Come to Administrate

    Jun 28, 2017

    I attended a 51s game on June 16 at Cashman Field with some friends. I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that I had never been to a local baseball game ...

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    "The Other Shoe is a Severed Foot": A poem by Gregory Crosby

    May 17, 2017

    "The missile blows up on the launch pad, but there’s always / tomorrow."

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    "68 Miles to Barstow" — a poem by Heather Lang

    Jan 04, 2017

    "You say something / about the world’s largest thermometer, / which just now reads 87 degrees."

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    "#092" — a poem by Alexander Reyes

    Dec 28, 2016

    "Once at odds with you, / even now / I try to make love / from scraps of paper, / pieces of words, and leather ..."

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    "Ode to My Sister": a poem by Sharon Olds

    Nov 30, 2016

    "In the snapshots you see her / keeping an eye on me, I was a little wild / and I said silly things ..."

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    "Oh Vegas": a poem by Dayvid Figler

    Sep 28, 2016

    "Oh Vegas. You swank jacuzzi. You adept ducker."

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    "Shoes off": a poem by James Collins

    Sep 21, 2016

    "Twelve million and one street lamps / Were only a cheaply sequined dress."

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    "Tell Me a Tattoo Story": a poem by James Collins

    Sep 07, 2016

    "A hint of dye will bleed through, below the maps / Your veins scrawl"

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    "Red": a poem by Joseph Langdon

    Aug 24, 2016

    "In one red image stamped / a boot unmakes the face of God"

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    "Siblings": a poem by Patricia Smith

    Aug 24, 2016

    "Nate was mannered and practical. He stormed precisely. / Ophelia nibbled weirdly on the tips of depressions."

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