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Stories

Poem of the Week
Odyssey
by Andrew Nance
Today is my favorite kind of day. Night opens, light concedes.
Poem of the Week
Of Blood and Stem
by Sam Roxas-Chua
If I had known I would have saved the abacus from the fire.
Poetry
Of Course Pliny Got Here First and Other Poems
by Marianne Boruch
Some asshole on a joyride in the outback runs her down, the emu.
Poem of the Week
Of Marriage, of Glass Gardens
by Nicole Cooley
Once upon a time, a couple wandered in a glass forest, hand in hand.
Poetry
Of or Pertaining to the Dog Days
by Timothy Leo
There are only two genders! Ma cries there is one sun, one moon.
Poetry
Of the God That Comes to Mind
by Gina Franco
Relief workers tore swaths of insulation from the rafters of the house.
Poem of the Week
of the propoetides
by Rachel Clemens
our hands are full of those women tricked or transformed.
Poem of the Week
Oh Father, Your Fear
by Matt W. Miller
Is it that he is too tired or too afraid to blink into the oil of his own machine?
Poetry Contest Winners
Oh for Fuck’s Sake
by Dion O’Reilly
Everything rushes in. Everything that ever drove me crazy with dumb hope, every letdown.
Poetry
Oh You Little Faith
by Robin Myers
What if it does choose, the egg, I mean, her favorite spermatozoon.
Poem of the Week
Old Bed
by Brenda Shaughnessy
Coil of metal, coin of wood, two-headed and soft in the middle.
Poetry
Old Friend
by Naomi Shihab Nye
I arrange your five deflating basketballs under the lonely net.
Poem of the Week
Old Growth
by Natasha Rao
Outside, pears swathed in socks ripened, protected from birds.
Poetry
Oliver
by Tess Gallagher
We are each other’s as surely as song stitches breath to air.
Poem of the Week
Omnivore
by James Arthur
I eat what’s in front of me, as all great men do. Some wouldn’t, but I do.
Poem of the Week
On a Day That Is Cold
by Katelin Kelly
The birds have all flown to Mars for water and Crisco and red.
Poem of the Week
On a Late June Evening in My Driveway
by Heather Sellers
Take some cherry tomatoes, I say when the moon rises over the pine.
Poetry
on a list of games that buddha would not play, number 12 is
by Stella Wong
so easily impressed when wet / so easy / to see through when turned / off
Poem of the Week
On Birdsong
by Troy Jollimore
The hymn that’s resurrected from the hymnal aspires to the spiritual.
Poem of the Week
On Future Rhyming Fuck You with Fuck You Four Times in a Row During “Rent Money”
by J. D. Debris
The fantasy & its own undoing: that silver might drip from a neck bitten.
Poem of the Week
On Homesickness
by Sarah Ruhl
I hand in my form. I wonder if the doctor with the needles will laugh at me.
Poetry
On Seeing Damien Hirst’s “Kingdom of the Father”
by Laura Wetherington
Small valleys and veins give way to a lifted ridge like a rib or an arm bone.
Poetry
On the Aggrieved and Other Poems
by Michael Wasson
A man drunk on the damage he made to a boy’s young mouth.
Poem of the Week
On the Horizon
by Michael Wasson
& I said let there be dark pouring from your mouth at daybreak
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Poem of the Week
On the Difficulty of Discerning Shapes in the Distance
by Luisa A. Igloria
Warm breath in my ear mouthing a name; rivulet folded back in water.
Poem of the Week
On the Fourteenth Day without a Father
by L. A. Johnson
In its shadow, our mislaid secrets cascade down around us.
Poetry
On the Isle of Fast-Flowing Waters
by JinJin Xu
My dear, even my ear is trying to eat itself in its attempt to forget you.
Poem of the Week
On the Meaning of Love
by Jay Deshpande
I needed more. I worked her lips back and wedged my hand in.
Poetry
On This Day in Poetry History
by Amy Newman
She was gone then, inaudible, steeple-reticent, demure as sky.
Poem of the Week
Once Again, in August
by Dan Gerber
I continue composing my love letter, hoping to love her more.