poetry
Reece Rowan Gritzmacher | At the bonfire of flowers
“I just wanted you to say / I was worth devouring”
Arya Vishin | babylon and other modern bhakti poems
“put the tabla on the backbeat.”
Bethany Tap | Daughter
“I was never sad to have sons, all boys / each one a spark”
nat raum | in the movie of our lives, this is the soundtrack of us tearing into each other
“you kiss me / in front of everyone who matters”
tommy wyatt | it’s 11:11, make a wish
“you flip through out-of-context compilations”
Emily Pedroza | Lapse
“we are too young, too stupid, too / stubborn.”
Emily Sperber | Sluts Like Flowers
“but I will / say he was good with his hands.”
Daniel Brennan | Thou Shalt Not Covet
“as if // I could steal / their heat through // the sagging brick”
Daniel Brennan | Westchester
“But / you’d love to take credit for this, I’m sure.”
Lily Nobel | the wild blue night ends but then there is the next morning
“i want a heart that is big and strong”
nonfiction
J.S. Couch | How to Draw a Relationship
“You may present yourself however you wish”
Sumitra Singam | How the Netflix Show ‘Heartstopper’ Made Me Cry in the Shower, aged 46
“Listen, it wasn’t really your fault, Nick Nelson”
Judy McClure | Violet Vixen
“The satisfying rituals of lipstick draw me to the mirror”
fiction
Liam Strong | Boyfriend Takes Boyfriend to a Metal Show, Limbs Falling from the Sky
“I mean, for real, Gill, do you really want to get a concussion?”
E.M. Nikolaev | Carmel
“a devil for bitter wine”
Georgia Howe | Cavern: The Moon’s Dark Side
“You’re whispering, Those aren’t blueberries right before the poison sets in”
Jennifer Moffatt | Delayed
“But you’re more complete now because you’re also free.”
Liam Strong | Sigourney Weaver Comes to Movie Night at our Duplex
“every thing that carries safety can also carry our trauma.
Kennedy Bailey | Sylvia Plath Died Quietly
“Steph had no idea how they were going to tell Dr. Phelps that her cat was dead.”
visual art
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