Poetry Report: Fourth of July is Weird
“Exploding Lightning
Dragon Penis Rainbow or something”
Exemplary Injustice in Spain by Jeff Diteman
“Do we throw people in jail for three years for insults?”
Summer Storm Coming by Edie Rylander
“that last breath wasn’t breathing in and it wasn’t breathing out either”
On the Violent Potential of Dads, by Derrick Martin-Campbell
“they will do anything to protect us. And what they do is often terrifying.”
Pink Mountaintops in Berlin by Matt Carter
“this was stripped down rock and roll, lean and ready for new mobility”
Open Letter: I'd Like to Apologize to a Few People, by Kirsten Larson
“But you didn’t have to choke me. That was over the top”
Big Light on Double Bed by John Michael Flynn
“a trapezoid of margarine light shift upon and reshape the bed”
Confession From a Former Card Shark, by Hobie Anthony
“The real trouble started after the show”
On the Death of Wolverine by Derrick Martin-Campbell
“I fucked his windshield up, a great spiderweb crack full of my blood”
Poetry Suite by Amye Archer
“Because I never said yes
and I never said no-
I simply stayed suspended in that sound”
How to See the Dead and Yourself by Niama Sandy
“so many unsung songs in his blood that they spilled into the way he walked”