Archives: Publications

Kat Mulligan

"I wish for beauty as an hour, / rather than dust scattered by curiosity / into uncharted corners."

Anna Zilbermints

"Forgetting is a specialty I’ve practiced proudly / (my parents not so proudly) / But I think the rabbi understands."

Angela Townsend

The court was in session all year. I accepted every verdict. I was wordy and wiry and weird, all books and daisies.

Violet Piper

The second secret is that cereal wasn’t my choice, but it takes up so much space I know it will eventually push everything else out.

Bob Hicok

"Sixty four times three / is one hundred and ninety two crayons. / Have you ever had one hundred and ninety two crayons / at the same time?"

Tauwan Patterson

"To write a blues song / is to regiment riots / and pluck gems from graves"

Marvin Jonathan Flores

"Winter Brought on a terrible cough, and with it / The strange consolation the soil beneath me / Was suffering as I was, undone / By heart’s fury, heart’s blood."

Alahna Vallone

"To a young girl, certain that every step she took / changed the axis the Earth spun on, the flowers grew"

Susan Knox

You’ve never been happier. You don’t know why.

Don O’Cull

"We listen through the steam from our coffee, and I can see our tune shine in the latticework of your grin and your wrinkled hair."