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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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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 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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Photo by Stan Shebs
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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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"Prison-Childhood"

Aug 10, 2016

A new poem by Noah Cicero

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"Happenstance: Dreaming of Mount Charleston"

Aug 03, 2016

A poem by Heather Lang

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"Toil the Soil," a poem by Syd Stewart

Jul 20, 2016

"Nobody here but us / Those who toil the soil / Alice done left wonderland / deuces for superman"

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"Bird of Prey"

Jul 06, 2016

A poem by Heather Lang

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"Off Duty Elvis": a poem by Jennifer Battisti

May 25, 2016

At the airport, a vision of the King

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Posting You

May 18, 2016

A poem about social media and failed connectivity by Harry Fagel

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"Space Gator"

May 11, 2016

A poem by Las Vegan Miranda Cooper

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Two poems by Michael McClure

Apr 27, 2016

Two works by the renowned Beat poet, who will give a reading and conduct a workshop in Las Vegas this week

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"Paradise, Nevada" — a poem by Heather Lang

Mar 02, 2016

Outside, the desert floor,

a frame cracked open.

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