Genre: Poetry

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"

Amelia Díaz Ettinger

my stained fingers working the soil’s mercy/its gritty coolness a slight measure of delight/and hallowed quiet/for broken nails

Ana Fortuna

"We spill words on the street/afraid dreaming of vessels/but when we say goodbye/the gesture, like a wave,/draws houses on the pavement"

Cheryl Dumesnil

"The ones who/lashed plastic bottles to a grid of bamboo stalks/and christened it Hope."