Gabriel Tovar

A Gray Beak Stabbing like a Singer Needle

August 3, 2026

The choral director begs, threatens, pleads us inside to perform. When we file up the risers, the Prophet—seated in the front row—is smaller than I imagined. Frail…

_M_V_

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Elegy for Herculaneum

Sarah Katz |

August 3, 2026

Imagine it: our deaths were silent. There was breath – a moment of still, suspended air before the heat hit and we died before we could scream. What a full moment, that breath before the burn…

Antonin Carvalho

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Fall

Lucinda B. Watson |

August 2, 2026

I wandered, following troughs of wet leaves marking the crusades and the dark fall
all yellow, smelling of dank, and my life as an
obedient pathfinder Joan of Arc…

Kamal Hoseinianzade

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A Word

Lily Bitton |

August 2, 2026

There is no anesthetic for this procedure,
and so it is fully felt
in all of its excruciating actuality…

Adi Goldstein

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Pick A Superpower

Camryn Hafner |

August 1, 2026

If I could run faster than the D-train, I wouldn’t. I’d miss the voice telling me to stand clear, like it cares, and the slam poets preaching to grease-stained seats…

Matt Richmond

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Coyote Heart

Leah Smith |

August 1, 2026

My Coyote Heart is strewn across the highway,

laid out bare for you to see it,

and it’s not much but it’s what I’m made of…

Alexander Grey

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Synesthesia

Elizabeth Dilley |

July 31, 2026

Beneath color there is always more color, and it is often chaotic, clashing. Nine-year-old Tommy hears it all…

Tarot by Hilary

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The Lovers (VI): When Matter Meets Itself

M. M. Adjarian |

July 31, 2026

Together
you played hide-and-seek,
truth or dare, children
still, in quickening adult
bodies…

Mustafi Numann

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Not quite requited

Madeline Ricard |

July 30, 2026

Your tattooed torso is a weathered
altar & I am drunk, so I lay
my back on top of your belly
and take the knife I bought for
you…

Nisa Winter

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Diminutive Duet: A Poetic Suite

John RC Potter |

July 30, 2026

Seven kids in all; with our parents, we were nine. They left us too soon…

Michael Starkie

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HOLDING WATER: A True Triptych

Ruth Zwald |

July 29, 2026

The four are all young – two children and two parents. Hiking the trails, discovering each other in that way time apart does. At night the mother makes up stories – the two children giving her characters and places and then off they go. Then to dreams…

Austris Augusts

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Why Else, but for Beauty Alone

Meg Freer |

July 29, 2026

Amid the stress of being squeezed
between struggling generations,
I visit a horse chestnut tree
to marvel at its late spring light show…

Denis Agati

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The sorcery of lemon chicken

Swapna Sanchita |

July 28, 2026

A potency permeates the air, grudgingly,
And settles surreptitiously into the serviettes…

Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov

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Reading James

Benjamin Goluboff |

July 28, 2026

The summer crests and lapses,
the annual cicadas begin
as I pass the midpoint of Varieties…

Sen Is not a man

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The Window I Keep Open

Ana Marta Fortuna |

July 27, 2026

I travel
the farther from home and all I’ve learned to lose.
Souther I go the more washed the trace behind me, and
remembering all that makes me: I’m no longer home…