Genre: Poetry

Cerulean Walker

"I didn’t / even cry at books until this year, / let alone a world I don’t really even want to be a part of."

Nicole Desjardins Gowdy

"Ophelia has words for her pain / she calls herself / survivor / she rises from the ashes of her former self"

Elsa Valmidiano

"I wasn’t exactly sure how abortions happened, except it was a word tossed around school grounds as easy as saying, 'Math.' It was an easy word. A common word."

Bibiana Krall

"This body is my universe, / but it has never been free."

Marek Kulig

"High time too that monarchs / are remonstrated / for their geometry- / non-conforming flight patterns."

Megan Markham

"PSAs from my school years reminding us to cut six pack rings, / more packaging than I asked for or know what to do with / covering us head to toe"

jamilla vandyke-bailey

"and isn’t this beautiful? and frightening?/this beatbeatbeating beneath your wrists;/it’s delicate and wild and turbulent and here."

jamilla vandyke-bailey

"i miss holding that laughter inside my bones, / and shedding tears like moist clothes, / and echoing soundtracks with my own howls"

Cheryl Dumesnil

"Today’s caller takes the shape / of a child who emerged / from the fault line / after the earthquake"

Roy Bentley

"I've never been a snake, that I can recall, but you get the picture"